Takeaway: RICO defendants usually move to dismiss civil racketeering claims. And when it comes to motions to dismiss, RICO defendants almost always prefer to be in federal – as opposed to state – ...
Recent lexicalist analyses of predicates expressed by syntactically independent elements, raise central questions concerning the domain in which such complex predicates are composed. Should they be ...
In their Landlord Tenant column, Warren Estis and Michael Feinstein discuss the recent decision "266 Washington Ave. v. Davis," which "stands as an important reminder to landlords and their counsel of ...
A non-technical friend of mine once asked me to explain, in layman's language, the legal term "laying the predicate". It was very difficult. After so much effort he was apparently satisfied when I ...
Happy is the main lexical predicate here. It takes one argument: an experiencer--John. Tall takes one argument: a theme: Mary. (12) *John is being tall. (13) *Mary is being fond of red roses. (14) ...
On March 3, the Ninth Circuit in Walker v. Life Ins. Co. of the SW, ruled that an alleged violation of California’s life insurance illustration statutes could serve as a predicate for liability under ...
This paper introduces an interesting class of predicates that come in pairs, so-called total and partial predicates. It will be shown that such predicates contribute to an explanation for the weak and ...
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