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We Know Who You Are And What You Are Made Of: The Illusion Of Internet Anonymity And Its Impact On Protection From Genetic Discrimination, Christine S. Davik
We Know Who You Are And What You Are Made Of: The Illusion Of Internet Anonymity And Its Impact On Protection From Genetic Discrimination, Christine S. Davik
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Recent advances in technology allow the online activities of Internet users to be monitored, gathered, and recorded without their knowledge. New electronic tools can compile extensive data on exactly what an individual is doing on the Web. This information can then be almost simultaneously cross-referenced with additional data to create detailed dossiers, including the user’s age, zip code, gender, and even health-related issues. While there is a vast amount of consumer information that can easily be accessed, at present there are very few restrictions on how the data amassed can be used. As a result, when consumers go online to …
Voter Ignorance And Judicial Elections, Dmitry Bam
Voter Ignorance And Judicial Elections, Dmitry Bam
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This Article proceeds as follows. Part I begins by offering a brief history and background of judicial elections in the United States, including a description of the two major justifications for judicial elections. The first, made by the original proponents of judicial elections, is that elections would make judges more independent, freeing them to make decisions according to the requirements of the law. I call this the “independence theory of judicial elections.” The second justification, made frequently by defenders of judicial elections, is that judicial elections allow the electorate to hold judges accountable for mistakes, whether intentional or unintentional, as …
Wealth Transfer Tax Planning For 2013 And Beyond, John A. Miller, Jeffrey A. Maine
Wealth Transfer Tax Planning For 2013 And Beyond, John A. Miller, Jeffrey A. Maine
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On January 1, 2013 Congress avoided the tax part of the so called “fiscal cliff” when it passed the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (ATRA). Among its many impacts this law prevented the application of a number of sunset provisions that would have dramatically altered the operation of the federal wealth transfer taxes. Instead Congress made permanent two significant transfer tax provisions introduced as temporary measures in 2010: the indexed basic exclusion amount and the deceased spousal unused exclusion amount. The latter provisions are sometimes referred to as the portability rules. ATRA also introduced a new maximum transfer tax …
Improving The Lives Of Individuals In Financial Distress Using A Randomized Control Trial: A Research And Clinical Approach, Lois R. Lupica, Dalie´ Jimenez, D. James Greiner, Rebecca L. Sandefur
Improving The Lives Of Individuals In Financial Distress Using A Randomized Control Trial: A Research And Clinical Approach, Lois R. Lupica, Dalie´ Jimenez, D. James Greiner, Rebecca L. Sandefur
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This Article describes an ambitious Randomized Control Trial (RCT) in the area of consumer debt collection. Randomized trials are the same kind of evaluation that the law requires (or at least strongly encourages) before new drugs and medical devices may be sold to the public. Although they have not yet gained widespread popularity in the evaluation of legal systems, randomized trials are uniquely effective ways of assessing whether any benefits observed after implementation of legal or educational assistance programs are really due to those programs as compared to other factors, such as unusual levels of competence or motivation of program …
A Bibliography Of Title Ix Of The Education Amendments Of 1972, Christine Iaconeta Dulac
A Bibliography Of Title Ix Of The Education Amendments Of 1972, Christine Iaconeta Dulac
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It has been thirty-five years since the passage of Title IX of the Education Amendment of 1972. Title IX provides that no person shall be excluded from participation in any educational program or activity that receives federal funding. This legislation is credited with bolstering the participation rates of girls and women in athletics. Although athletics are not explicitly addressed in the statutory language, Title IX requires schools to offer male and female students equal opportunities to play sports, to give male and female athletes their fair share of athletic scholarship money, and to treat male and female athletes equally in …