Second Circuit Holds Racially Based Peremptory Challenges Unconstitutional: McCray v. Abrams, 750 F.2d 1113 (2d Cir. 1984)

The Eighth Circuit Struggles with Strict Tort Liability in Nebraska: Sherrill v. Royal Indus., Inc., 526 F.2d 507 (8th Cir. 1975)

Section 547(c)(1) and Delayed Perfection of Security Interests in the Ninth Circuit: In re Vance, 721 F.2d 259 (9th Cir. 1983)

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

It is without question that “‘[d]etermination of the proper coverage of an insurance contract when the facts are not in dispute is a question of law’”, i.e., a legal determination. Tennant v. Smallwood, 211 W.Va. 703, 568 S.E.2d 10, 13 (2002) (citations omitted). Nevertheless, it is not uncommon for a party seeking coverage in a declaratory judgment action to identify an “expert witness” to tes...

Hand Gesture Recognition from RGB-D Data using 2D and 3D Convolutional Neural Networks: a comparative study

Despite considerable enhances in recognizing hand gestures from still images, there are still many challenges in the classification of hand gestures in videos. The latter comes with more challenges, including higher computational complexity and arduous task of representing temporal features. Hand movement dynamics, represented by temporal features, have to be extracted by analyzing the total fr...

Peremptory Challenges: Lessons from Hernandez v. Texas

INTRODUCTION What insights can a close study of Hernandez v. Texas contribute to current debates about the use of peremptory challenges to strike non-whites from venires? In light of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Thomas Miller-El v. Cockrell, 537 U.S. 322 (2003) and Hernandez v. New York, 111 S.Ct. 1859 (1991), analysis of the defense’s and prosecutor’s lines of reasoning in Hernandez v....