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The Federal Sentencing Guidelines: Adopting Clear and Convincing Evidence as the Burden of Proof
The University of Chicago Law Review, 1990 In 1984 Congress passed the Sentencing Reform Act (the "Act")1 in response to the widely held view that defendants who committed similar crimes, under similar circumstances, were receiving grossly disproportionate sentences in federal courts.2 The Act established the Federal Sentencing Commission (the "Commission") to promulgate mandatory sentencing ...
Richard Husseini
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Case Reports in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2022 We report the case of a 79-year-old woman with a large pelvic mass and postmenopausal bleeding, associated with hyperestrogenism. A pelvic MRI shows the presence of a large mass of 12.6 cm originating from the right ovary without signs of metastasis.
Fabian Desimpel +4 more
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Solving the Medical Malpractice Crisis [PDF]
Archives of Surgery, 2010 The medical malpractice crisis has smoldered for many years with few new ideas regarding how to improve matters. Physicians promote limits on plaintiff noneconomic damages, but this has been ferociously resisted by the legal community. They argue that limiting remuneration to patients harmed by negligent practices is fundamentally wrong. We hypothesize
Eli, Engel, Edward H, Livingston
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The evidence—and acceptability—of taxes on unhealthy foods
Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 2018 The global obesity pandemic has public advocates and policymakers grappling with the question of how best to respond. Among the various policy options, unhealthy food and beverage taxes have gained attention as a potentially effective intervention to ...
Selvi Rajagopal +2 more
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Clear and convincing evidence: measurement of discrimination in America [PDF]
Choice Reviews Online, 1994 William E. Spriggs +2 more
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Field experimental evidence on gender discrimination in hiring: biased as Heckman and Siegelman predicted? [PDF]
, 2015 Correspondence studies are nowadays viewed as the most compelling avenue to test for hiring discrimination. However, these studies suffer from one fundamental methodological problem, as formulated by Heckman and Siegelman (The Urban Institute audit ...
Baert, Stijn
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Exercise as a potential treatment for drug abuse: Evidence from preclinical studies
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2012 Epidemiological studies reveal that individuals who engage in regular aerobic exercise are less likely to use and abuse illicit drugs. Until recently, very few studies had examined the causal influences that mediate this relationship, and it was not ...
Mark Andrew Smith, Wendy J Lynch
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Rejecting the Clear and Convincing Evidence Standard for Proof of Incompetence
The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1973-), 1997 A. Meyers
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Efficient Standard of Proof [PDF]
Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i Khuṣūṣī, 2021 One of the main functions of evidence law is to demonstrate the applicable standard of proof. In some kinds of evidence, it is not the case because fact finders make decisions according to the probative value of the evidence. In other pieces of evidence,
Iraj Babaei, Shahin Shamiaghdam
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Adoption of Clear Convincing Evidence in Hong Kong
American Journal of Trade and Policy, 2022 Drawing from overseas practices, namely the law in England & Wales (E&W) and the law in the United States (US), this article will critically discuss whether a higher standard of proof of ‘clear and convincing evidence (CCE) should be adopted in non ...
Max Hua Chen
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