The legal process: basic problems in the making and application of law
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Preface by Erwin N. Griswold ................................ vii
Publication Editors’ Preface ................................... xi
Table of Cases ............................................. xliii
An Historical and Critical Introduction to
The Legal Process, by William N. Eskridge, Jr.
Philip P. Frickey......................................... li
Preface to the 1958 “Tentative Edition”................... cxxxvii
CHAPTER 1. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE NATURE AND
FUNCTION OF LAW............................................... 1
Section 1· Two Examples of the Law in Operation.............. 1
Introductory Note on the Principle of Institutional
Settlement................................................. 1
A. The Basic Conditions of Human Existence............. 1
B. The Recognition of a Community of Interest by
Groups of Human Beings .............................. 2
C. The Institutionalization of Procedures for the
Settlement of Questions of Group Concern.......... 3
D. The Principle Implicit in the Procedures ........... 4
E. The Interplay of Private and Official
Procedures of Decision ............................... 6
F. The Two Introductory Problems ...................... 9
Problem No. 1. The Significance of an Institutional System:
The Case of the Spoiled Cantaloupes....................... 10
Background Notes on Fresh Fruits and Vegetables........... 12
Part I. The Trade in Fresh Fruits and Vegetables....... 12
Part II. What Prior Settlements Said to Martinelli ..... 15
A. Martinelli’s Own Agreement ......................... 16
1. “U.S. Grade No. 1”................................ 16
2. “Rolling acceptance final”........................ 19
B. The Background of State Law......................... 22
1. The question of locating the applicable state law . 23
2. The question of the existence of a binding
private settlement.............................. 27
3. The effect of the agreement, if it was valid,
under the Uniform Sales Act ................. 28
C. What the Act of Congress Said to Martinelli...... 33
1. The crucial provisions............................ 33
2. The background of the statute..................... 35
a. The abortive voluntary plan of 1925 ........ 35
b. The Produce Agency Act of 1927 ............. 35
c. The legislative history of the 1930 Act..... 36
D. What Prior Settlements by the Secretary of
Agriculture Said to Martinelli.................... 41
1. The regulations defining trade terms.............. 41
2. The administrative decisions on the effect of a
wrongful rejection................................. 42
E. Trade Practice and Understanding ...................... 43
Part III. Martinelli’s Decision .............................. 45
Part IV. The Official Decisions............................ 46
A. The Problem in the Department of Agriculture .... 46
L. Gillarde Co. v. Joseph Martinelli Co., Inc. . . 47
B. The Problem in the United States District Court ... 50
Joseph Martinelli Co. v. L. Gillarde Co........ 50
C. The Problem in the United States Court of Appeals . 53
L. Gillarde Co. v. Joseph Martinelli Co., Inc. . . 53
L. Gillarde Co. v. Joseph Martinelli Co., Inc. . . 57
D. The Problem in the Supreme Court of
the United States.................................... 58
Part V. Some Notes and Queries ............................ 60
A. The Problem Through Martinelli’s Eyes............... 60
B. The Problem Through the Secretary’s Eyes............. 60
C. The Problem Through the Courts’ Eyes................. 63
D. Some Cognate Problems in the Courts................. 64
E. The Problem Through the Eyes of Congress............. 66
F. The Problem from an Olympian Point of View .... 67
Problem No. 2. An Introduction to the Differences Between
Enacted and Decisional Law: The Case of the
Spoiled Heir.................................................. 68
Background Notes on the Acquisition of Property by
Homicide in Ohio .......................................... 71
Part I. The Ohio Legislature’s Attitude
Toward Homicide ........................................... 72
Part II. The Filmore Problem ................................. 73
A. The Filmore Opinion
Filmore v. The Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company .................................. 73
B. Some Notes and Queries on the Filmore Problem . . 75
Part III. The Problem Under the Statute of Descent
and Distribution........................................... 76
A. The Statute ........................................... 76
B. The Decision in Deem v. Millikin.................... 77
Deem v. Millikin........................................ 77
Riggs v. Palmer ........................................ 80
C. The Later Ohio Decisions .............................. 85
D. The Situation in Other States.......................... 87
E. Some Notes and Queries on the Felonious Heir .... 88
Part IV. The Insurance Problem Revisited and
Further Explored........................................... 94
A. Should the Insurance Company Keep the Proceeds? . 94
B. May the Court Rewrite the Beneficiary Clause? .... 94
C. In Rewriting the Clause, Should the Court Permit
Deem To Undercut Filmore?............................ 95
D. Can Deem and Filmore Stand Together? .................. 96
Part V. The Problem Under the Will........................ 97
A. The Appropriateness of the Sanction of Nullity .... 97
B. The Problem if the Will Were Valid ................. 98
Part VI. An Epilogue on the 1932 Statute.................. 98
Section 2. Introductory Text Notes on the Nature
and Function of Law ......................................... 102
Note on the Nature of Institutional Decisions................ 102
A. The Ultimate Objectives of the Decisions.............. 102
B. The Question of the Nature of Knowledge About
Institutional Decisions ............................... 107
C. A Preliminary View....................................... 110
D. A Retrospective Query ................................... 113
Note on the Nature and Significance of General Directive
Arrangements................................................. 113
Part I. Some Points of Basic Analysis..................... 113
A. The Elements of General Directive Arrangements . . 113
B. Law and Language ...................................... 114
C. The Kinds of People to Whom Directions Are
Addressed: Herein of Privately Addressed
and Officially Addressed Arrangements................ 118
D. The Formulation, Elaboration, and Application of
General Directions................................... 119
E. The Technique of Self-Applying Regulation.......... 120
F. Primary Law and Remedial Law ......................... 122
G. Enacted Law and Decisional Law........................ 125
H. The Kinds of Directions Which Are Addressed to
Private Persons: Herein of Primary Duties,
Liberties, and Powers, and of Remedial
Rights of Action..................................... 127
1. Primary private duties ........................... 130
2. Primary private liberties......................... 132
3. Primary private powers............................ 133
4. The question of the primary positions of
non-actors........................................ 134
5. Remedial legal positions ........................ 137
I. The Degrees of Specificity of Directions:
Herein of Rules and Standards and of
Principles and Policies ........................ 138
1. Rules and standards.............................. 139
2. Principles and policies ........................ 141
Part II. The Processes of Official Judgment Involved in the
Administration of General Directive Arrangements .... 143
A. The Process of Reasoned Elaboration of
Purportedly Determinate Directions................... 145
B. The Reasoned Elaboration of Avowedly
Indeterminate Directions............................. 150
C. Powers of Continuing Discretion........................ 152
Preliminary Note on the Major Lawmaking Institutions
in the American System and the Dynamics of Their
Interrelationships ............................................. 158
Part L Some General Considerations........................ 159
Part II. The Interrelationships of the Major Lawmaking
Institutions in a Unitary System .................... 161
A. The Private Lawmakers .............................. 161
B. The Role of the Courts in the Development of the
Underlying Decisional Law......................... 163
C. The Legislature..................................... 164
D. Administrative Agencies......................... . 165
E. The Role of the Courts in the Interpretation and
Enforcement of the Constitution and of Statutes
and Administrative Determinations ................ 166
Part III. Local Institutions ............................. 167
Part IV. The Complications of a Federal System.......... 168
A. The Domain of Exclusive State Legislative
Competence . ..................................... 168
1. Federal control of state official action ...... 168
2. The jurisdiction of the federal courts in
matters of state law........................... 169
B. The Domain of Concurrent State and Federal
Legislative Competence............................ . 171
C. The Domain of Exclusive Federal Competence........ 172
Note on the Lawyer’s Function and the Relation of Law
to the Other Social Sciences ............................. 174
A. Introductory........................................... 174
B. Arrangement-Framing ................................... 175
C. Arrangement-Applying .................................. 178
Bibliographical Note on Contemporary and Traditional
Theories of Law .......................................... 180
CHAPTER 2. THE ROLE OF PRIVATE ORDERING AND
SOME OF ITS PROBLEMS ...................................... 183
Prefatory Note ............................................ 183
Section 1. Primary Activity................................... 186
Cavers, Legal Education and Lawyer-Made Law ............... 186
Problem No. 3. The Private Decisionmakers in the Saddle
with the Courts To Supplement and Support Them:
The Case of the Jittery Landlady........................ 188
Memorandum
October 15, 1956 ...................................... 190
Memorandum
October 18, 1956 ...................................... 192
A Postscript on the Percentage Lease Problem with
a Notation of the Problems of Lawmaking Generally . . 206
A. The Lawyer as Counsel to the Situation ........... 206
B. The Line Between Law and Non-Law at the
Grass Roots ...................................... 206
C. The Judicial Function in the Interpretation of
Private Arrangements.............................. 207
D. The Possibilities of Public Rent Control............ 207
E. A Notation on the Problems of
Lawmaking Generally............................... 208
Problem No. 4. The Private Decisionmakers with Officials
Looking over Their Shoulders: Railroad Liability for
Lost or Damaged Freight .............................. 209
Background Notes on the Liability of Common Carriers
for Lost or Damaged Goods............................... 210
Part I. The Situation Confronting Massachusetts Railroads
as of About 1850 ...................................... 210
A. Liability in the Absence of Special Agreement..... 210
B. The Carrier’s Power To Vary Its Liability by Special
Agreement ........................................ 213
C. The Significance of Insurance ...................... 215
Part II. The Role of the Courts in Setting Limits upon
Private Lawmaking...................................... 218
A. The Lockwood Decision............................... 218
Railroad Company v. Lockwood ....................... 218
B. Notes on Judicial Regulation of Private Lawmaking , 228
Part III. The Problem in the State Legislature.......... 233
Part IV. The Problem as Presented to the Congress of the
United States Around the Turn of the Century......... 235
A. The Impetus for Federal Legislation Concerning
Railroads ........................................ 235
B. The Impetus for Federal Legislation Concerning
Railroad Liability................................ 236
Part V. Some Notes and Queries ........................... 239
Problem No. 5. A Problem of Choice in the
Assignment of Powers: Airline Liability
for Lost or Damaged Baggage .............................. 240
Background Notes on Airline Liability for Lost or
Damaged Baggage........................................... 241
Part I. The Situation with Respect to Railroad Baggage . . 241
Part II. What Congress Did About Airline Baggage ....... 246
Excerpts from the Civil Aeronautics Act, as amended . . 246
Part III. What the Civil Aeronautics Board Did
About Baggage Apart from Reviewing Tariffs ............ 247
Excerpts from 14 C.F.R. Part 221 ...................... 247
Part IV. What the Airlines Did About Baggage ........... 250
A. Tariff Provisions................................... 250
Excerpts from Local and Joint Passenger Rules
Tariff No. PR-1 C.A.B. No. 4, A.T.B. No. 4...... 250
Excerpts from Local and Joint Passenger Rules
Tariff No. PR-3, as amended .................... 251
B. Ticket Provisions........... ..................... 254
Excerpts from a Typical Airline Passenger Ticket . . 254
Part V. What the Courts Did............................. 255
A. The Lichten Case ................................... 255
Lichten v. Eastern Airlines, Inc.................... 255
B. Other Airline Cases................................ 258
Part VI. Some Notes and Queries........................... 261
A. The Adequacy of Existing Arrangements ............. 261
1* The responsibility of Congress .................. 262
2. The responsibility of the airlines and
their counsel..................................... 263
3. The responsibility of the Civil Aeronautics Board . 264
4. The responsibility of the courts................... 264
B. The Possibility of a Better Statutory Arrangement . . 265
Problem No. 6. A Problem in Private Government: The Case
of the Absent Veterans....................................... 265
Background Notes on Private Ordering in Labor Relations . . 267
Part I. The Problem Apart from the Selective Service
Requirement............................................... 267
A. Collective Bargaining as a Mode of Settlement .... 267
B. The Martin Decision ................................ 269
Matter of Glenn L. Martin Co. ................... 269
C. The Significance of Governmental Regulation
of Collective Bargaining............................ 273
D. The Special Problem of Fair Representation............ 276
E. A Few Queries......................................... 276
Part II. The Selective Service Requirement .................. 277
A. A Few More Queries ................................... 277
B. The Campbell Decision................................. 277
Aeronautical Industrial District Lodge 727
v. Campbell ........................................ 277
Note on Private Lawmaking In Invitum.......................... 282
Note on the Units of Decisionmaking in Private
Ordering .................................................... 283
Section 2. Remedial Activity..................................... 286
Prefatory Note: The Great Pyramid of Legal Order............. 286
Problem No. 7. Private Release: The Case of the
Non-Litigious Employees...................................... 287
Background Notes on Private Power To Settle Disputes
Under the Fair Labor Standards Act........................ 290
Part I. Relevant Statutory Provisions as of 1941 ......... 290
Excerpts from the Fair Labor Standards
Act of 1938, 52 Stat. 1060 ........................ 290
Part II. Judicial Resolution of the Problem............... 292
A. The O’Neil-Gangi Doctrine ............................ 292
D.A. Schulte, Inc. y. Gangi ........................ 292
B. Some Notes and Queries............................. 297
Part III. Subsequent Legislative Action ..................... 301
A. The Portal-to-Portal Act of 1947 .................. 301
B. The 1949 Amendment ................................... 302
C. Some Notes and Queries................................ 303
Problem No. 8. Private Arbitration: The Case of the
Litigious Investor ......................................... 304
A. Mrs. Phluster’s Trouble ......................... 304
B. Mr. Phluster’s Trouble............................... 305
C. The Problem.......................................... 306
Background Notes on Commercial and Labor Arbitration .... 306
Part I. The Merits of the Two Phluster Claims............. 306
A. Mrs. Phluster’s Claim................................ 306
B. Mr. Phluster’s Claim ................................ 307
Part II. The Elements of Voluntary Arbitration ........... 309
A. Official Arrangements About Arbitration:
In General ........................................ 309
B. Private Ordering of the Arbitration Process ......... 310
C. Elements of an Arbitration Proceeding................ 311
Part III. The Advantages of Voluntary Arbitration......... 314
A. Speed and Inexpensiveness .......................... 314
B. Friendliness and the Preservation of Good Will .... 315
C. Technical Expertness of the Arbitrator............... 316
D. The Appeal of Privacy ............................... 317
E. Informality and Flexibility of Procedure............. 317
F. Arbitration as an Ad Hoc Process in
Disregard of Precedent ........................... 318
G. Finality of Decision at an Early Stage............... 321
Part IV. The Impact of Compulsion on a
Voluntary Process ...................................... 321
A. The Pre-Statutory Law................................ 321
B. Modern Arbitration Statutes ......................... 323
Part V. The Collision Between the United States Arbitration
Act and the Securities Act .............................. 324
Wilko v. Swan ........................................... 324
Part VI. A Word on Labor Arbitration...................... 330
Problem No. 9. Settlement of Internal Disputes by Private
Groups: The Case of the Cantankerous Colonel.............. 331
Dawkins v. Antrobus ..................................... 331
Background Notes on Internal Settlement by Associations of
Internal Disputes .......................................... 337
CHAPTER 3. THE COURTS AS PLACES OF
INITIAL RESORT FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS
WHICH FAIL OF PRIVATE SOLUTION................................. 341
Prefatory Note ................................................ 341
Section L The Relation Between Law and Fact..................... 344
Note on the Identification of Fact............................. 344
Problem No. 10. Law, Fact, and Discretion in the
Application of Law.......................................... 345
Commonwealth v. Wright .................................. 346
Commonwealth v. Sullivan ................................ 347
Background Notes on the Distinction Between
Law and Fact............................................... 349
A. The Utility of Efforts To Distinguish “Law”
and “Fact”................................................ 349
B. The Three-Fold Nature of the Decisional Process...... 350
C. The Significance of the Suggested Analysis............... 351
1. In general ............................................ 351
2. Judge and jury....................................... 352
3. The judge without a jury ............................ 356
4. Trial court and reviewing court . . ................. 358
5. The relation between declaring law and
identifying facts................................... 359
D. Adjudicative and Legislative Facts ...................... 360
Section 2. The Reason-For-Being of Judicially
Declared Law ................................................. 362
Problem No. 11. Decision Without Closely Relevant
Precedent: The Case of the Burnt Bundles .................. 362
Norway Plains Co. v. Boston Maine R.R................. 362
Background Notes on the Termination of the Extraordinary
Liability of a Common Carrier by Railroad.................. 372
Part I. The Norway Plains Case and the Law-Declaring
Function of the Court..................................... 372
A. The Question of Common Carrier Status............... 372
1. The preliminary questions of the obligation to
decide and the obligation to generalize
the grounds of decision .......................... 372
a. The possibility of no-law ....................... 372
b. The possibility of no generalized ground
of decision....................................... 373
c. A proposed conclusion............................ 373
2. The possibility of exercising a legislative
discretion about the merits of the rule of
common carrier liability.......................... 374
3. The result required by a reasoned elaboration of
existing arrangements............................. 375
B. The Question of Termination of Carrier Liability ... 375
1. The wagon rule...................................... 375
2. The unloading rule.................................. 376
Part II. The Subsequent Development of State Law........... 377
A. The Aftermath in the State Courts................... 377
B. An Effort at Correction by a State Legislature .... 378
Part III. Final Resolution of the Problem by
a Federal Administrative Agency ....................... 381
A. The Interstate Commerce Commission’s Action .... 381
B. Some Notes and Queries.............................. 382
Problem No. 12. The Need for the Reasoned Elaboration
of Precedent: The Case of the Faithless Fiduciary.......... 383
Berenson v. Nirenstein ................................... 383
Background Notes on the Berenson Problem...................... 386
A. The Spritz Line of Decisions ....................... 386
B. The Salter Line of Decisions ...................... 387
C. The Question Whether the Decisions
Were in Conflict ................................ 393
D. The Question of How To Resolve the Conflict........ 396
E. The Question of Judicial Craftsmanship............. 397
Fuller, The Forms and Limits of Adjudication.......... 397
Section 3. The Starting Points of Judicial
Reasoning ..................... . . *....................... 403
Subsection A. The Bearing of Custom......................... 403
Problem No. 13. Customary Standards of Conduct
as a Measure of Tort Duties: The Case of
the Unseaworthy Tugs....................................... 403
The T.J. Hooper ........................................ 404
Background Notes on the Hooper Problem ..................... 407
A. The Requirement of Seaworthiness........................ 407
B. The Nature of the Requirement of Seaworthiness .... 409
C. The State of the Art and the Practice
of the Industry...................................... 409
D. The Question of Prevailing Practice as Decisive
of Minimum Obligation................................ 410
E. The Question of Prevailing Practice as Decisive
of Maximum Obligation ............................... 412
F. The Bearing of the Act of Congress ................... 413
Problem No. 14. Custom in the Interpretation of Contracts:
The Case of the Bankers Accustomed To Doing What
They Pleased ............................................. 415
Dixon, Irmaos CIA. Ltda. u. Chase National Bank . . 415
Background Notes on the Dixon, Irmaos Problem............... 419
A. A Criticism ............................................ 419
B. A Defense .............................................. 421
C. Some Notes and Queries.................................. 421
Note on Custom as a Source of Judicially Declared Law .... 423
A. The Filling-In Function of Custom .................... 423
B. Custom as a Premise of Judicial Reasoning ............ 425
C. Custom as a Basis of Local, Territorial Exception
from Established General Law......................... 426
D. The Common Law as Customary Law......................... 427
E. Custom as Distinguished from General Community
Understanding and Fair Expectation................... 429
1. The historical school of jurisprudence .............. 429
2. Excerpts from Carter................................. 430
Subsection B. The Materials of Judicial Reasoning
when Custom Fails ......................................... 435
Problem No. 15. The Search for Policy: Primary
Policy..................................................... 435
Roberson v. Rochester Folding Box Co...................... 435
Background Notes on Judicial Enforcement of Primary
Obligations Not Previously Recognized as
Enforceable Legal Obligations ........................... 450
Part I. The Right To Privacy............................. 450
A. The Basis for a Judicial Determination
of the Merits...................................... 450
1. The Warren-Brandeis article........................ 450
2. Some further notes and queries ................. 452
3. The course of decisions in other states......... 453
B. The Legislature as a Preferable Forum:
A Preliminary Look ................................ 454
1. A moot brief....................................... 454
2. The experience under the New York statute .... 455
Part II. The Invitation to Dinner Case .................. 457
Problem No. 16. The Search for Policy:
Remedial Policy............................................. 458
Oppenheim v. Kridel ..................................... 458
Background Notes on Judicial Effectuation of
Established Policies by the Recognition
of Novel Rights of Action .................................. 465
Part I. The Oppenheim Case.................................. 465
A. The Question of Unfair Surprise...................... 465
B. The Push of the Reasons Supporting the Plaintiff . . 466
C. Statutes as a Place To Search for Public Policy .... 467
D. The Alternative of Refusing To Admit a
Husband’s Right of Action.......................... 467
Part II. Public Wrong and Private Right of Action........ 468
Part III. Contracts Against Public Policy................ 470
Gellhorn, Contracts and Public Policy ............. 470
Part IV. The Unborn Plaintiff............................ 473
Part V. The Problem of Daily v. Parker................... 476
Note on the Development of Rights of Action in the
Common Law Courts and in Equity ......................... 478
Subsection C. The Legislature as a Preferable Forum......... 482
Problem No. 17. The Problem of Common Law Crimes............ 482
Ohio v. Lafferty............................................ 482
Commonwealth v. McHale...................................... 487
Background Notes on Nullum Crimen Sine Lege ................ 491
A. The Principle Against Retroactivity..................... 491
B. The Doctrine of Strict Construction of Penal
Statutes ............................................. 492
C. Common Law Crimes and the Principle
of Legality . ...................................... 492
1. The case against common law crimes ................ 492
2. The position today in the various states
and in England..................................... 494
3. The problem in the Lafferty case .................. 495
4. The problem in the McHale case ....................... 496
Problem No. 18. The Paradox of Making Law by Refusing
To Make Law: The Halcyon Case ........................... 496
Halcyon Lines v. Haenn Ship Ceiling
Refitting Corp........................................... 496
Background Notes on the Threatened Paralysis of the
Federal Judicial Power...................................... 499
Part I. The Abdication in Halcyon ....................... 499
A. The Body of Law To Be Elaborated ..................... 499
B. The Puzzle About the Actual Holding .................. 500
C. The Relevant Principles of the Underlying
Decisional Law ..................................... 501
D. The Bearing of the Compensation Act................... 504
1. The naked words of Section 5...................... 504
2. The test of a common liability and the
question of unjust enrichment . ................. 505
3. The scheme of the statute: Herein of the
theory of a special Congressional
tenderness for negligent employers............... 507
E. Nature Abhors a Vacuum: The Aftermath
of Abdication....................................... 511
F. Some Further Notes and Queries....................... 514
1. The expressed grounds of the
Halcyon decision................................. 514
2. The unexpressed grounds of the
Halcyon opinion.................................. 520
Part II. The Standard Oil Case: Herein the Myth of an
All-Competent and Indefatigable Congress ................ 522
A. The Decision ......................................... 522
B. Some Rather Sharp Comments............................ 523
Problem No. 19. Judicial Control of the Ethics of
Newsgathering: The International News
Service Case................................................ 527
International News Service v. The Associated
Press ................................................... 527
Section 4* Some Problems of Stare Decisis......................... 545
Problem No. 20. The Judicious Reinterpretation of
Precedents: The Case of the Buick with
Three Good Wheels........................................ 545
MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co............................. 545
Background Notes on the Distinguishing of Precedents
Compared with Square Overruling ............................ 555
Part I. The MacPherson Case ................................ 555
A. The Bearing of the Obligation To Draw Reasoned
Distinctions ....................................... 555
B. The Question of Unfair Surprise....................... 556
C. The Significance of the Primary-Remedial
Distinction ....................................... 557
D. The Recurring Institutional Comparison................ 558
Part II. Some Excerpts from Llewellyn,
The Bramble Bush......................................... 558
Part III. The Case of the Dry Hydrants..................... 562
A. The Reimann Decisions.................................. 562
B. Some Notes and Queries................................. 566
C. A Postscript........................................... 567
Note on the Reasons Supporting a General Practice of
Adherence to Prior Holdings ............................... 568
A. A Tentative Formulation of the Bases of the
Doctrine of Stare Decisis........................... 568
1. In furtherance of private ordering................... 568
2. In furtherance of fair and efficient
adjudication ....................................... 568
3. In furtherance of public confidence in
the judiciary........................................ 569
B. A Recapitulation.......................................... 569
C. A Glimpse of the Practice in the Civil Law ............ 570
D. A Glimpse of the Practice of the House
of Lords .............................................. 572
Problem No. 21. The Justification for Retrospective
Overruling: The Case of the Bashful Principal.............. 576
Crowley v. Lewis............................................. 576
Background Notes on Retrospective Overruling.................. 578
Part I. The Crowley Case .................................. 578
A. Some Contemporary Views of the Problem.............. 578
B. Some Notes and Queries................................. 581
C. The Aftermath in the Legislature.................... 583
Part II. The Election Outrage ................................ 584
A. The Georgi Decision.................................... 584
B. The Legislature’s Action .............................. 585
C. The Position of the Restatement..................... 586
Part III. An American Image of the House
of Lords: Herein of Stare Decisis in
Relation to Remedial Rules................................. 587
Part IV. A Problem of Retrospective Overruling
in the Sphere of Primary Law: The Immunity
of Charitable Organizations from Liability
for the Torts of Their Employees ....................... 588
Part V. A Glance at Stare Decisis and
Property Rights.......................................... 590
Part VI. Stability of Principle versus
Stability of Rule ......................................... 592
Part VII. A Testing Question............................... 596
Note on Stare Decisis in Inferior Courts...................... 597
A. The Girouard Case ..................................... 597
B. An Experiment in Israel................................ 598
Problem No. 22. The Justification for
Prospective Overruling: The Case of
the Bashful Principal Again................................ 599
Background Notes on Prospective Overruling ................... 600
Part I. The Practice in State Courts........................ 600
A. The Protection of Those Relying on Prior
Interpretations of Criminal Statutes............... 600
B. The Protection of Officials Relying Upon
the Constitutionality of Unconstitutional
Statutes.............................................. 603
C. Prospective Overruling in Private
Civil Litigation .................................... 604
D. The Constitutionality of Prospective
Overruling by a State Court........................ 606
Part II. The Practice in the Federal Courts ................ 608
A. The Obsolete Doctrine of
Gelpecke v. Dubuque................................... 609
B. The Extraordinary Doctrine of
Warring v, Colpoys.................................... 609
C. A Suggestion of General Judicial Freedom
To Legislate Prospectively ........................... 615
A Further Note on the Conflict of Laws in Time................. 615
Part I. Constitutional Limitations Upon
Changes in the Grounds of Judicial Decision ............. 617
Part II. Statutory Changes .................................... 618
A. Constitutional Limitations.............................. 619
1. Bills of attainder................................... 619
2. Ex post facto laws................................... 619
3. Law impairing the obligation of contracts......... 620
4. Due process inhibitions upon
retroactive statutes............................... 621
a. Retroactive creation of primary duties .......... 621
b. The special problem of the tax cases ........... 623
c. Impairment of primary advantages from
pre-enactment transactions......................... 624
d. Impairment of accrued right of action............. 625
e. Impairment of adjudicated rights................... 627
B. Interpretation of Statutes ............................. 628
1. The general presumption of prospective
operation ......................................... 628
2. The special problem of repealing statutes......... 628
Part III. Changes in Administratively Made Law.............. 629
Section 5. The Function of Adjudication Reviewed ...... 630
Problem No. 23. Advisory Opinions: The Case of
Mr. Jefferson’s Incompleted Forward Pass ...................... 630
Background Notes on Judicial Lawmaking Otherwise
than as an Incident to Adjudication ........................... 632
A. The Analytical Nature of Advisory Opinions.............. 632
B. The Power of the Justices To Give
Authoritative Opinions ............................... 634
C. The Wisdom of Giving Opinions Which Would
Not Be Authoritative ................................. 637
D. The Justices’ Solution ................................. 637
E. Other Problems of Fitness for the Exercise
of Law-Declaring Powers......................... 638
F. The Counseling Function of the Bar................ 639
G. The Courts as Last-Ditch Agencies in Settling
Disputes About the Application of Law........... 640
A Note on the Problems Appropriate for Adjudication........ 640
A. Some Basic Elements of the Concept of
Adjudication........................................ 642
B. Reasoned Decision as Integral in the
Concept of Adjudication ............................ 643
C. The Kinds of Disputes Which Lend Themselves to
Reasoned Decision................................... 646
CHAPTER 4· LAWMAKING AND THE POLITICAL PROCESS 649
Section 1. Direct Popular Lawmaking ............................ 649
Prefatory Note .............................................. 649
Problem No. 24. An Initiative Petition in
Massachusetts............................................. 649
Background Notes on the Initiative and
Referendum ............................................... 651
Part I. The Relevant Constitutional Provisions............ 651
Excerpts from Article 48 of the
Massachusetts Constitution.......................... 651
Part II. Judicial Resolution of the Problem............. 658
Bowe v. Secretary of the Commonwealth.................. 658
Part III. The Initiative and Referendum
as Modes of Lawmaking.................................. 667
A. Historical Development and Present Status .......... 667
B. Problems in the Use of the Initiative ......... 668
C. A Brief Look at the Referendum ..................... 669
D. A Brief Bibliography ............................... 670
Section 2. Election of Public Officials......................... 670
Prefatory Note .............................................. 670
Problem No. 25. Securing a More Equitable Plan of
Districting for the Election of Members of a
State Legislature and of Representatives
in Congress .............................................. 672
Background Notes on Legislative Reapportionment.............. 672
Part I. The Existing Laws................................. 672
A. Apportionment of Illinois’ Representation
in Congress....................................... 672
1. The Senate..................................... 672
2. The House of Representatives..................... 673
B. Apportionment in the State Legislature.............. 674
C. The Situation in Other States....................... 676
Part II. The Possibility of Recourse to the Courts ..... 677
A. The Federal Courts.................................. 677
B. The State Courts.................................... 680
Part III. The Possibility of Recourse to Congress.......... 682
A. As to State Districting............................... 682
B. As to Congressional Districting .................... 682
Part IV. The Possibility of Recourse to the
State Legislature......................................... 684
A. As to State Districting............................... 684
B. As to Congressional Districting .................... 684
Part V. The Possibility of Recourse to the Procedure
of State Constitutional Amendment......................... 685
Note on the Relation Between the Voters’
Choice and the Determination of Public
Policy by the Legislature ................................. 687
CHAPTER 5. LEGISLATURES AND THE
LEGISLATIVE PROCESS............................................. 693
Prefatory Note ................................................. 693
Section 1. Introductory Text on the Legislature’s
Function........................................................ 696
Note on the Business of the Legislature....................... 696
Part I. The Major Tasks ................................... 697
A. Legislation for the Functioning of the
Entire Governmental Establishment................... 697
1. Organization and improvement of governmental
structure and procedure........................... 697
2. Management of the public purse.................... 698
3. Supervision of government housekeeping.............. 698
B. General Legislation Affecting Private
Control ............................................ 698
1. Distinctively legislative techniques of
control—regulatory and non-regulatory............. 698
2. General responsibility for legal doctrine ......... 699
a. Codification and general statutory revision . . . 699
b. Repair and modification of legal doctrine...... 699
C. Forge and Anvil of Major Public Policy................ 700
D. Private and Special Legislation ...................... 701
E. Legislative Functions Other Than Enactment.......... 701
1. Investigating functions ............................ 701
2. Other non-enactment functions of the
legislature....................................... 702
3. Responsibilities of individual legislators ......... 702
Part II. The Relative Importance of the Tasks ............. 702
A. A Statistical Compilation .......................... 702
B. A Few Tentative Non-Statistical Comments ............. 704
Note on the Structural and Procedural Framework for
Carrying on the Legislature’s Business . ................... 705
A. The Two-House Frame: Tradition or Wisdom?............... 705
B. The Committee System: Division of Labor................. 706
C. The Legislature’s Leaders: The Allocation
of Power .............................................. 710
D. The Members of the Legislature: Personal
Characteristics and Qualifications...................... 715
E. Staff Assistance: What Kind of Help Do
Legislators Need? . ................................... 718
F. The Time Available for Legislative Action:
The Short Intermittent Session ......................... 721
G. Principal Procedural Roadblocks in the
Enactment of a Bill . ............................ . . 724
Section 2. Codification and Revision of Decisional Law . . 726
Problem No. 26. Declaration of Law Through the Form of
Enactment: The Restatements of the Law .................. . 726
Report of the Committee on the Establishment of
a Permanent Organization for the Improvement
of the Law Proposing the Establishment of
an American Law Institute..................................... 728
Background Notes on the Restatements of the Law .............. 735
A. A Summary of What the Institute Did ................... 735
B. Some Crucial Decisions of the Institute................ 736
1. The decision to state only
“existing law” ................................... 737
2. The decision to state rules
and not principles .............................. . . 740
3. The decision to rely on authority
rather than reason................................... 741
4. The failure to develop any theory of stare
decisis or of the responsibility of the courts
for the creative development of the law .......... 742
C. The Restatements in the Law Schools.................. 744
D. The Restatements in the Courts....................... 744
E. The Restatement of Agency (Second) and the
Institute s Change of Policy in 1953 ............. 746
F. Some Notes and Queries................................. 747
Note on General Codification of the Law ......................... 749
Part L Some Background Facts .............................. 749
A. A Brief Historical Sketch .......................... 750
B. Development of the French and German Codes .... 751
C. Code Provisions on the Problem of Third
Party Beneficiaries.................................. 754
1. French Civil Code ................................ 754
2. German Civil Code.................................... 754
D. A Brief Survey of Codification in the
United States ....................................... 756
1. The Great Nineteenth Century Debate and the
Verdict in New York................................ 756
2. The California Experience ........................... 757
Alstyne, The California Civil Code................... 758
3. The Louisiana Experience ............................ 763
Part II. Some Problems of General Codification............. 764
A. The Absence of an Underpinning for the Code .... 764
B. The Dangers of Rigidity................................ 764
C. Recourse to Generality................................ 764
1. The viewpoint of the draftsmen of the
French Civil Code............................... 764
2. The general clauses in continental codes........ 766
a. Examples of the clauses....................... 766
b. A commentary on the German experience .... 767
Hedemann, Die Flucht in die Generalklauseln . 767
D. Some Remaining Problems ........................... 773
Problem No. 27. Interstitial Correction of Decisional
Doctrines of General Application........................... 774
Background Notes on the Dilemmas Faced by a Legislature
Which Disapproves a Particular Judicial Decision ........ 775
A. The Job To Be Done ................................... 775
B. The Alternative of Merely Corrective Action by
a Statute in Code Form........................... 776
C. The Alternative of Partial or Fragmentary
Codification Going Beyond More Correction........... 777
D. The Alternative of a Merely Corrective
Statute Addressed to the Decisional Process........ 780
E. The Alternative of a Simple Declaration of
the Right to Privacy .............................. 783
Note on the New York Law Revision Commission ............... 783
A. Genesis of the Commission ............................ 783
B. The Statute............................................. 785
C. The Commission’s Work .................................. 786
Problem No. 28. Interstitial Change in Decisional Law
of Special Application to a Particular Industry ......... 792
Background Notes on Defamation by Broadcast and on
Lobbying by Lawyers...................................... 793
Part I. A Short Summary of the State of
the Decisional Law ..................................... 793
A. The Necessity of Proving Damages................... 794
B. Character of the Publisher’s Conduct............... 795
C. The Problem of Political Broadcasts ............... 796
Part II. The Constitutional Requirement of Equal
Protection of the Laws................................ 797
A. The General Approach of the Supreme Court
of the United States............................... 797
Railway Express Agency, Inc. v. New York ........ 797
B. Some Analogous State Decisions....................... 802
Part III. Legislative Developments Concerning
Radio Defamation ....................................... 802
Part IV. Lobbying and the Lawyer......................... 804
A. The Function of Lobbying in the
Legislative Process................................ 804
Brandeis, The Opportunity in the Law........... 804
B. The Lawyer as Lobbyist............................... 806
Horsky, The Washington Lawyer...................... 806
Part V. Some Notes and Queries ............................ 809
Problem No, 29. Revision of Judicial Interpretation
of an Existing Statute .................................. 810
Background Notes on the Factory Inspection
Amendment .................................................. 815
Part I. Judicial Foreword ............................... 815
A. The Cardiff Decision .............................. 815
United States v. Cardiff........................ 815
B. Some Notes and Queries............................. 817
Part II. The Dispute over Scope of Inspection............ 818
A. Contrasting Views of a Lawyer and
a Congressman....................................... 818
Statement of Thomas Austern, Counsel, National
Canners Association, Washington, D.C............. 818
B. The Factory Inspection Enactment ................... 830
C. Subsequent Legislative History........................ 831
D. Some Notes and Queries................................ 832
Part III. The Uses of the Committee Hearing.............. 833
A. A Proposal for Reform ................................ 833
Cohen, Hearing on a Bill: Legislative Folklore? . . 833
Cohen Robson, The Lawyer and the
Legislative Hearing Process ..................... 840
B. Some Notes and Queries................................ 843
Section 3. Distinctively Legislative Techniques of
Control of Private Conduct .................................... 844
Note on Distinctively Legislative Techniques of
Influencing Primary Private Conduct......................... 844
Part I. Private Autonomy and the Method of
Governmental Hands-Off.................................. 845
Part II. The Method of Governmental Regulation........... 845
A. The Basic Regime of Self-Applying
Regulation ....................................... 846
B. Techniques of Individualized Regulation............... 846
1. Prerequisites...................................... 847
2. Postrequisites .................................... 850
3. Individualized dissolution and
readjustment of legal relations ................. 851
4. Individual directions.............................. 851
5. Exactions.......................................... 853
Part III. The Method Of Direct Coercion ................. 853
Part IV. The Method of Inducement ....................... 855
A. Persuasion............................................ 855
B. Pecuniary or Other Reward............................. 855
C. Bilateral Government Contracts........................ 856
Part V. The Method of Direct Government Action .......... 857
A. Public Education...................................... 858
B. Information and Publicity............................. 858
C. Research Services .................................... 859
D. Protective Services................................... 859
E. Public Works ........................................ 860
F. Donations ............................................. 860
G. Government Assurance................................... 860
H. Government Enterprises................................ 862
Subsection A. Regulatory Techniques............................. 863
Problem No. 30. A Rudimentary Change in the Common Law
Method of Regulation......................................... 863
Background Notes on the Food and Drug Act of 1906 ........... 870
Part I. Political Pressures and Legislative Action........ 870
Regier, The Struggle for Federal Food and
Drugs Legislation ..................................... 870
Part II. Federal Displacement of State Law .................. 879
Part III. Summary Review of Sanctions for the
Enforcement of Self-Applying Law Governing
Private Conduct ............................................. 881
A. Adequacy of the Existing Regime of
Privately Enforced Civil Remedies.................... 881
B. Alternative Sanctions Available
to the Congress...................................... 883
1. The use of the licensing technique............... 883
2. The use of criminal sanctions.................... 885
3. The use of officially enforced
civil sanctions for self-applying duties.......... 887
4. The use of non-regulatory devices ............... 889
Problem No. 31. The Development of More
Elaborate Techniques: Administered
Regulation Through Licensing ................................ 889
Registration Statutes Proposed by the Counsel
of State Governments................................... 890
A Proposed Licensing Statute ............................. 894
Background Notes on Charitable Solicitation and the
Uses and Abuses of Licensing ................................ 899
A. The Significance of Charitable Activity ............... 899
B. Alleged Abuses in Solicitation of Funds................ 901
C. Existing State Legislation................................ 903
D. Some Constitutional Limitations on the
Control of Charitable Solicitations.................... 907
E. An Important Digression: Licensing of Professions
and Other Occupations.................................. 910
F. Some Notes and Queries.................................... 911
Problem No. 32. The Development of More Elaborate
Techniques: Regulation Through Delegated
Rulemaking Power............................................. 915
Excerpts from Federal Food, Drug And Cosmetic
Act of 1938 . . 916
Background Notes on the Promulgation of
Food Standards............................................... 917
A. A 1954 Review of Food Standardization..................... 917
Developments in the Law: The Federal Food,
Drug And Cosmetic Act............................ 917
B. Some Notes and Queries................................. 923
Problem No. 33. The Choice of Techniques:
A Simple Situation ....................................... 924
A Bill To Ensure Fair Educational Practices in
the Educational Institutions of the State .......... 926
Note, Fair Education Practices Acts: A Solution
To Discrimination?.................................... 929
Problem No. 34. The Limits of Wise and Effective Legal
Action: A Complex Case ..................................... 936
Subsection B. Nonregulatory Techniques ........................ 936
Problem No. 35. Provision of Government Services
and Pecuniary Inducements: The Uses of Insurance,
Especially Against Floods .................................. 936
S. 3137 937
Background Notes on Flood and Other Kinds of
Government Insurance ....................................... 943
Part I. The Problem of Floods and
Flood Insurance ......................................... 943
A. The Nature of Floods.................................. 943
B. The Difficulty of Obtaining Private
Flood Insurance.................................... 945
C. Legislation and Private Relief Facilities
Before 1956 946
D. Major Provisions of the Federal Flood
Insurance Act of 1956 ............................. 948
E. Some Notes and Queries............................... 950
Part II. Use of the Insurance Device by the
Federal Government....................................... 952
Section 4. Some Special Problems of Enforcement ................ 953
Subsection A. Private Legislation ............................. 953
Problem No. 36. A Special Law Dealing with a
Municipal Disaster......................................... 953
S. 1077 Texas City Claims Act
(As enacted by the Senate) ........................... 954
S. 1077 Texas City Claims Act
(As enacted by the House of Representatives)........ 958
Background Notes on the Texas City Disaster and
Private Bills............................................... 960
Part I. Judicial Background and Legislative History......... 960
A. The Dalehite Case..................................... 960
Dalehite v. United States.......................... 960
B. Legislative History of Texas City
Private Bills...................................... 970
C. Rules Controlling Conference Committees............... 975
1. Cleaves Manual of the Law and Practice in Regard
to Conferences and Conference Reports............ 975
2. Standing Rules for Conducting Business in the
Senate of the United States (Rule XXVII:
Reports of Conference Committees) ........... 976
3. Rules of the House of Representatives of the
United States .................................. 976
D. The Final Legislative Product ...................... 977
E. Some Notes and Queries........................... 977
Part II. The Status of Private Bill Legislation
Generally............................................... 979
A. The Shift from Legislative to Judicial
Determination of Private Claims ................ 979
B. Nature and Number of Private Bills............... 981
C. Private Claims Bill Procedure ................... 982
D. Some Notes and Queries........................... 984
Subsection B. Government Appropriations ................... 985
Problem No. 37. The Nature of the Appropriations Function:
Another Look at Flood Insurance............................ 985
Hearings Before the Independent Offices
Subcommittee of the Committee on
Appropriations on an Appropriation
for the Flood Insurance Program .................. 985
Background Notes on the Appropriations Function............ 1002
A. What Happened to the Appropriation
for Federal Flood Insurance......................... 1002
B. A General View of the Relation of
Appropriations to Policymaking ..................... 1004
C. Some Notes and Queries................................ 1005
Section 5. Legislative Investigations and Other
Non-Enactment Functions.......................................1007
Problem No. 38. The Legislature as Overseer of
Executive and Administrative Agencies .................... 1007
CHAPTER 6* THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH AND THE
ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESS.................................. . . 1009
Section 1. The Chief Executive .................................1009
Prefatory Note ............................................. 1009
Note on the Functions of the Chief Executive in Connection
with the Enactment of Statutes............................ 1010
Note on the Functions of the President in the Negotiation
of Treaties................................................1010
Problem No. 39. The Nature of Executive Power: The
President’s Authority Under the Constitution
To Seize the Steel Industry in 1952 .................... 1010
Background Notes on the Steel Seizure and
the Executive Function.................................... 1012
Part I. The Problem and the Available Choices............. 1012
A. The Background of the Threatened Strike and the
President’s Initial Action Under Title V
of the Defense Production Act of 1950 ................. 1012
B. The Alternative of a Taft-Hartley
Injunction...................................... 1017
C. The Alternative of Seizure Under the
Selective Service Act of 1948 ................... 1018
D. The Alternative of Condemnation Under the
Defense Production Act of 1950 ................... 1019
E. The Do-Nothing Alternative of
Submitting the Problem to Congress ................1020
F. The Choice of Seizure Pursuant to the
Constitutional Grant of Executive Power............1020
Executive Order No. 10,340 1021
Part II. The Supreme Court’s Answer to
the Questions........................................... 1023
Youngstown Sheet Tube Co. v. Sawyer..................1023
Part III. Some Notes and Queries........................... 1039
A. The Constitutional Issue Presented
for Decision ..................................... 1039
B. The Question Whether Congress Had Prohibited
the President’s Course of Action...................1040
C. The Merits of the President’s Constitutional
Position . . ..................................... 1042
D. Some Other Aspects of the Steel Case...............1043
E. President Truman’s Retrospective Comments............1045
Note on Lawmaking by Proclamation and
Executive Order ........................................... 1046
Note on the Relation of the Chief Executive
and His Personal Staff to the Executive
Departments and Administrative Agencies ................... 1046
Section 2· The Law Officers of the Government...................1047
Prefatory Note ............................................... 1047
Problem No. 40. The Prosecuting Attorney’s Office
Discretion Not To Prosecute ............................... 1048
Wilbur v. Howard............................................1048
Background Notes on Prosecutor’s Discretion ...................1054
Part I. Discretion To Make Statutes
a Dead Letter........................................... 1054
Part II. Discretion in the Selection of
Particular Cases for Prosecution........................ 1058
Part III. Discretion in the Choice
of Sanctions............................................ 1059
Part IV. Discretion in the Allocation of
Enforcement Resources Under a
Limited Budget.......................................... 1059
Note on the Control of Government Litigation and
the Assignment of Public Rights of Action ..................1060
Section 3. The Administrative Process ............................1060
Prefatory Note .............................................. 1060
Problem No. 41. Administrative Enforcement:
An Experiment in Novel Techniques........................ 1061
Baltimore Ordinance on the Hygiene of Housing............ 1062
Rules and Regulations Governing the Hygiene
of Housing in Baltimore...............................1065
Background Notes on the Enforcement of
Municipal Housing Codes .................................. 1067
A. The Housing Code as a Part of the
Answer to the Housing Problem....................... 1067
Note, Municipal Housing Codes ...................... 1067
B. A Description of the Operation of
the Baltimore Plan ............................... 1069
Siegel Brooks, Slum Prevention Through
Conservation and Rehabilitation ...................1069
Problem No. 42. Issuing an Administrative Regulation:
Bathtubs in Baltimore ................................... 1074
Baltimore Rules and Regulations Governing the Hygiene
of Housing as Proposed in 1954 ....................... 1076
Background Notes on the Baltimore Housing
Regulations .............................................. 1079
A. Constitutional Issues of Due Process
and Equal Protection................................ 1079
B. The Delegation of Legislative Power................... 1080
C. The Use of General versus Specific
Language............................................ 1081
D. More Ambitious Housing Programs and the Limits
of Regulatory Control............................... 1081
Problem No. 43. Drafting an Administrative Opinion:
The Oil Pump Fiasco....................................... 1083
Matter of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey ................ 1084
Matter of Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey ................ 1088
Federal Trade Commission v. Sinclair Refining Co...........1095
Background Notes on the Oil Pump Problem
and the Significance of Administrative
Opinions ................................................. 1098
Part I. The Commission’s Handling of the
Oil Pump Problem........................................1098
A. Excerpts from the Henderson Study .................. 1098
Henderson, The Federal Trade Commission .............1098
B. The Nature of the Problem Posed by Section 5
of the Federal Trade Commission Act.............. 1099
C. Further Excerpts from the Henderson Study............1103
Henderson, The Federal Trade Commission .............1103
D. Some Notes and Queries.............................. 1106
E. The Later History of the Issues in the
Oil Pump Cases................................... 1107
Part II. Some General Notes on the Significance
of Administrative Opinions ............................ 1109
Note on the Function of an Administrative Hearing...........1109
CHAPTER 7. THE ROLE OF THE COURTS IN THE
INTERPRETATION OF STATUTES..................................1111
Section 1. The Function of Judicial Interpretation:
In General .................................................1111
Note on Some Contrasting Approaches........................ 1111
A. The Mischief Rule................................... 1111
Hey don’s Case....................................... 1111
B. The Golden Rule.................................... 1112
C. The Literal Rule.................................... 1112
D. The Plain Meaning Rule in the United States.........1112
E. The Hypostasis of Legislative Intention.............. 1113
F. A Second Breath of Fresh Air........................ 1114
Lieber, Legal and Political Hermeneutics............. 1114
G. A Short Bibliography................................. 1115
Problem No. 44. The Validity of a Literal Approach........1116
Part I. The Whiteley Case................................1116
A. The Opinions ..................................... 1116
Whiteley v. Chappell .............................. 1116
B. Some Queries About the Whiteley Case ............ 1118
Part II. The London India Docks Case................. 1126
A. The Opinions ..................................... 1126
London India Docks Co. v. Thames Steam Tug
Lighterage Co................................ 1126
B. Some Queries About the London India
Docks Case.......................................1131
Part III. The Johnson Case...............................1133
A. The Opinions ..................................... 1133
Johnson v. Southern Pacific Co......................1133
B. Some Queries About the Johnson Case .............1142
Part IV. The Brown Case..................................1144
A. The Opinion....................................... 1144
Brown v. United States............................. 1144
B. Some Queries About the Brown Case .................1147
Problem No. 45. The Outlines of a Valid Approach .........1149
Johnson v. Southern Pacific Co...........................1149
United States v. Brown.................................. 1156
Mitchell v. Cohen ...................................... 1162
Background Notes on the Johnson, Brown, and
Mitchell Cases ......................................... 1169
Note on What To Expect from a Theory of Statutory
Interpretation.......................................... 1169
Blackstone’s Rules of Interpretation .......................1170
Problem No. 46. The Special Problem of New
Applications of Old Enactments ......................... 1172
Commonwealth v. Welosky................................. 1172
Background Notes on the Problem of New
Applications of Old Enactments ......................... 1180
A. Additional Case Law on Female Jurors................. 1180
B. Some Notes and Queries..................................1182
C. Changed Statutory Meaning Based on
New Constitutional Interpretation.....................1185
Note on the Limits Set by Permissible Word
Meanings................................................... 1187
A. The Problem of Lapsus Linguae......................... 1187
B. The Anatomy of Problems of Communication ............. 1188
C. Ascertaining the Linguistically Correct
Meaning of Particular Words: Herein of
the Use of Dictionaries.............................. 1190
D. Ascertaining the Linguistically Correct
Meaning of Typical Forms of Word
Arrangements: Herein of the Use of Maxims
of Construction.......................................1190
E. Cutting Down the Generality of Language ................1192
F. Enlarging Restrictive Language ........................ 1194
G. Why Should Word Meanings Be
Respected at All?.................................... 1194
Problem No. 47. A Test Case on Restricting
the Generality of Language................................. 1196
Smith v. Hiatt ........................................... 1197
Problem No. 48. A Test Case on Enlarging
Seemingly Restrictive Language............................. 1198
Problem No. 49. The Strict Construction of
Penal Statutes ............................................ 1198
People v. Soto............................................. 1199
McBoyle v. United States .................................. 1201
United States u. Hood ..................................... 1202
United States v, Cardiff................................... 1205
Background Notes on Policies of Clear Statement ............. 1205
Part I. The Policy in Criminal Cases ..................... 1205
A. Customary versus Regulatory Crimes ...................1205
B. A Contemporary Formulation......................... . 1208
C. A Query ............................................. 1209
Part II. Other Policies of Clear Statement................ 1209
Section 2* Pre-Enactment Aids to Interpretation ................1211
Prefatory Note on the Significance of the
Background of a Statute.................................... 1211
Problem No. 50. The Use of Internal
Legislative History....................................... 1212
Schwegmann Bros. v. Calvert Distillers
Corp.....................................................1212
Background Notes on Legislative History........................1228
Part I. The Schwegmann Case............................... 1228
A. The Purpose Attributed to the
Statute by the Court .............................. 1228
B. The Possibility of a Different Purpose...............1229
C. Choice Without Benefit of Legislative History......1231
D. The Weight of the Legislative History.............. 1232
Part II. The British Rule of Total Exclusion............. 1233
Part III. The Practice in the United States ............. 1235
A. The Kinds of Materials Which May
Be Persuasive..................................... 1235
B. The Plain Meaning Rule and
Its Overthrow.................................... 1236
C. The Practice in the State Courts ............... . . . 1238
Part IV. Some Test Cases................................. 1238
A. The Caminetti Case.................................. 1238
B. The American Trucking Case.......................... 1243
C. The Public Utilities Commission Case...............1245
Part V. The Accessibility Of Materials On
The Legislative History................................ 1247
A. What Justice Jackson Said .......................... 1247
B. The Facts—Then and Now ............................ 1248
Part VI. Extra-Cameral Views of Individual
Legislators and Draftsmen ............................. 1252
Part VII. A Suggested Restatement......................... 1253
Section 3. Post-Enactment Aids To Interpretation ................1255
Subsection A. Popular Construction........................... 1255
Problem No. 51. The Importance of the Way
People Have Acted in Response to
a Statute................................................. 1255
Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co........................ 1255
Background Notes on Popular Construction .................... 1265
A. The Portal-to-Portal Snafu............................. 1265
B. The Relevance and Competence of Popular
Construction in Principle .......................... 1268
Subsection B. Administrative Construction ................... 1271
Problem No. 52. The Significance of Prior
Administrative Action: Regulations
and Rulings............................................... 1271
Federal Communications Commission v.
American Broadcasting Co., Inc......................... 1271
White v. Aronson......................................... 1278
Background Notes on the Weight To Be Accorded
Administrative Regulations and Rulings.................... 1282
A. Different Kinds of Regulations
and Rulings......................................... 1282
B. A Case Excerpt Relating to a
Legislative Regulation ............................. 1283
C. A Case Relating to an Interpretive Ruling...............1284
Skidmore v. Swift Co.............................. 1284
D. Some Notes and Queries................................. 1288
Problem No. 53. The Significance Of Prior
Administrative Action: Adjudication........................ 1292
Director, United States Bureau Of
Mines u. Princess Elkhorn Coal Co......................1292
Social Security Board v. Nierotko......................... 1297
L. Gillarde Co. v. Joseph Martinelli Co.................1306
Background Notes on the Weight To Be Given
Administrative Adjudication................................ 1307
A. Significance of the Function of
Adjudication......................................... 1307
B. Judicial Review of Administrative Finding
of Facts and Application of Law...................... 1311
C. A Different Approach to the
Court’s Problems..................................... 1312
Subsection C. Judicial Construction........................... 1313
Problem No. 54. Stare Decisis in Statutory
Interpretation............................................ 1313
Toolson v. New York Yankees, Inc:...........................1314
United States v. Shubert................................... 1319
United States v. International Boxing
Club Of New York, Inc....................................1325
Background Notes on Stare Decisis in
Statutory Interpretation .................................. 1333
Part I. The Baseball-Theater-Boxing Imbroglio ............. 1333
A. The Soundness of Toolson ........................... 1333
B. The Bearing of Toolson in Shubert and
International Boxing............................... 1335
C. An Incidental Query ................................. 1336
Part II. The Dilemma in United States
1/. Classic............................................. 1336
Part III. Caminetti Revisited.............................. 1338
Part IV. The Phenomenon of Erie............................ 1338
Part V. Dean Levi’s Thesis................................. 1340
Note on the Construction of Much-Construed
Statutes.................................................. 1343
Section 4. Interpreting the Silences of the Legislature:
Herein of the Use of Statutes by Analogy.......................1344
Problem No. 55. Silence as a Bar or as an
Invitation to Overruling .................................. 1344
Girouard u. United States.................................. 1345
Background Notes on the Implications of
Legislative Silence........................................ 1356
Part I. The Girouard Problem Viewed
as a Responsibility of the Court........................ 1356
A. The Soundness of the Earlier Decisions
as an Original Matter ............................... 1356
B. The Factors Tending to Rebut the Presumption
of Stare Decisis...................................... 1357
Part II. The Implications of the Failure
of Congress To Legislate................................. 1358
A. The Competence and Relevance of
Legislative Inaction.................................. 1358
B. The Position of the Courts ......................... 1360
C. Some Queries......................................... 1364
Part III. The Implications of Reenactment .................1365
A. The Question of Competence .......................... 1365
B. Relevance: The Justification for
an Invariable Inference of
Adoption .......................................... 1365
C. Relevance: The Justification for an
Occasional Inference of Approval................... 1368
Part IV. The Negative Implications of
Delimited Action......................................... 1369
Part V. The Positive Implications of
Delimited Action......................................... 1370
Section 5. Some Concluding Observations............................1370
Radbruch, Einfuehrung in die Rechtswissenschaft ............ 1370
Note on the Rudiments of Statutory Interpretation ............1374
A. The General Nature of the
Task of Interpretation ............................... 1374
B. The Mood In Which the Task
Should Be Done ....................................... 1374
C. A Concise Statement of the Task........................ 1374
D. The Double Role of the Words as
Guides to Interpretation.............................. 1375
E. The Meaning the Words Will Bear......................... 1375
F. Policies of Clear Statement............................. 1376
G. The Attribution of Purpose ............................. 1377
1. Enacted statements of purpose......................... 1377
2. Inferring purpose: the nature
of the problem..................................... 1377
3. Inferring purpose: the technique...................... 1378
4. Inferring purpose: aids from
the context ....................................... 1379
5. Inferring purpose: post-enactment
aids............................................... 1379
6. Inferring purpose: presumptions........................1380
H. Interpreting the Words To Carry
Out the Purpose....................................... 1380
Index,
1383
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