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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Federal jurisdiction."”.
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Framing Death: The Use of Frames in Newspaper Coverage of and Press Releases about Death with Dignity
… of physician-assisted suicide falls under the jurisdiction of each individual state. Had the United States Supreme Court ruled differently in a recent case, however, the issue would have transferred to federal jurisdiction. The Death with Dignity National Center (DDNC) takes responsibility for …
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An Exploration of the College-Educated Female Incarceration Experience
… up 7.2% of the prison population under State or Federal jurisdiction, up from 6.7% in 2000. Oklahoma had the highest female incarceration rate in the nation, approximately 129, 000 inmates; followed by Louisiana, which incarcerated 108, 000 female inmates (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2006). The …
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Sustainable development of maritime cultural heritage in the Gulf of Maine
… maritime cultural resources in waters under U.S. federal jurisdiction, implement a regional governance structure based on the tenets of ecosystem-based management to manage and develop these resources effectively, and integrate valuation techniques in environmental and historic preservation …
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Essays On Strategic Choices Over Impaired Water Quality
… success in serving as a hybrid between state and federal jurisdiction: I find no evidence of political cooperation. In my second chapter, co-authored with Felipe Flores Golfin, we evaluate potential benefits of drinking water infrastructure investments in the United States. We first estimate …
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The Fox Guarding the Henhouse: Coregulation and Consumer Protection in Food Safety, 1946 – 2002
… to shift food inspection responsibilities from federal agents to company employees during the 1970s, federal inspectors and consumers denounced these reforms as “the fox guarding the hen house.” Yet, as late as 2002, U.S. district courts admitted that the term “inspection” in key American food …
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Conditions leading to grassroots initiatives for the co-management of subsistence uses of wildlife in Alaska
… authority from the State Board of Game and federal government to village governments, to proposals for the contracting of federal subsistence management responsibilities to tribal groups. This thesis considers regional variations in six factors as possible explanations of the emergence of …
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Essays on corporate finance
… that were appealed to Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC). In this court, decisions are given by majority in randomly assigned 3 judge panels. In a setting that resembles regression discontinuity design, I use only the lawsuits where there was a dissenting judge (i.e, decision was …
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Constitutional origins of the federal judiciary.
… in the structure and function of the federal judicial system. In the half-century between 1891 and 1939, the federal judiciary underwent its first complete reorganization since the First Congress passed the Judiciary Act of 1789. The result was rapid growth in the independence, extent, …