ability-to-pay determination under Turner v. Rogers safeguards
Given Turner v. Rogers, unrepresented child-support debtors should not be incarcerated without a simple, explicit determination of present ability-to-pay.
Tagged: child support, law
Turner v. Rogers safeguards imprisonment of child-support debtors
One Turner v. Rogers safeguard for incarcerating an unrepresented child-support debtor via civil contempt: a simple finding of present ability to pay.
Tagged: child support, law
sports rules for reviewing audio-visual evidence
Sports officiating technology and standards of review for instant replay should be chosen to support fans’ immersion in the sports game-world.
Tagged: law
brain-power economics critical to cybersecurity
The Internet allows humans anywhere around the globe to acquire the best available technical education and to use that education to pursue a wide variety of objectives on digital networks. One objective can be to build a great repository of human knowledge. Another objective can be to attack an organization and do great harm. [...]
Tagged: law
regulating theater in eighteenth-century Paris
In pre-Revolutionary France, the French king awarded theater-process patents to particular theater companies. The Académie d’Opéra, founded in 1669, received letters patent giving it exclusive rights to present to the public works with texts that were sung or danced. The Comédie-Française, which incorporated Molière’s acting company, received the exclusive right to present drama in verse. [...]
Tagged: law, theater
rationality in public discourse
In my post on real-world public reasoning, I discussed the reception of Brian Kalt’s law review articles on prosecuting murder and other crimes in the fifty-square-mile Idaho portion of Yellowstone National Park. Prof. Kalt responded with an email to me. Since this was before my email and telephone policy statement, I will not post his [...]
Tagged: law
technology in the courtroom
Considering trial rules for audio-visual courtroom presentation technology has become interesting and important work for judges and lawyers.
Tagged: law
communication about administrative problems
Good government must respond effectively to administrative problems. In China, claims of wrongful government action are addressed through petitions to complaint offices (the Xinfang system) and through court cases (administrative litigation). From 1996 to 2004, Xinfang petitions were perhaps forty times as numerous as court cases.[1] How these two processes shape communication with persons not [...]
Tagged: China, law
data representations
The government of Washington, DC, provides real-time data feeds on crime, building permits, housing code enforcement, public space permits, and property registrations. The data includes geo-codes so that it can be easily mapped. The terms of use for these important data resources state: Neither the District of Columbia Government nor the Office of the Chief [...]
Tagged: knowledge, law
regulatory requirements
“Is a company allowed to do this under the regulations?” “What does that regulation mean?” These may seem like simple questions, but in reality they may have only expensive, uncertain answers. Regulation is not necessarily like code that anyone with the appropriate capabilities can copy, interpret, and execute. In an case concerning the U.S. Environmental [...]
Tagged: law