Constitutionality of Rural Zoning

The constitutionality of the Human Life Bill.

On the constitutionality of health care reform.

232 NC Med J May/June 2010, Volume 71, Number 3 On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“Patient Protection Act”), promising that it “will set in motion reforms that generations of Americans have fought for and marched for and hungered to see.”1 Minutes later, 14 state Attorneys General sued to prevent implementation of the Act, arguing...

The constitutionality of the individual mandate.

The constitutionality of mandatory genetic screening statutes.

Developing the Automated Zoning Procedure to Reconcile Incompatible Zoning Systems

This paper concerns the problem of matching incompatible zonal geographies, for example in the context of comparing census outputs over time. The automated zoning procedure (AZP) proposed by Openshaw (1977) is reviewed, and a population stress statistic proposed which may be used in an AZP algorithm in order to maximise the match between two zonal geographies. An implementation of this approach...