User:JD Caselaw/Legal Methods (Strauss)

2nd edition, 2008. TOC source

SUMMARY TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTION. 2

 * 1. What is “law”? 3
 * 2. In particular, what is “the common law”? 5
 * 3. How is the judicial system organized? 15
 * 4. How is legislative activity organized?  24
 * 5. Are legal methods static, or have they varied over time, as society and its legal institutions have developed? 31
 * Paul Carrington, The Romance of American Law.....41

II. THE AGE OF DISCOVERY..... 37

 * A. INITIAL ENCOUNTERS  37
 * (1) A First Exercise in Statutory Construction 37
 * (2) A First Case ─ Swift v. Tyson 41
 * Swift v. Tyson
 * B. COMMON-LAW COURTS ENCOUNTERING NEW ISSUES.. 51
 * Priestly v. Fowler
 * Farwell v. Boston & Worcester R.R. Corp
 * C. THE EFFECT OF A PRECEDENT ON A SUBSEQUENT CASE.... 73
 * Albro v. The Agawam Canal Co.
 * R. Kent Greenawalt, Reflections on Holding and Dictum
 * D. SYNTHESIS.... 85
 * Seixas v. Woods
 * Winterbottom v. Wright
 * Thomas and Wife v. Winchester

III. THE AGE OF FAITH........ 105

 * A. DEVELOPING PRODUCT LIABILITY 105
 * Loop v. Litchfield
 * Losee v. Clute
 * Devlin v. Smith
 * Kellogg Bridge Co. v. Hamilton
 * B. ON WRONGFUL DEATH AND THE RELATION BETWEEN THE COMMON LAW AND STATUTES.. 116
 * Mobile Life Ins. Co. v. Brame
 * C. WORKPLACE SAFETY AND THE RAILROADS.. 126
 * Walter F. Dodd, Administration of Workmen's Compensation
 * Kohn v. McNulta
 * THE FEDERAL RAILROAD SAFETY APPLIANCES ACT OF 1893........... 140
 * THREE SAFETY APPLIANCES ACT PROBLEMS........... 142
 * LEGISLATIVE BACKGROUND TO THE FEDERAL RAILWAY SAFETY

APPLIANCES ACT 144
 * 1. Presidential messages........... 144
 * 2. House of Representatives Committee Report........... 146
 * 3. Senate Debates........... 153
 * THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE RAILWAY SAFETY APPLIANCES ACT........... 190
 * THE COURTS ENCOUNTER THE RSA 205
 * Johnson v. Southern Pacific Co. (1902)
 * Johnson v. Southern Pacific Co. (1904)
 * Harry W. Jones, Some Causes of Uncertainty in Statutes
 * Schlemmer V. Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg R. Co

IV. THE AGE OF ANXIETY........ 241

 * A. THE LIMITS OF FORMALISM.. 241
 * Watkins v. Clark
 * King v. Smythe
 * Hynes v. New York Cent. R. Co.
 * United Zinc & Chemical Company v. Britt et al.
 * B. THE PRODUCT LIABILITY/WARRANTY SYNTHESIS THROUGH THE 30'S.. 252
 * MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co.
 * Friend v. Childs Dining Hall Co.
 * Ash v. Childs Dining Hall Co.
 * Chysky v. Drake Bros. Co.
 * Windram Mfg. Co. v. Boston Blacking Co.
 * Pine Grove Poultry Farm, Inc. v. Newton By-Products Mfg. Co., Inc.
 * Baxter v. Ford Motor Co.
 * C. FURTHER ON A SAFE WORKPLACE, WRONGFUL DEATH, AND THE USES OF STATUTES.. 293
 * (1) Changing Legal Institutions. 293
 * (2) Changing Judicial Approaches to Statutory Materials. 298
 * International Stevedoring Co. v. Haverty
 * Panama Railroad Co. v. Rock
 * (3) The Place of Custom 311
 * The TJ Hooper
 * (4) Reconciling Statutory and Judicially-Created Remedies in the Workplace 314
 * Swanson v. Marra Bros., Inc.
 * Seas Shipping Co., Inc. v. Sieracki
 * D. THE SUPREME COURT ADJUSTS ITS ROLE IN RESPECT OF (STATE) COMMON LAW .. 331
 * Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins
 * E. THE SUPREME COURT ADJUSTS ITS ROLE IN RESPECT OF STATUTES AND THEIR  INTERPRETATION.. 338
 * United States v. American Trucking Ass'ns, Inc.
 * NOTES ON POST NEW-DEAL STATUTORY INTERPRETATION 349
 * (1) What the Legislators Meant 352
 * Schwegmann Bros. v. Calvert Distillers Corp.
 * NOTES ON THE EVALUATION OF LEGISLATIVE HISTORY..... 361
 * (2) What the Words Mean  365
 * Schwegmann Bros. v. Calvert Distillers Corp.
 * (3) Statutes-in-Context 374
 * Girouard v. United States
 * NOTES ON ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCY INTERPRETATION........... 386
 * F. A QUARTET OF THEORETICAL WRITINGS..... 391

IV. MODERN TIMES........ 411

 * A.  FURTHER ON THE QUESTION OF PRODUCT LIABILITY 411
 * Greenberg v. Lorenz
 * Randy Knitwear, Inc. v. American Cyanamid Co.
 * Goldberg v. Kollsman Instrument Corp.
 * Codling v. Paglia
 * Denny v. Ford Motor Co.
 * American Law Institute, Third Restatement on Torts
 * B. CONTEMPORARY STATUTORY INTERPRETATION – THE NEW TEXTUALISM AND THE FEE REIMBURSEMENT PROBLEM.. 450
 * 1. Setting the Context – Attorney Fee Reimbursement for the Parents of Children Wrongly Denied Special Care by Their School Board 457
 * Smith v. Robinson
 * 2. Congress Responds to Smith 480
 * I. Hearings........... 482
 * II. S. 415........... 483
 * III. H.R. 1523........... 500
 * IV. Conference Report........... 516
 * 3. The Judicial/Legislative Dialogue Continues  527
 * Crawford Fitting Co. et al. v. J.T. Gibbons, Inc.
 * Missouri v. Jenkins
 * Friedrich v. City of Chicago
 * West Virginia University Hospitals, Inc. v. Casey
 * 4. The Problem Solved? 560
 * Neosho R-V School District v. Kathy Clark, et al.
 * 5. Modern Scholarly Writings About the Interpretation Problem 569
 * a. Historical perspectives........... 570
 * b. Scholars (and scholar-judges) associated with Law and Economics........... 573
 * c. Textualists........... 579
 * John F. Manning, Textualism and the Equity of the Statute
 * Stephen Breyer, On the Uses of Legislative History in Interpreting Statutes
 * d. Purposivists........... 593
 * 6. Recent Supreme Court Efforts – Resolution? 617
 * BedRoc Limited, LLC v. United States
 * Koons Buick Pontiac GMC, Inc. v. Bradley Nigh
 * Keyse G. Jama v. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
 * C. MORE ON THE PROBLEM OF AGENCY INTERPRETATION OF STATUTES.. 654
 * Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
 * Thomas W. Merrill, Textualism and the Future of the Chevron Doctrine
 * D. WHAT’S A JUDGE TO DO?.. 677
 * Janine Collette v. St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital
 * Gerard E. Lynch, What Judges Do, Part I

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