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Safeco Ins. Co. of America v. Burr: Defining Notification Requirements and Willfulness under the Fair Credit Reporting Act
In a recent decision, the United States Supreme Court resolved a critical dispute regarding the interpretation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act ( FCRA ) and its notice requirement. In Safeco Ins. Co. of America v. Burr, the Court settled the definition of willful violation, a determination that will have enormous effects for insurance companies. Specifically, the Court held that willfulness not only includes knowing violations, but also includes a violation committed in reckless disregard of statutory obligations. While both of the insurance companies in Burr were technically victorious -- both were held not to have willfully violated the FCRA -- the Court\u27s interpretation of willfulness is more consumer-friendly. Still, Burr may have left the door open for insurance companies to avoid the notice requirement of the FCRA
Freedom to Defraud: Stoneridge, Primary Liability, and the Need to Properly Define Section 10(b)
In Stoneridge Investment Partners, LLC v. Scientific-Atlanta, Inc., the Supreme Court determined that primary liability under section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act does not extend to third-party actors engaged in sham transactions, even when such transactions have the purpose and effect of deceiving investors. The Court reasoned that there is no liability when an actor\u27s deceptive conduct is not communicated directly to investors. This Note argues that the Supreme Court misinterpreted section 10(b) and Rule 10b-5 and that policy considerations weigh in favor of using securities fraud litigation to deter culpable actors. It argues both for the substantial participation standard and the revitalization of scheme liability in order to best comply with the language and policies of section 10(b) and Rule 10b-5
Pop III GRBs: an estimative of the event rate for future surveys
We discuss the theoretical event rate of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) from the
collapse of massive primordial stars. We construct a theoretical model to
calculate the rate and detectability of these GRBs taking into account all
important feedback and recent results from numerical simulations of pristine
gas. We expect to observe a maximum of N 0.2 GRBs per year
integrated over at z > 6 with \textit{Swift} and N 10 GRBs per year
integrated over at z > 6 with EXIST.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, published in Proceedings of the Gamma-Ray Bursts
2012 Conference (GRB 2012
AMADA-Analysis of Multidimensional Astronomical Datasets
We present AMADA, an interactive web application to analyse multidimensional
datasets. The user uploads a simple ASCII file and AMADA performs a number of
exploratory analysis together with contemporary visualizations diagnostics. The
package performs a hierarchical clustering in the parameter space, and the user
can choose among linear, monotonic or non-linear correlation analysis. AMADA
provides a number of clustering visualization diagnostics such as heatmaps,
dendrograms, chord diagrams, and graphs. In addition, AMADA has the option to
run a standard or robust principal components analysis, displaying the results
as polar bar plots. The code is written in R and the web interface was created
using the Shiny framework. AMADA source-code is freely available at
https://goo.gl/KeSPue, and the shiny-app at http://goo.gl/UTnU7I.Comment: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Computin
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