Family business: property disputes resolution

Church Property Disputes in the Civil Courts

T HE EXTENT to which civil courts may assume jurisdiction of ecclesiastical matters in church property disputes1 was involved in the North Carolina case of Reid v. Johnston. 2 There, a Baptist church, organized in 1894, -received land on a conveyance which attached no doctrinal limitations to its use. In 1953, a new pastor, supported by a majority of the congregation, led a movement to withdraw...

The Constitutional Dimensions of Church Property Disputes

VARIETIES OF TRIBUNALS Employment disputes resolution, legal origins and national business systems

Valuing Information Systems in Contract and Intellectual Property Disputes

Decades of research on the economic impact of computer information systems used by businesses provide the basis for assessing claims arising in litigation over such systems. It is possible to estimate the impacts of systems on costs of business operations, on market share, on margins, on flexibility of product design, and on market entry strategies. It is possible to estimate economic impacts, ...

Warranties, performance, and the resolution of buyer-seller disputes

Many disputes between buyers and sellers concern product quality and whether a claim of poor product performance is covered by a warranty issued by the seller. We develop an analytical framework in which average product quality, buyer preferences, production and transaction costs, and the extent to which "true" quality can be observed by buyer and seller interact to determine warranties, produc...