Yakima Herald-Republic articles from May 2002

Yakima Herald-Republic archives from May 2002

The powerful antitakeover force of staggered boards: theory, evidence, and policy.
May 1, 2002... Staggered boards, which a majority of public companies now have, provide a powerful antitakeover defense, stronger than is commonly recognized. They provide antitakeover protection both by (i) forcing any hostile bidder, no matter when it...

Enemy aliens.
May 1, 2002... Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land. Exodus 1:10 ...

The origins of a judicial icon: Justice Brennan's Warren Court years.
May 1, 2002... PROLOGUE: THE BRENNAN LEGACY Upon his retirement in 1990, and even more so at his death seven years later, Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. was hailed as "a towering figure in modern law" (1) and "one of the greatest Justices of all time."...

Precedent, judicial power, and the constitutionality of "no-citation" rules in the federal courts of appeals.
May 1, 2002... On April 13, 1996, Faye Anastasoff mailed a tax refund claim to the IRS. The deadline for the claim was April 15; Anastasoff believed that by mailing it before the deadline, the claim was valid. Ordinarily, she would have been right; the...

The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory.
May 1, 2002... INTRODUCTION Holmes once said of a book he was reviewing, "It is hard to know where to begin in dealing with this extraordinary production--equally extraordinary in its merits and its limitations." (1) Similar thoughts come to mind when...

If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich?
May 1, 2002... IF YOU'RE AN EGALITARIAN, HOW COME YOU'RE SO RICH? By G. A. Cohen. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000. 237 pp. $18.00. I. INTRODUCTION G. A. Cohen, the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford, first came to...