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Help Me Help You: Why Congress's Attempt To Cover Torts Committed by Indian Tribal Contractors with the FTCA Hurts the Government and the Tribes 帮助我帮助你:为什么国会试图用自由贸易协定涵盖印第安部落承包商所犯的侵权行为伤害了政府和部落
Pub Date : 2012-12-27 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2286298
Joseph W. Gross
Since the Nixon Administration, the U.S. government has attempted to promote tribal self-determination among Native Americans. Under the Indian Self-Determination Act, the tribes can enter into agreements with the federal government to take over services previously provided to the tribes by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). By entering into these contracts, the tribes have been able to administer a wide variety of services, including construction and law enforcement, which bring income and employment to Indian country. These contracts do not always run smoothly, however, and sometimes people get injured. Under a series of amendments to the Indian Self-Determination Act, when tribal contractors commit torts, the federal government steps in and defends the tribal contractors under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) as if they were employees of the government. The government pays out any settlements or judgments from the Judgment Fund. This scenario is a complete departure from the traditional FTCA rule whereby contractors are only treated as government employees in exceedingly limited circumstances.In hastily extending the FTCA to cover tribal contractors, Congress contravened FTCA jurisprudence in theory and in practice. Congress intended to help the tribes avoid having to buy costly insurance by directly assuming liability under the FTCA. While perhaps well-intentioned, the result is a system of perverse incentives and a string of inconsistent decisions. Courts struggle to apply the FTCA's waiver of the federal government's sovereign immunity to the tribes, which remain separate sovereigns that retain some of their own sovereign immunity. The arrangement also creates problems in determining whether tribal contractors are within the scope of their employment and undertaking discretionary functions. Furthermore, the statutory scheme creates the potential for tribal law to govern the United States' tort liability and may have inadvertently created a loophole for the intentional torts of tribal law enforcement officers. The end result of this untenable situation is that savvy tribes recognize the unpredictability of the FTCA protection and purchase private insurance anyway, sometimes with federal contract support funds. This is the exact result Congress hoped to avoid.Congress should end the experiment of extending the FTCA to cover tribal contractors and replace it with subsidized private insurance. This new arrangement would simplify the process for potential claimants and keep the government from having to pay the duplicative costs of insurance and judgments.
自尼克松政府以来,美国政府一直试图促进美洲原住民的部落自决。根据《印第安人自决权法案》,部落可以与联邦政府签订协议,接管印第安事务局(BIA)以前向部落提供的服务。通过签订这些合同,部落能够管理各种各样的服务,包括建筑和执法,为印度带来收入和就业机会。然而,这些合同并不总是顺利进行,有时会有人受伤。根据《印第安人自决权法案》的一系列修正案,当部落承包商实施侵权行为时,联邦政府会介入,并根据《联邦侵权索赔法》(FTCA)对部落承包商进行辩护,就像他们是政府雇员一样。政府从判决基金中支付任何和解或判决。这种情况完全背离了传统的FTCA规则,即承包商只在极其有限的情况下被视为政府雇员。国会草率地将《自由贸易协定》扩展到部落承包商,在理论上和实践上都违反了《自由贸易协定》的法理。国会打算通过直接承担《自由贸易协定》的责任来帮助部落避免购买昂贵的保险。尽管初衷可能是好的,但其结果是产生了一套不合理的激励机制和一系列不一致的决策。法院很难将FTCA对联邦政府主权豁免的放弃适用于部落,部落仍然是独立的主权,保留了一些自己的主权豁免。这种安排也造成了一些问题,难以确定部落承包商是否在他们的雇用范围内并行使自由裁量的职能。此外,法定方案为部落法管理美国的侵权责任创造了可能,并可能无意中为部落执法人员的故意侵权创造了漏洞。这种站不住脚的情况的最终结果是,精明的部落认识到FTCA保护的不可预测性,无论如何都会购买私人保险,有时使用联邦合同支持基金。这正是国会希望避免的结果。国会应该终止将FTCA扩大到部落承包商的试验,代之以补贴的私人保险。这项新安排将简化潜在索赔人的程序,并使政府不必支付保险和判决的重复费用。
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Intent and Consent in the Tort of Battery: Confusion and Controversy 殴打侵权中的故意与同意:混淆与争议
Pub Date : 2012-02-21 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.2008843
N. Moore
Much of contemporary torts scholarship has been devoted to determining who should bear the costs of unintended injury, that is, whether and when defendants should be strictly liable for the harm caused by their activities, as opposed to limiting plaintiffs to recovery when they can prove that the defendant’s conduct was negligent. Comparatively little scholarship has explored the appropriate distinction between the intentional torts and the non-intentional torts, such as negligence or strict liability. Recently, torts scholars have begun to explore some interesting and unresolved questions surrounding the intentional torts, particularly battery, stemming in part from the completion of various stages of the Restatement (Third) of Torts and the current position of the ALI that it will not attempt a restatement of the non-economic intentional torts that were addressed in great detail in the Restatement (Second) on the grounds that intentional tort doctrine is clear and that the Restatement (Second) provisions have been widely adopted. This article joins the work of several torts scholars who have recently questioned the clarity of intentional tort law doctrine. These scholars have focused on the ambiguity of the Restatement’s provisions with respect to the intent to cause a harmful or offensive bodily contact, that is, whether these provisions require both intent to cause bodily contact and intent to cause harm or offense (dual intent) or whether it is sufficient that the defendant intends a bodily contact that turns out to be either harmful or offensive (single intent). Some of these scholars have also suggested that the essence of battery is not the intent to cause a harmful or offensive contact, but rather the intent to cause an unpermitted contact. This article demonstrates that the current confusion and controversy over battery law doctrine is far more extensive than even these recent torts scholars have demonstrated. It extends beyond the element of intent and includes uncertainty concerning the role of the plaintiff’s lack of actual or apparent consent - that is, whether consent is an affirmative defense or whether lack of consent is an element of the plaintiff’s prima facie case - and the relationship between intent and lack of consent. Moreover, this confusion and controversy is reflected not only in modern battery court opinions, but also in the cursory and contradictory treatment given to battery law in most torts casebooks and treatises. Finally, despite the ALI’s assumption that the Restatement provisions have been widely adopted, there are many jurisdictions where courts are formulating battery doctrine using terminology that departs significantly from the Restatement provisions. Part I of this article gives a detailed account of the current confusion and controversy in battery doctrine. Part II provides a brief account of the historical development of the modern tort of battery, which is necessary to understanding why it is that so ma
许多当代侵权研究一直致力于确定谁应该承担意外伤害的成本,也就是说,被告是否以及何时应该对其活动造成的损害负严格责任,而不是限制原告在能够证明被告的行为是过失时获得赔偿。相对而言,很少有学者探讨故意侵权与非故意侵权的适当区别,例如过失侵权或严格责任侵权。最近,侵权学者们开始探讨一些有趣的和未解决的问题围绕故意侵权,特别是殴打,部分源于《侵权重述(第三)》的各个阶段的完成,以及美国最高法院目前的立场,即它不会试图重述《重述(第二)》中详细论述的非经济故意侵权,理由是故意侵权原则是明确的,而且重述(第二)条款已被广泛采用。这篇文章加入了几位侵权学者的工作,他们最近对故意侵权法理论的清晰度提出了质疑。这些学者关注的焦点是重述中关于造成有害或攻击性身体接触的意图的规定的模糊性,即这些规定是否既要求造成身体接触的意图,也要求造成伤害或冒犯的意图(双重意图),或者被告意图造成有害或攻击性身体接触(单一意图)是否就足够了。这些学者中的一些人还提出,电池的本质不是意图造成有害或冒犯性接触,而是意图造成不允许的接触。本文表明,当前对电池法理论的困惑和争议远比这些最近的侵权学者所展示的更为广泛。它超出了意图要件的范围,还包括原告缺乏实际或表面同意的作用的不确定性——即,同意是积极抗辩还是缺乏同意是原告初步证据的一个要件——以及意图和缺乏同意之间的关系。而且,这种混乱和争议不仅体现在现代电池法院的意见上,也体现在大多数侵权判例书和专著对电池法的草率和矛盾的处理上。最后,尽管美国上诉法院假设重述条款已被广泛采用,但仍有许多司法管辖区的法院正在使用与重述条款明显背离的术语来制定电池原则。本文第一部分详细论述了当前电池理论的困惑和争议。第二部分简要介绍了现代殴打侵权行为的历史发展,这对于理解为什么这么多法院不遵循重述的表述以及它们是如何采用各种不同的,有时甚至是相互矛盾的表述是必要的。第三部分分析了相关重述条款的模糊性,驳斥了一些侵权学者的观点,即只有单一意图规则才能解释某些类型案件中明显一致的结果,例如那些涉及恶作剧者和那些涉及医生和其他目的是帮助而不是伤害或冒犯的人的案件。这一部分认为,承认某些医疗程序,如手术,必然涉及有害的接触(即使最终是有益的),并且医生和其他人通常知道,在未经同意的情况下,某些身体接触将是冒犯性的,这样才能更好地解释这些案件。通过明确区分意图要件和不同意要件,在单一和双重意图规则下,殴打罪的意图要件的满足很容易解释,从而使这些案件的解决取决于被告是否会以实际同意或表面同意为理由被免除责任。文章的第四部分探讨了在单一故意和双重故意之间选择的相关政策考虑,这些考虑必然涉及故意侵权与非故意侵权的适当区分。它的结论是,没有理由倾向于单一意图规则,从而背离了构成现代侵权法基础的道德过错原则。它还驳斥了最近一些侵权学者的观点,即“身体完整”原则需要比双重意图规则提供的更充分的保护。第五部分处理在医生诚实但错误地认为病人同意所提供的治疗的医疗案件中同意的特殊问题。 法院同意,除非医生故意背离病人的意愿,否则他们不应对殴打行为负责(与过失相反),但随后又辩称,这一结果明显背离了传统的同意原则,在大多数情况下,应该仅限于医疗案件。第五部分的结论是,至少在概念上,重述(第三)如何在涉及有害或攻击性殴打的案件中最好地重新制定故意侵权原则。
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引用次数: 3
Brass Rings and Red-Headed Stepchildren: Protecting Active Criminal Informants 黄铜戒指和红发继子:保护活跃的犯罪线人
Pub Date : 2012-02-02 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.1998787
M. Rich
Informants are valued law enforcement tools, and active criminal informants – criminals who maintain their illicit connections and feed evidence to the police in exchange for leniency – are the most prized of all. Yet society does little to protect active criminal informants from the substantial risks inherent in their recruitment and cooperation. As I have explored elsewhere, society’s apathy toward these informants is a result of distaste with their disloyalty and a concern that protecting them will undermine law enforcement effectiveness. This Article takes a different tack, however, building on existing scholarship on vulnerability and paternalism to argue that society has a duty to protect some vulnerable informant interests. In particular, I assess informant vulnerabilities against accepted societal norms to determine which informants deserve greatest protection and balance informant autonomy interests against informant interests in avoiding harm.Against this backdrop, I propose safeguards to protect the vulnerable safety and autonomy interests of active criminal informants that most deserve society’s protection while minimally interfering with law enforcement effectiveness. The proposals include: requiring court approval for the use of particularly vulnerable active informants and prosecutorial consent for the use of all others; providing training for informants and law enforcement agents in minimizing the risks of harm from cooperation; and folding informants into existing workers’ compensation schemes.
举报人是重要的执法工具,而积极的犯罪举报人——那些保持非法关系并向警方提供证据以换取宽大处理的罪犯——是最受珍视的。然而,社会在保护活跃的犯罪线人免受招募和合作所固有的巨大风险方面做得很少。正如我在其他地方探讨过的那样,社会对这些告密者的冷漠是由于厌恶他们的不忠,以及担心保护他们会破坏执法效率。然而,本文采取了不同的策略,以现有的关于脆弱性和家长式作风的学术研究为基础,论证社会有责任保护一些弱势举报人的利益。特别是,我根据公认的社会规范评估举报人的脆弱性,以确定哪些举报人应该得到最大的保护,并平衡举报人的自主利益和避免伤害的举报人利益。在此背景下,我提出了保障措施,以保护最值得社会保护的弱势犯罪举报人的安全和自主利益,同时尽量减少对执法效率的干扰。这些建议包括:使用特别脆弱的主动举报人需要法院批准,使用所有其他举报人需要检察官同意;为举报人和执法人员提供培训,以尽量减少合作造成的伤害风险;并将告密者纳入现有的工人补偿计划。
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引用次数: 6
No toy for you! The healthy food incentives ordinance: paternalism or consumer protection? 没有玩具给你!健康食物奖励条例:家长作风还是保护消费者?
Pub Date : 2012-01-01
Alexis M Etow

The newest approach to discouraging children's unhealthy eating habits, amidst increasing rates of childhood obesity and other diet-related diseases, seeks to ban something that is not even edible. In 2010, San Francisco enacted the Healthy Food Incentives Ordinance, which prohibits toys in kids' meals if the meals do not meet certain nutritional requirements. Notwithstanding the Ordinance's impact on interstate commerce or potential infringement on companies' commercial speech rights and on parents' rights to determine what their children eat, this Comment argues that the Ordinance does not violate the dormant Commerce Clause, the First Amendment, or substantive due process. The irony is that although the Ordinance likely avoids the constitutional hurdles that hindered earlier measures aimed at childhood obesity, it intrudes on civil liberties more than its predecessors. This Comment analyzes the legality of the Healthy Food Incentives Ordinance to understand its implications on subsequent legislation aimed at combating childhood obesity and on the progression of public health law.

在儿童肥胖和其他与饮食有关的疾病发病率不断上升的情况下,为了阻止儿童养成不健康的饮食习惯,最新的方法是禁止一些甚至不能吃的东西。2010年,旧金山颁布了《健康食品激励条例》(Healthy Food Incentives Ordinance),如果儿童餐不符合某些营养要求,就禁止在儿童餐中添加玩具。尽管《条例》对州际贸易有影响,或可能侵犯公司的商业言论权和父母决定子女吃什么的权利,但本评论认为,《条例》并未违反休眠的《商业条款》、《第一修正案》或实质性正当程序。具有讽刺意味的是,尽管该法令可能避免了早期针对儿童肥胖的措施所遇到的宪法障碍,但它比之前的法令更侵犯了公民自由。本评论分析《健康食物奖励条例》的合法性,以了解其对其后旨在打击儿童肥胖的立法和公共卫生法发展的影响。
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The Federal Circuit's decision in Myriad: isolated DNA molecules are patentable subject matter. 联邦巡回法院对Myriad案的裁决:分离的DNA分子是可专利的客体。
Pub Date : 2011-01-01
Seth R Ogden
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A shot in the arm: what a modern approach to Jacobson v. Massachusetts means for mandatory vaccinations during a public health emergency. 一针强击针:在公共卫生紧急情况下,雅各布森诉马萨诸塞州案的现代方法对强制接种疫苗意味着什么?
Pub Date : 2011-01-01
Ben Horowitz
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Veterans benefits in 2010: a new dialogue between the Supreme Court and the Federal Circuit. 2010年退伍军人福利:最高法院和联邦巡回法院之间的新对话。
Pub Date : 2011-01-01
Paul R Gugliuzza
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Human health and the environment can't wait for reform: current opportunities for the federal government and states to address chemical risks under the Toxic Substances Control Act. 人类健康和环境不能等待改革:目前联邦政府和各州在《有毒物质控制法》下解决化学品风险的机会。
Pub Date : 2011-01-01
Lauren Trevisan

Expressing its concern about growing rates of cancer and other diseases, coupled with the lack of data about the effect of the thousands of chemicals used in U.S. society, in 1976 Congress enacted the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Congress intended for TSCA to shed new light on chemical risks and provide the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with a set of tools to address those risks and protect human health and the environment. In the years since TSCA's passage, the procedural hurdles and the difficult-to-meet legal standards built into the statute, along with a court decision rejecting EPA's use of its authority to ban dangerous chemicals, have impeded EPA's ability to regulate chemical use and manufacture. This Comment argues that both the EPA and state governments have the authority to act now to address the risks posed by dangerous chemicals. By utilizing certain sections of the statute in new and aggressive ways, EPA can effectively address chemical risks. Further, this Comment argues that TSCA's preemption provision affords states leeway to continue to regulate the use of chemicals within their borders. Though reform of TSCA is necessary, EPA and states can effectively protect against chemical risks in the near-term by using the full extent of their authority under the current law.

出于对癌症和其他疾病发病率不断上升的担忧,加上缺乏有关美国社会使用的数千种化学品影响的数据,美国国会于1976年颁布了《有毒物质控制法》(TSCA)。国会希望通过《有毒物质控制法》,使人们对化学品的风险有新的认识,并为美国环境保护署(EPA)提供一套工具,以应对这些风险,保护人类健康和环境。在《有毒物质控制法》通过后的几年里,程序性障碍和难以达到的法律标准,以及法院驳回环保局使用其权力禁止危险化学品的决定,阻碍了环保局监管化学品使用和生产的能力。本评论认为,环保署和州政府现在都有权采取行动,解决危险化学品带来的风险。通过以新的和积极的方式利用法规的某些部分,EPA可以有效地解决化学品风险。此外,本评论认为,TSCA的优先条款为各州提供了继续监管其境内化学品使用的余地。虽然TSCA的改革是必要的,但EPA和各州可以在现行法律下充分利用他们的权力,在短期内有效地防范化学品风险。
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The Curious Case of Directors' and Officers' Liability for Supervision and Management: Exploring the Intersection of Corporate and Tort Law 董事和高级管理人员监督管理责任的奇特案例:公司法与侵权法交集的探索
Pub Date : 2010-01-10 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.1407589
M. Petrin
Directors’ and officers’ liability under corporate and securities laws continues to be a hotly debated subject. Yet, their liability toward non-shareholder third parties under common tort law and statutory provisions has generated relatively modest scholarly interest. Thus, it has gone mostly unnoticed that corporate directors and officers can be held personally liable in tort to non-shareholder third parties based on failures in exercising their core corporate duties - supervision and management.However, as this article explains, the current liability regime in this area is in need of repair. It fails to distinguish between the corporation’s duties and the duties of directors and officers, neglects the separate corporate personality of the corporation, unduly shifts the risk of doing business to directors and officers, and undermines the heightened liability protections provided to directors and officers by corporate laws. Consequently, a new approach is required. This article proposes a novel model for corporate liability that is centered around the nature of directors’ and officers’ duties and focuses on the individual’s state of mind. At its core, the proposed model is based on the belief that in order to preserve the corporate shield, liability standards in tort law should not conflate the standards imposed on individuals with those imposed on directors and officers.
根据公司法和证券法,董事和高级管理人员的责任仍然是一个热议的话题。然而,在普通侵权法和法定条款下,他们对非股东第三方的责任产生了相对温和的学术兴趣。因此,几乎没有人注意到的是,公司董事和高级管理人员可能因未能履行公司的核心职责——监督和管理——而对非股东第三方承担侵权责任。然而,正如本文所解释的那样,这一领域的现行责任制度需要修复。它未能区分公司的职责与董事和高级管理人员的职责,忽视了公司的独立法人人格,不恰当地将经营风险转移给董事和高级管理人员,破坏了公司法为董事和高级管理人员提供的高度责任保护。因此,需要一种新的方法。本文提出了一种新的公司责任模型,该模型以董事和管理人员职责的性质为中心,关注个人的心理状态。该模型的核心是基于这样一种信念,即为了保护公司盾牌,侵权法中的责任标准不应将适用于个人的标准与适用于董事和高级管理人员的标准混为一谈。
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Critical Tax Theory: Redistributive Justice and Cultural Feminism 批判税收理论:再分配正义与文化女权主义
Pub Date : 2009-01-01 DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511609800.061
William J. Turnier, P. J. Conover, D. Lowery
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