Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Ane, 458 So. 2d 239 (Fla. 1984)

Torts-Defamation-PRIVATE CITIZENS NEED ONLY SHOW NEGLIGENCE IN ACTIONS AGAINST MEDIA DEFENDANTS. DOES THIS STIFLE THE MEDIA AT THE PUBLIC\u27S EXPENSE

Miami Herald Publishing Co. v. Ane, 458 So. 2d 239 (Fla. 1984)

Torts-Defamation-PRIVATE CITIZENS NEED ONLY SHOW NEGLIGENCE IN ACTIONS AGAINST MEDIA DEFENDANTS. DOES THIS STIFLE THE MEDIA AT THE PUBLIC\u27S EXPENSE

To Seek a Newer World: Prisoners’ Rights at the Frontier

Prisoners’ rights lawyers have long faced a dismal legal landscape. Yet, 2015 was a remarkable year for prison litigation that could signal a new period for this area of law—the Supreme Court handed down decisions that will reverberate in prison jurisprudence for decades to come. New questions have been asked, new avenues opened. This piece is about what the Court has done recently, and what possibilities it has opened for the future. More broadly, I suggest that the Court may be subjecting prison officials to greater scrutiny and that this shifting judicial landscape reflects an evolving social discourse about prison conditions and mass incarceration. With the United States leading the world in incarcerating its own people, the federal courts’ attention to prison conditions is long overdue

Why Have Americans Become More Obese?

Americans have become considerably more obese over the past 25 years. This increase is primarily the result of consuming more calories. The increase in food consumption is itself the result of technological innovations which made it possible for food to be mass prepared far from the point of consumption, and consumed with lower time costs of preparation and cleaning. Price changes are normally beneficial, but may not be if people have self-control problems. This applies to some, but not most, of the population.

Insurance Co. of North America v. Pasakarnis, 451 So. 2d 447 (Fla. 1984)

Torts/Evidence-SEAT BELT DEFENSE-WHETHER THEY KNOW IT OR NOT, FLORIDA MOTORISTS MUST BUCKLE UP OR RISK LOSS OF FULL RECOVER

To Seek a Newer World: Prisoners’ Rights at the Frontier

Prisoners’ rights lawyers have long faced a dismal legal landscape. Yet, 2015 was a remarkable year for prison litigation that could signal a new period for this area of law—the Supreme Court handed down decisions that will reverberate in prison jurisprudence for decades to come. New questions have been asked, new avenues opened. This piece is about what the Court has done recently, and what possibilities it has opened for the future. More broadly, I suggest that the Court may be subjecting prison officials to greater scrutiny and that this shifting judicial landscape reflects an evolving social discourse about prison conditions and mass incarceration. With the United States leading the world in incarcerating its own people, the federal courts’ attention to prison conditions is long overdue

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Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1998.Includes bibliographical references (p. 44).by David M. Shapiro.M.Eng

The Horror Chamber: Unqualified Impunity in Prison

The federal courts have been open to prisoners’ constitutional claims for half a century, but to this day, the availability of federal litigation has not stopped prisoners from being tortured, maimed, killed, or otherwise made to suffer chilling abuse. The failure of litigation as a deterrent is due in part to a confluence of legal and situational factors—doctrinal deference, statutory hurdles, and the many difficulties associated with litigating a civil rights case against one’s jailers—that make prison-conditions cases virtually impossible to win. We call this combination of factors “practical immunity.” Practical immunity amounts to a formidable barrier against successful prison-conditions cases. When practical immunity is combined with the well-known doctrine of qualified immunity, it makes the threat of a money judgment against prison defendants almost empty. The Supreme Court’s failure to take stock of practical immunity may help to explain why the landscape is so skewed against prisoners, and why prison officials enjoy a legal regime so forgiving that it borders on de facto absolute immunity

Confiage d’enfants et nivellement des inégalités scolaires au Cameroun, 1960-1995

La pratique du confiage d’enfants peut-elle servir à niveler les inégalités scolaires en Afrique ? Nous postulons que cet effet de nivellement dépend de trois paramètres du confiage, à savoir sa prévalence, sa distribution et son effet bénéfique sur l’éducation des enfants confiés. Nous utilisons des biographies familiales pour évaluer ces trois paramètres au Cameroun. On constate que, bien que le confiage reste courant, son effet sur la réduction des inégalités scolaires est limité, puisque, en termes d’accès et en termes d’impact scolaire, cette pratique ne profite pas d’abord aux plus pauvres. Ces résultats laissent croire que les politiques de réduction des inégalités scolaires en Afrique ne peuvent pas miser exclusivement sur les solidarités informelles mises en oeuvre à travers le confiage.Can the practice of child fostering help to level out educational inequalities in Africa? The authors of this study hypothesize that this levelling effect is dependent on three parameters of child fostering, that is, its prevalence, distribution, and beneficial effect on the education of fostered children. The researchers use family histories to evaluate these three parameters in Cameroon. They find that, although fostering is still common, it has only a limited effect in reducing educational inequalities because, in terms of access to the fostering network and its educational impact, it does not primarily help the most disadvantaged. These findings suggest that policies to reduce educational inequalities in Africa cannot solely count on the informal networks of solidarity set up through fostering

A homoleptic phosphine adduct of Tl(I)

A homoleptic phosphine adduct of thallium(I) supported by a tris(phosphino)borate ligand has been isolated and structurally characterized