This research is motivated by how case similarity is assessed in retrospect in law. In the legal domain, when both case facts and court decisions are present, assessing case similarity by taking account of both case facts and court decisions is more intuitive than considering case facts alone. Discovering similar mappings of case facts to court decisions, or similar strategies that courts used ...

Public interest has become increasingly focused on the role of money in politics. Specifically, the Citizens United v. FEC Supreme Court ruling maintained the legality of unrestricted political expenditures by corporate and union entities. As a result, there has been a proliferation of super PAC, or ‘political action committee’, organizations. While these organizations are not permitted to make...

Gloss to the judgement of Polish Supreme Administrative Court February 17, 2016 (case file no. II GSK 151/16, concerning inaction on taking oath from an attorney-at-law) The subject gloss is decision admissibility judicial control over in matter attorney-at-law, which determines effectiveness constitutional personal right a court. content and arguments have impact other procedures necessary ele...

The recent US Supreme Court decision in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. clarified what is considered patentable subject matter. Patent claims limited to the composition of isolated nucleic acid sequences are now considered a product of nature and not patent eligible, while man-made variants of nucleic acid sequences may still be patentable. The decision is consisten...

Two lines of Supreme Court decisions define the extent to which the Constitution protects public employees1 from dismissal for the exercise of their First Amendment rights.2 The first set of cases governs the employees' right to speak on matters of public concern; the second governs their right to political affiliation. However, the Court has not explained the relationship between these two app...

In light of Supreme Court decisions limiting diversity-related admissions processes, a growing body of research has been conducted to ascertain academic benefits that come from cross-racial interactions (CRIs) that can occur only when there is diversity in the student body. The majority of this research has focused on student CRIs that occur outside of the classroom. Few studies have focused on...

The legal issues involved with the application of the United States Supreme Court decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton (1973) are reveiwed, particularly the question of whether an indigent pregnant woman now has the right to abortion on demand at public expense. The 2 decisions, based on the Fourteenth Amendment, established that a woman, in consultation with her physician, must be free...

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...