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Showing 1 to 20 of 237 for “"Statutes"”.
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State by State : automated alignment and analysis of state statutes
In this work, we explore text alignment with the context of the legal domain and outline several new tasks designed to make comparison and analysis of inhomogenous state statute hierarchies easier. We explore the unique features of the statute hierarchy dataset, apply several baseline text …
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Congressional Statutory Responses to Supreme Court Precedent: Comparing the Breadth and Potency of Statutes Invalidated by the Rehnquist Court and Analogous Statutes Subsequently Repassed by Congress
… whether the U.S. Congress was able to repass new statutes similar to those previously invalidated by the Rehnquist Court (1986-2005). To more fully probe this issue, this study examines how often Congress has responded in such a manner, how successful Congress was in replicating the initial …
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LOCAL IMPLEMENTATION AND INTERPRETATION OF ARIZONA BILINGUAL EDUCATION STATUTES AND POLICIES.
… public school districts with a set of state statutes which placed a limit on the amount bilingual education services a district could provide to students. The existing literature on implementation and compliance suggested that several conditions might influence districts to implement programs …
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Efficacy of Administrative Monetary Penalties in Compelling Compliance with Federal Agri-Food Statutes
… to supplement existing penal measures to enforce statutes brought within its ambit. A historical perspective on the use of criminal sanctions is provided in Part I, touching briefly on strict liability in regulatory prosecutions. The Part also describes decriminalization, and the developments in …
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Interpretation of fiscal statutes by the courts: a South African tax law perspective
… approaches to the interpretation of fiscal statutes. It then ana- lyses whether the advent of the Constitution (The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa of 1996) has brought a paradigm shift from the strict literal approach to the purposive approach. The conclusion reached is that …
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Mandatory Child Abuse Reporting: Behaviors, Attitudes and Beliefs Among Psychologists Regarding Current and Proposed Statutes
… are explored.</p><p>Support for the proposed statutes was analyzed. The support was found to be bi-modal for the participants. This pattern was found for both “Consistent” and “Inconsistent” reporters. Participants' perceptions of the effectiveness of the current and proposed statutes were …
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An Economic and Legal Analysis of Agricultural Preservation Statutes (land-Use, Right to Farm, Property Rights, Zoning)
There is growing public concern that we are losing prime agricultural land at an excessive rate that will ultimately endanger the agricultural production capacity of the nation. Many jurisdictions have enacted programs to slow the rate of farmland conversion. This work examines the extent of the …
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A case study of North Carolina desegregation issues: influence patterns of federal and state courts and state statutes
… state appellate court decisions, and state statutes pertaining to the desegregation of public schools in North Carolina. Sources of Data: The search for cases and statutes pertinent to this study required the use of the National Reporter System, American Digest System, American Law Reports, …
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INTERNAL DEMOCRACY OF POLITICAL PARTIES AND ELECTORAL OUTCOMES: A STUDY OF STATUTES, ELECTORAL DISPUTES AND LEGAL DECISIONS IN NIGERIA (1999-2019)
… of the existing institutions, electoral statutes, and jurisprudence on which IPD in post-independence Nigeria is founded. The study recommends legislative reforms to strengthen IPD based on Nigeria’s peculiar electoral, legislative and judicial experiences. It further recognises the need …
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The Politics of Fear: The Dubious Logic Underlying Sex Offender Registration Statutes - Proposals for Restoring Measures of Judicial Discretion to Sex Offender Management
Existing sex offender management legislation generally represents an emotional response to a few well-publicized incidents involving child-victims. Federal and state legislative initiatives mandating sex offender registration for all defendants convicted of a sexually-oriented offense lack an …
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Takkanot Kandiyah – A collection of legislative statutes as a source for the assessment of laymen’s legal authority in a Jewish community in Venetian Crete
… of Takkanot Kandiyah, a corpus of communal statutes from the Jewish community in Candia, the capital of Venetian Crete. These texts were written between 1228 and 1583 and collected as a coherent work by the Cretan Jewish historian Elijah Capsali. The collection has been used by scholars as a …
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An analysis of expanded Indiana teacher contract rights and administrative procedural responsibilities
The purpose of the study was to analyze Indiana statutes affecting contract rights of public school teachers and to determine documenting procedures a public school administrator performs to challenge a right to a continuing contract.The analysis of current Indiana statutes in effect as of July 1, …
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The Act of Judging in Nigeria: A Matter of Interpretation and Judicial Discretion
… of judicial discretion in the interpretation of statutes. Judging is not static and does not happen in a vacuum. Rather, judging should change over time and respond to context as strict adherence to precedent alone may interfere with the advancement of justice. Therefore, this thesis seeks to …
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The Constitutionality of Dress Code and Uniform Policies
… student's age and grade level? (5) What do state statutes say about dress codes and uniforms? (6) Do state statutes comport with the circuit courts' rulings in the various jurisdictions? The first part of Chapter I examines the purpose of school uniforms as set forth in relevant educational …
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Investigating mothballed brownfield properties : understanding the causes and potential solutions
… property. Even though federal and state statutes were amended to facilitate assessment and cleanup of contaminated property, the specter of the strict liability scheme enshrined in the environmental statutes in the 1980s still haunts corporate owners. Land values are also an important …
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Federal, state, and local government interactions in the administration of wetland protection measures in Virginia
… Because of overlapping jurisdictions of the statutes, Federal, state, and local governments must interact while implementing wetland protection programs. Effective interactions between the various levels of government are important for the preservation and protection of tidal wetlands. If the …
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In Search of the Constitution: How the Constitution Generated the Public Power in South Korea (1963-1979)
… sees it merely as an assemblage of rules and statutes defining its citizens’ status and setting out codes of conduct for the government, or mapping the government’s institutional arrangements. Prevalent in Korean constitutional thought and practice, this view wholly fails to capture what it …
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