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Showing 1 to 20 of 81 for “"lawsuit"”.
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HYPOTHETICAL CANADIAN CLAIM CONSTRUCTION IN THE RIM LAWSUIT
The purpose of this thesis is (1) to test the hypothesis advanced by Canadian patent litigators that Canadian courts take a broader approach to patent claim construction than their American counterparts, and (2) to comment on a hypothetical patent claim construction for Research in Motion (“RIM”) …
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Finding One's Voice: Predicting Litigation Decision Making in a Class Action Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
… participated in a class-action sexual harassment lawsuit against the company (""litigant"" sample; n = 1,218) or decided not to participate (""non-litigant"" sample; n = 465). Based on logistic regression, three variables were significant predictors of litigation initiation: organizational …
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Perspectives, beliefs, and attitudes on parent engagement at a public middle school two decades after a civil rights lawsuit
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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‘hwonne habbe we ðonne ne gemotad?’; Narrative Strategies in Tenth- and Eleventh-Century English Property Disputes
… draftsmen in the composition of vernacular lawsuit documents. It poses the question: on what authority did late Anglo-Saxon property disputes close or remain closed, arguing that the document that preserved the details of the lawsuit itself formed a key strategy in the pursuit of victory. …
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Predicting the Results of School Finance Adequacy Lawsuits
… led to plaintiffs' victory in an adequacy lawsuit, and also examined whether there was any strategy behind the order in which states experienced an adequacy lawsuit. Qualitative Comparative Analysis, a method deisgned to allow for structured comparison in small- and medium-n studies by …
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"The Government Believes That History Unfolds as History Unfolds" In what ways have consecutive Dutch governments sought to address Dutch violence during Indonesia's independence war of 1945-1949? A study into the approaches applied by Dutch governments over the course of almost seventy years
… Real changes however were enforced through a lawsuit filed by the aforementioned group of victims. These victims won their case, and the ruling established for the first time that the Dutch state had a responsibility towards the group of victims from Indonesia. Did this lead to a change in the …
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Affirmatively furthering fair housing : overcoming barriers to implementation of the Westchester County, NY false claims case settlement
… from racial discrimination and segregation. The lawsuit ended in an August 2009 settlement that requires Westchester County to spend $51.6 million to build 750 units of affordable housing by 2016 in the 31 municipalities in Westchester with the lowest percentage of minority residents. This case …
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Considerações acerca da relativização atípica da coisa julgada no âmbito cível
… may be challenged by autonomous lawsuit called querela nullitatis, derived from technique of balancing values. On the other hand, judicial decisions which do not admit further appeals, but have the vice of legal absence can be overcome by the filing of a new lawsuit with the same …
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The influence of ancient near eastern vassal treaties on the seven prophetic messages in revelation.
… vassal treaties (ANEVT) via the Torah and OT lawsuit material. The influence of the ANEVT on the seven messages of Revelation (SMR) indicates a Hebraic-Semitic influence which has a long history. It starts with the Hittite and Assyrian treaties and is identifiable inthe OT pentateuchal …
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Abbeville v. the State of South Carolina: A Case Study
… the State of South Carolina (2005) is the latest lawsuit in a long line of cases addressing school finance issues that originated with Brown v. the Board of Education (1954), Serrano v. Priest (1971), and the San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriquez (1973). Unlike many of the other …
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The rhetoric of protest in the Supreme Court case of Hansberry v. Lee and Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun
… all-White neighborhood in Chicago. He filed a lawsuit when his family was going to be evicted from the home because the area was covered by a restrictive covenant. Restrictive covenants were agreements signed by property owners in neighborhoods that stated that the property could not be sold or …
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Examining the Impact of Racial Harassment on Sexually Harassed African American Women
… women who were claimants from a class-action lawsuit filed against a large financial institution; all women had been determined to have experienced sexual harassment. Multiple hierarchical linear regressions and dominance analyses were conducted to examine the relative contribution of racial …
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The quality of disclosure and governance and their effect on litigation risk
… controlling for the common determinants of a lawsuit. The second section of the dissertation relates the quality of disclosure in annual reports to litigation. I use a dataset containing annual reports filed electronically with the SEC in the period 1996-2005. Using two content analysis …
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Alasan-alasan pengajuan dispensasi perkawinan: Studi kasus di Kelurahan Blimbing Kecamatan Pacitran Kabupaten Lamongan
… Court, that the request Dispensation marriage lawsuit in 2010 there were 74 lawsuit, then in 2011 there were 87 lawsuit, and then in 2012 increased to 118. This study focuses on the Blimbing Village, District Paciran, Lamongan of which the people perform marriage dispensation to be submitted to …
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Latinas in telecommunications: intersectional experiences in the Bell system
… Company (AT&T). The consent decree settled a lawsuit built on years of discrimination against white women and women and men of color, opening the largest private sector employer to underrepresented people. With this suit and settlement, Latinas began lifelong careers as information workers, …
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A new compensation standard: equal pay for equal worth in Washington State
… The case is reported in two phases, with the lawsuit as pivotal point. During the ten-year policy development period, interest groups, the union, and personnel staffs gathered data. However, the various study recommendations did not culminate in statutory action, so the union filed suit. The …
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Battle of the Bulls: A Coal Conflict in Cattle Country
… feud continues, the ranchers seek a potential lawsuit while the mine insists any environmental impacts will be restored. Now, only time will tell.</p>
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Battle of the Bulls: A Coal Conflict in Cattle Country
… feud continues, the ranchers seek a potential lawsuit while the mine insists any environmental impacts will be restored. Now, only time will tell.</p>
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Sexual harassment jury instructions' effects on jury decisions
… on the jury's verdict in a sexual harassment lawsuit. One hundred and fifty seven participants (82 males, 74 females and 1 unidentified), ages ranging from 16 to 90, (M= 22.74) were randomly divided into juries (7 reasonable woman, 8 reasonable person, and 9 reasonable worker). Participants …
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Cognitive Ability Testing and Selection: A Review of Court Decisions Since 1991
… were gender of the plaintiff, reason for the lawsuit, workplace setting, group or individual plaintiffs, standardadized versus unstandardized tests, validation of the tests, development in-house or by a consultant, other test involvement, jury versus summary judgment, and the verdict of the …
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