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The Effect of Managerial Litigation Risk on Earnings Warnings: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Journal of Accounting Research, 2020
We examine the causal effect of managerial litigation risk on managers’ disclosure of earnings warnings in the face of large earnings shortfalls. Exploring the staggered adoption of universal demand (UD) laws as an exogenous decrease in litigation risk ...
Ying Huang, Ningzhong Li, Yong Yu, Xiaolu Zhou   +3 more
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Job insecurity, fear of litigation, and mental health among expatriate nurses

Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health, 2020
The objective was to assess whether job insecurity and fear of litigation were correlates of depression, anxiety, and stress among expatriate nurses in Saudi Arabia.
J. Saquib, M. Taleb, Redaallah AlMeimar, Homaidan T. Alhomaidan, A. Al-Mohaimeed, A. Almazrou, Sultan Alshaya, N. Saquib   +7 more
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From litigation to innovation: Firms' ability to litigate and technological diversification through human capital

, 2020
Research Summary When firms diversify technologically, they often acquire human capital from competitors. Legal challenges emerge when intellectual property (IP) safeguards are involved.
Martin Ganco, Cameron D. Miller, P. Toh
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Securities litigation and corporate tax avoidance

Journal of Corporate Finance, 2019
We examine whether litigation risk is systematically related to corporate tax avoidance. We find that the exogeneous reduction in the threat of securities class action litigation due to the 1999 ruling of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals effectively ...
Matteo P. Arena, Bin Wang, Rongfei Yang
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Litigants’ Epicondylitis

Journal of Hand Surgery, 2003
The speculated pathological causes of tennis elbow and the part work might play in its causation are briefly reviewed. The excellent surgical results, whatever operative technique was employed in those surgical series reported prior to the wave of work-related upper limb disorders is noted.
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Litigation and the cardiotocogram

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 1993
ABSTRACTThe extent of the liability in obstetric litigation is discussed. Arguments between experts reveal the lack of agreed standards in cardiotocography. This paper discusses the problems which need to be addressed when defning what constitutes an abnormal cardiotocogram (CTG), how long it needs to abnormal before it is significant, the contribution
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Filling the evidentiary gap in climate litigation

Nature Climate Change, 2021
R. Stuart‐Smith, F. Otto, Aisha I. Saad, Gaia Lisi, Petra Minnerop, K. Lauta, Kristin van Zwieten, Thom Wetzer   +7 more
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Application of Natural Language Processing and Text Mining to Identify Patterns in Construction-Defect Litigation Cases

Journal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Construction, 2019
Recently, construction-defect litigation has upsurged across the United States. Disputes arise due to a variety of reasons, and result in a range of negative impacts on construction project...
Yashovardhan Jallan, Elizabeth Brogan, B. Ashuri, C. Clevenger   +3 more
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Environmental justice in India: a case study of environmental impact assessment, community engagement and public interest litigation

Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 2019
This paper scrutinizes environmental impact assessment (EIA) in India and its potential environmental justice implications. We focused on procedural aspects of environmental justice and concentrated specifically on public interest litigation.
Ariane Dilay, A. Diduck, Kirit Patel
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Using Propensity Scores to Help Design Observational Studies: Application to the Tobacco Litigation

Health Services & Outcomes Research Methodology, 2001
D. Rubin
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