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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Case Outcomes"”.
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An Analysis of the Importance of the Treasury Regulations and Other Factors on Section 482 Court Case Outcomes (Transfer Pricing)
… determining Section 482 transfer pricing court case outcomes. The examination included those factors set out in the 1968 Treasury Regulations plus additional factors cited in the literature. All Section 482 cases (22 cases) involving the establishing of an appropriate transfer price for sales of …
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What's the Public Got to Do With It? The Impact of Public Opinion on Judicial Decisions: An Empirical Analysis of Abortion Case Outcomes
… public opinion and state high court judge case decisions. The primary focus is to determine how public opinion influences these decisions when judges are elected. The first paper examines this question broadly looking at all abortion case decisions by elected judges from 1980-2018. The …
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Empirical Studies Of The Effects Of Legal Reforms On The Criminal Justice System In China
… guilty are more likely to receive positive case outcomes regarding pretrial detention and probation decision. The third paper aims to study the effect of a new legal reform – “lawyers for all” – on case outcomes and the quality of legal aid service in the Chinese criminal justice system. …
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Essays on Identity-Based Bias and Discrimination
… influences prosecutorial charging decisions and case outcomes. Prior research has largely focused on same-gender bias among judges, juries, and federal prosecutors. This study extends the analysis to county prosecutors who have broader discretion. Using administrative data with random case …
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DOES AGE DIFFERENCE MATTER?: AN EXAMINATION OF ARREST AND INITIAL CHARGING IN SEXUAL ASSAULT CASES
Due to sexual assault case processing being plagued with attrition, scholars have explored officer and prosecutorial decision making to understand why some sexual assault cases proceed through the criminal-legal system while other cases do not. Despite research examining various factors that …
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The Role of Interpreters in Labour Tribunals
… duties enhance tribunal functions and case outcomes, interpreters typically do not receive formal training for these roles. The study adopted a role theory framework to elucidate the duties and responsibilities assigned to labour tribunal interpreters.
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The Empirical Supreme Court: Analysing the Behavioural Patterns of Judges in the UK’s Highest Court
… to measure judicial behaviour (in terms of both case outcomes as well as reasoning). My work focuses on the UK Supreme Court, using a ten-year dataset of all cases handed down from 2009 to 2019. In particular, I investigate the following questions: • Do judges demonstrate (noteworthy) patterns of …
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International Law In the Supreme Court of the United States: An Empirical Analysis
… attitudinal model is not adequate to explain the outcomes in cases involving foreign policy. Instead, it appears that other considerations, such as the interests of the United States, weigh more heavily on judges.</p> <p>Legal scholars have anecdotally noted a similar trend in cases involving …
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Stereotypes and Perceptions of Child Witness Credibility
… because it has the potential to influence case outcomes. This study investigated beliefs that impact perceptions of child witness credibility in cases of physical abuse. Participants (N = 95) were asked open ended questions inquiring about factors that either contribute to or detract from …
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Outcomes of sexual assault court cases involving people with intellectual disabilities within the Western Cape: the association between conviction of the perpetrator and the complainants level of intellectual functioning
… and conviction rates of sexual offenders in cases involving complainants with ID. There is limited information available about specific factors that predict a court case outcome of sexual abuse cases involving PWID. This correlational study reviewed archival data of alleged survivors of …
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Advanced Ordered Weighted Averaging Methods in Robust Optimization
… min-max regret, focus on minimizing the worst-case outcomes and worst-case regret, respectively, often resulting in highly conservative solutions. To address this limitation, this dissertation investigates the Ordered Weighted Averaging (OWA) operator, which offers a flexible framework for …
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Diagnostic Imaging of Foreign Bodies and Compartmentalization in the Canine Manus
… morbidity, guide surgical planning, and improve case outcomes. The anatomy of the canine manus was evaluated with computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and transverse anatomic sections. Most structures identified on transverse sections were visible on both CT and MRI images. …
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Local trade union responses in the context of public healthcare service privatisation
… research adopts a cross-national comparative case study design to explore national and local dynamics. A total of six cases are compared, with three located in England and three located in France. A multi-method approach is used, combining 31 semi-structured interviews with key informants and …
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The Role of Precedent in Computational Models of Law
… of precedent, lawyers need to consider a body of case law which grows with each court decision. As a result, the complexity and number of documents a lawyer should be familiar with for each new decision increases rapidly over time. Robust models of precedential reasoning could help in mitigating …
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Mixed-Method Analyses of Federal Court Decisions During 1980-2007 Involving Race and Sex Discrimination Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Faculty Tenure Denial Decisions in Higher Education
… present study analyzed published federal court cases decided during the period 1980-2007 involving Title VII, tenure denial, and higher education. This will contribute to understandings of the relationship between federal courts, faculty, and higher education by analyzing the extent of a …
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ANAESTHESIA AND PAIN MANAGEMENT IN COMPANION ANIMALS
… but also a key contributor to successful case outcomes. Although acute and maladaptive chronic pain management is now an established component of therapy, the development of new drugs, analgesic techniques and non-pharmacological modalities makes this a still evolving facet of small …
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The Myth of the Second Amendment
… of judicial behavior fits the Second Amendment cases. While the Court is constrained by doctrine, precedent, and institutional norms, it also operates dynamically, with justices responding to social and political conditions and to legitimacy pressures that influence compliance and enforcement. …