DIVISIONAL COURT PRECEDENTS

Persuasive Precedents

Stories can be a powerful vehicle of persuasion. We typically use stories to link known events into coherent wholes. One way to establish coherence is to appeal to past examples, real or fictitious. These examples can be chosen and critiqued using legal case-based reasoning (CBR) techniques. In this paper, we apply these techniques to factual stories, assessing a story about the facts using pre...

Design without Precedents

New methods of automating design generation differ greatly from the ways AI researchers have attempted to elicitate and implement design knowledge. The latter tradition is coined by the so called 'knowledge based approaches'. A good example for floor plan design can be found in (Zandi 1992). Using iterative algorithms (e.g. artificial neural networks), this programming work can be relieved, car...

Functional Vs Divisional Structure

Product Leadership: A product has several components, the inner components that craft the product, the external components like sales, marketing, inventory, procurement, customer service etc. The product leadership defines the features and functionalities of the product, the roadmap and timelines of the product delivery & its deployment. Product leadership needs to be very well connected to the...

Informed Consent as a Litigation Strategy in the Field of Aesthetic Surgery: An Analysis Based on Court Precedents

BACKGROUND In an increasing number of lawsuits doctors lose, despite providing preoperative patient education, because of failure to prove informed consent. We analyzed judicial precedents associated with insufficient informed consent to identify judicial factors and trends related to aesthetic surgery medical litigation. METHODS We collected data from civil trials between 1995 and 2015 that ...

Divisional Arrangement for the Federal Appeals Courts