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Our Box Was Full : an Ethnography for the Delgamuukw Plaintiffs. by Daly, Richard

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Perceptions in Litigation and Mediation : Lawyers, Defendants, Plaintiffs, and Gendered Parties. by Relis, Tamara

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Abstract; Contents; List of tables; List of figures; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER ONE Introduction; CHAPTER TWO Great misconceptions or disparate perceptions of plaintiffs' litigation aims?; CHAPTER THREE The voluntary versus mandatory mediation divide; CHAPTER FOUR Consequences of power: Legal actors versus disputants on defendants' attendance at mediation; CHAPTER FIVE Actors' mediation objectives: How lawyers versus parties plan to resolve their cases short of trial; CHAPTER SIX Perceptions during mediations.…”
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The law of obligations : connections and boundaries

Table of Contents: “…chapter 4 RESCISSION, RESTITUTION AND CONTRACTUAL ORDERING: THE ROLE OF PLAINTIFF ELECTION /…”
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The wall of separation : the constitutional politics of church and state by Sorauf, Frank J. (Frank Joseph), 1928-2013

Table of Contents: “…VI. The Plaintiffs --…”
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Medieval law : lawyers and their work

Table of Contents: “…Title II: Plaintiff (demandante) --…”
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Kentucky workers' compensation by Harned, Norman E.

Table of Contents: “…Medical benefits -- Presenting or contesting medical expenses -- Income benefits -- Death benefits -- Special fund -- Undertaking representation for the plaintiff -- Undertaking representation for the defendant -- Plaintiff's burden of proof -- Coverage under the act -- Work-relatedness arising out of and in the course of employment -- Wages -- Medical causation -- Defenses to payment -- Commencing the case for the plaintiff -- Commencing the case for the defendant -- Taking proof before the administrative judge -- Plaintiff's discovery deposition -- Presenting occupational evidence -- Presenting lay witness's testimony -- Benefit review, prehearing, and settlement -- Hearing -- Briefs to the administrative law judge -- Post-decision proceedings -- Third-party actions and subrogation -- Penalties -- Special matters.…”
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Experts in civil cases : an inside view by Prichard, Fred, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…The firm -- Conflicts -- Evaluating cases : plaintiff versus defense -- Preparing cases : plaintiff versus defense.…”
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The life of the law : anthropological projects by Nader, Laura

Table of Contents: “…Hegemonic Processes in Law: Colonial to Contemporary; 4. The Plaintiff: A User Theory; Epilogue; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.…”
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Trade secrets : law and practice by Quinto, David W., 1955-

Table of Contents: “…-- Litigating trade secret actions : plaintiff's perspective -- Litigating trade secret actions : defendant's perspective -- Corporate trade secret protection plans and practices -- Hiring and terminating employees -- Criminal prosecution of trade secret misappropriation.…”
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Friends at the bar : a Quaker view of law, conflict resolution, and legal reform by Sagafi-nejad, Nancy Black, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…About friends -- Friends' beginnings in England -- Penn's holy experiment in Pennsylvania and his changes to its laws -- Quakers as plaintiffs and defendants in court and as "divine lobbyists" -- Quaker lawyers and lawyer ethics -- Mediation and arbitration : past and future.…”
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Mass torts in a world of settlement by Nagareda, Richard A.

Table of Contents: “…Origins -- The development of a mass tort -- Regulating development indirectly -- Making and enforcing a grid -- The rise and fall of the mass tort class settlement -- Public legislation and private contracts -- Mandatory class actions revisited -- Maximizing or minimizing opt-outs -- Bankruptcy transformed -- Government as plaintiff -- Leveraging conflicts of interest -- Administering the leveraging proposal.…”
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Inside a class action : the Holocaust and the Swiss banks by Schapiro, Jane, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Winds of truth -- Looking back -- Plaintiffs speak -- The devil's bridge -- An uneasy alliance -- A rough calculation -- Arguments and motions -- The hearing -- Stucki's ghost -- A victim's fund -- A separate peace -- Money dance -- An accounting -- The reckoning.…”
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International human rights litigation in U.S. courts

Table of Contents: “…The alien tort statute (ATS) : from 1789 to filartiga, sosa, and beyond -- Understanding the alien tort statute (ATS) : the analytic framework -- Plaintiffs, defendants, and violations in alien tort statute (ATS) suits -- The torture victim protection act (TVPA) -- Jurisdiction over states : the foreign sovereign immunities act (FSIA) -- Other grounds for human rights litigation -- Historical paradigms, modern violations -- Treaty violations -- The plaintiff : who can sue? …”
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Soft law and public authorities : remedies and reform by Weeks, Greg (Law teacher)

Table of Contents: “…WHAT WOULD BE THE RESULT IF THE POLICE MANUAL WERE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC, AND THE PLAINTIFF WAS AWARE OF ITS TERMS? E. WHAT WOULD BE THE RESULT IF THE POLICE MANUAL WERE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC, BUT THE PLAINTIFF HAD NO SUBJECTIVE KNOWLEDGE OF ITS TERMS? …”
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Medical malpractice by Sloan, Frank A.

Table of Contents: “…-- An increased threat of lawsuits and higher premiums : the consequences -- Governments' responses to medical malpractice crises--and their effects -- Ceilings on nonmonetary and total losses -- Compensating plaintiffs' attorneys -- Juries and health courts -- Patient safety and medical malpractice -- Medical malpractice insurance and insurance regulation -- Reinsurance -- No-fault for medical injuries -- Reforms : what can be done.…”
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Distorting the law : politics, media, and the litigation crisis by Haltom, William

Table of Contents: “…The social production of legal knowledge -- Pop torts : tales of legal degeneration and moral regeneration -- In retort : narratives versus numbers -- ATLA shrugged : plaintiffs' lawyers play defense -- Full tort press : media coverage of civil litigation -- Java jive : genealogy of a juridical icon -- Smoke signals from the tobacco wars -- Law through the looking glass of mass politics.…”
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Punitive damages : how juries decide

Table of Contents: “…Sunstein, Daniel Kahneman -- Do plaintiffs' requests and plaintiffs' identities matter? …”
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Sexual slander in nineteenth-century England : defamation in the ecclesiastical courts, 1815-1855 by Waddams, S. M.

Table of Contents: “…3 Defamation cases by five-year periods, 1815-55 -- 4 Defamation cases by sex and marital status of parties (Norwich and York) -- 5 Populations of places of plaintiffs' residence (Norwich) -- 6 Disposition of causes at various stages of litigation (Norwich) -- 7 Sex and literacy of witnesses (Norwich and York) -- APPENDICES -- A: Illustrative Cause Papers -- B: Occupations of Parties and Parties' Husbands (Norwich and York) and of Male Plaintiffs (England and Wales) -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- TABLE OF CASES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q.…”
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A single star and bloody knuckles : a history of politics and race in Texas by Minutaglio, Bill

Table of Contents: “…Prologue -- Remain quietly : the 1870s -- Our defective plan : the 1880s -- Elites and aliens : the 1890s -- The bosses : the 1900s -- Legislative rest : the 1910s -- The second coming : the 1920s -- Black blizzards : the 1930s -- Beautiful Texas : the 1940s -- I have a plaintiff : the 1950s -- The Mink Coat Mob : the 1960s -- Bitten by the political bug : the 1970s -- The sands have shifted : the 1980s -- Reality day : the 1990s -- Smear tactics : the 2000s -- Total command : the 2010s -- Epilogue.…”
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Women, money, and the law : nineteenth-century fiction, gender, and the courts by Warren, Joyce W.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : fracturing gender -- Marriage and money : trust v. trust -- The dominance discourse : compulsory dependency -- Economics and the American renaissance woman : Warner, Southworth, Stowe, Cummins, & Fern -- The woman plaintiff -- The economics of race : Harper, Wilson, Crafts, & Jacobs -- The woman defendant -- Economics and the law in fiction : Fern, Tyler, Oakes Smith, Chesebro', Phelps, Stoddard, Child, Davis, Ruiz de Burton, & Winnemucca Hopkins -- The economics of divorce -- Woman's economic independence : Fern, Alcott, & Gilman -- Epilogue : into the twenty-first century.…”
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