Rock and Hard Place Arguments

This Article explores what we coin “rock and hard place” (RHP) arguments in the law, and it aims to motivate mission-driven plaintiffs to seek out such arguments in their cases. The RHP argument structure helps plaintiffs win cases even when the court views that outcome as unfavorable. We begin by dissecting RHP dilemmas that have long existed in the American legal system. As Part I reveals, prosecutors and law enforcement officials have often taken advantage of RHP dilemmas and used them as a tool to persuade criminal defendants to forfeit their constitutional rights, confess, or give up the chance to present mitigating evidence. Part I not only describes these dilemmas but also explains how the courts have largely, though imperfectly, curtailed their impacts. Part II turns to civil law. It explains how RHP dilemmas can defeat plaintiffs’ mission-driven litigation—particularly their ability to overcome justiciability hurdles. Part III switches gears from RHP dilemmas to RHP arguments; it introduces the need for mission-driven plaintiffs to turn the tables by crafting RHP dilemmas for defendants and judges. It uses logical syllogisms and hypotheticals to introduce different RHP constructions that plaintiffs can implement. It then provides two real-world examples of how plaintiffs used RHP arguments to overcome jurisdictional hurdles in New York v. Department of Labor and Natural Resources Defense Council v. United States Department of the Interior. Part IV provides an in-depth case study of American Anti-Vivisection Society v. United States Department of Agriculture, a case in which mission-driven plaintiffs implemented two simultaneous RHP arguments and thereby forced the Department of Agriculture to implement regulations protecting birds.4 This case highlights the efficacy of RHP arguments because the plaintiffs succeeded after decades of failed legislative reforms and prior litigation. Part V addresses several surprisingly liberal decisions from the Supreme Court of the United States’ 2019 term and proposes that a unique type of RHP argument drove the outcome in these cases. Finally, Part VI highlights areas of the law where mission-driven plaintiffs are likely to find success using RHP arguments and recommends future litigation strategies

The Polarized Sorting of Membrane Proteins Expressed in Cultured Hippocampal Neurons Using Viral Vectors

One model of neuronal polarity (Dotti and Simons, 1990) proposes that neurons and polarized epithelia use similar mechanisms to sort membrane proteins. To explore this hypothesis, we used viral vectors to express proteins in cultured neurons and assessed their distribution using quantitative immunofluorescence microscopy. Basolateral epithelial proteins were polarized to dendrites; more significantly, mutations of sequences required for their basolateral targeting in epithelia also disrupted dendritic targeting. Unexpectedly, apical proteins were not polarized to axons but were expressed at roughly equal amounts in dendrites and axons. These data provide strong evidence that targeting of basolateral and dendritic proteins depends on common mechanisms. In contrast, the sorting of proteins to the axon requires signals that are not present in apical proteins

Bibliografija knjiga i radova dr. Jere Jareba, 1952.-2005.

Bibliografija radova Jere Jareba

Jadovno i Šaranova jama: Kontroverze i manipulacije [The Jadovno Concentration Camp and the Šaran Pit: Controversies and Manipulations], (Zagreb: Hrvatski institut za povijest, 2017)

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Comparision of Two Thermal Decomposition Offset Printing Plates

The aim of our research was to investigate two digital plates based on the same type of thermal sensitive coating produced by different manufactures and compare their quality, run length, ecological and economical aspects and user experience in the offset press. It was found out that with both plates the same quality of prints was attained according to the measurements of tone values on the plates and prints. The spectrophotometric measurements also showed that the prints were almost identical, except for minor differences in lightness. The microscopic image analysis showed that one plate had finer graining and thereby gave better and more accurate representation of half-tone dot and this plate was also more environmentally–friendly with lower consumption of chemicals for the plate developing, more durable with longer run lengths and as well more economical and user–friendly. The obtained results were useful for the offset printing company in its choosing the better thermal plate with reduced production costs

OCJENE I PRIKAZI: Dr. Jere Jareb, Zlato i novac NDH izneseni u inozemstvo 1944. i 1945.

Knjiga dr. Jere Jareba Zlato i novac Nezavisne Države Hrvatske izneseni u inozemstvo 1944. i 1945. predstavlja dosad najozbiljnije i najopsežnije znanstveno djelo koje rasvjetljuje iznošenje zlata i novca iz Nezavisne Države Hrvatske na kraju Drugog svjetskog rata. Uz to, ova knjiga daje značajan doprinos istraživanju hrvatskog novčarstva i gospodarstva u Drugom svjetskom ratu

Essays on the Distributional Effects of Globalization

This dissertation studies the implications of globalization using theoretical, empirical, and structural estimation techniques. I investigate heterogeneity in the effects of import tariffs, implications for estimating structural gravity equations with discrete good varieties, and geographical impacts of trade on inequality. In my first chapter, titled "Trade Policy and the Decline of the Labor Share'', I analyze the impact of tariffs on US imports that are used as inputs to manufacturing on labor market outcomes. I develop theoretical predictions using a model of final goods production in which firms combine labor, capital, and intermediate inputs. Utilizing changes in tariff rates, input-output tables, and local employment in the input sector, I develop a sector- and state-specific measure of exposure to tariffs in input markets. I estimate the effect of input market tariff exposure on labor market outcomes with a three-way fixed effects regression. An increase in tariff exposure is associated with increases in employment and wages; however, due to larger increases in output the labor share of output declines. In my second chapter, titled "Gravity and the Law of Large Numbers'', my coauthor and I examine the implications of uncertainty in gravity models of trade due to the violation of the Law of Large Numbers (LLN) that we document in the data. When the number of available technologies (or traded goods) is finite and the LLN does not hold, the variance of the stochastic component in gravity models is large, which leads to the poor goodness of fit of gravity models and high uncertainty in comparative statics results. We offer a procedure that specifies counterfactual predictions in terms of distributions rather than point estimates and helps to account for such uncertainty. In my third chapter, titled "Trade and Inequality: Evidence from the United States'', I examine the effects of globalization on regional inequality. I directly measure import and export shares for US states and develop a geography based instrument to quantify the causal effect of trade on income inequality. I decompose income inequality between and within urban and rural counties and estimate a 2 stage least squares model. I find little evidence of a relationship between trade and inequality measured broadly. Further, I find little evidence that trade and globalization are driving an urban-rural wage premium nor inequality within urban and rural counties.</p