Ruling handed down on Texaco appeal.

Two-step fantastic: the continuing case of Brother Fox.

This article is a sequel to the note by Richard A. McCormick, S.J., and Robert Veatch on the Eichner case. They commented on the decision of Justice Robert Meade on December 6,1979. That decision was appealed, and on March 27, 1980, the Supreme Court, Nassau County, handed down its opinion. McCormick/Veatch agree with the ruling of the trial court but not with its reasoning. Judge Meade refused...

An appeal to humanity: legal victory in favour of North America's only supervised injection facility: Insite

Canada's federal government has once again failed to shut North America's only authorized supervised injection facility: Insite. A majority ruling issued by the BC Court of Appeal on 15 January 2010 upheld an earlier British Columbia Supreme Court ruling in 2008 that protected the rights of injection drug users (IDUs) to access Insite as a health facility as per the Charter of Rights and Freedo...

A Plea for a Statute

The well-known tendency of the lawyer engaged in the drafting of conveyances is to adhere as closely as possible to the beaten paths; to follow the forms handed down from the fathers; to view with suspicion and close scrutiny any departure therefrom, and to insert new clauses and covenants only when convinced that they are demanded by the necessities engendered by tonditions and enterprises unk...

BHF 'upset but undeterred' by Appeal Court ruling.

A Self-Government Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm and Its Application in Texaco Gasification

In this paper, a self-government particle swarm optimizer (SGPSO) is proposed to improve the performance of original PSO, in which particle updating depends on local best information searched at anterior runs as well as individual history best and global best at present. To evaluate the novel algorithm, some benchmark functions are employed in comparison with PSO. Experimental results show that...