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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"circuit courts"”.
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Structural and Cultural Sources of Variation in Guilty Plea Rates: A Study of Illinois Circuit Courts
… range from .65 to .98 annually across U.S. circuit courts, indicating that the average of .90 is not uniform across jurisdictions. Criminal justice theorists have researched the "causes" of this variation due to concern for whether defendants in court systems with relatively high guilty plea …
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The Role of the Circuit Courts in the Development of Federal Justice and the Shaping of United States Law in the Early Republic: Supreme Court Justices Washington, Livingston, Story, and Thompson on Circuit and on the Court
… in the early Republic, the crucial role of the circuit courts in establishing uniformity of federal law and procedure across the nation has largely been ignored. This thesis seeks to remedy this lack of research on circuit courts by revealing the central role of their presiding Supreme Court …
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An Examination of the Application of the Chevron Doctrine in U.S. District Courts
… (1984). Using cases from the U.S. Ninth District Circuit Courts, from the years 2008 and 2009,1 examine how this case is being used today. Both behavioral models and models made explicitly to study the use of Chevron were used in order to determine not only how a judge cites this case but also …
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Citizenship Education and the First Amendment in Public Schools
… and the socratic method) to analyze federal circuit courts' of appeals cases which dealt with public school students' First Amendment right to speech. Cases were grouped according to the subject matter (underground newspapers, school-sponsored newspapers, textbooks and library books), and the …
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Judicial Enforcers? Exploring Lower Federal Court Compliance in Regulating the Obscene
Although federal circuit and district court judges are placed within a federal hierarchy, and receive legal and judicial training that emphasizes the importance of the judicial framework and its structure, such judges are also subjected to other pressures such as the types of litigants within the …
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Physician-assisted suicide: The courts leave it to the states
… overturned decisions from the Second and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeal. The Court stated these decisions do not prevent a state from enacting legislation approving assisted suicide, but there is no protection of such under the Constitution. This thesis examines the legal reasoning used by the …
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The Role of the U.S. Courts of Appeals in Legal Development: An Empirical Analysis
… of legal development? In recent years courts scholars have begun to address these broad and challenging questions, yet there is still much work to be done. The intermediate level of the federal court system: a.k.a., circuit courts) provides an institutional context replete with …
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Current status of child sexual abuse in Chattanooga, TN as reflected in treatment and legal systems: a view from the experts
… prosecutors in both juvenile and criminal courts, and judges in criminal and circuit courts with prosecutorial and/or defense attorney backgrounds. The combined accounts of these experienced professionals paint a picture of the achievements and challenges of one community in its attempt to …
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The Federal Constitution and Race-Based Admissions Policies in Public Charter Schools
… a detailed analysis of how six different Federal Circuit Courts interpreted Bakke, highlighting numerous recurring judicial themes and concerns. In Chapter IV, existing charter school laws are examined state by state. Chapter V suggests several policy options for those interested in promoting a …
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The Constitutionality of Dress Code and Uniform Policies
… 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 literature and commentary. The second part of the chapter examines empirical evidence on …
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TRIBAL RESERVED RIGHTS ON REGION ONE NATIONAL FORESTS AND GRASSLANDS
… opinions between the federal Ninth and Tenth Circuit Courts ensued, but tribes have been successful in settling three areas of law, which are: 1) tribal members can exercise rights free from state regulation; 2) tribal governments have inherent sovereignty that allows them to regulate their …
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TRIBAL RESERVED RIGHTS ON REGION ONE NATIONAL FORESTS AND GRASSLANDS
… opinions between the federal Ninth and Tenth Circuit Courts ensued, but tribes have been successful in settling three areas of law, which are: 1) tribal members can exercise rights free from state regulation; 2) tribal governments have inherent sovereignty that allows them to regulate their …
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Constitutional origins of the federal judiciary.
… the independence, extent, and power of federal courts. Congress first furnished the federal judiciary with the institutional means to extend its jurisdiction by increasing the number of federal trial courts and establishing a full set of intermediate appellate courts in 1891 to handle the bulk …