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Physical Ability Testing: A Review of Court Cases 1992-2014
… 2011). The current study sought to analyze court cases involving physical ability testing. Results revealed that pure ability tests did not significantly differ from work sample tests with regard to whether court cases found for the plaintiff or defendant. Additionally, rulings did not …
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Physical Abilities Testing: A Review of Court Cases, 1992-2006
… A total of 22 physical ability testing cases at the Appellate and Supreme Court level were identified to be included as part of a review to examine the outcome of litigation. Of the 22 cases, only 6 cases involved a female plaintiff, while 1 involved a Hispanic plaintiff. There were five …
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An examination of court cases involving immunity in the K-12 setting
… historical, document-based study of legal cases briefed and analyzed to determine the issues, outcomes, and trends involving the various types of immunity defenses used by school personnel. The study involved cases from 1981 to 2010, to ensure validity and relevance. The conclusion of the …
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Confronting the Tree of Life: Three Court Cases in Modern American History
… impact on anthropocentrism, I will examine three court cases from an eighty-year span of American history, where resistance to common descent was especially virulent. Courtrooms provided the nation's leading critics of common descent an arena in which to protest the theory's most egregious …
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A Review of Court Cases Involving Discrimination in Physical Ability Testing: 1992-2015
… to litigation. Various factors influence the court’s decision to rule in favor of the plaintiff or the defendant. The purpose of the present study is to identify those factors. The ADA (1990) created strict guidelines for plaintiffs and defendants to follow to be credible in a discrimination …
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THE SERPENTINE WALL: JUDICIAL DECISION-MAKING IN SUPREME COURT CASES INVOLVING AID TO SECTARIAN SCHOOLS
<p>This dissertation uses the cases involving aid to sectarian schools, decided between 1945 and 1985, as a vehicle for examining decision making by the Supreme Court justices. The discussion of Everson v. Board of Education (1947) relies heavily on the private papers of individual justices, …
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What do abortion policies accomplish? : understanding how abortion laws and court cases affect public opinion
… what effects abortion rights legislation and court cases have had on the public and our society. After analyzing a broad overview of the history of the abortion rights debate in the US, I conduct bivariate and multivariate regression analyses from 1972-2004 using NES and personally-collected …
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Heien v. North Carolina and Significant Interpretive Court Cases: An Empirical Examination of Police Officers’ Perceptions and Knowledge
… to the recent, landmark United States Supreme Court case of <em>Heien v. North Carolina</em>. In <em>Heien</em>, the Court found that objectively reasonable mistakes of law by police can support traffic stops. By doing so, it extends the permissible margin of error for stops by law enforcement …
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The ideological distinctions between sex and race discrimination as found in selected Supreme Court cases and briefs of counsel
… underlying rationales found in selected Supreme Court cases and briefs of counsel justifying or condemning legal classification by sex and legal classification by race. Political strategies have been developed based on the assumption that racism and sexism are analogous. Yet, in recent years, …
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A survey of literature concerning selected United States Supreme Court cases dealing with the integration-segregation problem in American public schools
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The Tension Between Opportunity and Outcome: The University of Michigan's Supreme Court Cases on Affirmative Action and the Implications of Cultural Expectations
… and analyzes reactions to two 2003 Supreme Court cases that examined the University of Michigan's affirmative action admissions policies: Gratz, et al. v. Bollinger, et al. and Grutter et al v. Bollinger, et al. The cases were the first time the Supreme Court had addressed affirmative action …
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Radiation and litigation : analyses of the ALARA principle and low dose radiation in the courts, and the future of radiation in court cases
… data on low dose radiation are treated in the court rooms will be evaluated. A secondary part of the paper will deal with what happens when accidents occur to radiation workers. Specifically, this paper will deal with the accidents at Kerr-McGee, Three Mile Island and SONGS. The thesis will …
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Outcomes of sexual assault court cases involving people with intellectual disabilities within the Western Cape: the association between conviction of the perpetrator and the complainants level of intellectual functioning
… and conviction rates of sexual offenders in cases involving complainants with ID. There is limited information available about specific factors that predict a court case outcome of sexual abuse cases involving PWID. This correlational study reviewed archival data of alleged survivors of …
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The Germans of Roberts Cove, Louisiana: German Rice Cultivation and the Making of a German-American Community in Acadia Parish, 1881-1917
… and the surrounding community in numerous court cases. These court cases, overlooked by previous historians, demonstrate that the Germans of Roberts Cove had begun to assimilate, prior to World War I and the passage of anti-German legislation.
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Organizational Use of Social Networking in Employment Actions
<p>This study examined federal court cases related to the use of social media websites (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn) in various employment practices (e.g., selection, promotion, employee monitoring, layoffs). Court cases were identified using various online databases in an attempt to …
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Policy, Participation and Empowerment: A Case Study of Community Resistance to Shells Seismic Blasting in the Eastern Cape
… has played out in the recent series of related court cases. The methodology employed was a case study design based on the judgments in a series of related court cases (2021 – 2022) between local fisher communities of Dwesa Cebe, Port St. Johns and Kei River mouth in the Eastern Cape, South …
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Towards a legal history of white women in the Transvaal, 1877-1899
… as, especially when it comes to history in court cases, concepts like ‘history as performance’ and ‘occasionalism’ are significant. Of course, an eye must also firmly be held on concepts such as ‘gender’ and ‘deconstruction’, since it dictates how one should approach one’s sources. A history …
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The termination of tenured public school teachers for incompetence
… of this study was to review state and federal court cases from 1982 through February 1998 in which tenured public school teachers were terminated for incompetence. This study provided a current analysis of judicial opinions of teacher incompetence as a follow-up to Shackleford's (1982) study in …
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Cognitive Ability Testing and Selection: A Review of Court Decisions Since 1991
… their relationship to the findings of the courts in cases involving cognitive ability tests. The factors examined were gender of the plaintiff, reason for the lawsuit, workplace setting, group or individual plaintiffs, standardadized versus unstandardized tests, validation of the tests, …
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Title IX Compliance in Virginia High Schools
… Amendments of 1972,p. 7). The number of court cases against colleges and high schools for violating various aspects of Title IX continues to increase. This study looked at court cases involving high school and college athletes claiming violations of Title IX, then six schools were …
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