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The Legal Community and the Transformation of Disputes: The Settlement of Injunction Actions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 July 2024
Abstract
Lawyers in cases involving injunctions against picketing represent clients in situations of great immediacy. A significant number of injunction actions are settled with reductions in picketing despite a seemingly restrictive statute and a highly organized workforce. This study of legal culture examines the role of lawyers in striving to create predictability, especially in regard to judges and the police, and in transforming conflicts of value into disputes over interests that can be resolved without resort to formal adjudication.
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- Copyright © 1989 The Law and Society Association.
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A version of this essay was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Law and Society Association in Chicago in June 1986 and at a faculty forum at Rutgers-Newark Law School in May 1987.
Research was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
The author wishes to thank David Engel, Frank Munger, Fred Konefsky, Bliss Cartwright, Eileen Silverstein, William Forbath, Clyde Summers, Lynn Mather, and anonymous reviewers for their helpful and insightful comments. I would especially like to thank David Engel, Frank Munger, and Fred Konefsky for their constant encouragement for a project so different from my normal ventures. I also wish to thank Andrew Lipkind for his wonderfully imaginative and resourceful research assistance. Dianne Avery and Richard Troll also provided valuable research assistance.
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