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From:Trial (Vol. 37, Issue 4)Defendants are significantly more likely than plaintiffs to win civil appeals in the federal courts--especially from jury trials--according to a new study linking data from the federal district courts and courts of...
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From:Database (Vol. 17, Issue 1)The Administrative Office's Technology Enhancement Office has developed a number of services, including electronic bulletin boards, to enable remote access to federal court records. The services are ACES (Appellate Court...
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From:Stanford Law Review (Vol. 54, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedOn April 13, 1996, Faye Anastasoff mailed a tax refund claim to the IRS. The deadline for the claim was April 15; Anastasoff believed that by mailing it before the deadline, the claim was valid. Ordinarily, she would...
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From:American Criminal Law Review (Vol. 34, Issue 3)A contingency fee auction for criminal legal representation of indigent defendants on appeal would allocate scarce legal services more efficiently than the blanket right of appeal under Douglas v. California and Anders...
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From:Appraisal Journal (Vol. 73, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDeclining property value was an economic change that was not a basis for valuation of a taxpayer's property, according to the Court of Appeals of North Carolina. The property here is an abandoned furniture plant...
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From:Theoretical Inquiries in Law (Vol. 3, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article takes on the puzzle of why many appellate courts insist on an outright (but simple) majority decision as to the immediate outcome or disposition of a case, while tolerating a plurality decision as to the...
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From:The Quill (Vol. 92, Issue 4)An appeals court panel ruled Feb. 18 that the media should have been given access to jury selection in the Martha Stewart trial. Judge Miriam Goldman Cederbaum was incorrect in dewing the press access to the...
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From:ABA Journal (Vol. 95, Issue 10)THE U.S. SUPREME Court s newest justice, Sonia Sotomayor, is its first Latina and the third woman. But she is also the third New Yorker on the bench. Sotomayor, who was raised in the Bronx, joins Justice Ruth Bader...
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From:Appraisal Journal (Vol. 73, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe portion of a skilled nursing facility utilized by residents who paid for their care was not entitled to a property taxation exemption, according to the Court of Appeals of Iowa. The Evangelical Lutheran Good...
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From:Law and Contemporary Problems (Vol. 84, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedI INTRODUCTION What procedure must a legal system establish to be considered legitimate by the parties before it? How much information must a court collect, and in what way, before rendering a decision? When rendering...
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From:The Quill (Vol. 91, Issue 6)The Department of Defense should consider giving requesters compressed electronic files "business as usual," said the 9th Circuit U.S. Appeals Court panel in San Francisco. The decision reversed a previous ruling by a...
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From:Army LawyerI. Introduction It's official ... well, as good as official. Last year was proclaimed to be "The Year of Jurisdiction." (1) In honor of that proclamation, it is only fitting to address the latest cases defining the...
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From:Constitutional Commentary (Vol. 11, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA contemporary equivalent to the 19th century US Supreme Court bar has developed in the Washington, D.C., bar according to analysis of the cases argued before the Court from the 1977 term through the 1982 term. Over 40%...
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From:Appraisal Journal (Vol. 73, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIf a trial court rejects the valuation testimony of an expert for specified reasons, an appellate court may review the validity of those reasons, according to the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania. Koppel Steel...
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From:Florida Bar Journal (Vol. 90, Issue 1)Since the mid-1990s, advances in technology have transformed the world in which we live. Due to security and confidentiality concerns specific to the legal profession, courts and practitioners alike have been hesitant...
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From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 53, Issue 35)Byline: KATHERINE MANGAN A federal appeals court in Atlanta has ruled that a former vice president at Miami Dade College, who was dismissed after complaining about potentially illegal and unethical behaviors, cannot...
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From:University of Pennsylvania Law Review (Vol. 163, Issue 6)INTRODUCTION Imagine this thought experiment: Strange as it might seem, such a policy shock in fact occurred. In an unprecedented move, (1) the Illinois Supreme Court in the mid-1990s imposed hard caps on the...
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From:Florida Bar Journal (Vol. 80, Issue 8)THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA Supreme Court Building, 500 South Duval Street, Tallahassee 32399-1925 * www.floridasupremecourt.org Chief Justice R. Fred Lewis 850/488-0007 Gail Posey, Judicial Assistant Michelle Ballard,...
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From:Florida Bar Journal (Vol. 79, Issue 8)FIRST DISTRICT STATE OF FLORIDA 301 S. Martin L. King, Jr., Blvd. Tallahassee 32399-1850 www.1dca.org (Comprising the 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 8th, and 14th Circuits) Chief Judge Charles J. Kahn, Jr. 850/487-1000 Caroline...
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From:Communications and the Law (Vol. 21, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedStage performer Karen Finley had an anticlimactic experience in June of 1998 that was similar to earlier misadventures of the New York Times, the Stanford University student newspaper, and Kitty Kat Lounge dancers. Ms....