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Whatās Shakinā? Ladra v. New Dominion, LLC: A Case of Consequence for the Hydraulic Fracturing Industry and Those Affected by Induced Seismicity
This analysis is accompanied by a study of a 2015 ruling of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, Ladra v. New Dominion, LLC. The case considered the possibility of a private tort action by homeowners against the operators of injection wells proceeding within the stateās judicial system, rather than simply being subject to review by a state regulatory agency. The court ultimately decided that the case would be allowed to continue within the judicial system instead of in front of a regulatory agency. This case, while not providing a āsilver bulletā precedent with which future claimants can automatically win their cases against parties involved in fracking and waste disposal, does demonstrate that these claims are viable and ought to be dealt with in proper courts of law, rather than through administrative agencies.
Section II of this case note contains a brief overview of the hydraulic fracturing process and the state of fracking in Oklahoma, the site of this noteās principal case (Ladra v. New Dominion). Section III provides a history of the case and its central issues. Section IV discusses the ruling given, as well as the validity of the arguments made before the court. Section V examines the likelihood of success for the plaintiff Ladra and other homeowners seeking damages from the operators of injection wells due to earthquake-related harm done to their property or person. This section primarily assesses whether a preponderance of the evidence standard can be achieved when alleging that fracking activities caused earthquakes that resulted in property damage, and uses the arguments presented in the lower court during Ladra v. New Dominion as an example. Section VI considers the significance of the decision and what effect it may have on the hydraulic fracturing industry
The Collision of tao, rhetorike, & Orientalism
This essay will not focus on my analyses of the poems that were the original impetus of my study, but instead on what I discovered when researching the rhetorical traditions within which the poems are situated. My argument hinges on this question: Why did no gross disparities between rhetorical traditions emerge in my initial research, and why is this absence significant? My analysis draws on the works of George A. Kennedy, Robert Oliver, and Edward Said, in addition to the post-colonial studies of Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin
Incompleteness and jump hierarchies
This paper is an investigation of the relationship between G\"odel's second
incompleteness theorem and the well-foundedness of jump hierarchies. It follows
from a classic theorem of Spector's that the relation is well-founded. We provide an alternative proof of
this fact that uses G\"odel's second incompleteness theorem instead of the
theory of admissible ordinals. We then derive a semantic version of the second
incompleteness theorem, originally due to Mummert and Simpson, from this
result. Finally, we turn to the calculation of the ranks of reals in this
well-founded relation. We prove that, for any , if the rank of
is , then is the admissible
ordinal. It follows, assuming suitable large cardinal hypotheses, that, on a
cone, the rank of is .Comment: 11 pages. Corrects a mistake in the statements of two result
The limiting distribution for the number of symbol comparisons used by QuickSort is nondegenerate (extended abstract)
In a continuous-time setting, Fill (2010) proved, for a large class of
probabilistic sources, that the number of symbol comparisons used by QuickSort,
when centered by subtracting the mean and scaled by dividing by time, has a
limiting distribution, but proved little about that limiting random variable Y
-- not even that it is nondegenerate. We establish the nondegeneracy of Y. The
proof is perhaps surprisingly difficult
Electrolyte Abnormalities on ECG
The authors review the characteristic changes that hypercalcemia, hyperkalemia, hypokalemia, and other serum electrolyte abnormalities can cause on an ECG
Ventricular Fibrillation
An unsteady baseline and a very irregular QRS segment are highly indicative of ventricular fibrillation
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