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To Conform Or Not To Conform: An Examination Of The Effects Of Mock Jury Deliberation On Individual Jurors, Ashley S. Bowser 2013 East Tennessee State University

To Conform Or Not To Conform: An Examination Of The Effects Of Mock Jury Deliberation On Individual Jurors, Ashley S. Bowser

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The jury method is a unique social setting in the Criminal Justice system that provides opportunity for social influence to occur. Questions about the formation of jurors’ individual and collective decisions have stimulated a great deal of interest and research. This study is a review of the juror decision-making process and the various sources of influence that can affect it. Mock jurors were asked to review a mock criminal trial as well as the testimony of 2 witnesses. Upon reviewing the case, a predeliberation verdict (guilty or not guilty) and the degree of certainty of that decision was made. Once …


Standing's Expected Value, Jonathan Remy Nash 2013 Emory University School of Law

Standing's Expected Value, Jonathan Remy Nash

Michigan Law Review

This Article argues in favor of standing based on expected value of harm. Standing doctrine has been constructed in a way that is oblivious to the idea of expected value. If people have suffered a loss with a positive expected value, they have suffered an "injury in fact." The incorporation of expected value into standing doctrine casts doubt on many of the Supreme Court's decisions in which it denies standing because the relevant injury is too "speculative" or is not "likely" to be redressed by a decree in the plaintiff's favor. This Article addresses this shortcoming in standing jurisprudence by …


Dicta, Schmicta: Theory Versus Practice In Lower Court Decision Making, David Klein, Neal Devins 2013 William & Mary Law School

Dicta, Schmicta: Theory Versus Practice In Lower Court Decision Making, David Klein, Neal Devins

William & Mary Law Review

The distinction between dictum and holding is at once central to the American legal system and largely irrelevant. In the first systematic empirical study of lower court invocations of the distinction, we show that lower courts hardly ever refuse to follow a statement from a higher court because it is dictum. Specifically, federal courts of appeals meaningfully invoke the distinction in about 1 in 4000 cases; federal district courts in about 1 in 2000 cases; and state courts in about 1 in 4000 cases. In this Essay, we report these findings, describe our coding system, and offer a preliminary assessment …


The Federal Circuit As A Federal Court, Paul Gugliuzza 2013 Boston University School of Law

The Federal Circuit As A Federal Court, Paul Gugliuzza

Faculty Scholarship

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has exclusive jurisdiction over patent appeals and, as a consequence, the last word on many legal issues important to innovation policy. This Article shows how the Federal Circuit augments its already significant power by impeding other government institutions from influencing the patent system. Specifically, the Federal Circuit has shaped patent-law doctrine, along with rules of jurisdiction, procedure, and administrative law, to preserve and expand the court’s power in four interinstitutional relationships: the court’s federalism relationship with state courts, its separation of powers relationship with the executive and legislative branches, its vertical …


Women Of Color In The Judiciary: An American Dream, Charles Z. Smith 2013 Pepperdine University

Women Of Color In The Judiciary: An American Dream, Charles Z. Smith

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

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Opening The Floodgates Of Decision-Making At The Missouri Administrative Hearing Commission, Daniel R.E. Jordan 2013 Pepperdine University

Opening The Floodgates Of Decision-Making At The Missouri Administrative Hearing Commission, Daniel R.E. Jordan

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

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Florida's Continuing Experiment With The Central Panel Process: The Division Of Administrative Hearings, William R. Dorsey 2013 Pepperdine University

Florida's Continuing Experiment With The Central Panel Process: The Division Of Administrative Hearings, William R. Dorsey

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

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Administrative Adjudication Total Quality Management: The Only Way To Reduce Costs And Delays Without Sacrificing Due Process, Edwin L. Felter Jr 2013 Pepperdine University

Administrative Adjudication Total Quality Management: The Only Way To Reduce Costs And Delays Without Sacrificing Due Process, Edwin L. Felter Jr

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

No abstract provided.


Marco V. Doherty: Forcing An Agency To Play By Its Own Rules: Administrative Res Judicata, Matt Bove 2013 Pepperdine University

Marco V. Doherty: Forcing An Agency To Play By Its Own Rules: Administrative Res Judicata, Matt Bove

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

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The Many Faces Of High-Volume Administrative Adjudication: Structure, Organization, And Management, Daniel L. Skoler 2013 Pepperdine University

The Many Faces Of High-Volume Administrative Adjudication: Structure, Organization, And Management, Daniel L. Skoler

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

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Administrative Law: Working Together For Professionalization - Administrative Law Judges, The Judiciary, And The Community , Elizabeth B. Lacy 2013 Pepperdine University

Administrative Law: Working Together For Professionalization - Administrative Law Judges, The Judiciary, And The Community , Elizabeth B. Lacy

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

No abstract provided.


Possible Application Of The Rooker-Feldman Doctrine To State Agency Decisions: The Seventh Circuit's Opinion In Van Harken V. City Of Chicago, Rebecca Schmucker 2013 Pepperdine University

Possible Application Of The Rooker-Feldman Doctrine To State Agency Decisions: The Seventh Circuit's Opinion In Van Harken V. City Of Chicago, Rebecca Schmucker

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

No abstract provided.


Res Judicata: California V. Sims, Alan Saltzman 2013 Pepperdine University

Res Judicata: California V. Sims, Alan Saltzman

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

No abstract provided.


Primary Jurisdiction And State Courts: A Modern Proposal For Uniformity, William B. Haseltine 2013 Pepperdine University

Primary Jurisdiction And State Courts: A Modern Proposal For Uniformity, William B. Haseltine

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

No abstract provided.


Managing Your Docket Effectively And Efficiently, Edward J. Schoenbaum 2013 Pepperdine University

Managing Your Docket Effectively And Efficiently, Edward J. Schoenbaum

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

No abstract provided.


The Administrative Procedure Act And The Military Departments, Thomas R. Folk 2013 Pepperdine University

The Administrative Procedure Act And The Military Departments, Thomas R. Folk

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

No abstract provided.


Impeachment In Administrative Cases, Calvin William Sharpe 2013 Pepperdine University

Impeachment In Administrative Cases, Calvin William Sharpe

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

No abstract provided.


Sequestering Witnesses: Does The Practice Interfere With Defendants' Constitutional Rights?, Harold Baer Jr. 2013 Pepperdine University

Sequestering Witnesses: Does The Practice Interfere With Defendants' Constitutional Rights?, Harold Baer Jr.

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

No abstract provided.


Naalj Affiliates With The National Center For The State Courts: Agreement, Margaret Giovanniello, Keith L. Bumsted 2013 Pepperdine University

Naalj Affiliates With The National Center For The State Courts: Agreement, Margaret Giovanniello, Keith L. Bumsted

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

No abstract provided.


Federal Court Interpretation Of Attorney's Fees Provision Of Equal Access To Justice Act As It Applies To Hearings Of The United States Department Of Agriculture: United States Department Of Agriculture V. Lane, Tamara Carnovsky 2013 Pepperdine University

Federal Court Interpretation Of Attorney's Fees Provision Of Equal Access To Justice Act As It Applies To Hearings Of The United States Department Of Agriculture: United States Department Of Agriculture V. Lane, Tamara Carnovsky

Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary

No abstract provided.


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