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Showing 1 to 20 of 109 for “"Lawsuits"”.
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Predicting the Results of School Finance Adequacy Lawsuits
All but one state constitution contains an adequacy clause, which holds the state to some minimum standard of education that must be provided. Typically, when citizens allege that a state is violating its constitutional duty to provide an adequate education, the dispute winds up in the courts. This …
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Intimidation lawsuits and the politics of real estate development
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1990.
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Penalties for Foodborne Illness: Jury Decisions and Awards in Foodborne Illness Lawsuits
… payouts in jury settled foodborne illness (FBI) lawsuits. Given the risk to firms in terms of potentially large payouts, future litigation, and lost reputation, the results may provide economic incentives for food firms and others in the supply chain to produce safer and better quality foods. …
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Public Regulation through Private Litigation: The Regulatory Power of Private Lawsuits and the American Bureaucracy
Embedded within the notably constrained American state, how can regulatory agencies ensure that enforcement goals are met? Some analyses suggest that this is not so easily done; rather, constraints on agencies' formal administrative powers are said to threaten their capacity for effective …
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Attempts to Collect: A Quantitative Analysis of Medical Debt Lawsuits Filed in Thurston County in 2020
Medical debt lawsuits against patients are a uniquely American problem. Many researchers have accessed court records of lawsuits to provide meaningful analysis on medical debt; some have used web scraping techniques to collect court data, while others have reviewed thousands of pages of paper …
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"The pen among our people" : strategies of survivance and assimilation resistance in indigenous rhetoric from Indian newspapers, lawsuits, and society journals, 1870-1924
In "The Pen Among Our People," I explore three different strategies that Indigenous peoples utilized from 1870 to 1924 to both ensure their survival and resist systematic oppression. During this period, the malicious transformation of sovereign Indian nations into dependent wards of the United …
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An analysis of lawsuits based on student injuries in public school physical education and athletic programs in the United States from 1980 to 1984
… was to locate, examine, classify and analyze lawsuits based on student injuries due to alleged negligence in public school physical education and athletic programs in the United States during the period of 1980 to 1984. A preliminary investigation of the American Digest System revealed …
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Corporate litigation, corporate governance restructuring, and executive compensation.
… of the sued corporations. A large sample of lawsuits filed against the Standard and Poor’s 1,500 companies during 2000-2007 is employed, comprising environmental violations, securities fraud, antitrust litigation, intellectual property infringements, and contractual disputes. The thesis …
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Essays on corporate finance
… abstracts for each chapter. Chapter 1: Do Patent Lawsuits Cause M&A? An Experiment Using Uncertain Lawsuits I investigate whether there exists a causal relation between result of a patent lawsuit and alleged infringer's subsequent M&A activity. I find that if the court gives an infringement …
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O assédio moral e a precarização das relações de trabalho
… cases of moral harassment as denounced in labor lawsuits by workers claiming compensation for moral damage, under the jurisdiction of the Regional Labor Court of the State of Bahia (Brazil) from 2001 to 2010, a period in which the number of lawsuits rose from one to 989. A database with …
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An Analysis of Pregnant Inmate Shackling Laws and Policies
… laws and policies and a content analysis of the lawsuits involving the shackling of pregnant inmates from 2009 through 2014. There are four areas that will be explored. The first area is to determine the types of shackling laws and policies that currently exist in the states. The second area …
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The Right to Control the Land: Law, Heritage and Self-Determination by Native Hawaiians
… through a series of significant land claim lawsuits. Native Hawaiian struggles for sovereignty are based on the assertion of their heritage rights in lawsuits. This dissertation explores the use of heritage in land claim lawsuits and the role it plays in the construction of a modern …
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Essays in Corporate Governance
… empirically identify the effects of shareholder lawsuits, I use the staggered adoption of universal demand (UD) laws in 23 states between 1989 and 2005. These laws impose a significant obstacle to lawsuits against directors and officers for breach of fiduciary duty. UD laws are associated with …
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The impact of radio frequency identification on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
… information will provide fertile ground for lawsuits against those companies that do not fully implement item level RFID technologies. Policymakers will need to revise and clarify the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in order to avoid these costly lawsuits and to protect the values on which the Act was …
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The quality of disclosure and governance and their effect on litigation risk
… after controlling for the common determinants of lawsuits. In order to avoid subjectively choosing categories, I use principal components analysis to identify the major components of annual report disclosure. When these components are used as regressors to identify causative factors of lawsuits, …
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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
… practices that plaintiffs focus on in bringing lawsuits and those that the courts consider most relevant in deciding cases. Understanding this information can help institutions maximize fairness and minimize their liability exposure when designing tenure processes and making tenure …
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An analysis and comparison of court holdings dealing with tort liability for injuries sustained in public school and higher education programs of physical education, athletics and intramural sports from 1977-1987
… to 1987 there were 92 elementary and secondary lawsuits and 19 college lawsuits involving these professionals, including their supervisors. There were 41 cases involving liability against the boards of education and boards of trustees. The groups were found not liable in 23 of the cases. The …
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Litigation Risk and the Optimism in Long-horizon Management Forecasts of Bad News and Good News
… management forecasts of good news attract lawsuits, truthful rather than optimistic forecasts of bad news are more likely to trigger immediate lawsuits. As a result, managers adjust the optimism in bad and good news forecasts differently to reduce litigation risk. Consistent with my …
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Employment Discrimination and Affirmative Action: Are Affirmative Action Plans Helpful or Hurtful?
… against minorities. In order to avoid lawsuits, many employers implemented affirmative action plans to employ and promote minorities and females. Preferential treatment of minorities under affirmative action plans then resulted in lawsuits by Caucasian males alleging reverse …
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