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Maryland Practice Materials: A Selective Annotated Bibliography, Adeen Postar, Khelani Clay

Contributions to Books

This chapter is intended to cover Maryland Law in its entire complexity and for the most part is intended for current use by practitioners. Whenever possible, it includes references to online sources of material, including LexisNexis, Westlaw, and authoritative sites available on the Internet. We have not included references to WestlawNext as many Maryland specific materials have not been included there as this project was concluding in November 2011.

Female Hurricanes Are Deadlier Than Male Hurricanes, Madhu Viswanathan

Marketing & Business Law Faculty Works

Do people judge hurricane risks in the context of gender-based expectations? We use more than six decades of death rates from US hurricanes to show that feminine-named hurricanes cause significantly more deaths than do masculine-named hurricanes. Laboratory experiments indicate that this is because hurricane names lead to gender-based expectations about severity and this, in turn, guides respondents’ preparedness to take protective action. This finding indicates an unfortunate and unintended consequence of the gendered naming of hurricanes, with important implications for policymakers, media practitioners, and the general public concerning hurricane communication and preparedness.

What Is And What Should Never Be: Examining The Artificial Circuit "Split" On Citizens Recording Official Police Action, Gregory T. Frohman

Case Western Reserve Law Review

No abstract provided.

Preventing Partisan Commitment: Applying Brady Protection To The Civil Commitment Of Sex Offenders, Tyler Quanbeck

Case Western Reserve Law Review

No abstract provided.

From Craft Brews To Craft Booze: It's Time For Home Distillation, Mark Norris

Case Western Reserve Law Review

No abstract provided.

Federalism In The Financing Of 911 Emergency Call Services: Nature Of The Federal-State Funding Arrangement To Finance Next Generation 911 Services, James E. Holloway, Elaine Seeman, James Kleckley

Journal of Law, Technology, & the Internet

No abstract provided.

Essay: Eight Nails Into Katz's Coffin, Amitai Etzioni

Case Western Reserve Law Review

No abstract provided.

Reflections On An Extraordinary Career: Thoughts About Gerald Caplan's Retirement, Michael Vitiello

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

No abstract provided.

Reforming California Sentencing Practice And Policy: Are We There Yet?, Michael Vitiello

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

No abstract provided.

Charitable Nonprofits’ Use Of Noncompetition Agreements: Having The Best Of Both Worlds, Lindsey D. Blanchard

McGeorge School of Law Scholarly Articles

No abstract provided.

Suspension And Delegation, Amy Coney Barrett

Journal Articles

A suspension of the writ of habeas corpus empowers the President to indefinitely detain those suspected of endangering the public safety. In other words, it works a temporary suspension of civil liberties. Given the gravity of this power, the Suspension Clause narrowly limits the circumstances in which it may be exercised: the writ may be suspended only in cases of "rebellion or invasion" and when "the public Safety may require it. " Congress alone can suspend the writ; the Executive cannot declare himself authorized to detain in violation of civil rights. Despite the traditional emphasis on the importance of exclusive …

Banks, Marijuana, And Federalism Symposium: Marijuana, Federal Power, And The States, Julie Andersen Hill

Articles

Although marijuana is illegal under federal law, twenty-three states have legalized some marijuana use. The state-legal marijuana industry is flourishing, but marijuana-related businesses report diffi- culty accessing banking services. Because financial institutions will not allow marijuana-related businesses to open accounts, the mari- juana industry largely operates on a cash-only basis-a situation that attracts thieves and tax cheats. This Article explores the root of the marijuana banking problem as well as possible solutions. It explains that although the United States' dual banking system comprises both federal- and state- chartered institutions, when it comes to marijuana banking, federal regulation is pervasive and …

Alabama's Mirror: The People's Crusade For Civil Rights Introduction, Steven H. Hobbs

Articles

No abstract provided.

Restructuring The Michigan Child Care Fund: Reducing Costs And Improving Outcomes, David Wingard, Kieran J. Fogarty, Mary Lagerwey, Joshua Scott

Michigan Journal of Public Health

Michigan’s policy to distribute the Child Care Fund (CCF) to counties at a flat rate of 50% as stated in the Michigan Comprehensive Laws 400.117a provides no structured incentive to the counties to use evidence based practices that are cost-effective for locally based delinquent youth intervention programs. This policy analysis answers the following questions: (1) would retaining delinquent youth in the community produce a cost benefit and/or better outcomes than confinement and (2) is public safety at risk if delinquent youth are retained in the community? Utilizing a policy analysis framework our evidence found that community based services provide better …

Liberty And Justice For All: The Violations Of Basic Human Rights In Detention Centers Across The United States, Olga Velez

University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

The Morality Of Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis And Its Relation To Public Policy, Mischael Sachmorov

University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy

No abstract provided.

Municipal Identity As Property, Christopher J. Tyson

Journal Articles

No abstract provided.

Spillover Across Remedies, Michael Coenen

Journal Articles

Remedies influence rights, and rights apply across remedies. Combined together, these two phenomena produce the problem of spillover across remedies. The spillover problem occurs when considerations specific to one remedy affect the definition of a substantive rule that governs in other remedial settings. For example, the severe remedial consequences of suppressing incriminating evidence might generate substantive Fourth Amendment precedents that make other Fourth Amendment remedies (such as damage awards, injunctions, or ex ante denials of search warrants) more difficult to obtain. Or, the rule of lenity might yield a narrowed reading of a statutory rule in a criminal case, which …

Strafford County 2013 Annual Report Of The Commissioners, Treasurer, Other County Officers And The Strafford County Delegation Strafford County, New Hampshire For The Year Ending December 31, 2013., Stafford County Representatives

Strafford County, NH Annual Reports

This is an annual report containing vital statistics for a county in the state of New Hampshire.

Did You Give The Government Your Baby’S Dna? Rethinking Consent In Newborn Screening, Sonia M. Suter

Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology

No abstract provided.

Autonomous Capabilities For Small Unmanned Aerial Systems Conducting Radiological Response: Findings From A High-Fidelity Discovery Experiment, Brittany Duncan, Robin Murphy

School of Computing: Faculty Publications

This article presents a preliminary work domain theory and identifies autonomous vehicle, navigational, and mission capabilities and challenges for small unmanned aerial systems (SUASs) responding to a radiological disaster. Radiological events are representative of applications that involve flying at low altitudes and close proximities to structures. To more formally understand the guidance and control demands, the environment in which the SUAS has to function, and the expected missions, tasks, and strategies to respond to an incident, a discovery experiment was performed in 2013. The experiment placed a radiological source emitting at 10 times background radiation in the simulated collapse of …

Equipment Fragility Due To Shock Response, Christopher Y. Tuan

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering: Faculty Publications

Because of its simplicity, the shock response spectrum has become widely used as a means of describing the shock responses and fragilities of structures and equipment. This paper focuses on the drawbacks of using the shock response spectrum for defining equipment shock tolerance. A cantilever beam with a tip mass was used to model a hypothetical piece of equipment subjected to strong ground motion such as that caused by an explosion. The exact solution from a detailed modal analysis shows that multiple modes of response were excited. Contributions from higher modes can be more predominant than that from the fundamental …

The Integrated Restoration And Protection Strategy Of Usda Forest Service Region 1: A Road Map To Improved Planning, Patrick Bourgeron, Hope Humphries, Chip Fisher, Barry Bollenbacher, Keith Reynolds

United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

Core design components of the Ecosystem Management Decision Support system were used to develop and implement the integrated restoration and protection strategy of the Northern Region of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. Scenarios that spatially optimized hazardous fuel reduction, protected developed recreation values, and improved watershed conditions are presented to illustrate how the evaluation and decision modeling capabilities of the decision support system can be used sequentially in both strategic and tactical planning.

Does Driver Safety Education Have An Impact On Texting While Driving?, Kelli Noble, Duane Young

Graduate Research Projects

In today’s society, Americans are more connected than ever. Gone are the days of pulling to the side of the road in order to find a pay phone to call for help, check in with family or find an address of a business in the yellow pages. All these tasks can now be accomplished while driving down the road. Most Americans have become accustomed to driving with distractions; changing the radio station, eating a snack or carrying on an in car conversation with passengers. Many profess that these distractions can be accomplished while maintaining an awareness of traffic conditions and …

The Media’S Presentation Of The Second Chance Act: Funding For Reentry Following Prison, A Content Analysis, Ailene Joyce Farkac

University Honors Theses

The US prison system has multiplied by four since 1980; each year about 730,000 people enter state and federal prisons and 700,000 people exit. As a result of this expansion, there is a massive increase of formerly incarcerated people reentering local communities every year. Budget cuts in prison programs and in local government’s social services are causing these individuals to be less educated and less prepared for reintegration; communities are also ill prepared to absorb them. The Second Chance Act was signed into law by President Bush on April 9, 2008. It authorized a pool of about $393m (renewed in …

Privacy In Public, Joel R. Reidenberg

Faculty Scholarship

As government and private companies rapidly expand the infrastructure of surveillance from cameras on every street corner to facial recognition for photographs on social media sites, privacy doctrines built on seclusion are at odds with technological advances. This essay addresses a key conceptual problem in US privacy law identified by Justice Sotomayor in U.S. v. Jones and by Justice Scalia in Kyllo v. U.S.; namely that technological capabilities undermine the meaning of the third-party doctrine and the 4th Amendment's ‘reasonable expectation of privacy’ standard. The essay argues that the conceptual problem derives from the evolution of three stages of development …

The Data Surveillance State In Europe And The United States, Joel R. Reidenberg

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

Response To Mental Health Calls: The Frontline Perspectives Of Police Officers, Communicators And Administrators, Sarah C. Dougall

Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to examine the lived experiences of frontline police personnel of a mid-sized police service in Southern Ontario. As the prevalence of mental illness increases, so do the calls for assistance to police services. Police officers often find themselves on the frontline and are often the first responders to mental health calls when an individual is in crisis (Wells & Schafer, 2006). With the majority of current research being quantitative in nature, this qualitative study allowed the voice of frontline police personnel to be heard in order to provide a complete picture of …

Evidence-Based Sentencing And The Scientific Rationalization Of Discrimination, Sonja B. Starr

Articles

This Article critiques, on legal and empirical grounds, the growing trend of basing criminal sentences on actuarial recidivism risk prediction instruments that include demographic and socioeconomic variables. I argue that this practice violates the Equal Protection Clause and is bad policy: an explicit embrace of otherwise- condemned discrimination, sanitized by scientific language. To demonstrate that this practice raises serious constitutional concerns, I comprehensively review the relevant case law, much of which has been ignored by existing literature. To demonstrate that the policy is not justified by countervailing state interests, I review the empirical evidence underlying the instruments. I show that …

Back To Basics: Special Domestic Violence Jurisdiction In The Violence Against Women Reactivation Act Of 2013 And The Expansion Of Inherent Tribal Sovereignty, Laura C. Sayler

Cardozo Law Review de•novo

Part I of this Note outlines the VAWA Reactivation Act of 2013, as well as the case law that it seeks partially to abrogate. Part II.A examines the delegation and inherent sovereignty theories more closely, and argues that inherent tribal sovereignty is the superior mechanism for validating the Act. Parts II.B, II.C, and II.D review the basic textual authority that should form the foundation of the Court’s analysis, and conclude that this authority supports recognition of inherent tribal sovereignty. Part III addresses counter arguments to this approach, and argues that, in upholding sections 904 and 905, the Court need not …