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Supreme court
About: Supreme court is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 41858 publications have been published within this topic receiving 306787 citations. The topic is also known as: court of last resort & highest court of appeal.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on a topic of relatively recent origin-school desegregation and suspensions, and present a study that is concerned with a topic that was brought to national attention with the publication of the National Institute of Education's (NIE's) "Safe School Study Report,"' which documented the extent and some of the causes of school violence.
Abstract: It is more than a quarter century since the Supreme Court handed down the famous Brown v. Board of Education decision. Since that time the issue of school desegregation has remained hotly debated, volatile, and extensively researched. The present study is concerned with a topic of relatively recent origin-school desegregation and suspensions. The quality of the educational environment of our nation's schools has always been of prime importance to many parents. And, of course, many parents feel that a disciplined, safe learning environment is an essential part of quality education. Interest in the safety of our schools was brought to national attention with the publication of the National Institute of Education's (NIE's) "Safe School Study Report,"' which documented the extent, and some of the causes, of school violence. Similarly, our attention became focused on the schools' responses to student misbehavior and perceived misbehavior with such publications as NIE's In-School Alternatives to Suspension2 and the Children's Defense Fund's "School Suspensions: Are They Helping Children?"3 In the last named study, it
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TL;DR: The authors explores the status of U.S. public school educators both queer and non-queer who have historically resided at the intersection of sodomy laws and professional norms including licensure, morality clauses, and professional socialization.
Abstract: This article explores the status of U.S. public school educators both queer and non-queer who have historically resided at the intersection of sodomy laws and professional norms including licensure, morality clauses, and professional socialization. Employing Foucault’s notion of panopticism, the author examines how sodomy laws and professional norms—which are social norms—have historically shaped the work environment of public school educators. Furthermore, this article explores how both queer and non-queer public school administrators have functioned as sexuality and gender police. It also briefly examines the current state of civil rights law at both the state and federal levels regarding queer people. It concludes with a discussion of the recent U.S. Supreme Court case Lawrence v. Texas and the larger issues of the politics of state-sponsored stigma and the politics of social justice for U.S. public schools.
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01 Jan 2000
TL;DR: This abridged edition was created to create a book better suited for schools that have curricular space for only one course, including medical schools and schools of public health.
Abstract: For more than two decades, Health Law: Cases, Materials and Problems has defined the field of health law, providing a balanced overview of law as it affects patients, professionals, institutions, and entities that deliver and finance U.S. health care. The 7th Edition of Health Law comprehensively reviews the provisions of the Affordable Care Act with topics such as the oversight of quality (including the latest developments in patient safety), cost control (including consumer-directed health care), guarantees of adequate access to services, exempt-organization tax issues, transactions and relationships among health care professionals and providers, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), and malpractice litigation. The Supreme Court decision in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius is carefully edited to present all the issues in the case. Written without a policy bias to fairly reflect all viewpoints, the book considers legal and ethical issues involving death, human reproduction, medical treatment decision making, and medical research. It also explores the government's efforts to control costs and expand access through Medicare and Medicaid and examines government attempts to police anticompetitive activities, fraud, and abuse. Using carefully edited primary materials and effective classroom-tested problems, the book exposes students to the core issues in health law using the most recent judicial and statutory materials.
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TL;DR: The authors found that criminal jurors are more supportive of local courts, whereas defendants and those who have participated on either side of a civil case are not, while no media effects are apparent.
Abstract: Although much is known about public attitudes toward the U.S. Supreme Court, there is very lit- tle information about how citizens feel about courts in their own communities. This article hypothesizes that attitudes toward local courts are based primarily on four factors: (a) the actual experiences people have with these courts, (b) the methods by which local judges are selected, (c) the role of the mass media, and (d) various demographic factors. The authors find strong evi- dence that personal experience matters: Criminal jurors are more supportive of local courts, whereas defendants and those who have participated on either side of a civil case are not. Judicial selection methods, on the other hand, have no effect on citizens' attitudes, except among some educated citizens. Finally, no media effects are apparent.
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TL;DR: In 1992, the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari to four cases involving takings issues, each of which could have led to major revisions in takings jurisprudence as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: There was every reason to expect 1992 to be a year of dramatic change in the constitutional law of takings. The United States Supreme Court granted certiorari to four cases involving takings issues, each of which could have led to major revisions in takings jurisprudence. In PFZ Properties, Inc. v. Rodriguez, 1 a Puerto Rican land developer claimed that the government had effectively denied him the right to use his property through its delay and evasiveness in acting on his permit application. The Court could have used Rodriguez to define constitutional limits on anti-development tactics, but instead it dismissed the writ following oral argument.2 General Motors Corp. v. Romein3 involved a regulatory law which upset contractual arrangements between an employer and its employees regarding workers' compensation benefits. While it appeared that the Court might revisit the retroactivity doctrine, instead it affirmed the validity of retroactive economic regulation, just as it has done several times in recent years.4 Retroactivity doctrine is important to takings cases because it potentially limits the application of new regulatory standards to existing contractual relationships such as that of employer and employee. Yee v. City of Escondido5 concerned the validity of a rent control ordinance applied to rentals of mobile home pads.6 The Court
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