Practice and Procedure

Covers cases on summary judgment and on misconduct of a party—shadowing jurors

Debtors\u27 Exemption Statutes—Revision Ideas

This article delineates the purposes which exemption laws should serve and surveys ways in which a comprehensive revision of the Washington statutes can more equitably (both as to debtors and creditors) effectuate these purposes. The discussion is far from exhaustive of the many provisions which might be considered in a revision of the debtor exemption area. It is intended only as a starting point for the thinking of attorneys

Marital Status and Eligibility for Federal Statutory Income Benefits: A Historical Survey

In an era when attitudes toward marriage institutions are changing and it has become a truism that governmentally dispensed benefits constitute the new property, the extent to which marital status is a determinant of the right to receive such benefits is a subject of particular interest. The purpose of this article is to survey that subject. More specifically, this article will trace congressional and administrative efforts to arrive at acceptable definitions of who should be treated as a wife/widow (or husband/widower), so as to be entitled to particular statutory benefits, and similar efforts to define when the status- relationship has become so attenuated or remote as to justify suspension or termination of the benefit payments. Considered in detail will be definitions under veterans\u27 compensation and pension laws, under the so-called insurance provisions of the Social Security Act, and under the Railroad Retirement Act, statutes which represent a range of types of income maintenance legislation and funding sources. Substantial emphasis will be placed on the historical development of the definitions for each of these laws and on the stated reasons for particular inclusions or exclusions. The approach will frequently be uncritical, the primary objective being to determine what the law has been and is rather than to suggest what it should be. While the benefits and eligibility requirements of these laws will be summarized, the summaries are provided for background purposes only and are not intended to be exhaustive. Other laws will be discussed summarily for comparative purposes

Professor Cosway: Teacher—Scholar

Professor Cosway was my teacher before he was my colleague. As a colleague, he continued to be my teacher

Easements by Way of Necessity Across Federal Lands

Is an easement across federal lands implied when the United States has granted a tract of land to which the grantee would otherwise have no practical means of access? In the recent case of Bydlon v. United States, the Court of Claims implied an affirmative answer in holding that the ancient doctrine of ways of necessity applied to Government grants to create access easements by air. The purpose of this Comment is to determine the validity of that conclusion and the extent to which it may be utilized to give life to dormant easements. Particular attention will be given to the possible existence of such easements across national forest lands

Interactive graph layout: The exploration of large graphs.

Directed and undirected graphs provide a natural notation for describing many fundamental structures of computer science. Unfortunately graphs are hard to draw in an easy to read fashion. Traditional graph layout algorithms have focused on creating good layouts for the entire graph. This approach works well with smaller graphs, but often cannot produce readable layouts for large graphs. This dissertation presents a novel methodology for viewing large graphs. The basic concept is to allow the user to interactively navigate through large graphs, learning about them in appropriately small and concise pieces. The motivation of this approach is that large graphs contain too much information to be conveyed by a single canonical layout. For a user to be able to understand the data encoded in the graph she must be able to carve up the graph into manageable pieces and then create custom layouts that match her current interests. An architecture is presented that supports graph exploration. It contains three new concepts for supporting interactive graph layout: interactive decomposition of large graphs, end-user specified layout algorithms, and parameterized layout algorithms. The mechanism for creating custom layout algorithms provides the non-programming end-user with the power to create custom layouts that are well suited for the graph at hand. New layout algorithms are created by combining existing algorithms in a hierarchical structure. This method allows the user to create layouts that accurately reflect the current data set and her current interests. In order to explore a large graph, the user must be able to break the graph into small, more manageable pieces. A methodology is presented that allows the user to apply graph traversal algorithms to large graphs to carve out reasonably sized pieces. Graph traversal algorithms can be combined using a visual programming language. This provides the user with the control to select subgraphs that are of particular interest to her. The ability to Parameterize layout algorithms provides the user with control over the layout process. The user can customize the generated layout by changing parameters to the layout algorithm. Layout algorithm parameterization is placed into an interactive framework that allows the user to iteratively fine tune the generated layout. As a proof of concept, examples are drawn from a working prototype that incorporates this methodology