Curtis Rooney's article reviews the ERISA law and it relationship to managed care. The piece continues with a review of the relevant preremption provisions and a extentivsive discussion of related U.S. Supreme Court decisions. The author discusses malpractice and design liabilities. The article concludes with a discussion of reform initiatives directed toward the ERISA preemption and damage pro...

The debate over same-sex marriage in the U.S. is taking place in the legal sphere in the court system as well as in the public sphere leading up to various state ballot initiatives. In an earlier project, I analyzed the differences in argumentation in the technical and public spheres in 2008 concerning Proposition 8 in California (Schiappa 2012). My colleagues and I found that the norms and pra...

Eyewitnesses’ retrospective reports of certainty, view, attention, and other judgments constitute central variables used by courts to assess the credibility of eyewitness identification evidence. Recently, important state Supreme Court decisions (e.g., New Jersey v. Henderson, 2011; Oregon v. Lawson, 2012) have relied on psychological research regarding the post-identification feedback effect t...

Changes in the eligibility criteria for a survivor's benefit under the Social Security program resulted from a 1977 Supreme Court decision in the case of Califano v. Goldfarb. The Court ruled that legislation that required only men to prove past financial dependence on a deceased spouse in order to establish eligibility to a survivor's benefit violated equal protection guarantees in the Constit...

business related decisions become more perplexing as societies advance. environmental ambiguities which stem from new business models intensify the above mentioned complexity so far as many of the affecting variables and their interrelationships are non linear and complicated. in this circumstances data analysis and knowledge extraction is not practical via traditional methods. this research co...

In this study, machinability tests on Assab Korkmaz Orvar Supreme (1.2344 ESR, AISI H13 Premium) hot work tool steel widely used in industry were carried out. Machinability tests were carried out through single point turning method at eight different cutting speeds (120, 160, 200, 240, 280, 320, 360 ve 400 m/dak), four different feed rates (0,05; 0,10; 0,15 and 0,20 mm/min) and 1 mm depth of cu...

A key explanatory variable in many scientific accounts of the U.S. Supreme Court is the preferred policy position (or ideal point) of each justice. In this paper we measure the ideal points of each justice serving from 1937 to 2000 using a measurement model derived from a simple, uni-dimensional spatial model of votes on the merits. The measures we obtain are dynamic, in that justices’ ideal po...

At the intersection of behavioral and institutional studies of policy-making lie a series of questions about how elite choices affect mass public opinion. Scholars have considered how judicial decisions—especially US Supreme Court decisions—affect individuals’ support for specific policy positions. These studies yield a series of competing findings. Whereas past research uses opinion surveys to...

This paper describes TORUS, a natural language understanding system which serves as a front end to a data base management system in order to facilitate communication with a casual user. The system uses a semantic network for "understanding" each input statement and for deciding what information to output in response. The semantic network stores general knowledge about the problem domain, in thi...

Experiencing ubiquitous contention, the correlation between execution as a form of legal punishment and morality pervades in the modern era to form a central concern for examination. Competing accounts of moral theories have provided dichotomous vindications for capital punishment, indicating a substantial strife in criminal justice morality. This thesis will examine these rival philosophies in...