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Cash Deposits - Burdens And Barriers In Access To Utility Services, John B. Kirkwood
Cash Deposits - Burdens And Barriers In Access To Utility Services, John B. Kirkwood
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The utilities are free from statutory limitations on their deposit rules, practices differ, but most utilities use very broad criteria of income and net worth to select those consumers from whom they will demand a deposit. Under these broad deposit rules it is not surprising that the poor pay virtually all deposits, or that often high income residential areas are exempted altogether from the impact of cash deposits. Such rules impose severe burdens on depositors without proportionately benefitting the utilities, for deposits usually save utilities insignificant amounts of money. For example, estimations of the California Public Utilities Commission in 1967 …
Proposed Revisions To The Law Of War Applicable To Internal Conflict, James E. Bond
Proposed Revisions To The Law Of War Applicable To Internal Conflict, James E. Bond
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This article features a careful analysis of the law of armed conflict as it applies to internal disputes. It also provides detailed proposals for modifications in the law of war to encompass the difficult problems of human rights involved in internal disputes.
Blacks, Due Process And Efficiency In The Clash Of Values As The Supreme Court Moves To The Right, Henry Mcgee
Blacks, Due Process And Efficiency In The Clash Of Values As The Supreme Court Moves To The Right, Henry Mcgee
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Professor McGee examines the move by the Supreme Court to limit rights for minority defendants. Led by its law enforcement-oriented Chief Justice, an emerging majority of the Court has managed to reverse or seriously abridge precedents - both recent and time-honored - which ensured some fairness for minority defendants. Professor McGee addresses the implications of these decisions, and how they have affected due process for Black defendants.