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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"district courts"”.
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Placing Federal District Courts in the Judicial Hierarchy
… and Vines: 1967) complained that federal courts have seldom been investigated as a system of interactions," the same problem continues to plague judicial scholarship, particularly concerning federal district courts. Viewed as the sum of its three essays, this dissertation project seeks to …
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An Examination of the Application of the Chevron Doctrine in U.S. District Courts
… Council (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 …
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Presentence detention in U.S. District Courts: the effects of race/ethnicity, gender, and social context
… for fiscal years 2008 to 2010, across 89 U.S. District Courts, including supplemental data drawn from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Federal Judicial Center’s Federal Court Management Statistics. The initial findings indicate that Black and Hispanic defendants are less likely than Whites, and …
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Capital offenses, Non-Capital offenses, and Party Capability: Habeas Corpus Litigation in U.S. District Courts
<p>The principle of habeas corpus is among one of the most fundamental rights of those held in the custody of the U.S. Federal or state governments. While greatly overlooked over the past thirty years, habeas decisions are, in fact, a political process driven by political forces. I invoke …
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Rubber Stamps and Litmus Tests: The President, the Senate, and Judicial Voting Behavior in Abortion Cases in the U.S. Federal District Courts
… abortion cases from all of the U.S. Federal District Courts from 1973-2004. Unlike previous studies, which demonstrate that the president and the home state senators are the best predictors of judicial ideology, I find that the Senate Judiciary Committee at the time of the judge's nomination …
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A case study of North Carolina desegregation issues: influence patterns of federal and state courts and state statutes
… influence patterns among federal and state courts and state statutes. Major Findings: A trend in the United States Supreme Court's decisions from 1954 through 1973 was that the Court continually strengthened requirements for desegregating public school systems. In 1974, the Court broke this …
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Modern-Day Judicial "politics": An Analysis Of Federal District Court Decision Making In Contemporary, Politically Divisive Issue Areas
… rights, and racial and gender equality by U.S. District Courts have illuminated how these lower federal courts are increasingly becoming important policymakers in our political system. However, research to date has only scratched the surface on district court decision making in cases involving …
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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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Domestic Courts and Global Governance: the Politics of Private International Law
… filed more than 100,000 lawsuits in U.S. federal courts asking for adjudication of disputes arising from transnational activity. These lawsuits raise a fundamental question of global governance: Who governs? Should the United States assert its authority to adjudicate a transnational dispute, or …
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A Content Analysis of Section 1983 Litigation Against Reserve Police Officers
… a sample of Section 1983 cases decided by U.S. District Courts over a 16-year period (2001-2016) to determine: (1) if significant liability was generated by reserve officers, (2) the main basis for such claims, (3) the rate of plaintiff success, and (4) the average monetary award granted to …
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An examination of legal representation on plea bargained sentencing outcomes for criminal defendants
… sentencing outcomes, within Kansas state district courts. Specifically, utilizing sentencing data from the Kansas Sentencing Commission spanning fiscal years 2015 to 2019, this study applied logistic regression analysis to investigate the impact of attorney type across three distinct …
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The Fox Guarding the Henhouse: Coregulation and Consumer Protection in Food Safety, 1946 – 2002
… the hen house.” Yet, as late as 2002, U.S. district courts admitted that the term “inspection” in key American food safety laws has never been clearly defined. </p><p>This dissertation critically analyzes these claims by retracing the origins and expansion of federal oversight of the poultry …
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District Court Judges' Perception of Trial Court Administrator Functions in Texas
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Legal foundations for West Virginia school board business management policies
… Virginia boards of education. Since many school districts do not have adequate staff, or funds budgeted to hire such staff or competent legal assistance to participate in the policy-making process, this study serves as a point of departure in the initial policy process. All policies of boards of …
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Perspectives on the ABA Ten Principles of a Public Defense Delivery System Among Texas District and County Court-At-Law Judges
… of this research is to describe the opinions of District and Statutory Judges in Texas’s Third Administrative Judicial Region on the ability of criminal defense providers to comply with the American Bar Association Ten Principles of a Public Defense Delivery System. The Principles constitute the …