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09-0396 REID ROAD MUNICIPAL UTILITY DIST. NO. 2 v. SPEEDY STOP FOOD STORES, LTD.
No full text09-0396 Reid Road Municipal Utility District No. 2 v. Speedy Stop Food Stores Inc. Ltd. from Harris County and the 14th District Court of Appeals, Houston For petitioner: C. Charles Dippel, Houston For respondent: Bill Russell, Victoria The principal iss
08-0751 TEXAS MUTUAL INS. CO. v. RUTTIGER
No full text08-0751 Texas Mutual Insurance Co. v. Timothy J. Ruttiger from Galveston County and the First District Court of Appeals, Houston For petitioner: Pete Schenkkan, Austin For respondent: Byron C. Keeling, Houston Among principal issues in this workers-compe
08-0989 ITALIAN COWBOY PARTNERS, LTD. v. THE PRUDENTIAL INS. CO. OF AMERICA
No full text08-0989 Italian Cowboy Partners Ltd., et al. v. The Prudential Insurance Co. of America, et al. from Dallas County and the 11th District Court of Appeals, Eastland For petitioners: Thomas F. Allen Jr., Dallas For respondents: G. Luke Ashley, Dallas Amon
09-0048 MCI SALES AND SERVICE, INC. v. HINTON
No full text09-0048 MCI Sales and Service Inc. and Motor Coach Industries Mexico, S.A. de C.V. v. James Hinton from McLennan County and the 10th District Court of Appeals, Waco For petitioners: Thomas C. Wright, Houston For cross-petitioner/respondent: Craig T. Enoc
08-0964 THE EDWARDS AQUIFER AUTHORITY v. DAY
No full text08-0964 Edwards Aquifer Authority and State of Texas v. Burrell Day and Joel McDaniel from Atascosa County and the Fourth District Court of Appeals, San Antonio For petitioner Edwards Aquifer Authority: Pamela Stanton Baron, Austin For petitioner State o
Secrets and Lies: The Intelligence Community's Don't Ask, Don't Tell (Essay)
No full textThe issuance and integrity of our nation's security classifications is of obvious importance. The CIA, the FBI, and the armed forces all have excluded homosexuals from the pool of patriotic citizens who qualify for the important task of safeguarding our nation's secrets
L'Oz
No full textOver twenty years ago, Jacques Derrida visited the University of Nebraska. My colleague at the Law School, John Snowden, kindly gave me his place on the roundtable of Nebraska scholars who gathered to talk with Derrida. Not yet feeling “at home” in my new teaching job, I still hoped to offer Derrida hospitality, by reconstructing The Wizard of Oz in order to welcome him “home.
The Obstacles of Outsourcing Imported Food Safety To China
No full textThis article argues that outsourcing regulatory power through a bilateral agreement with China is unlikely to ensure the safety of imported food for two primary reasons. First, shifting the regulatory burden does not present a feasible alternative to the traditional enforcement tools of outcome-based and production-based inspections and sanctions. Second, China’s burgeoning food safety regime, based on an entirely different culture and legal system, provides little incentive for Chinese food manufacturers to increase production costs to comply with U.S. standards
"Save the Land from Uncle Sam": Using Life Insurance Premium Financing in Estate Planning
No full textPerpetuating the legacy of landownership requires careful estate planning by today’s farmers and ranchers.2 Unfortunately, the federal estate tax can be particularly destructive to these estates where there is a desire to pass on legacy holdings to succeeding generations, but the estate lacks adequate cash for the family to pay the resulting taxes