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Hinterlands and mobile courts of the Hawai`i Island state

Journal of Pacific Archaeology, 2020
The eighteenth century Hawai`i Island state included more than 400 local communities divided among six districts, each with a resident elite. The king’s mobile court of as many as a thousand people frequently moved from one highly productive district core to another. The “capital” was wherever the king resided.
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Displacement, Legal Mobilization, and Disasters: Trial Courts and Legal Process

Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy, 2020
The process of litigation is part of the decentered complex governance structure of risks and disaster. The process highlights problems that other institutions deflect. Courts are also part of defining problems in governing disaster. Scholarship drawing on legal decisions, including concerning environmental decision making, often relies upon the final ...
Susan M. Sterett, Laura K. Mateczun
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Court actions and Boosting Domestic Revenue Mobilization in Uganda

2019
The study analyzed how court actions particularly with respect to the operation of the Tax Appeals Tribunal (TAT), affect domestic revenue mobilisation in Uganda. Based on time series data combined with stakeholder analysis, the study aimed to analyze the performance of TAT in settling tax disputes, examine the source of tax disputes, identify legal ...
Sserunjogi, Brian, Lakuma, Corti Paul, Sserunjogi, Brian, Lakuma, Corti Paul   +3 more
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Marijuana rescheduling opponents mobilize in hearing and in court

Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly
Nearly three years after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) used a revised standard to recommend rescheduling marijuana to the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA) Schedule III, and seven months since President Trump issued an executive order calling for rapid action toward rescheduling, the path to making this move official ...
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Travels with a Camera: The Prince of Wales, Photography and the Mobile Court

2016
The relationship between the British royal family and photography is a long and sometimes difficult one. It began shortly after the discovery of the medium in the late 1830s and continues to evolve today alongside rapidly changing technology and new methods for disseminating and storing photographic images.
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“Reverse Discrimination” Cases in the Federal Courts: Legal Mobilization by a Countermovement

The Sociological Quarterly, 1991
This article argues that those opposing affirmative action and reverse discrimination constitute a countermovement, working against the social movement for equal employment opportunity (EEO). Like women and minorities promoting EEO, opponents of reverse discrimination utilize litigation as a social movement tactic, mobilizing federal EEO laws.
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Out of the lab, onto the court: Wheelchair Mobility Performance quantified

2018
Performance in wheelchair court sports is to a large extent determined by the wheelchair mobility performance, the performance measure for the wheelchair-athlete combination. So far, wheelchair mobility performance is mostly utilized as concept, rather than a well quantified measure. However, in order to gain insight in the interaction between athlete,
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The Case Law of the European Court of Justice on the Mobility of Patients: An Assessment

2011
This means that I shall not deal with other interesting issues such as the free movement of health care providers, with the other free movement rules relevant to health policy (for example, the free movement of pharmaceutical products or the freedom of establishment), and with the influence of the competition rules on health care.
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Activists as allies of international courts: Assessing the impact of legal mobilization at international courts

2023
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Legal Mobilization for Migrant Rights

Abstract The European Court of Justice plays a key role in the interpretation and enforcement of EU law. Yet, we still know little about the conditions under which cases arrive at the Court via preliminary reference and why they are so unevenly distributed across the EU Member States.
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