16 research outputs found

    Insurer\u27s Brief in Opposition to 8th Amended Plan

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    BIG DATA и анализ высокого уровня : материалы конференции

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    В сборнике опубликованы результаты научных исследований и разработок в области BIG DATA and Advanced Analytics для оптимизации IT-решений и бизнес-решений, а также тематических исследований в области медицины, образования и экологии

    The Roberts Court and Securities Class Actions: Reaffirming Basic Principles

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    Part II of this Article presents an overview of Roberts Court decisions concerning class litigation...The Article’s primary focus, however, is on a trilogy of Roberts Court decisions concerning class certification in open-market securities fraud cases, where fraudulent statements allegedly manipulated the price of securities traded in the open market: Erica P. John Fund, Inc. v. Halliburton, Co. (“Halliburton I”), Amgen, Inc. v. Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds, and Halliburton Co. v. Erica P. John Fund, Inc. (“Halliburton II”)...Rather than jumping directly into a discussion of the three decisions, which have been extraordinarily good news for investors seeking to prosecute securities-fraud class actions, Part III provides background of the fraud-on-the-market doctrine that Basic embraced, explaining why many thought the decision might be vulnerable to overruling. Part IV discusses Basic in the lower courts and the controversy surrounding empirical evidence generated by efficient markets research that many commentators and courts quite erroneously asserted was the foundation of Basic’s holding. Part V then considers, in turn, the Roberts Court’s trilogy of open-market securities-fraud class-certification decisions. It sets forth how Halliburton I relieved plaintiffs of the burden of proving loss causation to obtain class certification – a requirement that had been a serious stumbling block in the Fifth Circuit. Part VI outlines the favorable impact that Halliburton II has for plaintiffs asserting open-market securities-fraud claims. It explains how Halliburton II (1) overturns existing lower-court decisions employing rigid notions of market efficiency; (2) upends precedents assuming that the market instantaneously incorporates all information; (3) undermines decisions withholding the fraud-on-the-market presumption in cases involving initial public offerings; (4) undermines decisions demanding that plaintiffs produce event studies; and (5) reverses the burdens on the parties in cases involving so-called “confounding factors.” Part VII offers a brief summary and conclusion

    Price Fraud

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    Fictions of law and custom: passing narratives at the fins des siècles

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    This dissertation examines narratives of passing of the nineteenth- and twentieth century fins de siècle. My central thesis is that passing narratives of the 1990s and beyond evidence symmetry between the tropes of passing that occur at plot level and passing strategies surrounding the production of the texts themselves. I argue that the connections between passing and authorship that emerge in contemporary stories invite us to reconsider extant interpretations of earlier passing stories, specifically those published at the turn of the twentieth century. The Introduction challenges the historiography of the passing narrative traced in existing studies of passing. It also suggests the ways in which authorship and passing are inextricably linked via the arbitrary standard of "authenticity," both authorial and racial. In Chapter One, I examine the relationship between the African American body-as-text and the African American author who produces a text in The Bondwoman's Narrative (date unknown), Philip Roth's The Human Stain (2000) and Percival Everett's Erasure (2001). Chapter Two takes the self-reflexive detective genre and traces the changing roles of the passing character within the conventions of the form, from femme fatale to hard-boiled detective. Here, I focus specifically on Pauline Hopkins's Hagar's Daughter (1901-1902), Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress (1990) and Robert Skinner's Wesley Farrell series (1997-2002). In Chapter Three, I examine texts whose protagonists' gender and/or racial ambiguity serve to destabilise analogously the religious categories under interrogation in those texts, namely Hopkins's Winona (1902) and Louise Erdrich's Tracks (1988) and The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (2001). Chapter Four examines tropes of passing in relation to three contemporary novels of adolescence, Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle (1996), Danzy Senna's Caucasia (1998) and Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex (2002). Finally, the Conclusion discusses recent controversies of authorship and authenticity in the U.S., particularly as these pertain to the ambiguous literary category of "memoir.

    Compilation of thesis abstracts, December 2006

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    NPS Class of December 2006This quarter’s Compilation of Abstracts summarizes cutting-edge, security-related research conducted by NPS students and presented as theses, dissertations, and capstone reports. Each expands knowledge in its field.http://archive.org/details/compilationofsis109452750

    Dressing up waiver: a stochastic collocational reading of "the Truth and Reconcilitation Commission (TRC)"

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    Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture: What Becomes a Legend Most

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    While vampire stories have been part of popular culture since the beginning of the nineteenth century, it has been in recent decades that they have become a central part of American culture. Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture looks at how vampire stories—from Bram Stoker’s Dracula to Blacula , from Bela Lugosi’s films to Love at First Bite —have become part of our ongoing debate about what it means to be human. William Patrick Day looks at how writers and filmmakers as diverse as Anne Rice and Andy Warhol present the vampire as an archetype of human identity, as well as how many post-modern vampire stories reflect our fear and attraction to stories of addiction and violence. He argues that contemporary stories use the character of Dracula to explore modern values, and that stories of vampire slayers, such as the popular television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer , integrate current feminist ideas and the image of the Vietnam veteran into a new heroic version of the vampire story. Garyn G. Roberts -- Enthusiasts of the undead will find these reflections on mythology and popular c Finalist for the 2005 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_english_language_and_literature_north_america/1002/thumbnail.jp

    Nova Law Review 24, 2

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