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Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

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Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law

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June 29, 2007: Hallowed Secularism And Current Approaches To Gnosticism, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

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Supreme Court Of The United States, October Term 2006 Overview, Georgetown University Law Center, Supreme Court Institute, Rupal Doshi

Supreme Court Overviews

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June 28, 2007:Hallowed Secularism And Our Religious Traditions, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

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Summary Of Arata V. Faubion, 123 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 19, Krystallin Hernandez

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

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Summary Of Callie V. Bowling, 123 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 22, Bret Meich

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

The court considered whether a judgment creditor in a domesticated foreign judgment may add a nonparty to a final judgment, under the alter ego doctrine, simply by moving to amend the judgment. The court held that such a procedure violates the due process rights of the nonparty whom the creditor seeks to add. To observe the requisite attributes of due process, a judgment creditor who wishes to assert an alter ego claim must do so in an independent action against the alleged alter ego.

Summary Of Ellis V. Carucci, 123 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 18, Krystallin Hernandez

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

In December 2000, Appellant Melinda Ellis (“Melinda”) and Respondent Roderic Carucci (“Roderic”) divorced. The divorce decree named both parties as joint legal custodians over their daughter, Geena. Further, the decree named Melinda as primary physical custodian with Roderic having liberal visitation rights. In 2004, after noticing a significant decline in Geena’s school performance, Roderic filed a motion with the district court requesting a custody modification. The district court considered the parties’ testimony and Geena’s elementary school teacher’s testimony. Further, the parties stipulated that a family evaluation would be conducted and a report submitted to the court. The evaluator recommended Geena …

Summary Of In The Matter Of Discipline Of Paul Droz, 123 Nev. Adv. Op. 20, Michelle L'Hommedieu

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

Nevada Supreme Court concluded that jurisdiction over Droz was appropriate under Supreme Court Rule 99,2 and affirmed disciplinary action recommended against Utah attorney Paul Droz.

Summary Of Schuster V. Eighth Jud. Dist. Ct., Nev. Adv. Op. No. 23, Sherry Moore

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

Petitioner filed a writ of mandamus or prohibition on the ground that the District Court improperly denied petitioner’s writ of habeas corpus and/or motion to dismiss the indictment based on the State’s improper refusal to instruct the grand jury on the law of self-defense.

Maintaining Competition In Copying: Narrowing The Scope Of Gene Patents, Oskar Liivak

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

In supporting gene patents, the patent office, the courts and other supporters have assumed that gene discoveries are identical to traditional inventions and therefore the patent system should treat them as identical. In other words, they have assumed that the relatively broad claims that are used for traditional inventions are also appropriate for encouraging gene discovery. This article examines this assumption and finds that gene discoveries are critically different from traditional inventions and concludes that the patent system cannot treat them as identical.

As a doctrinal matter, this article applies the generally overlooked constitutional requirements of inventorship and originality and …

June 27, 2007:Hallowed Secularism And Our Religions, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

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Summary Of Valdez V. Employers Insurance Company Of Nevada, 123 Nev. Adv. Op. 21, Matt Lay

Nevada Supreme Court Summaries

Claimant appeals from an order of the Eighth Judicial District Court, State of Nevada, denying a petition for judicial review in a workers’ compensation matter.

Draft Of Fair Use And Face-To-Face Bargaining - 2007, Wendy J. Gordon

Scholarship Chronologically

Alex has a ten-year-old cassette of a favorite movie. Unfortunately, she does not have a video cassette player. She wants to copy the movie onto her iPod. To do this, she borrows a VCR from a friend, runs a cable to a video capture port on my computer, reformats the file into something the iPod can read, and sends the file to the iPod, which she will use to watch the movie in the future. After the file is securely on the iPod, she will delete all records of the movie from my computer. Destroy the original VHS copy seems …

June 22, 2007: Why Secularism Should Embrace Hallowed Secularism, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

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A Gene × Gene Interaction Between Drd2 And Drd4 Is Associated With Conduct Disorder And Antisocial Behavior In Males, Kevin M. Beaver, John Paul Wright, Matt Delisi, Anthony Walsh, Michael G. Vaughn, Danielle Boisvert, Jamie Vaske

Criminal Justice Faculty Publications and Presentations

Background: Antisocial behaviors are complex polygenic phenotypes that are due to a multifactorial arrangement of genetic polymorphisms. Little empirical research, however, has been undertaken that examines gene × gene interactions in the etiology of conduct disorder and antisocial behavior. This study examined whether adolescent conduct disorder and adult antisocial behavior were related to the dopamine D2 receptor polymorphism (DRD2) and the dopamine D4 receptor polymorphism (DRD4).

Methods: A sample of 872 male participants from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) completed self-report questionnaires that tapped adolescent conduct disorder and adult antisocial behavior. DNA was genotyped for DRD2 …

Grounding Frequent Filers: The Trend Of Revoking The Special Status Of Overly Litigious Pro Se Litigants, Michael G. Langan

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

Since the early 1990s, federal courts in the Second and Third Circuits have, with increasing frequency, revoked the special status of pro se civil litigants who have been overly litigious. This article discusses the reasons for this trend’s appearance in the Second and Third Circuits, the rationales for the trend, the fairness of the trend, and some practical advice for courts and practitioners wrestling with the issue of whether or not the special status of a particularly litigious pro se litigant should be revoked.

Court Review: Volume 43, Issue 1 - Complete Issue

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

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Court Review: Volume 43, Issue 1 - Table Of Contents

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

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Recent Criminal Decisions Of The United States Supreme Court: The 2005-2006 Term, Charles Whitebread

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

In this term, as in the previous one, the United States Supreme Court reasserted the rule of law in the context of the detainees in the war on terror. At the same time, however, the addition of two new justices shifted the Court’s ideological balance to the right. In terms of criminal cases, the Court handed down a mixed bag of decisions. It was a bad term for Fourth Amendment claimants with the government prevailing in four of five search-and-seizure cases. Outside the context of the Fourth Amendment, however, criminal defendants fared a little better.
In this article, I review …

Court Review: Volume 43, Issue 1 - President's Column, Steve Leben

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

The American Judges Association is the Voice of the Judiciary.® So says the United States Patent and Trademark Office, which accepted the AJA’s registration of this service mark on the principal register for patents and trademarks on March 27, 2007. This column will seek to answer two questions: What does this mean? And how did it come about?

Court Review: Volume 43, Issue - Editor's Note

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

I’m pleased to announce some long-term changes that I believe will greatly improve Court Review. Alan Tomkins, a law and psychology professor with experience in editing a similar journal, has agreed to join me as coeditor. As you’ll see from a greater description of his background, he brings a great number of valuable contacts throughout both the academic world and the judiciary.

Court Review: Volume 43, Issue 1 - Cover

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

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Testimony On Law Enforcement In Indian Country Before The United States Senate Committee On Indian Affairs, 110th Congress, 1st Session, Kevin Washburn

Faculty Scholarship

Public safety and criminal justice on Indian reservations are better served when Indian tribes play a central role in these functions. Most of the successes of law enforcement in Indian country have involved careful cooperation and coordination between law enforcement agencies of different sovereigns. Even informal cooperation can be highly effective in improving public safety. Lack of cooperation undermines public safety.

Evaluating Court Processes For Determining Indigency, Elizabeth Neeley, Alan J. Tomkins

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

The Sixth Amendment to the Constitution guarantees all people accused of a crime the right to legal counsel. In the landmark 1963 decision Gideon v. Wainright, ¹ the United States Supreme Court affirmed the right of indigent defendants to have counsel provided. But Gideon did not end the Supreme Court’s discussion of the circumstances in which the state is required to provide defendants with an attorney when they claim not to have the means to pay for one. ² Nor did it end the states’ examination of the requirement of any legal assistance paid for by taxpayers. ³ Moreover, …

Court Review: Volume 43, Issue 1 - The Resource Page

Court Review: Journal of the American Judges Association

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June 20, 2007: What Makes Hallowed Secularism, Secular?, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

What Makes Hallowed Secularism, Secular?

Brief Of Appellee Swinomish Indian Tribal Community - Upper Skagit Indian Tribe V. United States, Docket No. 07-35061 (590 F.3d 1020 (9th Cir. 2010))

Upper Skagit Indian Tribe v. United States, Docket No. 07-35061 (590 F.3d 1020 (9th Cir. 2010))

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Transit Orientation Reduces Car Dependency, John R. Nolon, Jessica A. Bacher

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

Urban dwellers emit less greenhouse gases per capita than their suburban or rural counterparts because urban environments are conducive to less automobile travel and require less energy to heat or cool their smaller urban living quarters. This article addresses the need for a more comprehensive transit oriented land use paradigm by taking the reader through a step-by-step approach to accomplishing this goal. The suggested model exemplifies the complexity of amending community planning and the importance of incorporating several different groups of people into the planning process. These groups include municipal, state, and federal governments, research groups, developers, and regional transportation …

June 19, 2007: Hallowed Secularism And Christianity And Judaism, Bruce Ledewitz

Hallowed Secularism

Hallowed Secularism and Christianity and Judaism