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Utilizing Statistics And Bellwether Trials In Mass Torts: What Do The Constitution And Federal Rules Of Civil Procedure Permit?, R. Joseph Barton

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

Traditional judicial mechanisms that preserve litigants' rights to due process and a jury trial challenge courts to provide litigants their day in court in an efficient and timely manner. This challenge is made exponentially harder where the litigation concerns tortious conduct affecting a large number of persons and giving rise to latent injury. In response to the recent increase in mass tort filings, courts have sought an alternative means of adjudication-the extrapolation of a statistically average, representative plaintiff to other plaintiffs. This Note examines the problems associated with mass tort actions and how two circuit courts of appeals have implemented …

Effects Of Teacher Pronunciation On The Development Of Authenticity In Student Pronunciation At The Introductory Level Of Spanish Learning, Maria Rangel

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Structure And Anti-Structure In The French Revolution: Jacobinism And The Creation Of "Communitas", Leah Ramsey

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

An Evaluation Of Gender Bias In The University Classroom, Valarie Yurkunas

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming: An Analysis Of Subjective Experience In Relation To The Perception Of Language In Communication, April Wyatt

McNair Scholars Research Journal

No abstract provided.

Mediocrity In Paradise: Review Of Mediocrity In Bad Colonists: The South Seas Letters Of Vernon Lee Walker & Louis Becke, Ed. Nicholas Thomas And Richard Eves., Therese Weber

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

It is common for documentary editors to defend the writings with which they are dealing as important in some historical or social sense. If the author of the work is famous, or the document very old, such a defense is easy. For less well known or more recent individuals, the editor will present a case for publication: the style of the writing is remarkable, or the documents bear witness to significant events, or they have value because the writer belonged to a particular, perhaps marginalized, section of society. Nicholas Thomas and Richard Eves, the editors of the letters of Vernon …

Documentary Editing, Volume 21, Number 4, December 1999.

Documentary Editing: Journal of the Association for Documentary Editing (1979–2011)

No abstract provided.

Postfledging Behavior Of Golden Eagles, Laura T. O'Toole, Patricia L. Kennedy, Richard L. Knight, Lowell C. Mcewen

Wilson Bulletin

No abstract provided.

Response Of A Bird Assemblage In Semiarid Chile To The 1997-1998 El Nino, Fabian M. Jaksic, Ivan Lazo

Wilson Bulletin

No abstract provided.

A Critical Review Of The Law Of Business Loss Claims In Georgia Eminent Domain Jurisprudence, Charles M. Cork Iii

Mercer Law Review

The Georgia Constitution provides that "private property shall not be taken or damaged for public purposes without just and adequate compensation being first paid." While the courts have recognized that a business is property within the meaning of the constitution, case law would rewrite this provision more or less as follows:

Private property shall not be taken or damaged for public purposes without just and adequate compensation being first paid, except that the business of a property owner may be partially taken or damaged without compensation, and except that the business of a property owner or tenant may be temporarily …

Commercial Law, Robert A. Weber Jr.

Mercer Law Review

• Sales
• Notes and Guarantees
• Secured Transactions
• Drafting Considerations
• Collection Issues
• Miscellaneous

Construction Law, Brian J. Morrissey, Timothy N. Toler

Mercer Law Review

The decisions rendered by the Georgia Supreme Court and Georgia Court of Appeals during this one-year survey period included a small opening in lender liability, a minimalist view of the requirements of evidence as it pertains to the law of fraud, an extensive discussion of the law of damages as it applies to construction contracts, and a harsh result because of failure to comply with the requirements of the mechanic's and materialmen's lien statute. This Article addresses these significant movements in the law and some of the reaffirmations of existing law in the construction field between June 1, 1998, and …

Domestic Relations, Barry B. Mcgough, Gregory R. Miller

Mercer Law Review

Of the domestic relations cases decided by the Georgia Supreme Court and the Georgia Court of Appeals during the survey period, twenty-seven are digested here. Possibly the most notable events of the survey period were pieces of legislation that were not enacted. A bill to restore direct appeals for certain domestic relations cases did not make it to the Governor's desk, and the Governor vetoed a bill that would have required trial judges hearing custody cases to consider the custodial elections of children between the ages of twelve and fourteen. While the Georgia General Assembly otherwise focused on ways to …

Evidence, Marc T. Treadwell

Mercer Law Review

The survey period saw a number of cases raising significant evidentiary issues. Most notable is the continuing evolution of the necessity exception to the rule against hearsay. During the survey period, the Supreme Court added a third prong to the test for the admission of evidence pursuant to the necessity exception, and thus seemingly narrowed the scope of the exception. However, the court also expanded the circumstances that constitute the "unavailability" of a witness. The net effect seems to be an expansion of the necessity exception.

Local Government Law, R. Perry Sentell Jr.

Mercer Law Review

The City Attorney served (in those days) simultaneously as Judge of the Recorder's Court. On convening that court one Monday morning, he was shocked to see one of the community's most prominent citizens before him, charged with "drunk and disorderly."

I inquired as to the type of plea he wished to enter. Evidently having heard of "nolo contendere" but not remembering the exact nature or pronunciation of the plea, the citizen responded: "I would like to plead low profile."

The "law" of local government, both decisional and statutory, frequently fosters a similar sentiment.

The Probe, Issue 207 – December 1999

The Probe: Newsletter of the National Animal Damage Control Association

NADCA: A Proud History, A New Future -- Robert H. Schmidt, President, NADCA
Position Announcement: WILDLIFE ECOLOGIST - Urban Wildlife & Urban-Human Conflict Management Illinois Natural History Survey, Urbana-Champaign, IL
In Memoriam: Guy R. Hodge
Personnel Changes in USDA Wildlife Services: Two new State Directors
Book review: "Wildlife of the New Millennium: A Field Guide" by Buck Peterson. Published by Longstreet Press, Marietta, Georgia 1999. (152 pages, illustrated. $11.95) ISBN 1-56352-546-1
Euthanasia Chamber Available from Pioneer Wildlife Control of Westwood, MA

Abstracts from the 6th Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society - September 1999, Austin, TX
Public health significance of …

Advertising And Promotion Of Services, Umesh Rajamani

IIMB Management Review

No abstract provided.

It's Not Just Hair: Historical And Cultural Considerations For An Emerging Technology, Deborah Pergament

Chicago-Kent Law Review

History reflects the social, religious and political importance of human hair. Individuals have used hairstyles to flaunt social conventions about gender, race, sexual identity, and social status. Totalitarian governments have regulated hairstyles as a means of social control and dehumanization. Today, advances in technology now make it possible to discover information about an individual's current or potential health status. Judicial decisions and administrative regulations offer individuals limited protection from state or institutional intrusion into the information revealed by genetic hair analysis. This Article argues that the explosion of technologies that use hair to reveal intimate details of an individual's biological …

I-Dna-Fication, Personal Privacy, And Social Justice, Eric T. Juengst

Chicago-Kent Law Review

No abstract provided.

Past Sexual Conduct In Sexual Harassment Cases, Lisa Dowlen Linton

Chicago-Kent Law Review

No abstract provided.

Osha Reform: An Examination Of Third Party Audits, Anne T. Nichting

Chicago-Kent Law Review

No abstract provided.

Owning Genes: Disputes Involving Dna Sequence Patents, John Murry

Chicago-Kent Law Review

No abstract provided.

Characterizations Of Classes Of Programs By Three-Valued Operators, Anthony K. Seda, Pascal Hitzler

Computer Science and Engineering Faculty Publications

Several important classes of normal logic programs, including the classes of acyclic, acceptable, and locally hierarchical programs, have the property that every program in the class has a unique two-valued supported model. In this paper, we call such classes unique supported model classes. We analyse and characterize these classes by means of operators on three-valued logics. Our studies will motivate the definition of a larger unique supported model class which we call the class of Phi-accessible programs. Finally, we show that the class of Phi -accessible programs is computationally adequate in that every partial recursive function can be implemented by …

Wsu Research News, Winter 1999, Office Of Research And Sponsored Programs, Wright State University

WSU Research News

A twelve page newsletter of the WSU Research News. The WSU Research News was published monthly beginning in June of 1968 and issued by the Office of Research Development. This newsletter was created to provide information to the WSU faculty about the availability of outside funds for research and educational programs, new developments that may affect availability of funds, and general information on research and educational activities at Wright State University.

Keynote Address: Commons And Code, Lawrence Lessig

Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Oxygen Pressure-Tuned Epitaxy And Optoelectronic Properties Of Laser-Deposited Zno Films On Sapphire, S. Choopun, R. D. Vispute, W. Noch, A. Balsamo, R. P. Sharma, T. Venkatesan, A. Iliadis, David C. Look

Physics Faculty Publications

Influence of oxygen pressure on the epitaxy, surface morphology, and optoelectronic properties has been studied in the case of ZnO thin films grown on sapphire ~0001! by pulsed-laser deposition. Results of Rutherford backscattering and ion channeling in conjunction with atomic force microscopy clearly indicate that the growth mode, degree of epitaxy, and the defect density strongly depend on the oxygen background pressure during growth. It is also found that the growth mode and the defects strongly influence the electron mobility, free-electron concentration, and the luminescence properties of the ZnO films. By tuning the oxygen pressure during the initial and the …

When Balance And Fairness Collide: An Argument For Execution Impact Evidence In Capital Trials, Wayne A. Logan

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

A central precept of death penalty jurisprudence is that only the "death worthy" should be condemned, based on a "reasoned moral response" by the sentencing authority. Over the past decade, however, the Supreme Court has distanced itself from its painstaking efforts in the 1970s to calibrate death decision making in the name of fairness. Compelling proof of this shift is manifest in the Court's decisions to permit victim impact evidence in capital trials, and to allow jurors to be instructed that sympathy for capital defendants is not to influence capital decisions. This Article examines a novel strategy now being employed …

Increasing Consumer Power In The Grievance And Appeal Process For Medicare Hmo Enrollees, Kenneth J. Pippin

University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform

Federal law requires that Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) and Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) provide Medicare beneficiaries with specific grievance and appeal rights for challenging adverse decisions of these organizations. The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) is charged with enforcing these regulations. Currently, however, HCFA contracts with HMOs, allowing them to enroll Medicare beneficiaries despite the fact that many of the statutory and regulatory requirements are ignored by the Medicare HMOs. This is problematic because the elderly Medicare population may not be able to independently and adequately challenge the HMO's denial of care or reimbursement. Because HCFA has been reluctant and …

[Price Laboratory School] Newsletter, V10n4, December 1999-January 2000, University Of Northern Iowa. Malcolm Price Laboratory School

Malcolm Price Laboratory School Newsletter

Inside this Issue:
-- Defining Quality in Education
-- PTP Salutes Price Laboratory School Employees
-- American Education Week November 15-19
-- The 1999 NUHS Homecoming Celebration - Reincarnating an old NUHS tradition: Coronation
-- Fitness Friday
-- PLS Trivia
-- Physical Education for Progress (PEP Act)
-- Parent Advisory Council Minutes of November 2, 1999
-- Minutes Educational Equity Advisory Committee (EEAC) September 13, 1999
-- Minutes Educational Equity Advisory Committee (EEAC) October 11, 1999
-- PLS/NUHS PTP MEETING MINUTES - November 2, 1999
-- Polish Professors and Students Visit Price Lab/UNI on Exchange Program
-- Announcements from John …

A Qualitative Study Of A Parental Involvement Program In A K-8 Catholic Elementary School, Janet Ann Donovan

Journal of Catholic Education

This article demonstrates that there is virtual unanimity among America’s educational leaders in the belief that when parents become involved in their children’s education, the children do better in school. Moreover, the study also reveals that in educational circles serious disagreements exist among leaders as to the degree to which parents should be involved in their children’s education. Central to the study is a small Catholic elementary school whose parental involvement program is not only diametrically opposed to contemporary educational thinking but could be interpreted as a refutation of it.