Volume 15, Number 1

FIFTH CIRCUIT SURVEY

ARTICLE

Section 1988 Attorney Fee Awards in the Fifth Circuit

SURVEYS

Administrative Law

Admiralty Law

Antitrust Law

Bankruptcy Law

Civil Procedure

Civil Rights

Consumer Law

Criminal Law and Procedure

Environmental Law

Federal Rules of Evidence

Intellectual Property Law

Labor Law

Securities

Taxation

Volume 15, Number 2

ARTICLES

Legislative Vetoes and the Administrative Process: A Constitutional and Operational Analysis

The Continuing Battle with the Performing Rights Societies: The Per Se Rule, the Rule of Reason Standard, and Copyright Misuse

COMMENTS

Texas Adopts an Objective Standard of Medical Disclosure: Is There a Reasonable Doubt Layperson in the House

The UCC Statute of Limitations' Conflict with the Equitable Rule of Discovery in Texas

CASENOTES

Tippee Assumes a Fiduciary Duty Not to Trade on Material Information Only When Insider Has Breached His Fiduciary Duty to Shareholders: Dirks v. SEC, 103 S. Ct. 3255 (1983)

Elimination of the Texas Cautionary Circumstantial Evidence Charge: Hankins v. State, 646 S.W.2d 191 (Tex. Crim. App. 1983)

Texas Adopts a System of Pure Comparative Apportionment for Strict Products Liability Cases: Duncan v. Cessna Aircraft Co., 26 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 507 (July 16, 1983)

ARTICLES

Disclaiming the Implied Warranties of Habitability and Good Workmanship in the Sale of New Houses: The Supreme Court of Texas and the Duty to Read the Contracts You Sign

Tenant's Security Deposits: Liability of Former Landlord and New Owner after Sale of an Occupied Project

COMMENTS

Introduction to the Texas Property Code

Fair Market Value: A Primer for Texas Legal Practice

Texas Mechanics and Materialman's Liens and the Scope of the Preferential Lien on Removables

CASENOTES

Abandonment of the Surface Destruction Test in Determining Ownership of Unnamed Minerals: Moser v. United States Steel Corp., 26 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 427 (June 11, 1983)

The Implied Warranty of Fitness from the Vendor-Builder Extends to Subsequent Purchasers of Homes: Gupta v. Ritter Homes, Inc., 646 S,W,2d 168 (Tex. 1983)

Volume 15, Number ISSUE 4

ARTICLES

The Interaction of Workers' Compensation and Comparative Negligence: Conflicts, Alternatives, and Compromise

The Texas Close Corporation Law: Some Observations and Modest Proposals

Gertz and the Common Law of Defamation: Of Fault, Nonmedia Defendants, and Conditional Privileges

COMMENTS

Recent Changes in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure: Prescriptions to Ease the Pain

From Horse and Buggy to Horseless Carriage - Texas Rolls out Its New Venue Model: A Practitioner's Guide to Article 1995

Identity of Products Precludes Application of Offensive Collateral Estoppel in Asbestos Litigation

CASENOTES

A Driver's Refusal to Submit to a Blood Alcohol Test Is Admissible as Evidence at Trial: South Dakota v. Neville, 103 S. Ct. 916 (1983)

The Doctrine of Comparative Fault Applies in an Admiralty Strict Products Liability Case: Lewis v. Timco, Inc., 716 F.2d 1425 (5th Cir. 1983)

To Pay or Not to Pay Is Less of an Option for Texas Support Obligors under the New Involuntary Wage Assignment Provisions: Tex. Fam. Code Ann. 14.091(p), (q) (Vernon Pamph. Supp. 1984)