Volume 18, Number 1

DECEPTIVE TRADE PRACTICES - CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT SYMPOSIUM

ARTICLES

Banks and the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act

Innovation Use of the Deceptive Trade Practices Act

Defending Deceptive Trade Practices Claims

The Court's Charge in DTPA Cases

Practical Applications and a Survey of Cases: The DTPA and Oil and Gas

A Survey of Insurance Litigation under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act

COMMENT

UCC Warranty Disclaimers and the No Waiver Provision of the Deceptive Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Act: Can the Conflict Be Resolved

Volume 18, Number 2

FIFTH CIRCUIT SURVEY

Administrative Law

Admiralty Law

Antitrust Law

Bankruptcy Law

Civil Procedure

Criminal Law and Procedure

Employment Discrimination

Environmental Law

Evidence

Federal Jurisdiction

Federal Income Taxation

First Amendment

Intellectual Property

Labor and Employment Law

Prisoners' Rights

Securities

Voting Rights

Volume 18, Number 3

ARTICLES

Congressional Power over Taxation and Commerce: The Supreme Court's Lost Chance to Devise a Consistent Doctrine

Regulating Attorney Advertising

Choice of Law Outline for Texas Courts

COMMENTS

Why Congress Should Not Legislatively Repeal the Feres Doctrine - A Struggle in Equity

Corporate Share Repurchases under the Texas Business Corporation Act: Surplus Requirements; Timing Problems; Disapproving Shareholder Rights

Recovering Damages for Mental Anguish in Wrongful Death Suits: The Elimination of the Physical Injury/Physical Manifestation Requirement

The Use of Setoff in Bankruptcy to Resolve Conflicting Claims to Construction Contract Funds Covered by Texas Mechanic's and Materialman's Liens

The Collateral Source Rule in Texas: Its Impending Demise and a Proposed Modification

CASENOTES

Admission into Evidence of a Mary Carter Agreement from a Prior Trial Is Harmful Error: Scurlock Oil Co. v. Smithwick, 30 Tex. Sup. Ct. J. 74 (Nov. 19, 1986)

Alternative and Inconsistent Theories of Recovery or Defense May Be Submitted in a Single Broad Issue without Mentioning All the Theories in the Jury Charge: Island Recreational Development Corp. v. Republic of Texas Savings Association, 710 S.W.2d 551 (Tex. 1986)

Operation of IRA Collective Investment Trust Is a Permissible Commercial Banking Activity under the Glass-Steagall Act: Investment Company Institute v. Conover, 790 F.2d 925 (D.C. Cir.), cert. denied, 107 S. Ct. 421 (1986)

Warrantless Aerial Surveillance of the Curtilage from Public Airspace Does Not Violate the Fourth Amendment: California v. Ciraolo, 106 S. Ct. 1809, 90 L. Ed. 2d 210 (1986)

Volume 18, Number 4

ARTICLES

Why the Approach of Heckmann v. Ahmanson Will Not Become the Prevailing Greenmail Viewpoint: Race to the Bottom Continues

Water Rights for Texas Estuaries

The Responsibility of Lawyers for the Justice of Their Causes

Permissible Scope of Texas Automobile Inventory Searches in the Aftermath of Colorado v. Bertine: A Talisman Is Created

COMMENTS

Bank Failure and the FDIC: A Survey of Legal Rights and Relationships of the Client and the Insolvent Bank

Compensability of Mental Injuries Induced by Mental Stimulus under Texas Workers' Compensation Law - A Time for Change

Parental Liberties versus the State's Interest in Education: The Case for Allowing Home Education

CASENOTES

Texas Allows Successive Prosecutions of a Defendant for the Same Statutory Violation Occurring in the Same Criminal Transaction: Ex Parte Rathemell, 717 S.W.2d 33 (Tex. Crim. App. 1986)

Fractional Reservations of Mineral Interests under Land Described Reserves a Fractional Interest under the Entire Physical Tract Regardless of the Use of a Subject to Clause below the Land Description: Averty v. Grande, Inc., 717 S.W.2d 891 (Tex. 1986)

Texas Supreme Court Allows Res Ipsa Loquitur Instruction to Be Given to Jury in Action Involving Single-Car Automobile Accident: Porterfield v. Brinegar, 719 S.W.2d 558 (Tex. 1986)