State v. Brown: A Test for Local Food Ordinances

For many of us, adding a little milk to our morning coffee is likely one of the more insignificant tasks of the day. For Dan Brown of Blue Hill, Maine, that splash of dairy in his coffee mug is the result of his personal labor and constant, meticulous attention paid to the health and well-being of a single 1,000 pound mammal. Besides fresh raw milk, what does Brown gain from his efforts? He knows the exact source of the milk he puts in his coffee, as well as the butter his daughter spreads on her toast: Sprocket, Brown’s sole dairy cow. However, Sprocket has garnered Brown some wanted attention recently, earning her a new moniker: “Troublemaker.” Whatever dairy Sprocket produces that does not end up in Brown’s family’s coffee or cereal, Dan Brown offers for sale directly from his farm, Gravelwood Farm, or at local farmers’ markets in towns of Blue Hill and nearby Ellsworth. These sales, “which net Brown roughly $8, gained the attention of the Maine Department of Agriculture (“the Department”). The Department, noting that Brown was not properly licensed as either a milk distributor or food establishment, advised him that he was not in compliance with state law and demanded that he cease the sale of all food products until he complied with licensing requirements, or otherwise face legal action. Furthermore, having previously taken samples from Brown’s raw whole milk, butter, and cottage cheese, the Department claimed that his dairy products “failed to meet established standards for quality and safety,” and that Brown was “exposing consumers to serious health risks.” Despite these demands and threats of legal action, Brown continued to sell his food products without a Department license recognizing him as an authorized distributor or food establishment

Personal Jurisdiction in the Data Age: MacDermid v. Deiter\u27s Adaptation of International Shoe Amidst Supreme Court Uncertainty

In MacDermid, Inc. v. Deiter, the Second Circuit held that a Connecticut court may exercise personal jurisdiction over a defendant who allegedly used a computer in Canada to remotely access a computer server located in Connecticut in order to misappropriate proprietary, confidential electronic information belonging to a Connecticut corporation. This Note argues that, given the factual elements before the court, MacDermid was an unsurprising, orthodox, and proper holding in the context of personal jurisdiction jurisprudence. However, the facts in MacDermid, and the corresponding limits inherent in the Second Circuit’s holding, reveal potentially gaping holes in our modern personal jurisdiction framework and its ability to respond to the realities of modern commerce and technology

Teacher Attrition in Elementary Schools

All schools want to have the best teachers in place and have them stay until they retire from a school district. They want teachers that are able to teach each and every child to help them reach their full potential without having to rehire and retrain new teachers who leave the district fairly quickly. It would be ideal if schools were able to retain the best teachers so these teachers can continue to grow and become more effective. These teachers would be able to teach to higher standards and better assist their students as time goes on. For schools to be successful, there are a variety of measures that need to be in place. Bastian and Marks (2022) suggest that one of these measures is obtaining and retaining high-quality teachers in the students’ classrooms. Thus, we need to keep experienced teachers in the classroom to ensure that all students succeed (Stewart et. al., 2021). In order to retain experienced teachers, we need to first develop them. According to all three studies, Bastian, K. C. & Marks, J. T. (2017), Mitchell, D., Keese, J., Banerjee, M., Huston, D., & Kwok, A. (2021), and Skeen, N., Lewis, A. A., Vanburgen, C., & Hodges, T. E. (2020), having a great induction program in place reduces teacher attrition rates in schools. According to Bastian and Marks (2017), the more frequently novice teachers are able to meet and participate with their mentor coaches, the higher job satisfaction they have and also the more successful this teacher will be. As the teaching field collectively and positively changes the way people learn and teach, the students will ultimately be the ones who benefit the most

The Progress in Physics in Iowa in the Quarter Century

In attempting to outline the progress in Physics in the State of Iowa since the organization of the Iowa Academy of Sciences, it may be advisable to begin with some statement of the status of that subject in the State at that time. Note that this was six years before the writer, now selected as the patriarch of his group, entered the ranks of teachers of Physics in the State. I can hardly appropriate the term physicists, for, in the main, our work has been administrative and pedagogical

Reading Problems and Teaching Strategies for Navajo Students

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Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. Pritzker

In Alaska Oil & Gas Association v. Pritzker, the Ninth Circuit reversed the United States District Court for the District of Alaska’s decision to strike down the National Marine Fisheries Service’s (“NMFS”) listing of distinct population segments of the Pacific bearded seal. The court determined that the NMFS was in full compliance with the requirements of the Endangered Species Act and squarely rejected the district court’s demand for highly specific data pertaining to the projected effects of climate change on the bearded seal

Almy, Bigelow & Washburn: Fifty Years 1858-1908

12 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 27 cmhttps://digitalcommons.salemstate.edu/books_pamphlets/1000/thumbnail.jp

The life and poetry of Sappho

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1913. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive