Public Law

Selected as a Finalist for the 2022 Killer Nashville Claymore Award for Best Mystery! TROUBLE IN VALDEZ COUNTY is the first novel in the new Doc Gunther Mystery series, which is centered around a modern-day Texas Ranger assigned to the Texas border with Mexico. A rural Texas border community, mired in corruption, on a lark elects a twenty-seven-year-old woman with absolutely no law enforcement experience as the county sheriff. This throws a wrench in the plans of the local politicos and their cartel backers. When the body of a young woman is discovered during the annual Javelina Harvest, an...

Dr. Christine Montross has spent her career treating the most severely ill psychiatric patients. Several years ago, she set out to investigate why so many of her patients got caught up in the legal system when discharged from her care - and what happened to them therein. Waiting for an Echo is a riveting, rarely seen glimpse into American incarceration. It is also a damning account of policies that have criminalized mental illness, shifting large numbers of people who belong in therapeutic settings into punitive ones.

Medical humiliation from both sides! Dr. Pete Fournier is having one of those days—bored out of his mind working an extra-long shift at a critically understaffed urgent care center. Until he walks into Exam Room #6 and finds his son Eric and daughter-in-law Jill there. Also on hand is one of Pete’s neighbors, police sergeant Sean Driscoll. Pete learns that, while out running, Jill was bitten by an unleashed dog belonging to one of the neighbors… On her bottom. Well, Pete’s day has just gotten a whole lot more interesting! Jill might be shy and modest, but she’s also beautiful and ...

For well over a century, public schools have been a non-partisan gathering place and vital center of civic life in America—but something has changed. In School Moms, journalist Laura Pappano explores the on-the-ground story of how public schools across the country have become ground zero in a cultural and political war as the far-right have made efforts to seek power over school boards.

Conquer the Police Officer Exam: Your Concise Guide to Protecting and Serving is designed as a quick, efficient resource to supplement more detailed study materials. This guide focuses on providing a clear and accessible summary of the key skills and concepts tested on the police officer exam. It highlights critical areas such as reading comprehension, logical reasoning, situational judgment, and basic math, offering practical strategies to sharpen your skills. While this guide does not delve into exhaustive detail, it serves as an ideal complement to more comprehensive study resources. ...

Holy smokes! Bill Martin is scared out of his mind! With his car in the shop, his sweet daughter-in-law, Aria, has offered to take him to and from work. Alas, contrary to her gentle, soft-spoken nature, Aria apparently has quite a heavy foot while driving. It’s so heavy that, as they head home, poor Bill is gripping the armrest for dear life! But not for long. Suddenly, there is a state trooper right on their tail with lights blaring and siren wailing. Aria is out of her mind with panic as she pulls off the highway and into the breakdown lane. And things go downhill from there. After ...

This essay "Competition Law and Deregulation in Canada" discusses the nature of competition policy and the trend toward deregulation. The principal question considered is whether Canada’s Competition Act is sufficient to fill the gaps left by deregulation? This essay consists of several parts. The first provides the background regarding the history and purpose of competition legislation and policy in Canada. The second part discusses the trend toward deregulation and changes in the marketplace. The third part provides a discussion of several industry case studies (telecommunications, ...

From the late 19th century through the 1930s, scholars of politics defined and continually reoriented their field in response to the political imperatives of the racial order at home and abroad as well to as the vagaries of race science. The Gilded Age scholars who founded the first university departments and journals located sovereignty and legitimacy in a "Teutonic germ" of liberty planted in the new world by Anglo-Saxon settlers and almost extinguished in the conflict over slavery.

The United States has the world’s highest rate of incarceration, a form of punishment that ruins lives and makes a return to prison more likely. With the authority of a prominent legal scholar and the practical insights gained through on-the-ground work on criminal-justice reform, Rachel Barkow explains how dangerous it is to base criminal-justice policy on the whims of the electorate, which puts judges, sheriffs, and politicians in office.

With the decline of traditional journalism, there are precious few inquiring eyes watching government and the public service. How can any of us know how our tax dollars are being spent? But there is good news. For at least the past decade, governments at all levels have been busy publishing truckloads of data representing official policies and their outcomes. For the most part, that data is available in the public domain and just sits there, waiting for us to come and get it. This book was written with the hope and expectation that sophisticated data analytics tools can tame those ...

In this Very Short Introduction, Georgios A. Antonopoulos and Georgios Papanicolaou uncover the reality of organized crime in our world today. Shining a light on the people involved in organized crime, Antonopoulos and Papanicolaou question whether the term "organized" is used to evoke the image, the operations, and power of a legitimate organization, such as a corporation. Discussing whether there are particular crimes that the label "organized crime" applies to, or if any crime can be organized, they also consider what happens when organized crime extends beyond borders.

Medical humiliation from both sides! As if Sally McGovern doesn’t have enough to worry about. It’s bad enough that she has to host her husband Joe’s retirement party for his family—and they’re not easy to please—but suddenly, she finds herself doubled over with severe stomach pain. Well, it just so happens that their neighbor, Russ Gordon, hurries over with some good news. His son Jimmy is a medical student…and he’ll be right over with his medical bag! Well, that just won’t do. Sally tutored Jimmy for years—he was practically their second son throughout his school years....

Conquer the CBP Exam: Your Guide to a Career as a Customs and Border Protection Officer is a comprehensive study guide designed to help aspiring CBP Officers navigate the challenging selection process. The book provides detailed insights into the role of a CBP Officer, emphasizing the importance of protecting the nation’s borders from illegal activities such as terrorism, human trafficking, and smuggling. It covers the key components of the CBP Officer Exam, including logical reasoning, arithmetic reasoning, writing skills, and situational judgment. Each chapter offers in-depth ...

This is a general reference for authors, artists, musicians, librarians, entrepreneurs and others interested in learning about copyright law. The material is an edited and expanded version of the relevant chapters from my Intellectual Property Law: A Practical Guide to Copyrights, Patents, Trademarks and Trade Secrets. It is designed as a a brief but informative reference for lay persons who need practical and accurate information that is easy to understand. The main text provides an orientation to the relevant law and the process, advisability and cost of registering copyrights with the ...

When twenty-six-year-old recent college graduate Aswad Thomas was days away from starting a professional basketball career in 2009, he was shot twice while buying juice at a convenience store. The trauma left him in excruciating pain, with mounting medical debt, and struggling to cope with deep anxiety and fear. That was the same year the national incarceration rate peaked.

Cybersecurity incidents make the news with startling regularity. Each breach makes headlines, inspires panic, instigates lawsuits, and is then forgotten. The cycle of alarm and amnesia continues with the next attack, and the one after that. Cybersecurity expert Josephine Wolff argues that we shouldn't forget about these incidents, we should investigate their trajectory, from technology flaws to reparations for harm done to their impact on future security measures. We can learn valuable lessons in the aftermath of cybersecurity breaches.

The book draws on public health ethics, public health law, and the histories of occupational and public health to assess the limits of parental choice to expose their children to risks of injury. Chris Nowinski, former Harvard football player and WWE wrestler, provides a timely and insider's perspective on these critical issues in the foreword.

This is the first comprehensive study of the history and evolution of American indecent exposure laws. The study informs a critical analysis of the role of courts as custos morum, or custodian of the morals. It contains a detailed constitutional analysis of legal management of morality. The laws are a cornerstone of government regulation of morals, with roots tracing back to seventeenth century English and American cases, laws, and regulations. The state interests protected by indecent exposure laws focus on deterring public behaviors contrary to prevailing moral order and protecting the ...

What precisely is affirmative action, and why is it fiercely championed by some and just as fiercely denounced by others? Does it signify a boon or a stigma? Or is it simply reverse discrimination? What are its benefits and costs to American society? What are the exact indicia determining who should or should not be accorded affirmative action? When should affirmative action end, if it must? Randall Kennedy gives us a concise and deeply personal overview of the policy, refusing to shy away from the myriad complexities of an issue that continues to bedevil American race relations.

Now an insider at The People vs. O. J. Simpson reveals the untold story of the most widely followed trial in American history and the indelible impact it has had on the judiciary, the media, and the public. As the Los Angeles Superior Court's media liaison, Jerrianne Hayslett had unprecedented access to the trial - and met with Judge Lance Ito daily - as she attempted, sometimes unsuccessfully, to mediate between the court and members of the media and to balance their interests.