It seems a little strange that a lawyer who has spent a professional lifetime in correctional law either representing correctional agencies or what might be called the "correctional middle" as a commentator on legal issues in the field, but who has never represented an inmate in a court of law, would be writing about problems lawyers who do represent inmates face in regard to litigating on beha...

Recall from chapter 1 that the Court’s treatment of precedent takes two broad forms, positive interpretation and negative interpretation. First, the Court can interpret a precedent positively by relying on it as legal authority and thus broaden its reach or at least reiterate its continuing legal relevance. When doing so, for example, the Court can indicate that a precedent is controlling or de...

We propose an automatic camera calibration algorithm for court sports. The obtained camera calibration parameters are required for applications that need to convert positions in the video frame to real-world coordinates or vice versa. Our algorithm uses the line markings of the court for calibration and it can be applied to a variety of different sports since the geometric model of the court ca...

People express and amplify political opinions in Microblogs such as Twitter, especially when major political decisions are made. Twitter provides a useful vehicle for capturing and tracking popular opinion on burning issues of the day. In this paper, we focus on tracking the changes in political sentiment related to the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) and its decisions, focusing on the key dimensio...

TRIAL JUDGE: HON. J. N. RANDALL JR. COURT FROM WHICH APPEALED: HARRISON COUNTY CHANCERY COURT ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLANT: RICHARD C. FITZPATRICK T. JACKSON LYONS NANCE FITZPATRICK STEVENS ATTORNEY FOR APPELLEE: MARK LARSON NATURE OF THE CASE: CIVIL DOMESTIC RELATIONS TRIAL COURT DISPOSITION: PRIMARY PHYSICAL CUSTODY OF CHILD TRANSFERRED DISPOSITION: AFFIRMED 10/02/2001 MOTION FOR REHEARING FILED: ...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Coal exploitation technology could have affected the deformation of ground under a housing estate in the Upper Silesia agglomeration. The 10-storey apartment building began to deviate from the vertical. These factors affected the housing conditions of inhabitants in the block of flats. From 1991-2001, coal-mine surveyors monitored the vertical deviation. The inhabita...

This Essay focuses on one aspect of the work of the European Court, that of judicial protection of the individual, an area where it appears that the Court has taken steps towards the creation of a common law for Europe, or ius commune. JUDICIAL PROTECTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL BY THE EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE

Growing public concern about the rise in violent juvenile crime is borne out by increases in the juvenile court's caseload, which rose 23% between 1989 and 1993. The number of cases involving person offenses increased by 52%. Despite the rise in person offenses, the majority of delinquency cases in juvenile court involve property offenses, and less than 10% of the caseload consists of violent o...

In writing The Supreme Court: How It Was, How It Is, William H. Rehnquist becomes the first sitting Chief Justice to author a book that explains the workings of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is not a treatise on constitutional doctrine; rather, it surveys the "borderland between American history and constitutional law" (p. 8). Chief Justice Rehnquist's book succeeds in providing the "int...

This essay surveys the need for a clear and objective definition of medical futility. It is urged that once agreement is obtained for structuring operational guidelines for determining futility, a three-tier decisional structure can be developed for testing whether a given treatment falls within the scope of these guidelines. Under the first tier, the treating physician would be given the prima...