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Volume 24, Number 1 ARTICLES Sisyphaen Task of Interpreting Mineral Deeds and Leases: An Encyclopedia of Canons of Construction, The Use and Non-Use of Tangible Personal Property in Public Hospitals under Section 101.021 of the Texas Tort Claims Act The Reach for Repose: Have the Texas Courts Gone Awry CASENOTES The Preemptive Effect of the Federal Cigarette Labeling Act on State Common Law Tort Claims: Cipollone v. Liggett Group, Inc. 12 U.S.C. Section 1821(d)(13)(B) Does Not Give the FDIC the Right to Assert D'Oench, Duhme Defenses for the First Time on Appeal: Larson v. FDIC Lenders and Borrowers Beware - Secured Creditors May Not Avoid Liability for Breaches of the Peace by Using an Independent Contractor to Carry out Repossession: MBank El Paso, N.A. v. Sanchez Volume 24, Number 2 FIFTH CIRCUIT SURVEY Administrative Law Admiralty Law Antitrust Law Banking Law Bankruptcy Law Civil Procedure Civil Rights Criminal Law Criminal Procedure Employee Benefits Environmental Law Evidence Federal Taxation Labor and Employment Law Securities Volume 24, Number 3 ARTICLES The Parole Law Instruction and Jury Misconduct A Chip by Any Other Name Would Still Be a Potato: The Failture of Law and Its Definitions to Keep Pace with Computer Technology Texas Financial Institutions and the Consumer's Right to Privacy A Proposed Change to Texas Contribution and Partial Settlements Laws Technicalities in Contempt Enforcement Orders Allow Obligated, Non-Custodial Parents to Escape Child Support CASENOTES False Light Invasion of Privacy Remains a Flickering Light for Recovery for Invasion of Privacy in Texas: Diamond Shamrock Refining and Marketing Co. v. Mendez How Long Will Privity of Contract Remain a Defense to Legal Malpractice: American Centennial Insurance Co. v. Canal Insurance Co. Volume 24, Number 4 ARTICLES Avoidance of Foreclosure Sales as Preferential Transfers: Another Serious Threat to Secured Creditors Attorney-Client Conflicts of Interest and Disqualification of Counsel in Texas Litigation COMMENT Resolving the Community Reinvestment Act Dilemma: Eliminating Whites Only Mortgage Lending While Reducing Regulatory Red Tape Protecting the American Taxpayers: Assigning the FDIC's Six Year Statute of Limitations to Third Party Purchasers Comment Levelling the Playing Field of Insurance Agreements in Texas: Adopting Comparative Bad Faith as an Affirmative Defense Based on the Insured's Misconduct Comment CASENOTES Sudden Death: The Supreme Court of Texas Kills Mary Carter: Elbaor v. Smith The Supreme Court Giveth, and the Supreme Court Taketh Away: Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress Is Not an Independent Cause of Action in Texas: Boyles v. Kerr |