LAW MAKING IN THE INDUSTRIAL COURT

Appellate Court Decision Making in NLRB Cases

Abstract: In this article, I review the decisions of the appellate courts in National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) cases over a twenty year period, 1994 to 2014, to ascertain what political, economic and legal factors impact judicial decision making. Unlike many other analyses of appellate decision making, this study makes a deliberate effort to take into account legal and procedural differen...

Family Law: Court Determines Child Conceived

ALTHOUGH the gap between socio-scientific developments and the law may not be altogether undesirable,' the recent case of Gursky v. Gurshy2 is a graphic illustration of the bizarre result which may be reached by the application of traditional legal concepts to modem developments in medicine and sociology. In Gursky a New York supreme court applied the words "out of wedlock" in a narrow sense an...

A Guide to Juvenile Court Law

Withdrawal: The Roberts Court and the Retreat from Election Law

Appeal court upholds Oregon's assisted suicide law.

not statistically significant. Women who took ibuprofen also had a lower risk of breast cancer than control patients, but the reduction was less than in women taking aspirin. Paracetamol had no effect. Aspirin reduced the risk of breast cancer in premenopausal women and postmenopausal women, but the effect was more pronounced in postmenopausal women because there were more of them in the study....