Turn Down the Volume: The Constitutionality of Ohio\u27s Municipal Ordinances Regulating Sound from Car Stereo Systems

This article will examine municipal ordinances criminalizing the emission of sound from car stereo systems in excess of proscribed limits, including the methods adopted to measure offending sound and the penalties imposed for violations, the Ohio (and certain non-Ohio) cases which have challenged the constitutionality of such ordinances, and certain constitutional aspects of such ordinances and their enforcement which have yet to be addressed

Liability of Parents for the Willful Torts of Their Children under Ohio Revised Code Section 3109.09

This article will examine four issues which the practitioner may face in handling litigation under Section 3109.09, which imposes liability on the parents of children who willfully damage the property of another: whether the statute extends to a taking of property; whether the term parents includes others who have custody and control of a minor; whether an insurance company as a subrogated plaintiff may maintain an action under the statute; and, finally, whether parents of the minor wrongdoer are provided with coverage under their homeowners policy in an action brought against them under Section 3109.09

Liability of Parents for the Willful Torts of Their Children under Ohio Revised Code Section 3109.09

This article will examine four issues which the practitioner may face in handling litigation under Section 3109.09, which imposes liability on the parents of children who willfully damage the property of another: whether the statute extends to a taking of property; whether the term parents includes others who have custody and control of a minor; whether an insurance company as a subrogated plaintiff may maintain an action under the statute; and, finally, whether parents of the minor wrongdoer are provided with coverage under their homeowners policy in an action brought against them under Section 3109.09

Mie Scattering in the Time Domain. Part II. The Role of Diffraction

The p = 0 term of the Mie-Debye scattering amplitude contains the effects of external reflection and diffraction. We computed the reflected intensity in the time domain as a function of the scattering angle and delay time for a short electromagnetic pulse incident on a spherical particle and compared it to the predicted behavior in the forward-focusing region, the specular reflection region, and the glory region. We examined the physical consequences of three different approaches to the exact diffraction amplitude, and determined the signature of diffraction in the time domain. The external reflection surface wave amplitude gradually replaces the diffraction amplitude in the angular transition region between forward-focusing and the region of specular reflection. The details of this replacement were studied in the time domain. (C) 2011 Optical Society of Americ

Mie Scattering in the Time Domain. Part I. The Role of Surface Waves

We computed the Debye series p = 1 and p = 2 terms of the Mie scattered intensity as a function of scattering angle and delay time for a linearly polarized plane wave pulse incident on a spherical dielectric particle and physically interpreted the resulting numerical data. Radiation shed by electromagnetic surface waves plays a prominent role in the scattered intensity. We determined the surface wave phase and damping rate and studied the structure of the p = 1, 2 surface wave glory in the time domain. (C) 2011 Optical Society of Americ