Court orders DNA test over chemical claims

Claims Court at the Crossroads

The Missing Court of Claims Report: Is Letitia Humphreys Court of Claims Report 42?

Between the years 1855 and 1863, the opinions or breportsQ of the United States Court of Claims were delivered to the House of Representatives for final consideration. In total, 296 cases were conveyed, but in the process, Report 42 was lost and, according to indexes of such documents, bnever received by [the] House.Q This article cites examined records of the Court of Claims, from both the Uni...

A Small Claims Court for Pennsylvania

Two of the principal criticisms directed against the present arrangement of our courts are that the costs are too high in controversies involving small sums of money and that the procedure in such cases is too complicated. In many states an effort has been made to remedy these defects by the establishment of special courts, of limited jurisdiction, to hear certain cases of small claims only. To...

Getting into Court: Standing, Political Questions and Climate Tort Claims

Within the time span of 1 month in late 2009, three Federal courts in the USA issued decisions touching on the justiciability of nuisance and other common law tort claims relating to climate change. These cases demonstrate that Massachusetts v. EPA (the US Supreme Court Case involving the question of the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority to regulate greenhouse gases (GHGs) un...

Cryptographic Veriication of Test Coverage Claims

The market for software components is growing, driven on the \demand side" by the need for rapid deployment of highly functional products, and on the \supply side" by distributed object standards. As components and component vendors proliferate, there is naturally a growing concern about quality, and the eeectiveness of testing processes. White box testing, particularly the use of coverage crit...