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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Settlement agreement"”.
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The taming of a toothless tiger : INS implementation of the Flores settlement agreement
… children are laid out in Flores v. Reno, a settlement agreement that the agency reached with a number of advocacy groups on behalf of child detainees. The following study is an attempt to assess the treatment that unaccompanied children receive while in the custody of the INS, and to what …
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The enforcement and setting aside of mediation settlement agreements : a comparison between German and international commercial mediation
… steadily over the last centuries. A mediation settlement agreement is supposed to end a dispute. But from time to time it can be the beginning of a new dispute. Parties to the mediation settlement agreement might want to get rid of it meanwhile the other party seeks for enforcement of the …
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Affirmatively furthering fair housing : overcoming barriers to implementation of the Westchester County, NY false claims case settlement
… segregation. The lawsuit ended in an August 2009 settlement that requires Westchester County to spend $51.6 million to build 750 units of affordable housing by 2016 in the 31 municipalities in Westchester with the lowest percentage of minority residents. This case could set a precedent for areas …
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Humanizing the Migration Experience: The Stories and Struggles of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children from the Northern
… in place to protect UICs, such as the Flores Settlement Agreement and the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act. Through a comprehensive review of the literature and data available, the research highlights the need for a more humane and just immigration system …
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Implementation of policy at the local school level: Factors that affect timely completion of the case study evaluation process
… Education Act (P.L. 94-142/IDEA, 1992), the Settlement Agreement (U.S. Department of Education, 1989) between the Office for Civil Rights and the Chicago Board of Education, Title 23 (Ill. Admin. Code tit. 23, S 226, 1990), and the Chicago Public School (1992) guidelines. A questionnaire …
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Public perception: comparing tobacco industry public relations campaigns of today and yesteryear
… of tobacco public relations since the Master Settlement Agreement changed tobacco public relations efforts in 1998.</p> <p>Written history of tobacco industry public relations served as the base of determining perception of yesteryear. Surveying 281 undergraduate Rowan University students …
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Being believed: Life history and the healing journey of Indian Residential School survivors
… component of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement (IRSSA). The study used life history research. A necessary element of life history research is learning about the life of the storyteller, and this study encouraged the Elders/Survivors to tell their stories about their lives …
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The development of commercial mediation in South Africa in view of the experience in Europe, North America and Australia
… The ultimate aim of this process is to reach agreement. In light of this extensive jurisprudence that has developed in this area in othe jurisdictions, careful drafting of agreements can go a long away in avoiding enforcement complications. The conversion of a settlement agreement into a …
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Reporting behaviors of women inmates
… study found that after the Department of Justice settlement agreement made with the Alabama Department of Corrections that mandated changes to be made in the treatment of sexual assault within their facilities, women inmates felt more comfortable reporting abuse; however, reporting was highly …
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White Terror, Canada's Indian Residential Schools, and the Colonial Present: from Law Towards a Pedagogy of Recognition
… Baxter v. Canada. I also examine the 2006 IRS Settlement Agreement and Canada’s 2008 Apology to “former students” of IRS. I show how discursive strategies on the part of Canada, recuperate and perpetuate anew the familiar relation of colonized and colonizer. Canada’s response is thereby …
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The effect of land restitution on protected areas : an analysis of the co-management model in operation at the Mkambati Nature Reserve
… a co-management system as a way of informing the settlement of land claims lodged within protected areas. Through a case study of the Mkambati Nature Reserve (MNR) in the Eastern Cape, this dissertation seeks to critically analyse the co-management conservation model that is in operation in the …
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designing + (dis)assembling disputes: an ethnography of disputes & lawyers in the construction industry
… hand down a judgment, or the parties may reach a settlement agreement, this state is only temporal. Some construction disputes dissipate whist others reach a state of hibernation for a period of time only to pick up momentum and energy some years later. Accordingly, this research suggests that the …
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Groundwater Banking in Imperial Irrigation District: Planning for Future Water Scarcity on the Colorado River
… and ecosystems. As part of the Quantification Settlement Agreement (2003) for reducing reliance on Colorado River, the IID is required to transfer water to urban areas and for ecosystem restoration. The laws that allocate the Colorado River will be described in the Background of this …