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The New Dilemma for Civil Procedure (and Other Law School) Teachers
(2017)First year law school civil procedure teachers have always faced dilemmas on classroom coverage. In the past, the chief dilemma, prompted by limited credit hour allocations, involved choices about what and how civil procedure ... -
New Federal Paternity Laws: Securing More Fathers for Children of Unwed Mothers
(2006)Public policy demands that American lawmakers, both federal and state, more vigorously promote the early, accurate, informed, and conclusive designations of fathers in law around the time children are born. There is, in ... -
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The New Method of Regulating Lawyers: Public and Private Interest Sanctions During Civil Litigation for Attorney Misconduct
(1987)The topic of regulating attorney conduct most immediately raises thoughts of disciplinary panels established by court rule or legislative enactment. Such enforcement mechanisms typically are employed to hear alleged ... -
A New Order of Things: St. Louis, Chicago, and the Struggle for Western Commercial Supremacy
(The Confluence, 2011)St. Louis leadership during the Gilded Age was nothing if not confident, even suggesting that the nation's capital be moved to the St. Louis region. -
New Private Privacy Intrusions During Prelitigation Civil Claim Investigations
(2013)In Lawlor v. North American Corporation of Illinois, 2012, IL 112530, the Illinois Supreme Court first recognized the intentional tort of intrusion upon seclusion. It then applied the tort in favor of a former employee ... -
No association between perfluoroalkyl chemicals and hypertension in children
(Dove Medical Press, 2014-01-13)Background Hypertension is a leading cause of cardiovascular disease worldwide. Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) are perfluoroalkyl chemicals (PFCs) used in the manufacture of common ... -
No Genetic Ties, No More Fathers: Voluntary Acknowledgment Recissions and Other Paternity Disestablishments Under Illinois Law
(2006)This paper begins by examining federal paternity standards involving voluntary paternity acknowledgments of children born to unmarried women. These standards are increasingly important as voluntary acknowledgments are now ... -
No Room Left For Doubt: More Relevations about Guantánamo
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No Room Left for Doubt: New Revelation About Guantánamo
(Northern Illinois University College of Law, 2009-03-05)Recent release orders, statements by some military lawyers and judges, and the military’s own admission of detention mistakes all confirm that the only way for the Obama administration to restore our legal system’s legitimacy ... -
Nonparty Insurers in Federal Civil Actions: The Need For New Written Civil Procedure Laws
(2003)Written laws guiding civil actions in the federal district courts chiefly address the presentation, preparation and resolution of claims involving parties. However, the courts often also consider claims involving non-parties ... -
A Novel Phase Variation Mechanism in the Meningococcus Driven by a Ligand-Responsive Repressor and Differential Spacing of Distal Promoter Elements
(PLoS, 2009-12)Phase variable expression, mediated by high frequency reversible changes in the length of simple sequence repeats, facilitates adaptation of bacterial populations to changing environments and is frequently important in ... -
Nucleotide Sequence of Four Ribosomal Protein 127 cDNAs from Growing Axillary Buds of Pea
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Observation of a Narrow Mass State Decaying Into Υ(1S) + γ in pp- Collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV
(American Physical Society, 2012)Using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1:3 fb-1, we observe a narrow mass state decaying into Υ (1S) + γ, where the Υ(1S) meson is detected by its decay into a pair of oppositely charged muons, and the ... -
Observations on Recent Efforts to Deter Frivolous Papers in the Illinois Circuit Courts
(1990)Recently, significant legislative initiatives have been made to deter the filing of frivolous papers in the Illinois Circuit Courts. These initiatives authorize the imposition of sanctions on those who file litigation ... -
Observed effects of horizontal surface temperature variations on the atmosphere over a Mid-west watershed during CASES 97
(American Geophysical Union, 2005-03)The association between 10-km scale horizontal variation of radiometric surface temperature (Ts) and aircraft-derived fluxes of sensible heat (H) and moisture (LE) is the focus of this work. We use aircraft, surface, ... -
The Oddly Perverse Consequences of Mandatory Sentencing Enhancements
(Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, 2013-08-19)In June, the Illinois 2nd District Appellate Court reversed the first-degree murder conviction of defendant Gareng Deng under rather unusual circumstances. Deng, who pleaded guilty to a killing in 2009 in exchange for 35 ... -
Old-Fashioned Pregnancy, Newly-Fashioned Paternity
(2003)This paper explores contemporary American laws on paternity as of the time of the live birth of a child conceived through sexual intercourse. In doing so it necessarily examines the roles of biological ties in all ... -
On behalf of the consequence argument: time, modality, and the nature of free action
(Springer, 2011-09-13)The consequence argument for the incompatibility of free action and determinism has long been under attack, but two important objections have only recently emerged: Warfield’s modal fallacy objection and Campbell’s no ...
