Volume 50
1971-1972
Issue Number:  1 2 3 4 5 6 7

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• Tribute:  Hugo L. Black:  A Great Man and a Great American, Charles Alan Wright, Page 1.
• Article:  After My Lai, The Case for War Crime Jurisdiction Over Civilians in Federal District Courts, Jordan J. Paust, Page 6.
• Observation:  Ruminations on Reason and Law:  A Spong Song, John P. Frank, Page 35.
• Comment:  In Search of the Adversary System--The Cooperative Practices of Private Criminal Defense, Jackson B. Battle, Page 60.
• Comment:  Res Gestae in the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals:  A Method to Their Madness?, G. T. Banks, Page 119.
• Note:  Automobile Insurance--Conflict of Interest Prevents Insurer from Defending an Uninsured Motorist in an Action by the Insured.  (Allstate Insurance Co. v. Hunt, Tex. 1971)., Winston L. Borum, Page 146.
• Note:  Criminal Law--Prisons--Prisoners Subject to Certain Serious Punishments Enjoy a Fourteenth Amendment Guarantee of a Hearing with Minimum Due Process Safeguards.  (Clutchette v. Procunier, N.D. Cal. 1971)., Marianne Wesson, Page 155.
• Note:  Erie Doctrine--Tolling Effect on Statue of Limitations of Prior Pending Suit in Federal Court Is a Question of Federal Law.  (Atkins v. Schmutz Mfg. Co., 4th Cir. 1970)., Joseph W. Russell, Page 162.
• Note:  Federal Courts--Injunctions--The Civil Rights Act of 1871 Constitutes an Express Statutory Exception to the Anti-Injunction Statute.  (Duke v. Texas, E.D. Tex. 1971)., William C. Bryson, Page 170.
• Note:  Federal Courts--Jurisdiction--A Comparison of Texas v. Pankey and Ohio v. Wyandotte Chemicals Corp. Reveals the Necessity for a Federal Common Law Right to Abate Interstate Pollution, Stephen M. Block, Page 183.
• Note:  Procedure--Appeal and Error--Improper Listing of Jurors' Names on Weekly Panel Is Reversible Error.  (Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. v. Rivas, Tex. Civ. App.--Corpus Christi 1971, writ granted)., Sherwood O. Jones, Page 198.
• Note:  Remedies--Attorney Fees Should Be Awarded to a Successful Plaintiff Suing Under the Property Rights Section of the 1866 Civil Rights Act.  (Lee v. Southern Home Sites Corp., 5th Cir. 1971)., William T. Hankinson, Page 204.
• Book Review:  The Inner Workings of a Great Court (reviewing Marvin Schick's Learned Hand's Court), Harry M. Reasoner, Page 210.
• Book Review:  Federal Practice and Procedure, Vols. 1-3 (reviewing Charles Alan Wright's Federal Practice and Procedure, Vols. 1-3), Maynard E. Pirsig, Page 214.
• Book Review:  The Assault on Privacy (reviewing Arthur R. Miller's The Assault on Privacy), Edward V. Long, Page 219.

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• Article:  NLRB Resolution of Contract Disputes Under Section 8(a)(5), George Schatzki, Page 225.
• Comment:  The Value-Added Tax:  A New $40 Billion Tax for the United States?, Gordon T. Butler, Page 267.
• Comment:  Corrective Advertising:  The FTC's New Formula for Effective Relief, David A. Anderson and Jonathan Winer, Page 312.
• Comment:  The Wife's Community Interest in Her Husband's Qualified Pension or Profit-Sharing Plan, Diana Dutton, Page 334.
• Comment:  Discovery of Witnesses and Potential Parties in Texas, Don C. Sherwood and Linda K. Duncan, Page 351.
• Note:  Antitrust--Price Fixing and the Robinson-Patman Act--Price Information Exchanges May Be Justified Despite Anticompetitive Effects.  (Wall Prods. Co. v. National Gypsum Co., N.D. Cal. 1971)., Joseph A. Cialone, Page 369.
• Note:  Bankruptcy--Bankrupt Cannot Resort to Small Debts To Invoke Requirement of Three Petitioning Creditors.  (Denham v. Shellman Grain Elevator, Inc., 5th Cir. 1971)., Stephen S. Mark, Page 375.
• Note:  Federal Courts--To Enforce Federal Environmental Laws, a Federal Court Can Declare a State Highway Project To Be "Federal" and Enjoin the State from Proceeding on Its Own.  (Named Individual Members of the San Antonio Conservation Soc'y v. Texas Highway Dep't, 5th Cir. 1971)., Francis J. Coleman, Jr., Page 381.
• Note:  Income Tax--Corporate Liquidations--Gain on a Section 337 Liquidation May Be Deferred by an Installment Sale of Stock to an Irrevocable Trust.  (Rushing v. Commissioner, 5th Cir. 1971)., Glen A. Rosenbaum, Page 390.
• Note:  Mechanics' and Materialmen's Liens--Priority--Texas Enacts Amendment to Article 5459 Fixing Time of Inception of Mechanics' and Materialmen's Liens.  (Tex. Laws 1971)., Michael W. Bentley, Page 398.
• Note:  Retroactivity--Military Jurisdiction--Military Convictions for Nonservice-Connected Offenses Should Be Vacated Retroactively.  (United States ex rel. Flemings v. Chafee, E.D.N.Y. 1971)., Jack Edward Urquhart, Page 405.
• Note:  Torts--Professional Negligence--Accountants May Be Liable to Third Parties for Negligence.  (Shatterproof Glass Corp. v. James, Tex. Civ. App. 1971)., Julia Penny Clark, Page 411.
• Note:  Uniform Commercial Code--Secured Transactions--Texas Law Governs Perfection of Foreign Security Interests in Motor Vehicles Covered by a Texas Certificate of Title.  (Phil Phillips Ford v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co., Tex. 1971)., Thomas R. McMillan, Page 423.
• Book Review:  Regulating the Poor:  The Functions of Public Welfare (reviewing Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward's Regulating the Poor:  The Functions of Public Welfare), Adam Yarmolinsky, Page 429.
• Book Review:  Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee:  An Indian History of the American West (reviewing Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee:  An Indian History of the American West), Vine Deloria, Jr., Page 435.

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• Article:  Charitable Deductions for Pro Bono Publico Professional Services:  An Updated Carrot and Stick Approach, Peter D. Baird, Page 441.
• Article:  Salt Water is a Mineral:  Ownership of a Natural Resource of Increasing Importance in Oil-Producing States, Luther M. Hudson, Page 448.
• Comment:  Consumer Credit Regulation in Texas--A Rejoinder by an Economist, S. Hugh High, Page 463.
• Comment:  Participant Governmental Immunity From the Antitrust Laws:  Fact or Fiction?, David Joseph White, Page 474.
• Note:  Administrative Law--Communications--The Fairness Doctrine Requires Rebuttal to Air Pollution Policies Implicitly Espoused by Car and Gasoline Commercials.  (Friends of the Earth v. FCC, D.C. Cir. 1971).,George F. Kutzschbach, Page 500.
• Note:  Constitutional Law--Members of Congress May Not Hold Commissions in Armed Forces Reserves.  (Reservist Comm. to Stop the War v. Laird, D.D.C. 1971)., Philip R. Higdon, Page 509.
• Note:  Constitutional Law--Right of Privacy--Freedom of the Press Does not Justify the Invasion of Privacy Through Subterfuge.  (Dietmann v. Time, Inc., 9th Cir. 1971)., Ross W. Whitmore, Page 514.
• Note:  Contracts--Indemnity Agreements Will Protect the Indemnitee From His Own Negligence Only If the Obligation is Expressed in Unequivocal Terms.  (Joe Adams & Son v. McCann Constr. Co., Tex. 1971)., Raymond J. Batla, Jr., Page 520.
• Note:  Corporations--Appeals Court Drastically Curtails Use of Conventional Stock Transfer Restrictions by Closely Held Texas Corporations.  Ling & Co. v. Trinity Savings & Loan Ass'n, 470 S.W.2d 441 (Tex. Civ. App.--Waco 1971, writ granted)., David F. Goldstein, Page 528.
• Note:  Federal Courts--Third-Party Practice--Third-Party Plaintiff May Assert a Claim for His Own Damage Without an Independent Basis for Jurisdiction.  (Schwab v. Erie Lackawanna R.R., 3d Cir. 1971)., David K. Brooks, Page 537.
• Note:  Federal Taxation--Charities--Taxpayers May Contest IRS Allowance of Exempt Status, and Organizations Whose Activities Violate Public Policy May Not Be Accorded Favored Tax Treatment.  (Green v. Connally, D.D.C. 1971)., Robert Marshall Cohan, Page 544.
• Note:  Labor Law--An Offensive Lockout Accompanied by Continued Operations with Temporary Replacement Labor Is Per Se an Unfair Labor Practice in Violation of the National Labor Relations Act.  (Inland Trucking Co. v. NLRB, 7th Cir. 1971)., Larry Paul Manley, Page 552.
• Note:  Patents--Collateral Estoppel--Judicial Invalidation of Patent Bars Suit Against Different Infringer.  (Blonder-Tongue Laboratories, Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation, U.S. 1971)., Brian E. Berwick, Page 559.
• Note:  Patents--Patentability of Chemical Compounds--Chemical Compounds Are Patentable Over Structurally Obvious Prior Art Compounds Even in the Absence of Proof That the Claimed Compounds Exhibit Properties Not Actually Possessed by the Prior Compounds.  (In re Stemniski, C.C.P.A. 1971), Larry S. Gangnes, Page 566.
• Note:  Products Liability--Plaintiff Need Not Establish Causal Link Between Failure to Warn and Injury.  (Jacobs v. Technical Chemical Co., Tex. Civ. App. 1971)., G. Byron Jamison, Page 577.
• Note:  Securities Regulation--Mutual Fund Advisers--An Investment Adviser, As a Fiduciary, Must Forgo Personal Gain in Influencing the Choice of His Successor.  (Rosenfeld v. Black, 2d Cir. 1971)., Oliver Ireland, Page 583.
• Book Review:  Encounters with the Archdruid (reviewing John McPhee's Encounters with the Archdruid), Owen Olpin, Page 590.
• Book Review:  Joseph Story and the Rise of the Supreme Court (reviewing Gerald T. Dunne's Joseph Story and the Rise of the Supreme Court, Mortimer T. Schwartz, Page 594.
• Book Review:  America, Inc.:  Who Owns and Operates the United States (reviewing Morton Mintz's America, Inc.:  Who Owns and Operates the United States), Phillip I. Blumberg, Page 598.
• Book Review:  Principles of Community Property (reviewing William Q. De Funiak and Michael J. Vaughn's Principles of Community Property), Richard W. Bartke, Page 615.

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• In Memoriam: William Francis Fritz (1911-1972), Kenneth Woodward, Page 627.
• Article:  Courtroom Misconduct by Prosecutors and Trial Judges, Albert W. Alschuler, Page 629.
• Observation:  Must the Criminal Go Free if the Constable Blunders?, Charles Alan Wright, Page 736.
• Comment:  Trust Allocation Doctrine and Corporate Stock:  The Law Must Respond to Economics, Floyd I. Robinson, Page 747.
• Comment:  The Mackay Doctrine and the Myth of Business Necessity, Hal Keith Gillespie, Page 782.
• Note:  Constitutional Law--Federal Agents Conducting Unreasonable Searches and Seizures Are Liable for Damages Under the Fourth Amendment.  (Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, U.S. 1971)., Frank F. Davis, Page 798.
• Note:  Oil & Gas--Reasonable Use--Determination Whether a Land Use by a Mineral Lessee Is Reasonably Necessary Requires Consideration of Alternate Methods of Development Available to a Lessee and a Surface Owner.  (Getty Oil Co. v. Jones, Tex. 1971)., Edwin A. Graf, Page 806.
• Book Review:  The Lawyer, The Lawman, and the Law:  Public Image, Rod Whitaker, Page 822.
• Book Review:  Cases and Materials on Criminal Justice Administration and Related Processes (reviewing Frank W. Miller, Robert W. Dawson, George E. Dix and Raymond I. Parnas's Cases and Materials on Criminal Justice Administration and Related Processes), Heathcote W. Wales, Page 827. 

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• Article:  Great Cases Make Bad Law:  The War Powers Act, Eugene V. Rostow, Page 833.
• Article:  Griggs v. Duke Power Co.:  The Implications for Private and Public Employers, Herbert N. Bernhardt, Page 901.
• Comment:  Texas Public Ethics Legislation:  A Proposed Statute, William A. Anawaty, Jr., Stephen M. Block and James W. Turner, Page 931.
• Note:  Administrative Law--Freedom of Information Act--Internal Memoranda That Contain Statements of Policy or Interpretations Adopted by an Agency May Be Subject to Disclosure.  (Sterling Drug, Inc., D.C. Cir. 1971)., Lee M. Simpson, Page 1006.
• Note:  Antitrust--Immunity--Government Participation Does Not Exempt a Lease From the Antitrust Laws Absent an Unequivocal Manifestation of Contrary Congressional Intent.  (Hecht v. Pro-Football, Inc., D.C. Cir. 1971)., Richard M. Lannen, Page 1017.
• Note:  Antitrust--Private Utilities--Threat of Corporate Destruction Does Not Legitimize Exclusionary Conduct.  (United States v. Otter Tail Power Co., D. Minn. 1971)., Gary V. McGowan, Page 1023.
• Note:  Income Tax--Bankruptcy and Receivership--Section 6871 Restrictions on Tax Court Jurisdiction--The Courts Have Erred in Uniformly Eliminating the Application of Section 6213 to Insolvent Taxpayers, C. Cleave Buchanan, Jr., Page 1030.
• Note:  Income Tax--Net Operating Loss--Section 269 Disallows Carryover to Loss Corporation That Acquires a Profit Corporation and Changes Its Line of Business.  (Vulcan Materials Co. v. United States, 5th Cir. 1971)., Christopher A. Colvert, Page 1038.
• Note:  Negligence--Special Issues--Traffic Accidents--Violation of Statute That Forbids Motorist from Entering Intersection Until Safe To Proceed Is Determined by Standard of Ordinary Care.  (Sheppard v. Judkins, Tex. Civ. App.--Texarkana, 1971)., Winston L. Borum, Page 1046.
• Book Review:  The Fight to Save a Memory, Velma B. Johnston (Wild Horse Annie), Page 1055.
• Book Review:  Commentary on the Conflict of Laws (reviewing Russell J. Weintraub's Commentary on the Conflict of Laws), Robert Allen Sedler, Page 1064.
• Book Review:  The Zoning Dilemma (reviewing Daniel R. Mandelker's The Zoning Dilemma), A. Dan Tarlock, Page 1083.

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• Article:  Negligence Law, No-Fault, and Jury Trial--I, Leon Green and Allen E. Smith, Page 1093.
• Article:  Rulemaking on a Record by the Food and Drug Administration, Robert W. Hamilton, Page 1132.
• Comment:  Marriage, Pregnancy, and the Right To Go to School, Brian E. Berwick and Carol Oppenheimer, Page 1196.
• Comment:  Prisoner Classification and Administrative Decisionmaking, Louis J. Sirico, Jr., Page 1229.
• Note:  Environmental Law--Private Cause of Action Under the Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1899 For Injury to the Ecology of Navigable Waters, Ronald G. Houdyshell, Page 1255.
• Note:  Securities Regulation--Attorneys' Liability--Advising, Abetting, and the SEC's National Student Marketing Offensive, Page 1265.
• Note:  Securities Regulation--Rule 10B-5--The Supreme Court's Holding in Superintendent of Insurance v. Bankers Life & Casualty Co. May Force a Renewed Search for a Limiting Doctrine for Rule 10B-5 Liability, Mark D. Wigder, Page 1273.
• Book Review:  The Sectarian College and the Public Purse:  Fordham--A Case Study (reviewing Walter Gellhorn and R. Kent Greenawalt's The Sectarian College and the Public Purse:  Fordham--A Case Study), Leo Pfeffer, Page 1288.
• Book Review:  The Nightmare Decade:  The Life and Times of Senator Joe McCarthy (reviewing Fred J. Cook's The Nightmare Decade:  The Life and Times of Senator Joe McCarthy) and Thirty Years of Treason:  Excerpts from Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938-1968 (reviewing Eric Bentley's Excerpts from Hearings Before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, 1938-1968), Robert Griffith, Page 1292.

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• Article:  Negligence Law, No-Fault, and Jury Trial--II, Leon Green and Allen E. Smith, Page 1297.
• Article:  Federal Intervention in State Criminal Proceedings:  Dombrowski, Younger, and Beyond, Frank L. Maraist, Page 1324.
• Observation:  Let's Everybody Litigate?, Maurice Rosenberg, Page 1349.
• Comment:  FPC Natural Gas Allocation:  Curtailment in Context, Francis J. Coleman, Jr., Page 1370.
• Comment:  The Admissibility of Other Crimes in Texas, James H. Chestnut, II, Page 1409.
• Note:  Admiralty--A Defense of the Locality Rule, As Applied in Victory Carriers, Inc. v. Law (U.S. 1971)., Derryl L. Collins, Page 1428.
• Note:  Federal Estate Tax--Section 2036(a)--Controlling Shareholder's Retention of Voting Rights on Inter Vivos Stock Transfer.  (United States v. Byrum, U.S. 1972)., Raymond J. Martin, Jr., Page 1435.
• Note:  Securities Regulation--Private Offerings--Registration Exemption Requires a Privileged Relationship Between the Issuer and All Offerees.  (SEC v. Continental Tobacco Co., 5th Cir. 1972)., Thomas G. Adler, Page 1447.
• Book Review:  Nader:  The People's Lawyer (reviewing Robert F. Buckhorn's Nader:  The People's Lawyer) and Citizen Nader (reviewing Charles McCarry's Citizen Nader), Peter H. Schuck, Page 1455.
• Book Review:  The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States.  Volume VI:  Reconstruction and Reunion 1864-88:  Part One (reviewing Charles Fairman's The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States.  Volume VI:  Reconstruction and Reunion 1864-88:  Part One), L. A. Powe, Jr., Page 1468.