Doctrine

Fairness Doctrine

The Fairness Doctrine, from its inception in the 1940s to its demise in the 1980s, epitomizes American broadcast law in flux. In adopting the broadcast policy, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of the United States intended broadcast licensees to make reasonable effort to discuss controversial issues and to do it fairly by affording equal treatment

Employment-At-Will Doctrine

The employment-at-will doctrine governs employment contracts of an unspecified duration. The doctrine’s classic formulation holds that absent a clear intention to contract for a term or other employment protections, the employee-employer relationship can be severed for any reason. As the Tennessee Supreme Court famously declared in Payne v. Western Atlantic R.R. Co. in 1884, an