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This article will first discuss the constitutional and equitable basis for extending rights to alternative families. Next, it will discuss each major protection and benefit granted to traditional families and then examine the litigation, legislation, and collective bargaining agreements obtaining or attempting to obtain the same benefit for alternative families. This article will end by arguing that equity and justice require an extension of these benefits to alternative families

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Alternative Families:  Obtaining Traditional Family Benefits Through Litigation, Legislation and Collective Bargaining

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CALIFORNIA WESTERN LAW REVIEW
VOLUME 22 SPRING 1986 NUMBER 2
CONTENTS
ARTICLES
The Creation of the Attorney-Client
Relationship: An Emerging View .. Ronald I Friedman 209
UCC § 2-713: A Defense of
Buyers' Expectancy Damages ......... Eric C. Schneider 233
Closing Pandora's Box:
Litigation Economics .................. Thomas E. Shea 267
COMMENTS
Parental Liability for Preconception Negligence:
Do Parents Owe a Legal Duty to
Their Potential Children? ............ Douglas E. Carroll 289
West Covina and Its Progeny:
Have the California Courts Barricaded the
Avenue of Relief Provided for Victims of
Hospital Corporate Negligence? . . . . . . . . .. Lisa R. Bohm 317
Good Faith Settlements: The
Inequitable Result of the Evolving
Definition of "Equity" ............ Christopher W. Todd 362
NOTE
Implications of Summa Corporation on
the Property Rights of the
Eastern American Indians ................ Paul E. Lacy 385
BOOKS IN BRIEF ........................................... 403
BOOKS RECEIVED ......................................... 406
VOLUME INDEX ........................................... xxiii
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Lake, Steven E.

Unrestricted Private Employee Drug Testing Programs: An Invasion of the Worker\u27s Right to Privacy

Friedman, Ronald I.

The Creation of the Attorney-Client Relationship: An Emerging View

Rohm, Lisa R.

West Covina and Its Progeny: Have the California Courts Barricaded the Avenue of Relief Provided for Victims of Hospital Corporate Negligence?

Gomez-Pinzon, Enrique

State Responsibility for External Consequences of Domestic Economic-Related Acts

Campbell, Arthur W.

The Nuremberg Defense to Charges of Domestic Crime: A Non-Traditional Approach for Nuclear-Arms Protestors

Schneider, Eric C.

UCC § 2-713: A Defense of Buyers\u27 Expectancy Damages

International Law Journal, California Western

CALIFORNIA WESTERN
INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL
VOLUME 16 SUMMER 1986 NUMBER 2
CONTENTS
ARTICLES
Nuclear Weapons Free Zones: Toward an
International Framework
Eric M cFadden .............................................. 217
The need to avert the development of nuclear weapon-rivalries outside the
realms of the superpowers is undoubtedly a compelling exigency in this decade. A
nuclear conflagration between even "minor" nuclear powers would devastate the
political, economic and social infrastructures of these nations, innocent third
party-nations, and risk drawing more powerful nations into the conflict. This arti-
cle will discuss one legal solution to this threat of nuclear proliferation: Nuclear
Weapons Free Zones (NWFZ's). Two primary issues will be addressed. First, the
Article seeks to go beyond a general description of what constitutes a "nuclear-
weapon-free-zone," to establish a detailed framework for implementation of such
zones. There is substantial evidence that many nations presently are hesitant
about joining proposed NWFZ's because of this lack of specificity by their propo-
nents. Second, the Article discusses several important, and likely ongoing, legal
issues related to the zones, including the implications of refusal of one or more
nations in a region to enter into a NWFZ agreement, and the legal ramifications if
one or more NWFZ members suddenly decide to withdraw from such an agree-
ment.
The European Economic Community and the Vredeling Proposal:
The Debate to Temper Ideology with Realism
R ichard D. Fera ............................................. 250
The Vredeling Proposal, a European Community draft directive requiring
multinational corporations to disclose information on the company's financial sit-
uation and plans, has caused consternation among American and Japanese busi-
ness executives who view it as a threat to their management control. Since its
birth in 1980, the Vredeling Proposal has been hotly debated throughout the Eu-
ropean Community. These debates led to the amendment of the initial proposal,
and even today the Vredeling Proposal is being redrafted under a "new approach"
analysis with the hope that the finalized version will receive unanimous accept-
ance by the European Council. Although proponents of the Vredeling Proposal
are optimistic regarding the likelihood of its enactment into law in the European
Community, it is uncertain whether the proposal will ever be accepted unani-
mously given the diametrically opposed views held by management and labor.
This Article examines the Vredeling Proposal's development and some of the in-
ternational legal questions it raises.
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Choice of Law Regarding Private Activities in
Outer Space: A Suggested Approach
Laurence Jay Eisenstein ...................................... 282
The increase of activity in outer space, and of privately owned objects in space,
raises difficult legal issues, in particular what jurisdiction's laws to apply to activi-
ties in space. The problem is most acute for disputes between private parties,
where rules governing state liability are not applicable. This Article analyzes the
choice of law problem in the field of torts, noting that current international trea-
ties and traditional choice of law analysis are inadequate. The author then pro-
poses a framework of analysis based upon a distinction of intra-object torts
(occurring within one object in outer space), inter-object torts (occurring between
two objects in outer space), and torts involving objects hitting the earth.
COMMENTS
The Application of the General Agreements on
Tariffs and Trade to the Countertrade
Practices of Less-Developed and
Developing Countries: Proposed
Amendments to the GATT
Edward M . Rieu ............................................. 312
Foreign Data: Is It Safe in United States
Data Banks?
Sherry M . H organ ............................................ 346
Jurisdiction to Expropriate and the Shell Game of
Intangible Assets
David L. Donnan ............................................ 373
BOOKS RECEIVED .......................................... 393
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