First Amendment Constraints on the Award of Attorney ' s Fees Against Civil Rights

First Amendment Constraints on the Award of Attorney ' s Fees Against Civil Rights Defendant - Intervenors : The Dilemma of the Innocent Volunteer

The Plaintiff’s Attorney in the Liability Insurance Claims Settlement Process: A Game Theoretic Approach

The decision of a claimant to obtain legal counsel, the timing of this decision, and the impact on the settlement amount an insurer successfully can offer are the focus of this study. This paper draws on strategic models of litigation/settlement with endogenous settlement amounts in the law and economics literature, but differs by endogenizing the decision to hire an attorney and its timing. Th...

حقوق بیماران و مسؤولیت مدنی پزشکی

These days, because of cultural development and mental growth and also improvement in human culture more attention is given to the patient’s rights, so that governments in different societies attempt to support this damageable group more than before. Always in the realm of the Law science, also, some questions were posed regarding this subject and jurisprudents, according to their capa...

Court Congestion as an Explanation for Rising Attorney Fees

A judge facing exogenous constraints on his pecuniary income has an incentive to reduce his workload to increase his private welfare. In the face of a large caseload, this incentive will induce judges to attempt to terminate some cases as quickly as possible. In class action cases, failing to grant an attorney’s fee request will delay termination. This conflict is likely to lead judges to autho...

The Voting Behavior of Clarence

A. The tables and figures that follow rely on the U.S. Supreme Court Database's definitions of “conservative” and “liberal.” The definitions mostly comport with conventional understandings. “Liberal” votes are those in favor of defendants in criminal cases; of women and minorities in civil rights cases; of individuals against the government in First Amendment, privacy, and due process cases; of...