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MEMORANDA ABOUT P.F.D. [i] (March 1993)

handle is hein.ali/alicgv0078 and id is 1 raw text is: 2[ THE AMERICAN LAW INST;TUTE 4025 CHESTNUT STREET PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA 19104 215.243-1600 ROSWELL B. PERKINS PRESIDENT March 22, 1993 FEDERAL EXPRESS Prof. John C. Coffee, Jr. Columbia University School of Law 435 West 116 Street, Room 8W13 New York, New York 10027 Part VII Dear Jack: Enclosed is my memorandum of comments on Part VII. I think you have done a very skillful job of correlating Sections 7.08-7.10 with Section 7.04(a) -- a task that worried me as to how it could effectively be accomplished. I think you have succeeded. I have limited my comments to material that is new -- except in one instance of an old Reporter's Note that I now believe could be misconstrued. My principal concerns are with the places where you depart from language approved by the Council and the membership of the Institute and where the departure is not called for by the new material in Section 7.04, so far as I can see. I am fairly adamant that we not appear to use the Section 7.04 changes as an entering wedge for changing the tone, color or word choices that have already been approved. My comments, albeit limited to new material, are numerous. I hope you and I can work them out before the March 30 conference call. One possibility would be a lengthy phone call Sunday evening, March 28. Perhaps you could send me a copy of my own memo before then with