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Supreme Court Decisions

About: Supreme Court Decisions is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1804 publications have been published within this topic receiving 17066 citations.


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TL;DR: The authors used both high dimensional fixed effects and regression discontinuity designs to demonstrate that firms constrained by campaign contribution limits spend between $549,000 and $1.6 million more on lobbying per election cycle, an amount that is more than 100 times the campaign contribution limit.
Abstract: Populist clamor and recent Supreme Court decisions have renewed calls for increased regulation of corporate money in politics. Few empirical estimates exist, however, on the implications of existing rules on firms' political spending. Exploiting within firm-cycle cross-candidate variation and across firm-cycle variation, we demonstrate that the regulation of PAC campaign contributions generates large spillovers into other corporate political expenditures such as lobbying. Using both high dimensional fixed effects and regression discontinuity designs, we demonstrate that firms constrained by campaign contribution limits spend between $549,000 and $1.6M more on lobbying per election cycle, an amount that is more than 100 times the campaign contribution limit. This empirical results demonstrate that, similar to regulations in other domains of the economy, constraining specific corporate political activities often yields unintended effects.

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TL;DR: In this article, a content analysis of 107 federal court cases involving American Indian tribal sovereignty and federal pleary power rendered between 1870 and 1921 is presented, focusing on the U.S. Supreme Court's Indian Law jurisprudence.
Abstract: This article is a content analysis examination of 107 federal court cases involving American Indian tribal sovereignty and federal pleary power rendered between 1870 and 1921. Our focus, however, is the U.S. Supreme Court's Indian Law jurisprudence; thus ninety of the cases analyzed were Supreme Court opinions. The cases seemingly entail two separate braces of opinions. One brace included decisions which affirmed tribal sovereignty. The other brace entailed cases which negatively affected tribal sovereignty. These negative decisions generally relied on doctrines such as plenary power, the political question doctrine, or the so- called “guardian-ward” relationship. We argue that the Supreme Court, as a partner in the ruling national alliance, generally deferred to the legislative branches during this critical historical era, Indian treaties and extra- constitutional rights notwithstanding. In seeking to explain the two separate, though not unrelated sets of opinions, we focus on the Court's role in formulating public policy towards American Indian tribes in four major issue areas: congressional power, criminal law, allotment and membership, and natural resources. And we attempt to explain how and why the Court's perception of these issues were transformed over time and how these changes affected tribal sovereign rights. Finally, we develop a synthetic, abstract model of judicial decision-making which provides some explanatory power regarding why the Court decides Indian related issues the way it does.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the unintended consequences of an organization's decision to outsource investigations of sexual harassment following a claim of wrongdoing are examined, and advice on managing the investigative process is given.
Abstract: This article examines the unintended consequences of an organization’s decision to outsource investigations of sexual harassment following a claim of wrongdoing. United States Supreme Court decisions have affirmed an employer’s “vicarious liability” for failing to take reasonable care to prevent or correct promptly sexually harassing behavior. Organizations not possessing in-house expertise to conduct such investigations will likely seek expert assistance from knowledgeable and experienced attorneys or private investigators from outside the firm. According to a recent ruling by Federal Trade Commission staff, such externally conducted investigations fall under the provisions of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, thus placing additional compliance burdens on firms attempting to rid the workplace of gender-based discrimination. This article reviews these developments, offers advice on managing the investigative process, and suggests ways in which business might lobby for changes in public policy to ease this newest burden. After sexual harassment took center stage during the 1991 confirmation hearings of Clarence Thomas as associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, the number of harassment charges filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) rose substantially. Concomitantly, lawsuits claiming violations of federal and state sexual harassment laws became commonplace. The growth of harassment filings has increased liability risks for all organizations, 123

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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202311
202221
202118
202026
201938
201832