Kritenbrink v. Crawford.
U.S. District Court SEX OFFENDER Kritenbrink v. Crawford, 313 F.Supp.2d 1043 (D.Nev. 2004). Former and current state inmates filed [section] 1983 actions alleging that the state provided no adequate due process procedures for them to challenge their classification as sex offenders. The district court dismissed...

Kritenbrink v. Crawford.
U.S. District Court SEX OFFENDER DUE PROCESS Kritenbrink v. Crawford, 313 F.Supp.2d 1043 (D.Nev. 2004). Former and current state inmates filed [section] 1983 actions alleging that the state provided no adequate due process procedures for them to challenge their classification as sex offenders....

The changing shape of government. (Symposium).
MS. METZGER: Hello. I am very pleased to be moderating this first panel on "The Changing Shape of Government." How to secure government accountability in the context of the expansion of privatization in government is a question central to our discussion today. Some aspects of this question pertain to...

Public oversight of public/private partnerships. (Symposium).
PROFESSOR BRIFFAULT: This is the panel in which we begin to look more directly at some of the mechanisms for accountability and monitoring, a central theme of the entire Symposium. The panelists will be talking about such issues as the role of the courts, litigation, government agencies, monitoring procedures,...

Contractual welfare: non-accountability and diminished democracy in local government contracts for welfare-to-work services.
INTRODUCTION The Welfare State of the mid-twentieth century has been supplanted by the rise of the Contractual State, miring welfare reform in the United States in this worldwide reinvention of government. Moving people from welfare to work became a primary goal of federal welfare policy with the...

Shifting sands: the limits of science in setting risk standards.
INTRODUCTION I. SCIENCE AND SETTING RISK STANDARDS A. "Listen to the Science:" EPA 's Use of Science as a Policy Rationale B. Standard Setting, Science, and the Management of Risk C. The Clean Air Act and the Problem of Non-Threshold Pollutants II. THE ABANDONMENT OF REASON IN EPA's AIR...

Vatican accepts Bacani resignation, names Tobias.
Byline: LESLIE ANN G. AQUINO The Vatican yesterday announced that it has accepted the resignation of Bishop Teodoro C. Bacani Jr. as head of the diocese of Novaliches and has appointed Bishop Antonio Tobias as his successor. The Vatican announcement was released yesterday by Apostolic...

Stand or fall: wrestlers continue to grapple with defeat.
National Wrestling Coaches Association v. Department of Education United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit 366 F.3d 930 May 14, 2004 In 2002, the National Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA), along with the Committee to Save Bucknell Wrestling, the Marquette...

Pronsolino v. Marcus, the new TMDL regulation, and nonpoint source pollution: Will the Clean Water Act's murky TMDL provision ever clear the waters?
I. INTRODUCTION Touted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as "the last major impediment to clean water," (1) nonpoint source pollution is currently the foremost cause of the Nation's water pollution problem. (2) The Clean Water Act (CWA) (3) does not define nonpoint source pollution; however, it...

The "Vast Wasteland" speech revisited.
It is fascinating to reread the "Vast Wasteland" speech--Newt Minow's first major policy utterance as the "new frontiersman" assumed the helm at the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC" or "Commission") over forty years ago. There are all sorts of themes from the speech to write about: how remarkable it is...