This research is motivated by how case similarity is assessed in retrospect in law. In the legal domain, when both case facts and court decisions are present, assessing case similarity by taking account of both case facts and court decisions is more intuitive than considering case facts alone. Discovering similar mappings of case facts to court decisions, or similar strategies that courts used ...

The International Framework for Court Excellence (IFCE) is a quality management system designed to help courts to improve their performance. Performance measurement and performance management are integral components of the IFCE. This primer for policymakers and practitioners, Global Measures of Court Performance (Global Measures), describes eleven focused, clear, and actionable core court perfo...

In deciding a landmark child sexual abuse case, the U.S. Supreme Court broke new ground in addressing the unique needs and qualities of child witnesses. The Court unanimously decided that the spontaneous statement of an abused child, made outside of a courtroom and while receiving medical treatment because of molestation, is trustworthy and may be allowed as evidence at trial. The Court curtail...

This paper analyzes the understanding of the Brazilian Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of the United States about press freedom. The research aims to compare the position of the Courts about this fundamental right. Using the comparative method, it analyzes the arguments used by the courts in trials which had press freedom as its object. The paper also presents a literature review of the Bra...

state’s highest court, the South Carolina Supreme Court in late 1997 upheld the criminal conviction of a woman charged with child abuse for using crack cocaine during her pregnancy. Finding that a viable fetus is a “child” under the state’s child abuse law, the court ruled that “maternal acts endangering or likely to endanger the life, comfort, or health of a viable fetus” could constitute chil...

(Editor's Comment: To deal with the practical aspects of getting child abuse cases into court and deciding them in court, Professor Lucy McGough of the Emory Law School, an authority on juvenile law, organized a panel consisting of a juvenile court solicitor who handles deprivation cases, an attorney who has represented the Department of Family and Children Services in their abuse cases, and a ...

The aim of this study was to compare the kinematic characteristics of tennis matches between red clay and hard courts in young tennis players. Eight young tennis players performed two tennis matches on different court surfaces. The match activities were monitored using GPS units. The distance covered in different velocity ranges and the number of accelerations were analyzed. The paired t test a...

In the 1973 case State v. New Times, INC, the Arizona Court of Appeals in Phoenix, Arizona, ruled that Arizona Revised Statutes 13-211, 13-212, and 13-213, collectively called the Arizona abortion [3] statutes, were unconstitutional. The statues made it illegal for anyone to receive, provide, or advertise abortion [3] services. The Arizona Court of Appeals reviewed a case in which a city court ...

The rapid expansion of drug courts in California and the state's uncertain fiscal climate highlighted the need for definitive cost information on drug court programs. This study focused on creating a research design that can be utilized for statewide and national cost-assessment of drug courts by conducting in-depth case studies of the costs and benefits in nine adult drug courts in California....

This article surveys the current landscape of the juvenile court. The original concept of this court, when implemented by state legislatures, took different organizational forms. The length of judges' assignments to this court varies as does the extent of their specialization. These courts differ from one another in numerous ways such as the minimum and maximum ages of their delinquency jurisdi...