Tradeo↵s between privacy and security in the use of court-issued wiretap orders are examined. We collect all wiretap orders issued by the U.S. district and state court systems for narcotics-related o↵enses during the years 1998-2005 and all arrests and convictions resulting from those orders in the subsequent years. We extend the Beckerian theory of crime to explain the relationship between the...

may exercise its right to appear in court through its own solicitor and need not be represented by an United States Attorney.'6" Pursuant to section 25, it is provided that orders issued by the Commission may be reviewed by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. In the absence of a specific request, hearings on the question of retaining certain reports as confidential are not provided for....

Since the 1970s, U.S. federal courts have issued court orders condemning state prison crowding. However, the impact of these court orders on prison spending and prison conditions is theoretically ambiguous because it is unclear if these court orders are enforceable. We examine states’ responses to court interventions and show that these interventions generate higher per inmate incarceration cos...

Knowledge and understanding the means of appeals lodged before the courts of the European Union, limited only to the points of law, are very important taking into account the modality to control a judgment delivered by an inferior court exists since ancient times, being governed among others, by the Larin principle: res judicata pro veritate accipitur. In the following we will examine, in gener...