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Shoreline Changes In Point Pelee, Canada: An Airphoto-Based Analysis, Abdullah Bamasoud

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

Shoreline retreat has significant consequences for Point Pelee National Park’s (PPNP) ecological and economic systems. In this study, the shoreline changes of PPNP are examined in terms of their rates, their relationship to natural and anthropogenic influences, and methods for predicting shoreline positions.

The rates of shoreline change are analyzed for the period 1959-2004 using ortho-airphotos. The eastern shoreline of the Park exhibited varying recession in both rising and falling Lake Erie water level, especially in the Northeast Beach, where it averaged -3.14 m˖y-1. The western shoreline of the Park generally exhibited accretion and had an inverse relationship with Lake …

Genocide In Rwanda : Recurrence Risk Model Using Two Early Warning Models, Clarinda Rae Solberg

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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To Veil Or Not To Veil : That Is Not The Question ; A Comparative Analysis Of The Implicit Assumptions Driving Veiling Discourse, Erin E. Barta

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A Paradigm Shift : An Exploration Of Union Strength In The Public Sector And Its Implications For Organized Labor In The U.S, Renee M. Branshaw

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

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The Constitutional Right Not To Kill, Mark L. Rienzi

Scholarly Articles

Federal and state governments participate in and/or permit a variety of different types of killings. These include military operations, capital punishment, assisted suicide, abortion and self-defense or defense of others. In a pluralistic society, it is no surprise that there will be some members of the population who refuse to participate in some or all of these types of killings. The question of how governments should treat such refusals is older than the Republic itself. Since colonial times, the answer to this question has been driven largely by statutory protections, with the Constitution playing a smaller role, particularly since the …

Clemency In A Time Of Crisis, Cara H. Drinan

Scholarly Articles

At the state level, the power to pardon or commute a criminal sentence — that is, to grant clemency — is vested in either the Governor, an executive clemency board, or some combination thereof. Until very recently, clemency grants were a consistent feature of our criminal justice system. In the last four decades, though, state clemency grants have declined significantly; in some states, clemency seems to have disappeared altogether. In this Article, I contend that executive clemency should be revived at the state level in response to ongoing systemic criminal justice failings. Part I of this Article describes clemency at …

The Future Of Internet-Related Personal Jurisdiction After Goodyear Dunlap Tires V. Brown And J. Mcintyre V. Nicastro, Megan M. La Belle

Scholarly Articles

For the past two decades, courts have struggled with the question of how Internet-related contacts should be treated in the personal jurisdiction analysis. Some courts have utilized the traditional minimum contacts framework of International Shoe v. Washington , while others have devised new tests to accommodate this technological evolution. So when the US Supreme Court granted certiorari in two personal jurisdiction cases last term— Goodyear Dunlap Tires v. Brown and J. McIntyre v. Nicastro — many believed these unsettled questions of Internet related personal jurisdiction would finally be resolved. Disappointingly for litigants, lower courts, and academics, however, Goodyear and McIntyre …

The Missed Opportunity Of United States V. Jones: Commercial Erosion Of Fourth Amendment Protection In A Post Google Earth World, Mary Graw Leary

Scholarly Articles

The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government. These protections, therefore, are only triggered when the government engages is a “search” or “seizure.” For decades, the Court defined “search” as a government examination of an area where one has a “reasonable expectation of privacy.” Such an expectation requires both that the individual demonstrate a subjective expectation of privacy and that the expectation is one society finds reasonable. In 1974, Anthony Amsterdam prophesized the unworkability of this test, warning of a day that the government would circumvent it my merely announcing 24 hour surveillance. Similarly, the …

Identifying Values In Land Use Regulation, Adam J. Macleod

Scholarly Articles

The rules governing the lawfulness of land use decisions are a mess. State enabling acts elide distinguishable and plural objectives of the police powers. Courts — especially state courts — generally fail to distinguish between different types of challenges and different types of land use regulatory actions. As a result, courts typically resort to the deferential position that the Supreme Court adopted in Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co., even where that standard of review is wholly inappropriate.

Meanwhile, the evidence is mounting that local governments often exercise their land use regulatory authority in arbitrary, irrational, and discriminatory …

The Mystery Of Life In The Laboratory Of Democracy: Personal Autonomy In State Law, Adam J. Macleod

Scholarly Articles

Recent controversies, such as enactment of an individual mandate to purchase health insurance and the legalization of assisted suicide in Washington and Montana, have renewed the war over personal autonomy. Debates about the value and limits of personal autonomy also play major roles in the controversies over abortion, same-sex intimacy, and same-sex marriage. On one side of the autonomy war, advocates of unfettered individual freedom assert that by her un-coerced and autonomous choice the individual person determines the value of human goods such as life, health, and marriage. On the other side, proponents of strong government restrictions on personal choice …

Patient Characteristics And Trends In Nontraumatic Dental Condition Visits To Emergency Departments In The United States, Christopher Okunseri, Elaye Okunseri, Joshua M. Thorpe, Qun Xiang, Aniko Szabo

School of Dentistry Faculty Research and Publications

Objective: We examined trends and patient characteristics for non-traumatic dental condition (NTDC) visits to emergency departments (EDs), and compared them to other ED visit types, specifically non-dental ambulatory care sensitive conditions (non-dental ACSCs) and non-ambulatory care sensitive conditions (non-ACSCs) in the United States.

Methods: We analyzed data from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care survey (NHAMCS) for 1997 to 2007. We performed descriptive statistics and used a multivariate multinomial logistic regression to examine the odds of one of the three visit types occurring at an ED. All analyses were adjusted for the survey design.

Results: NTDC visits accounted for 1.4% …

Neumont University V. Little Bizzy Llc, United States District Court For The District Of Nevada

Historical and Topical Legal Documents

Motion to Dismiss

Rudgayzer V. Yahoo, United States District Court For The Northern District Of California

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No abstract provided.

Davis V. Avvo, United States District Court For The Western District Of Washington

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Hoang V. Imdb, United States District Court For The Western District Of Washington

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No abstract provided.

Louis Vuitton V. Hyundai, United States District Court For The Southern District Of New York

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No abstract provided.

Cohen V. Facebook, United States District Court For The Northern District Of California

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No abstract provided.

In Re Facebook Inc. Ppc Advertising Litigation, United States District Court For The Northern District Of California

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No abstract provided.

Keaton V. Hannum, United States District Court For The Southern District Of Indiana

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No abstract provided.

Federal Trade Commission V. Wyndham Hotels, United States District Court For The District Of Arizona

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Amended complaint

Ark Promotions V. Justin.Tv, United States District Court For The Western District Of North Carolina

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No abstract provided.

Hare V. Richie, United States District Court For The District Of Maryland

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No abstract provided.

Faktor V. Yahoo, United States District Court For The Southern District Of New York

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No abstract provided.

American Institute Of Physics V. Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, United States District Court For The District Of Minnesota

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No abstract provided.

David V. Cbs Interactive, United States District Court For The Central District Of California

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No abstract provided.

Devere Group V. Opinion Corp., United States District Court For The Eastern District Of New York

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No abstract provided.

Nieman V. Versuslaw, United States District Court For The Central District Of Illinois

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No abstract provided.

Ark Promotions V. Justin.Tv, United States District Court For The Western District Of North Carolina

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No abstract provided.

Hare V. Richie, United States District Court For The District Of Maryland

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No abstract provided.

Ftc V. Wyndham, United States District Court For The District Of Arizona

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No abstract provided.