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The Federal Courts and Labor Relations Policy, 1936-1954: A Study of Judicial Decision-Making
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The federal wire tapping controversy.
… question of wire tapping was introduced into the federal courts in the Olmstead case of 1920. Here the Supreme Court held such evidence admissible and declared that wire tapping constituted no violation to the rights protected in the Fourth and Fifth Amendments. Congress passed the Federal …
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Supportive housing in the age of market fundamentalism : a human rights-based approach to the provision of supportive housing for mentally ill homeless people
… it is necessary to circumvent resistance from federal courts to affirmative welfare policy. I do this by identifying the state law basis of the right to adequate housing. Once it has been established as a right at the state level, federal attitudes take a different character as federal courts …
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A purposive formalist interpretation of Chapter III of the Australian Constitution
… this thesis is how should the separation of federal judicial power, derived from Chapter III of the Australian Constitution, be interpreted to best achieve the independence and impartiality of federal courts? The interpretation of Chapter III is as hotly debated as it is fundamentally …
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The parameters of student legal responsibility as delineated in or developed from reported federal court decisions rendered between February, 1969, and January, 1983
<p>The purpose of the study was to review federal court decisions regarding student rights and responsibilities decided and reported between the rendering of the United States Supreme Court decision in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District and the end of 1982, in an attempt to …
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Partisanship and Judicial Decision Making in U.S. Courts of Appeal
… voter and Congressional behavior. Members of the federal judiciary should behave similarly. I utilize cases involving the Republican and Democratic parties from 1966 to 1997 and examine the voting behavior of federal Courts of Appeal judges. I utilize both cross tabulations and a Logit regression …
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Il sindacato di legittimità costituzionale sulla misura delle pene detentive: un'indagine comparata The constitutional review of excessive prison terms: a comparative study
… There is also an in depth analysis of lower federal courts' and state courts' proportionality jurisprudence, and a focus on the most significant theoretical perspectives elaborated by U.S. scholars, who strongly criticize the proportionality jurisprudence developed in the Suprem Court …
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Perceptions, Knowledge and Experiences among Police Officers: Traffic Stops, Vehicle Searches and K-9 Involvement
… Finally, the study includes an analysis of how federal courts of appeal and Georgia courts have interpreted the <em>Rodriguez</em> decision.</p>
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Constitutional origins of the federal judiciary.
… in the structure and function of the federal judicial system. In the half-century between 1891 and 1939, the federal judiciary underwent its first complete reorganization since the First Congress passed the Judiciary Act of 1789. The result was rapid growth in the independence, extent, …
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Impact of Litigation Financing Disclosures on Patent Litigation
… of recent disclosure mandates implemented in federal courts. The findings unveil a notable reduction in the volume of cases instigated by Non-Practicing Entities (NPEs) following the mandate, alongside indications of strategic forum shopping aimed at circumventing disclosure requirements. …
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State Super-Maximum Security Policies: An Examination of Admission Characteristics, Classification Reviews, Mental Health Amenities, and Inmate Privileges
… to control the “worst of the worst” inmates. Federal courts and researchers have examined the detrimental effects supermax isolation has on inmates’ mental health. This analysis examines forty-two state supermax policies to determine how states admit inmates to supermax custody, the …
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Do Politics Matter to this Watchdog? The Effects of Ideology on Civil Enforcement at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
… to examine whether the political ideology of the federal courts, as well as the ideology of political principals in Congress and the executive branch, affect the decision making and behavior of an independent U.S. agency. The agency's decision making pertains specifically to the application of its …
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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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Meeting the Demands of Modern Governance: The Administrative Thought of Supreme Court Justice Byron White
… of the modern administrative state by the federal courts and what is White's conception of a constitutionally competent civil servant.
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Judicial Deference to Administrative Statutory Interpretation in the Modern American Administrative State
… centuries is defined by deference by federal courts to administrative agencies. The political science and (especially) legal literatures have long discussed how federal courts defer to agencies, but little attention has been dedicated to how to identify deference and why courts defer. …
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Judicial Deference To Administrative Statutory Interpretation In The Modern American Administrative State
… centuries is defined by deference by federal courts to administrative agencies. The political science and (especially) legal literatures have long discussed how federal courts defer to agencies, but little attention has been dedicated to how to identify deference and why courts defer. …
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Essays in Political Economy
… 3, ``Strategic Opinion-Writing on Appellate Courts,'' describes how and why the partisan composition of quasi-random panels of judges on the U.S. Federal Courts of Appeals affects consensus-building. I describe each chapter in more detail below. The first chapter, ``Persuasion with Ambiguous …
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All the court's cases: a study of Burger court certiorari policy
… relative to the origin of cases in state or federal courts, while civil litigation was found to have greater access to the Court than criminal cases, linked apparently in part to the findings for civil liberties questions. Tax cases received no consistent treatment in the selection process. …
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Placing Federal District Courts in the Judicial Hierarchy
… Richardson 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 …
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Modern-Day Judicial "politics": An Analysis Of Federal District Court Decision Making In Contemporary, Politically Divisive Issue Areas
… 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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