Insurance Law- Business and Investment Limitations - Authority of Foreign Life Insurer to Acquire a Fire and Casualty Subsidiary

Plaintiff, a Connecticut life insurer, proposed to acquire a controlling stock interest in a fire and casualty insurance company. The New York Superintendent of Insurance, supported by the state Attorney General, advised that plaintiff would thereby disqualify itself from doing business in the state under the business and investment limitations of the Insurance Law. Plaintiff sought a declaratory judgment that its proposal was permissible. The supreme court denied plaintiff\u27s motion for summary judgment, granted defendant\u27s cross-motion and dismissed the complaint; the appellate division affirmed. On appeal, held, reversed, three judges dissenting. The legislature did not intend to extend the business limitations of the Insurance Law to prevent a parent-subsidiary arrangement, at least where the parent\u27s admitted assets are sufficient to satisfy the investment requirements of the statute. Connecticut Gen. Life Ins. Co. v. Superintendent of Ins., 10 N.Y.2d 42, 176 N.E.2d 63, 217 N.Y.S.2d 39 (1961)

Catwell v. Atty Gen USA

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Mehboob v. Atty Gen USA

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Hidden Nondefense: Partisanship in State Attorneys General Amicus Briefs and the Need for Transparency

In all fifty states, the State Attorney General (SAG)—as the state’s chief legal officer—is charged with defending state laws that are challenged in court. If an SAG declines to defend or challenges a state law on the ground that it is unconstitutional—an action scholars describe as “nondefense”— the SAG ordinarily will disclose this decision to the public. This Essay discusses a hidden form of nondefense that can occur when SAGs file amicus curiae briefs on behalf of their states in matters before the U.S. Supreme Court. Surprisingly, some SAGs have joined multistate amicus briefs that support invalidating other states’ laws without disclosing that similar state or local laws exist in the SAGs’ own jurisdictions. This Essay explores this problem through analysis of multistate amicus briefs filed in the 2017 Supreme Court term. It proposes requiring that SAGs disclose relevant laws from their state when they file amicus briefs on behalf of their state with the Supreme Court

The Shanachie, Volume 24, Number 2

This issue of The Shanachie is dedicated to the contributions of some of the many Irish pace-setters, ground-breakers and radicals who have enriched 350 years of Connecticut history.

Measurement of the Helicity Fractions of W Bosons from Top Quark Decays Using Fully Reconstructed top-antitop Events with CDF II

We present a measurement of the fractions F_0 and F_+ of longitudinally polarized and right-handed W bosons in top quark decays using data collected with the CDF II detector. The data set used in the analysis corresponds to an integrated luminosity of approximately 318 pb -1. We select ttbar candidate events with one lepton, at least four jets, and missing transverse energy. Our helicity measurement uses the decay angle theta*, which is defined as the angle between the momentum of the charged lepton in the W boson rest frame and the W momentum in the top quark rest frame. The cos(theta*) distribution in the data is determined by full kinematic reconstruction of the ttbar candidates. We find F_0 = 0.85 +0.15 -0.22 (stat) +- 0.06 (syst) and F_+ = 0.05 +0.11 -0.05 (stat) +- 0.03 (syst), which is consistent with the standard model prediction. We set an upper limit on the fraction of right-handed W bosons of F_+ < 0.26 at the 95% confidence level.Comment: 11 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.