McGeorge Law Review | Volume 41

Volume 41 – Issue 1

Articles

• Special National Investigative Commissions: Essential Powers and Procedures (Some Lessons from the Pearl Harbor, Warren Commission, and 9/11 Commission Investigations) (pdf) — Lance Cole
• Overcoming Cultures of Compliance to Reduce Corruption and Achieve Ethics in Government (pdf) — James M. Lager
• The Evolution of Federal Lobbying Regulation: Where We Are Now and Where We Should Be Going (pdf) — William V. Luneburg
• Bailouts: An Essay on Conflicts of Interest and Ethics When Government Pays the Tab (pdf) — Richard W. Painter
• Where to Look, What to Ask - Frames of Reference for Ethical Lobbyists (pdf) — Thomas M. Susman
• Ethical Considerations of the Public Sector Lobbyist (pdf) — Alan N. Fernandes

Volume 41 – Issue 2

Articles

• The Insurance Policy as Statute (pdf) — Jeffrey W. Stempel
• Ethics of Pretesting in a Cyber World (pdf) — Steven C. Bennett
• The Virtual Property Problem: What Property Rights in Virtual Resources Might Look like, How They Might Work, and Why They Are a Bad Idea (pdf) — John William Nelson
• Making of the Attorney General: John Mitchell and the Crimes of Watergate Reconsidered Book Review Essay (pdf) — Gerald Caplan

Comments

• Personal Jurisdiction as a Defense to the Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (pdf) — Ronald R. Darbee
• Statutory Regulation of Legal Parentage in Cases of Artificial Insemination by Donor: A New Frontier of Gender Discrimination (pdf) — Christina M. Eastman
• Getting the Train on the Right Track: A Modern Proposal for Changes to the Federal Employers' Liability Act (pdf) — Melissa Sandoval Greenidge
• Don't Put Your Eggs in One Basket: Reforming 401(k) Pensions to Address the Educational and Psychological Issues That Drive Good Employees to Make Bad Investment Decisions (pdf) — Marvin H. Stroud

Volume 41 – Issue 3

Review of Selected 2009 California Legislation

Business and Professions (pdf)

• Saying Good Night to the Unqualified Practice of Polysomnography — Boryana Georgieva
• Following Doctors' Orders — Jean-Michel LeCointre
• Military IDs are Sufficient for the Purchase of Alcohol — Catherine Nystrom

Civil (pdf)

• Hitting Gangs Where it Hurts the Most: Chapter 244 Helps the Innocent Reclaim Their Homes — Eric Brenneman
• Does Opportunity Knock — The California Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2009 — Michael F. Hearn
• The Buyer's Choices Act — Bahara Hosseini

Civil Procedure (pdf)

• The California Anti-Libel Tourism Act — Adam Cate

Education (pdf)

• Trading the Cap and Gown for Dress Blues: Chapter 296 Makes Traditional Graduation Dress Optional for Active Military Grads — Catherine Nystrom
• Digital Textbooks to the Rescue — Seth Reagan
• Harvey Milk Day: Chapter 626 Gives a Controversial Figure's Birthday Special Significance for California Public Schools — Kristin Weigle

Evidence (pdf)

• Posthumous Application of the Attorney-Client Privilege — Justin Delacruz

Government (pdf)

• Awarding Our Fallen Service Officers: Chapter 462 Creates Golden Shield Award for Those Killed in the Line of Duty — Eric Brenneman
• Superior Court Judges Allowed to Keep Their Job Perks from the Counties — Skylar Curtis
• Clarifying the Legislature's Intent Regarding Notification to Public Safety Officers of Proposed Discipline — Adam Guernsey
• Chapter 4 to the Rescue: California Attempts to Prevent the Unjust Reallocation of Local Sales and Use Taxes — Bahara Hosseini
• Of Prison Beds and Budget Woes — Christian Misenas
• Expanding the Stolen Valor Act within California — Farid Sharaby
• Wind Energy Gets an Overhaul — Steve Stratton
• Emergency Notifications — Steve Stratton
• Correcting a Subtle Technical Oversight in CERL — Edmund Yan

Health and Safety (pdf)

• Beyond Seinfeld's Good Samaritan Debacle: Protecting Citizens Who Render Care at the Scene of an Accident from Civil Liability — Scott Mallery
• Weakening the Sting of COBRA's Bite — Brooke Tomlinson

Insurance (pdf)

• A Structure for the Transfer of Structured Settlements — Corrie Erickson

Labor (pdf)

• A Little Goes a Long Way: Chapter 3 Provides Small but Significant Changes to Alternative Workweek Schedule Laws — Carolyn Gemma
• I Can Make You a Star — Ashley Lavon Hines

Penal (pdf)

• All's Fair in Love and Procedural Vagueness — Skylar Curtis
• Waiving Licensure Requirements to Allow Marriage and Family Therapists to Gain Qualifying Experience — Gregory Hynes
• California's Dedicated Mortgage Fraud Statute — Nadia Mahallati
• See You Later, Alligator — Not Until 2015 — Brooke Tomlinson
• California's Initiative to Stop Inhalant Abuse Among Minors — Edmund Yan

Public Contract (pdf)

• Spreading the Word on Loss Leaders — Adam Cate

Public Utilities (pdf)

• San Francisco and Hetch Hetchy — Reaching beyond the Sun — Jessica R. Lee

Revenue and Taxation (pdf)

• Run Home to Hollywood — Run to California — Ashley Lavon Hines
• California's New-Home Tax Credit: Rekindling the Dream for a Place of One's Own — Jessica R. Lee

Unemployment Insurance (pdf)

• Extending Benefits for the Chronically Unemployed — Krystal Collins