Reexamining the arguments in Owen M. Fiss, against settlement

Fordham Law Review

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1171-1176

  Feinberg, Kenneth R ^a  

^a United States Department of the Treasury   (United States)

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1. DESTRY RIDES AGAIN (Universal Pictures 1939).
2. Id.
3. See Owen M. Fiss, Against Settlement, 93 YALE L. J. 1073 (1984).
4. Samuel D. Warren & Louis D. Brandeis, The Right to Privacy, 4 HARV. L. REV. 193 (1890).
5. Hans Zeisel,... And Then There Were None: The Diminution of the FederalJury, 38 U. CHI. L. REV. 710 (1971) (scrutinizing the reduction of twelve-member juries to six members);
6. Hans Zeisel & Shari Seidman Diamond, "Convincing Empirical Evidence" on the Six Member Jury, 41 U. CHI. L. REV. 281 (1974) (critically examining empirical evidence on six-member and twelve-member juries).
7. Hon. Jack B. Weinstein, Senior Judge, U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
8. In re "Agent Orange" Prod. Liab. Litig., 580 F. Supp. 690 (E. D. N. Y. 1984).
9. See Jack B. Weinstein, Comments on Owen M. Fiss, Against Settlement (1984), 78 FORDHAM L. REV. 1265, 1268-69 (2009).
10. Hon. Edward Weinfeld, Judge, U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
11. Hon. Edward Gignoux, Senior Judge, U. S. District Court for the District of Maine.
12. Hon. Stanley Fuld, Chief Judge, State of New York Court of Appeals.
13. Hon. Roger Traynor, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of California.
14. Hon. Charles Breyer, Judge, U. S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
15. In re Vioxx Prods. Liab. Litig., 448 F. Supp. 2d 737 (E. D. La. 2006).
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17. In re Simon II Litig., 211 F. R. D. 86 (E. D. N. Y. 2002), vacated, 407 F.3d 125 (2d Cir. 2005).
18. In re Zyprexa Prods. Liab. Litig., 493 F. Supp. 2d 571 (E. D. N. Y. 2007).
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21. See McCain v. Dinkins, 639 N. E.2d 1132, 1132 (N. Y. 1994) (upholding trial court's finding of civil contempt resulting from city's violation of court order requiring it to cease bousing homeless families at welfare office emergency assistance units, but holding as improper trial court's order that city officials spend night in emergency assistance unit);
22. see also Leslie Kaufman, One Constant in Homeless Litigation: New York v. the Judge, N. Y. Times, Nov. 12, 2002, at B1.
23. 383 F. Supp. 769.
24. Benjamin v. Malcolm, 495 F. Supp. 1357 (S. D. N. Y. 1980) (holding that the overcrowding at Riker's Island is unconstitutional and ordering further reductions in prison population);
25. see also Benjamin v. Jacobson, 935 F. Supp. 332 (S. D. N. Y. 1996)
26. aff'd in part, rev'd in part, 124 F.3d 162 (2d Cir. 1997) (affirming that retroactive application of the Prison Litigation Reform Act to terminate consent decrees governing conditions in New York City jails is not unconstitutional, but reversing to the extent that the consent decrees were vacated, and holding that federal courts no longer have jurisdiction to enforce such decrees and detainees may seek relief from state courts).
27. See Kaufman, supra note 20.
28. Hon. Helen E. Freedman, Justice, New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department.
29. See, e.g., Kaufman, supra note 20.
30. Susan Sturm & Howard Gadlin, Conflict Resolution and Systemic Change, 2007 J. DISP. RESOL. 1, 51-60.
31. In re "Agent Orange" Prod. Liab. Litig., 818 F.2d 145 (2d Cir. 1987).
32. In re Joint E. & S. Dists. Asbestos Litig., 929 F. Supp. 1 (E. & S. D. N. Y 1996).
33. In re DES Cases, 789 F. Supp. 552 (E. D. N. Y. 1992).
34. See supra note 22.
35. Hart v. Cmty. Sch. Bd. of Brooklyn, N. Y. Sch. Dist. No. 21 (Coney Island), 383 F. Supp. 769 (E. D. N. Y. 1974).
36. See Symposium, Judge Jack B. Weinstein, Tort Litigation, and the Public Good: A Roundtable Discussion To Honor One of America's Great Trial Judges on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday, 12 J. L. & POL'Y 149, 174-75 (2003).
37. See supra note 1 and accompanying text.