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Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, 2003, City Of Lake St. Louis

UMSLCAB - UMSL’s Political Science Millennial Era Saint Louis Local Curated Area Budgets

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Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, 2003, City Of St. Peters

UMSLCAB - UMSL’s Political Science Millennial Era Saint Louis Local Curated Area Budgets

This resource is one among many in the UMSLCAB open dataset at IRL.UMSL.edu/CAB

Natural Gas Delivery, Storage & Lng Pipeline Inspection Technologies Demonstration Report

United States Department of Transportation: Publications

Assessing the integrity of natural gas transmission and distribution pipelines costs industry millions each year. With passage of the Pipeline Safety Improvement Act (PSIA) in 2002, industry will be required to invest significantly more capital to inspect and maintain their systems. The PSIA requires enhanced maintenance programs and continuing integrity inspection of all pipelines located within “high consequence areas” where a pipeline failure could threaten public safety, property and the environment. According to the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) the cost to industry to implement the PSIA in the first ten years will exceed $2 billion.

The Strategic …

Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (Norm) From Produced Waters In Mississippi Oil And Gas Wells, Clayton Mckay

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Navigating The Hidden Obstacles To Ex-Offender Reentry, Anthony C. Thompson

Faculty Articles

As federal and state correctional institutions steadily release record numbers of ex-offenders each year, the communities into which prisoners are released are unprepared to sustain the economic and social burden of the massive reentry movement. As a result, reentering ex-offenders lack the support needed to reintegrate themselves into society and to lead productive, law-abiding lives. This Article first explores political trends that account for the increase in incarceration rates over the last two decades and the resulting social, legal, and economic challenges of reentry both ex-offenders and their communities face. Only recently has the government begun to respond to these …

Checks And Balances In Wartime: American, British And Israeli Experiences, Stephen J. Schulhofer

Faculty Articles

Examines how Great Britain and Israel relaxed their own rule-of-law norms in order to battle terrorism effectively during periods of great danger. Executive detention of the U.S. government since September 11, 2001; Security problems in Israel from 1948 to 2004; Role of the European Court of Human Rights in enforcing the European Convention Human Rights requirements in Great Britain and other European nations.

United States V. Kincade: Constitutionality Of Mandatory Dna Testing, Joy Huang

UC Law Constitutional Quarterly

In 2000, Congress passed the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act ("DNA Act"), mandating DNA samples from certain types of felons to be included in the FBI's Combined DNA Index System ("CODIS"). Since its inception, the DNA Act has faced many constitutional challenges, most recently in the 9th Circuit with the case United States v. Kincade, which involved two successive Ninth Circuit cases. The first case was decided on October 2, 2003, wherein a three-judge panel controversially deemed the DNA Act unconstitutional. The decision was subsequently vacated and reheard by the Ninth Circuit sitting en banc, in which the Circuit Court …

Torture, Marcy Strauss

NYLS Law Review

No abstract provided.

Quad Angles

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

Su People, Kate Gaetano, Margaret Costello, David Marc, Amy Speach Shires

Syracuse University Magazine

No abstract provided.

A Tale Of Three Northern Manhattan Communities: Case Studies Of Political Empowerment In The Planning And Developing Process, Richard C. Bass, Cuz Potter

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This article reviews three development proposals in Northern Manhattan communities, how community boards responded to those proposals, and how the responses affected the outcome of each development. The article begins with a broad overview of the history of community boards' role in urban planning in New York City. It finds that boards have become increasingly influential in new development plans, empowering the communities they represent. The Article goes on to analyze three recent proposals in turn (an expansion of Columbia University in Morningside Heights, a residential development in Central Harlem, and a comprehensive rezoning of East Harlem) according to "zoning," …

Blighting The Way: Urban Renewal, Economic Development, And The Elusive Definition Of Blight, Colin Gordon

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This article examines the way municipalities have used increasingly broad interpretations of "blight" to compete for state tax increment financing (TIFs) for economic development purposes. It traces the definition of blight in the context of state and federal urban redevelopment programs from the nineteenth century through the Progressive Era to the advent of TIF laws in the 1980s and 90s. It goes on to discuss the how the concept of "blight" has shifted from a condition of substandard housing to a condition of "sub-optimal" local economic development, in part due to intense competition among municipalities for TIFs. The article concludes …

Winter Count: Taking Stock Of Abortion Rights After Casey And Carhart, Caitlin E. Borgmann

Fordham Urban Law Journal

This article outlines the current landscape of the constitutional right to abortion established in Roe v. Wade. Analyzing the court's holdings in Planned Parenthood v. Casey and Stenberg v. Carhart, the author details the ways in which recognition of a government interest in potential life at any stage in a pregnancy, as well as the lofty "undue burden" standard in analyzing policies that hinder access to abortion, have eroded this right. Finally, the author stresses the Supreme Court cases' disparate impact on the abortion rights of low-income and rural dwelling women.

Broadening The Holistic Mindset: Incorporating Collateral Consequences And Reenty Into Criminal Defense Lawyering, Michael Pinard

Fordham Urban Law Journal

Over the past two decades, public defender offices across the country have broadened the range of defense services provided to indigent clients. These expanded services, some of which involve representing clients on related non-criminal matters such as housing and public benefits, are included in what is now commonly referred to as "holistic representation."' This form of representation strives to encompass the various underlying issues that often lead to clients’ experiences with the criminal justice system, with the aim of addressing those circumstances and preventing future criminal involvement. Holistic representation signals a paradigmatic shift in defense philosophy and ideology and has …

The Project Safe Neighborhoods Household Survey (Psnhs): Part I: Psn — Alaska Program Evaluation Baseline Data, Brad A. Myrstol

Reports

This document reports on a March 2004 public survey of Anchorage residents about the Alaska Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) intitative and public safety concerns at the neighborhood level. A year and a half into Alaska's PSN initiative, Anchorage residents were more aware of the specific penalties under federal law for illegal possession of a firearm than the programmatic effects of local, state, and federal law enforcement officials to reduce the level of gun crime in the city. Relatively few respondents recognized either of the PSN slogans of the Hard Time for Gun Crime message disseminated by PSN. Anchorage residents do …

Defendant’S Brief — Federal Trade Commission

Richmond Journal of Law & Technology

Plaintiff/petitioner telemarketers brought these actions challenging the FTC’s and FCC’s joint implementation of a nationwide do-not-call registry. The FTC created the registry as part of its Telemarketing Sales Rule. The Rule prohibits tele- marketers and sellers from calling phone numbers that consumers have listed on the registry. Subsequently, the FCC amended its rules implementing the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”), 47 U.S.C. § 227, to prohibit persons from mak- ing telephone solicitations to residential telephone subscribers who have registered their telephone numbers on the registry. Since June 27, 2003, when the registry opened, consumers have registered more than 50 million …

“Do-Not-Call-List” Testimony: Before The Senate Committee On Commerce, Science, And Transportation, Rodney Smolla

Richmond Journal of Law & Technology

I wish to thank the Committee for this opportunity to present testimony on the issues implicated by recent judicial rulings concerning the national telemarketing “Do Not Call” registry, developed by both the Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commission.

Pharmaceutical Overpromotion Liability: The Legal Battle Over Rural Prescription Drug Abuse, Phillip J. Wininger

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Difficult Times In Kentucky Corrections--Aftershocks Of A "Tough On Crime" Philosophy, Robert G. Lawson

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Neighborhood, Crime, And Incarceration In New York City, Jeffery Fagan, Valerie West, Jan Holland

Faculty Scholarship

Several new studies suggest that social and spatial incarceration of young males has become part of the developmental ecology of adolescence in the nation's poorest neighborhoods. This concentration began in the 1970s, and has grown steadily through the last quarter century.The story of young men such as Cesar in Random Family illustrates the pervasive effects of both direct and vicarious prison experiences for young men and women in poor neighborhoods. Studies of street life such as Random Family, Code of the Streets, and American Project show how these experiences are now internalized in the social and psychological fabric of neighborhood …

The Right Fight, Daniel C. Richman

Faculty Scholarship

Since September 11, two large questions have dominated the discussions of how to prevent terrorist attacks on American soil. First, how do we ensure that the government has the authority it needs to gather, share, and use information about potential terrorist activities? Second, how do we ensure that this authority is not abused? The first question evokes images of"connecting dots" and "eliminating stovepipes." The second raises issues about democratic accountability and the proper balance between individual liberties and national security.

Reforming Three Strikes’ Excesses, Michael Vitiello

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

No abstract provided.

Privacy On The Open Road, Dorothy J. Glancy

Faculty Publications

The discussion begins by describing some of the surveillance techniques and technologies that can affect the privacy of travelers along public roadways. Then the article turns to examine some of the privacy interests of people on the open road. The next part considers some of the many types of legal rights that protect the privacy of people on public roads or highways. The article concludes by addressing the principle that people on the open road have important rights to freedom from intrusions and interferences with their on-the-road activities.

Representing The Juvenile Delinquent: Reform, Social Science, And Teenage Troubles In Postwar Texas, William S. Bush

History Faculty Publications (Archived)

No abstract provided.

International Decision [Availability Of U.S. Courts To Review Decision To Hold U.S. Citizens As Enemy Combatants - Executive Power In War On Terror], David Sloss

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Toward A Definition Of National Minority, John R. Valentine

Denver Journal of International Law & Policy

No abstract provided.

Perspective, Vol. 15, No. 2, Winter 2004, Eastern Washington University. Division Of University Relations.

Alumni Publications

This issue focuses on the diversity of research and disciplines at Eastern Washington University, and research done by faculty and students and the impact that research has on various fields.

Book Review

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Stogner V. California: A Collision Between The Ex Post Facto Clause And California's Interest In Protecting Child Sex Abuse Victims, Ashran Jen

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.

Driver Race, Ethnicity, And Gender And Citizen Reports Of Vehicle Searches By Police And Vehicle Search Hits: Toward A Triangulated Scholarly Understanding, Richard J. Lundman

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology

No abstract provided.