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Qalys And Policy Evaluation: A New Perspective, Matthew D. Adler

All Faculty Scholarship

“QALYs” (Quality-Adjusted Life Years) are a metric for health and longevity very widely employed by health researchers. Surveys are used to assign health states a quality ranking on zero-one scale, with zero representing a health state no better than death and one perfect health. The total QALY value of a health profile is calculated as the time spent in its component health states, each weighted by its quality. Until a few years ago, despite the huge academic literature on QALY measurement, this approach was seldom used by policymakers in the U.S. But there have been recent signs of governmental interest …

Appeal No. 0751: Century Well Services V. Division Of Mineral Resources Management, Ohio Oil & Gas Commission

Ohio Oil & Gas Commission Decisions

Chief's Order2005-41

Appeal No. 0752: Randy D. Brown V. Division Of Mineral Resources Management, Ohio Oil & Gas Commission

Ohio Oil & Gas Commission Decisions

Chief's Order 2005-47

Nepa: Lessons Learned And Next Steps: Hearing Before The Task Force On Updating The National Environmental Policy Act Of The H. Comm. On Resources, 109th Cong., Nov. 17, 2005 (Statement Of Professor Robert G. Dreher, Geo. U. L. Center), Robert G. Dreher

Testimony Before Congress

No abstract provided.

D.C. Circuit: Nationwide Permits Are "Final Action", Jonathan Lew

Sea Grant Law Fellow Publications

No abstract provided.

Tradable Pollution Permits And The Regulatory Game, Jason S. Johnston

All Faculty Scholarship

This paper analyzes polluters' incentives to move from a traditional command and control (CAC) environmental regulatory regime to a tradable permits (TPP) regime. Existing work in environmental economics does not model how firms contest and bargain over actual regulatory implementation in CAC regimes, and therefore fail to compare TPP regimes with any CAC regime that is actually observed. This paper models CAC environmental regulation as a bargaining game over pollution entitlements. Using a reduced form model of the regulatory contest, it shows that CAC regulatory bargaining likely generates a regulatory status quo under which firms with the highest compliance costs …

Summary Of Nev. Serv. Employees Union V. Orr, 121 Nev. Adv. Op. 68, Patty L. Roberts

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

This case is an appeal and cross-appeal from a judgment of the Eighth Judicial District Court, Clark County, granting in part and denying in part petitions for judicial review of an administrative decision by the Employee-Management Relations Board.

Petitioner's Observations On Canada's Additional Information, Jeffrey C. Tuomala

Faculty Publications and Presentations

No abstract provided.

Summary Of Amazon.Com V. Dee Dee Magee, 121 Nev. Adv. Op. 63, Debra L. Pieruschka

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

No abstract provided.

Appeal No. 0746: Georgiana Oil Company V. Division Of Mineral Resources Management, Ohio Oil & Gas Commission

Ohio Oil & Gas Commission Decisions

Chief's Orders 2005-07, 2005-08, 2005-09, and 2005-10

Appeal No. 0747: Georgiana Oil Company V. Division Of Mineral Resources Management, Ohio Oil & Gas Commission

Ohio Oil & Gas Commission Decisions

Chief's Orders 2005-07, 2005-08, 2005-09, and 2005-10

Appeal No. 0748: Georgiana Oil Company V. Division Of Mineral Resources Management, Ohio Oil & Gas Commission

Ohio Oil & Gas Commission Decisions

Chief's Orders 2005-07, 2005-08, 2005-09, and 2005-10

Appeal No. 0743: Eastland Energy Group V. Division Of Mineral Resources Management, Ohio Oil & Gas Commission

Ohio Oil & Gas Commission Decisions

Chief's Orders 2004-104 and 2004-104 (corrected)

Appeal No. 0745: Georgiana Oil Company V. Division Of Mineral Resources Management, Ohio Oil & Gas Commission

Ohio Oil & Gas Commission Decisions

Chief's Orders 2005-07, 2005-08, 2005-09, and 2005-10

Appeal No. 0749: Eastland Energy Group V. Division Of Mineral Resources Management, Ohio Oil & Gas Commission

Ohio Oil & Gas Commission Decisions

Chief's Orders 2004-104 and 2004-104 (corrected)

Summary Of Mineral County V. State, Bd. Equalization, 121 Nev. Adv. Op. 55, Patrick Murch

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

Defendant/Appellant Mineral County ("County") appealed from the district court's dismissal of its petitions for review of decisions issued by the Nevada State Board of Equalization ("State Board") under the Nevada Administrative Procedure Act ("APA"), Nevada Revised Statutes ("NRS") Chapter 233B.

Day 3: Friday, 19 August 2005: Habitat Conservation Plans, Susan Linner, Anne Ruggles, Anne Winans

Endangered Species Act Congressional Field Tour (August 17-19)

5 pages (includes illustration).

Contains references.

Day 3: Friday, 19 August 2005: Section 7 Consultation, Susan Linner, Leslie Elwood, Steve Culver

Endangered Species Act Congressional Field Tour (August 17-19)

10 pages (includes color illustrations and map).

Contains references.

Day 3: Friday, 19 August 2005: States And The Esa, Pam Inmann, Tom Norton

Endangered Species Act Congressional Field Tour (August 17-19)

1 page.

Contains references.

Day 2: Thursday, 18 August 2005: Candidate Conservation Agreements And Collaborative Multi-Party Agreements, Al Pfister, Gary Skiba, Tim Lehmann

Endangered Species Act Congressional Field Tour (August 17-19)

8 pages (includes illustrations and maps).

Contains references.

Day 2: Thursday, 18 August 2005: Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program, Bob Muth, Tom Pitts, Dan Luecke

Endangered Species Act Congressional Field Tour (August 17-19)

58 pages (includes illustrations and maps).

Contains references.

Agenda: Endangered Species Act Congressional Field Tour, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center

Endangered Species Act Congressional Field Tour (August 17-19)

The Center sponsored its third annual field tour for staff members of the United States Congress, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, and the Colorado state legislature.

Day 1: Wednesday, 17 August 2005: Introduction, Mark Squillace

Endangered Species Act Congressional Field Tour (August 17-19)

5 pages.

Contains references.

Day 1: Wednesday, 17 August 2005: Biodiversity And Critical Habitat, Charles Bedford, Federico Cheever, Tim Sullivan

Endangered Species Act Congressional Field Tour (August 17-19)

6 pages (includes color illustration).

Contains references.

Day 1: Wednesday, 17 August 2005: Science And The Esa, Joy Nicholopoulos, William Lewis

Endangered Species Act Congressional Field Tour (August 17-19)

43 pages (includes illustrations and map).

Contains references.

Summary Of Weaver V. State, 121 Nev. Adv. Op. 50, Kimberly Lou

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

The DMV revoked Michael Weaver’s driver’s license pursuant to NRS 484.384 when an officer found him intoxicated at the site of his single vehicle accident with a blood alcohol level three times over the legal limit. Weaver alleges that NRS 484.384 violates due process by not allowing the person tested to present evidence that his or her alcohol level is based on alcohol consumed after driving.

7th Annual Open Government Summit: Access To Public Records Act & Open Meetings Act, 2005, Department Of Attorney General, State Of Rhode Island

School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events

No abstract provided.

The Promise And Limits Of Voluntary Management - Based Regulatory Reform: An Analysis Of Epa's Strategic Goals Program, Jason S. Johnston

All Faculty Scholarship

This paper presents a case study of a voluntary environmental program initiated by the U.S. EPA in the late 1990's, the Strategic Goals Program (SGP). This program was intended to create incentives for job shop metal finishers, an industry of small and medium sized enterprises, to improve and even go beyond compliance with existing federal regulations by investing in pollution prevention. The SGP's incentives included direct technical assistance and limited financial assistance, but the primary carrot it offered participants was more flexible regulatory treatment by state and local regulators. Although SGP clearly helped some firms discover ways to both cut …

Judicial Deference In A Post-Deregulation World, Roberta S. Karmel

Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.

The Judge As A Fly On The Wall: Interpretive Lessons From The Positive Political Theory Of Legislation, Daniel B. Rodriguez, Cheryl Boudreau, Arthur Lupia, Mathew Mccubbins

University of San Diego Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series

In the modern debate over statutory interpretation, scholars frequently talk past one another, arguing for one or another interpretive approach on the basis of competing, and frequently undertheorized, conceptions of legislative supremacy and political theory. For example, so-called new textualists insist that the plain meaning approach is compelled by the U.S. Constitution and rule of law values; by contrast, theorists counseling a more dynamic approach often reject the premise of legislative supremacy that is supposed by the textualist view. A key element missing, therefore, from the modern statutory interpretation debate is a conspicuous articulation of the positive and empirical premises …