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Public Utilities And Public Transportation Telephone And Telegraph Service: Revise Provisions Regulating Telemarketing To Residential Telephone Subscribers To Include Telemarketing To Mobile And Wireless Subscribers; Revise Legislative Findings, Definitions, And The Prohibition Of Telephone Solicitation To Certain Subscribers; Revise Provisions Relating To A Database Of Subscribers Who Object To Telephone Solicitations And Fees In Connection Therewith; Provide A Penalty For Unlawful Compilation Or Dissemination Of Information From This Database; Revise Procedures For Persons Making Telephone Solicitations, Derrick Bingham

Georgia State University Law Review

The Act allows mobile or wireless telephone subscribers to add their numbers to the state's no call list, which under certain circumstances prohibits telemarketers from contacting those numbers. The Act also allows the Public Service Commission to set the fee of up to, and including, $5 for placing numbers on the list. Further, it provides the Public Service Commission discretion to establish an appropriate fee for access to the list by persons or businesses wishing to make telephone solicitations. Finally, the Act makes unauthorized disclosure of the information a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $1000.

Motor Vehicles And Traffic General Provisions: Provide For Regulation Of Electric Personal Assistive Mobility Devices, John Giannini

Georgia State University Law Review

The Act, known as the Segway Bill, creates rules of the road for Electric Personal Assistive Mobility Devices (EPAMD or Segway). The Act gives EPAMD riders a hybrid status of rights, including the rights of pedestrians (to operate on sidewalks), bicyclists (to operate on bike lanes), and motorists (to operate on roadways where the speed limit is 35 miles per hour or less). The Act provides for safety regulations, restricts the use of the EPAMDs by children under the age of 16, and provides penalties for violations. The Act allows local authorities to regulate the operation of the EPAMDs, provided …

Penal Institutions General Provisions: Change The Provisions Relating To Registration Requirements Applicable To Certain Sex Offenders; Include Additional Offenses Relating To Victims Who Are Minors; Clarify Language For Annual Registration; Revise Language Referring To Registration While Incarcerated; Provide For Annual Photographs Of Offenders; Provide For Exclusions Of Certain Liability In Certain Circumstances, Jena Tarabula

Georgia State University Law Review

The Act updates the regulation requirements for sex offenders. The Act includes additional offenses that require an individual to register with the state, such as possession of child pornography and conspiracy to transport, ship, receive, or distribute child pornography. Further, the Act requires an offender to register (1) within ten days of his release from prison, (2) if the offender changes his address, and (3) within ten days of the anniversary of the original registration. The Act also requires an offender to be photographed every year. Finally, the Act provides that real estate brokers, and their employers, shall not be …

Revenue And Taxation Cigar, Cigarette, And Loose Tobacco Taxes: Increase Excise Tax Rate On Little Cigars, Cigars, And Cigarettes And Impose Excise Tax On Loose Tobacco, Margaret Clark

Georgia State University Law Review

The Act increases the excise tax on little cigars, cigars, cigarettes and imposes a tax on loose tobacco. The tax on little cigars increases from two mills each to two and one-half mills each. The Act increases the tax on other cigars to 23% of the wholesale cost price, an increase of 10% over the former rate. The Act increases the tax on cigarettes from 12 cents per pack to 37 cents per pack. The Act creates a tax on loose or smokeless tobacco at a rate of 10% of the wholesale cost price. The Act subjects loose tobacco to …

Crimes And Offenses Offenses Against Public Health And Morals: Repeal Prohibition Against Consuming Water On Public Transit, Ronald Griffin

Georgia State University Law Review

The Act repeals the prohibition against consuming bottled water on public transit.

Education Elementary And Secondary Education: Reinstate Fair Dismissal And Due Process Rights For Elementary And Secondary Educators; Provide Monetary Incentives To Exceptional Teachers, Toran Leslie

Georgia State University Law Review

The Act (1) provides elementary and secondary teachers with an incentive to improve students' test scores by offering teachers a 5% bonus for significant increase[s] in test scores and (2) provides fair dismissal rights for educators hired after July 1, 2000.

The Myth Of The Liberal Ninth Circuit, Erwin Chemerinsky

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

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Staton V. Boeing: An Exercise In The Abuse Of Discretion Standard Of Review, Lindsay Gayle Stevenson

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

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Coszalter V. City Of Salem: Just Whistle While You Work - Expanding First Amendment Protection For The Whistleblowing Employee, David Uchida

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review

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Table Of Contents - Issue 6, North Carolina Law Review

North Carolina Law Review

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Local Governments And The Public Duty Doctrine After Wood V. Guilford County, Anita R. Brown-Graham

North Carolina Law Review

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Subjects, North Carolina Law Review

North Carolina Law Review

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The Politics Of Medicare Reform, Jonathan Oberlander

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Medicare And Political Analysis: Omissions, Understandings, And Misunderstandings, Theodore Marmor, Spencer Martin, Jonathan Oberlander

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Modernizing Medicare's Benefit Structure, Marilyn Moon

Washington and Lee Law Review

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What If Technology Never Stops Improving? Medicare's Future Under Continuous Cost Increases, Mark V. Pauly

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Paying For Quality And Doing It Right, Robert A. Berenson

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Beyond Beneficiaries: Using The Medicare Program To Accomplish Broader Public Goals, Dean M. Harris

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Mediating With An 800-Pound Gorilla: Medicare And Adr, Phyllis E. Bernard

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Between The Scalpel And The Lie: Comparing Theories Of Physician Accountability For Misrepresentations Of Experience And Competence, Heyward H. Bouknight, Iii

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Medicare Coverage Decision-Making And Appeal Procedures: Can Process Meet The Challenge Of New Medical Technology?, Eleanor D. Kinney

Washington and Lee Law Review

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Behind The Shield? Law Enforcement Agencies And The Self-Critical Analysis Privilege, Josh Jones

Washington and Lee Law Review

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"The Abuse Of Dominant Position" Under Article 82 Of The Treaty Of The European Community: Impact On Licensing Of Intellectual Property Rights, Aashit Shah

Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property

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Broadening The Scope Of Biotechnology By Disclosing A Scientific Theory, Jeffrey L. Light

Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property

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The European Commission Decision On Standard Contractual Clauses For The Transfer Of Personal Data To Third Countries: An Effective Solution?, Alexander Zinser

Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property

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James Madison, John Witherspoon, And Oliver Cowdery: The First Amendment And The 134th Section Of The Doctrine And Covenants, Rodney K. Smith

BYU Law Review

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The Future Of Medicare, Post Great Society And Post Plus-Choice: Legal And Policy Issues--Foreword, Timothy Stoltzfus Jost

Washington and Lee Law Review

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The Forum, Volume 3, Issue 2 (September 2003), University Of South Carolina School Of Law Students

The Forum Student Newspaper

A Tarheel in the Fatherland, by Thomas O'Sullivan

We Are Not Widgets, by Kathleen Warthen

WE WANT WORDS--Request for Submissions to The Forum

The Dynamic Duo, by Arie D. Bax

I Spade U, by Eric G. Zaiser

The Forum Editorial Board

Letters to the Editors notice

A Democrat's Perspective, by Aaron Polkey

Editor's note

Free T-shirt notice

News Nugs for September, by J. Lu

Law Library Briefs, Roger Williams University School Of Law Library

Law Library Newsletters/Blog

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If Paying For Quality Is Such A Bad Idea, Why Is Everyone For It?, Bruce C. Vladeck

Washington and Lee Law Review

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