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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Civil litigation"”.
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Application of Digital Forensic Science to Electronic Discovery in Civil Litigation
<p>Following changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure in 2006 dealing with the role of Electronically Stored Information, digital forensics is becoming necessary to the discovery process in civil litigation. The development of case law interpreting the rule changes since their enactment …
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Defining the Construct of Malingered PTSD in Civil Litigation: A Confirmatory Factor Analysis
… symptoms is a crucial concern in personal injury litigation and mental health professionals are often faced with the task of identifying falsified or exaggerated presentations. Current recommendations in malingering assessment encourage the use of multiple methods, including both symptom-validity …
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The Parental Choice to be Proactive Knowing the Limited Role of civil Litigation in Cyberbullying
<p>The current laws and policies that specifically address cyberbullying are non-existent or inadequate. K.-12 public school officials presented with the challenge of providing a safe and equal learning opportunity as well as parents who rely heavily on these educational institutions to fulfill …
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Enforcement of the law in the People's Republic of China - with focus on international civil litigation and arbitration
… of China (PRC). The focus lies on international civil litigation and arbitration. For this purpose it is essential to elaborate on the judicial structures and its impact on the enforcement of laws in the PRC. The court system as well as its size and performance, the prosecution system, the lawyer …
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Proximal vs. Distal Predictors of Trauma Symptoms Following a Motor Vehicle Accident
Causation is required to determine liability in litigation, however, the “how” of an existing association may be unclear, yet important as a matter of law. The present study investigated the relationship between historical trauma exposure and trauma symptoms endorsed after a trauma simulation. …
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Assessing Differential Item Functioning Across Clinical and Community Samples in the Miller Forensic Assessment of Symptoms Test
… of forensic evaluations in criminal as well as civil litigation contexts. As such, there is a need for empirically sound measures of malingering to accurately identify individuals who may be feigning symptoms for personal gain. The detection of differential item functioning (DIF) using item …
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Does Corporate Governance Influence Misstatement Disclosure Timeliness?
… end of the misstated period, and greater risk of civil litigation improve misstatement disclosure timeliness, while greater board size and board classification have the opposite effect.</p>
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A Content Analysis of Section 1983 Litigation Against Reserve Police Officers
… risks which generate financially-detrimental civil litigation – particularly regarding 42 U.S.C. §1983. Conversely, though, police studies have given little attention to the often-used but differentially-trained reserve police officer. Primarily replicating the methodologies of Kappeler, …
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The Use of Information Technologies in the European Union’s Special Regulations on Cross-Border Civil Procedure
… Union’s legal framework for cross-border civil litigation. The study focuses on five specific instruments: the European Order for Payment (EOP), the European Small Claims Procedure (ESCP), the Regulation on Service of Documents, the Regulation on Taking of Evidence, and the e-CODEX …
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All the court's cases: a study of Burger court certiorari policy
… have ignored the cases that constitute the total litigational input to the U.S. Supreme Court, some have examined the possibility of a set policy or agenda for gatekeeping,or determination of which cases will be heard. This study is concerned with the methodological implications of gatekeeping …
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Class actions within the field of environmental law
… the environment as a public good. However, civil litigation has some impact on this branch of law as well, either for its direct enforcement or for the redress of environmental and personal damage. With the rise of environmentally concerned individuals as well as associations, and with the …
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Administrative enforcement and criminal and civil decisions regarding trademark counterfeiting in China
… 10-year government data and 1,600 criminal and civil cases over 5 years, this dissertation investigates administrative enforcement, criminal sanctions, and civil protections on trademark counterfeiting in China. In 2013, the trademark law of China revised to include specific calculation methods …
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The Parallel Jury: Describing Its Processes and Procedures and Evaluating Its Effectiveness in Predicting Jury Verdicts
… parallel and actual jury verdict findings in 82 civil litigation trials, in 40 states across the nation. The results revealed the parallel juries’</p> <p>liability findings were predictive in 88% of the cases. An Odds Ratio test confirmed the parallel juries’ liability verdicts were significant …
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Aspetti processuali del Regolamento n. 1/2003/Ce
… in their administrative rules, nor in their civil proceedings, which are all involved in the European antitrust network. Therefore, antitrust proceedings end un as being more jurisdictional in their effects than in their guarentees, which is a flaw to be mended by legislators. National laws …
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Strategic litigation: Legal culture and daily life in sixteenth-century Normandy
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2020-02-28 without embargo terms
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The use and potential problems of neuropsychological evidence in Australian tort litigation
… assess plaintiffs for brain injury tort litigation, but it is unknown why they do this and how they use the expert neuropsychological report. It is crucial to know this because international authors argue that the way lawyers use and manage the neuropsychological evidence they commission …