Volume 55
1976-1977
Issue Number:  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

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• Article: Sovereign Immunity and Act of State Defenses: Transnational Boycotts and Economic Coercion, Sigmund Timberg, Page 1.
• Article: "Or of the [Broadcast] Press", L.A. Powe, Jr., Page 39.
• Article: Programming in Response to the Community: The Broadcast Consumer and the First Amendment, William C. Canby, Jr., Page 67.
• Comment: The Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act: Coverage After the 1972 Amendments, Donald S. Morton, Page 99.
• Note: Full Faith and Credit Verses State Interest: The Last -In-Time Rule in Texas, David Cohen, Page 127.
• Note: Constitutional Law--Search and Seizure--Court Ordered Surgical Removal of a Bullet from an Unconsenting Defendant for Evidentiary Purposes Held Reasonable Under the Fourth Amendment (Crowder v. United States (D.C. Cir. 1976), William G. Ross, Page 147.
• Book Review: Consent and the Roots of Judicial Authority: The Constitutional Writings of Archibald Cox (reviewing Archibald Cox's The Role of the Supreme Court in American Government), Thomas D. Rowe, Jr., Page 163.
• Book Review: The Question of Negotiated Pleas (reviewing Arthur Rosett and Donald R. Cressey's Justice by Consent: Plea Bargaining in the American Courthouse), Welsh S. White, Page 185.

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• Article: Waiver in Criminal Procedure: A Brief for More Careful Analysis, George E. Dix, Page 193.
• Article: Mullaney v. Wilbur, The Supreme Court, and the Substantive Criminal Law -- An Examination of the Limits of Legitimate Intervention, Ronald Jay Allen, Page 269.
• Comment: The Need for Reform in Multistate Estate Administration, Steven D. Lerner, Page 303.
• Note: A New Look at the Texas Equal Rights Amendment, Reagan W. Simpson, Page 323.
• Note: Antitrust -- Trying Arrangements -- Class Actions -- Each Franchise Must Prove Individual Coercion Ungar v. Dunkin' Donuts of America, Inc. (3dCir. 1976), Terrell W. Oxford, Page 343.
• Book Review: Workers' Health and Safety: Whose Costs, Whose Benefits? (reviewing Nicholas A. Ashford's Crisis in the Workplace: Occupational Disease and Injury), Joseph A. Page, Page 359.

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• Article: The Federal Rules of Evidence and the Application of State Law in Federal Courts, Olin Guy Wellborn III, Page 371.
• Observation: The Flexibility of the Value-Added Tax, L.L. Bravenec & Kerry Cooper, Page 453.
• Comment: Effective Marketing and the Robinson-Patman Act: Volume Incentives, Functional Discounts, and Promotional Allowances, Peter R. Maier, Page 473.
• Note: Civil Rights--Municipal Liability--Suit Against Municipal Board of Trustees and Its Individual Members for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief and for Damages Not Maintainable Under Section 1983.  Muzquiz v. City of San Antonio (5th Cir. 1976), Mary Keeney, Page 501.
• Note: Constitutional Law--First Amendment--Right to Receive Information--Board of Education's Removal of Selected Books From Public High School Library Violates Students' First Amendment Right to Receive Information.  Minarcini v. Strongsville City School District (6th Cir. 1976), Charles F. Eick, Page 511.
• Note: Libel--First Amendment--Story Defaming Lower Level Official Must Reveal That It Refers to His Official Conduct Before New York Times Privilege Applies; Paid Consultant Is Not Automatically a Public Official or a Public Figure for Project Undertaken; and Private Plaintiff in Defamation Action Must Prove Negligence by Defendant.  Foster v. Laredo Newspapers, Inc. (Tex. 1976), Charles W. Schwartz, Page 525.
• Note: Uniform Commercial Code--2-302--Unilateral Right of Termination for Cause Determinable Solely by Franchisor Unconscionable.  Ashland Oil, Inc. v. Donahue (W.Va.1976), Elizabeth A. Dennis, Page 541.
• Note: Wrongful Death--Diversity Actions--Exclusion of Evidence of Surviving Spouse's Remarriage Constitutes Reversible Error in Wrongful Death Action, but Fact of Remarriage Cannot Mitigate Damages When Action Is Based on Texas Law.  Conway v. Chemical Learman Tank Lines, Inc. (5th Cir. 1976), Thurston Howard Reynolds II, Page 557.
• Book Review: School Desegregation Under Fire (reviewing Lino A. Graglia's Disaster by Decree: The Supreme Court Decisions on Race and the Schools), Paul Brest, Page 569. 

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• Observation: The Relationship Among Federal Rules of Evidence 607, 801(d)(1)(A), and 403: A Reply to Weinstein's Evidence, Michael H. Graham, Page 573.
• Article: The Rights of Submitters To Prevent Agency Disclosure of Confidential Business Information: The Reverse Freedom of Information Lawsuit, Daniel Gorham Clement, Page 587.
• Article: Deduction of Traveling Expenses by the Two-Worker Family--An Inquiry into the Role of the Courts in Interpreting the Federal Tax Law, William D. Popkin, Page 645.
• Comment: The Living Will: Already a Practical Alternative, Stephen R. Akers, Page 665.
• Note: The Scope of Liability Under Section 3 of the Texas Tort Claims Act, Barry Abrams, Page 719.
• Note: Municipal Corporations--Estoppel--Municipality May Be Estopped from Asserting Noncompliance with Notice-of-Claim Provision by Conduct of Agent Without Express Authority.  Roberts v. Haltom City (Tex. 1976), Larry D. Carlson, Page 739.
• Book Review: A Thinking Person's Guide to the Judicial Hall of Fame (reviewing Edward G. White's The American Judicial Tradition: Profiles of Leading American Judges), Thomas G. Krattenmaker, Page 749.

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• Article: Legislative Response to the Medical Malpractice Insurance Crisis: Constitutional Implications, Martin H. Redish, Page 759.
• Article: The Courts, the Agencies, and NEPA Threshold Issues, Thomas O. McGarity, Page 801.
• Note: Bankrupting the Proceeds Section: Recent Interpretations of Section 9-306(4)(d) of the Uniform Commercial Code, Philip T. Billard, Page 891.
• Note: The Release of Private Information Under Open Records Laws, W. Alan Kailer, Page 911.
• Note: Criminal Procedure--Waiver of Constitutional Rights--Defendant's Failure to Object to the Exclusion of Death-Scrupled Jurors, Whom the State May Now Examine According to a Statutory Standard Instead of the Constitutional Standard, Waives Witherspoon Rights.  Boulware v. State (Tex. Crim. App. 1976), Linda Broocks, Page 929.
• Note: Federal Jurisdiction--Section 1983--Pendent Party Jurisdiction Not Available When Congress Has Expressly or Impliedly Refused to Extend Jurisdiction to the Pendant Party.  Aldinger v. Howard (U.S. 1976), David Randolph Smith, Page 941.
• Book Review: Choice-of-Law Methodology and Conflicts Casebooks: Selected Problems (reviewing Roger C. Crampton's Conflicts of Laws: Cases--Comments--Questions; Willis L. Reese's & Maurice Rosenberg's Cases and Materials on Conflicts of Laws; and Eugene F. Scoles' & Russell J. Weintraub's Cases and Materials on Conflicts of Law), Gregory S. Alexander, Page 953. 

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• Article: Injuries to Marine Petroleum Workers: A Plea for Radical Simplification, David W. Robertson, Page 973.
• Article: Sex Discrimination: Title VII and the Bona Fide Occupational Qualification, Michael L. Sirota, Page 1025.
• Note: Retroactive Recovery of Payments Made to the State: Resolving the Conflict Between the Eleventh and Fourteenth Amendments, Edith A. Wittig, Page 1074.
• Note: Admiralty--Tort Jurisdiction--1972 Amendments to Longshoremen's Act Leave Admiralty Tort Jurisdiction Unaltered.  Parker v. South Louisiana Contractors, Inc. (5th Cir. 1976), William Farris, Page 1087.
• Note: Defamation--Privilege--Absolute Judicial Privilege Extends to Verbatim Publication by West Publishing Company of Allegedly Defamatory Judicial Opinion.  Lowenschuss v. West Publishing Co. (3rd Cir. 1976), Donald R. Joseph, Jr., Page 1103.
• Note: Military Jurisdiction--Service Connection--Military Status of Transferor and Transferee of Controlled Substance Held Not Sufficient to Establish Service Connection Requisite to Court-Material Jurisdiction.  United States v. McCarthy (C.M.A. 1976), Chester H. Morgan, II, Page 1115.
• Book Review: Law School Training in Applied Legal Reasoning: New Approaches to an Old Problem (reviewing William P. Statsky's & R. John Wernet, Jr.'s Case Analysis and Fundamentals of Legal Writing), Peter W. Gross, Page 1129.

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• Article: The Younger Doctrine:  Reconstructing Reconstruction, Aviam Soifer & H.C. Macgill, Page 1141.
• Article: Racial Discrimination and Exclusionary Zoning:  A Perspective on Arlington Heights, Daniel R. Mandelker, Page 1217.
• Note: The Circumstantial Evidence Charge in Texas Criminal Cases:  A Retrograde Doctrine, Donald L. Gaffney, Page 1255.
• Note: The Texas Dissimilarity Doctrine as Applied to the Tort Law of Mexico--A Modern Approach, Hugh Scott Hunsaker, Page 1281.
• Book Review: A Plot Too Doctrinaire (reviewing Morton J. Horwitz's The Transformation of American Law), John Phillip Reid, Page 1307.
  

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• Observation: Califano v. Sanders and Administrative Procedure Act Interpretation:  Has the Supreme Court's "Hospitable" Attitutde Given Way to a More Restrictive Approach?, Bernard Schwartz, Page 1323.
• Article: Administration of the Texas Death Penalty Statutes:  Constitutional Infirmities Related to the Prediction of Dangerousness, George E. Dix, Page 1343.
• Note: The Federal Trade Commission's Power to Protect Consumers Sued in Inconvenient Forums, Glendon E. Johnson, Jr., Page 1416.
• Note: Gift Tax Liability Resulting From Marriage in Texas, William H. Caudill, Page 1427.
• Note: Recover by Indirect Purchasers and the Functions of Anti-Trust Treble Damages, Bill White, Page 1445.
• Book Review: A Degree of Culpability (reviewing Jerold S. Auerbach's Unequal Justice:  Lawyers and Social Change in Modern America), Don Roper, Page 1467.