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Court Reverses Rate‐setting Order

Journal AWWA, 1999
Florida Water Services Corporation appealed an order in which the Public Service Commission (PSC) set rates in 97 water and 47 wastewater service areas that Florida Water serves in more than 20 counties. The rate order denied Florida Water's request for uniform, utility‐wide rates but approved capband rates.
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Measuring the Issue Content of Supreme Court Opinions

Journal of Law and Courts, 2019
The opinions of the US Supreme Court are central to volumes of research on law, courts, and politics. To understand these complex and often-lengthy documents, scholars frequently rely on dichotomous indicators of opinion content.
Douglas Rice
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Reference Services in Courts and Governmental Settings

Legal Reference Services Quarterly, 2007
SUMMARY This paper examines the trends affecting reference services in court and government law libraries, such as globalization, shrinking budgets, the increasing availability of information, declining in-person patron visits, increasing numbers of pro se patrons, and the emergence of new technologies and the millennial generation.
Luis M. Acosta, Anna M. Cherry
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Therapeutically (Un)Just Interactions in Family Court Proceedings

Criminal Justice Policy Review, 2018
Court systems have a unique and powerful impact on the lives of persons who enter into them. In recognition of some of the deleterious effects of traditional court models, scholars and practitioners advocate for alternative court processes, especially ...
Cindy Brooks Dollar
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Agenda-Setting on the U.S. Supreme Court

2017
Understanding the conditions under which the Supreme Court sets its agenda is crucial to understanding Supreme Court behavior. After all, before the justices make any decision on the merits of a case, they must first decide whether to hear it at all. This chapter analyzes Supreme Court agenda-setting. It begins by describing the process justices employ
Ryan J. Owens, James Sieja
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Courts as gatekeepers in managed care settings.

Health affairs (Project Hope), 1998
Recently, a court ordered that a woman convicted for driving while intoxicated receive alcohol treatment.1 The managed care company responsible for administering the program that was to treat her denied payment. A representative of the company, commenting on its decision, was quoted as saying that “treatment is not medically necessary [simply] because ...
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Agenda Setting in the Supreme Court

2009
During the great debates over ratification of the Constitution, Alexander Hamilton of New York expressed the hope that justices will act as general monitors, broadly supervising the other branches of government and the states and holding them firmly to the path of constitutional duty.1 The unique authority possessed by the Supreme Court in its exercise
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New Approaches in the Juvenile Court Setting

Crime & Delinquency, 1964
For most of us, the juvenile court has existed all our lives. Even so, most people do not understand it very well and it has never been given the tools to do its job properly. Many judges are unprepared for their tasks when they assume juvenile court responsibility; there are not enough probation officers with adequate training; and detention services
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THE CHALLENGES OF CONDUCTING RESEARCH IN DRUG TREATMENT COURT SETTINGS

Substance Use & Misuse, 2002
S. Belenko
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The Clinician as Advocate--Interventions in Court Settings: Opportunities, Responsibilities, and Hazards

, 1985
M. F. Shore
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