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    performance of the Hamilton county judges‚ in three different courts. The data is compiled from information gathered over a three year period and includes a total of 182‚908 cases handled by 38 judges in Common Pleas Court‚ Domestic Relations Court‚ and Municipal Court. The information presented should help determine how many cases have been appealed‚ reversed‚ or a combination of stated variables which will help determine the amount of errors made by judges. The judges will also be ranked in order

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    because of their point of view. An example of this incident is in the passage from Nathaniel Hawthorne¡¯s The House of the Seven Gables. The sarcastic way that the character Judge Pyncheon is revealed through the narrator is distinguished through the narrator¡¯s (not the author¡¯s) style of writing including tone‚ selection of detail‚ and syntax. The tone of this passage goes from a bitter sarcasm to an almost angry incredulity. In the beginning of the passage‚ the narrator lists Pynchoeon¡¯s

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    The decisions made by Supreme Court chief justice John Marshall have had a major influence on today’s Judiciary System. One of his major decisions was in the case Marbury v. Madison‚ in which he set the precedent of judicial review. Another major decision is in the case McCulloch v. Maryland‚ in this case Marshall ruled that Congress possesses certain implied powers. Other major decisions made by Marshall were in the cases Dartmouth College v. Woodward‚ Gibbons v. Ogden‚ in which Marshall defined

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    strategically located on the farmland‚ was supplied free of charge for this purpose. The Tax Court conclude that the fair market rental value of company-owned lodging furnished to the taxpayers without charge during the taxable years 1962‚ 1963 and 1964 was not excludable from taxpayers’ gross income under Section 119(2) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (26 U.S.C. § 119(2)). PROCEDURAL HISTORY: The Tax Court held that the taxpayers had not successfully met their burden of proving that the lodging

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    ways and joined Judge Dee as his lieutenants. Once‚ when Judge Dee was traveling to the capital on some official business‚ these two men attacked him and his party on the road intending to rob them. Judge Dee at once saw that Ma Joong and Chiao Tai‚ far from being common thieves‚ were men of a heroic disposition‚ while the passes they made at him showed him convincingly that they were well versed in the arts of fencing and boxing. Instead of fighting with these men‚ it seemed to Judge Dee that he might

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    Judge Lawrence Wargrave on the stand for the mass murder on Soldier Island. How shall you plea “ Guilty of the murder of ten people”. Now to say the people on the island were guilty themselves. He knew he had done wrong and therefore killed himself as well. Knowing all those people died for no other reason but someone else’s enjoyment is wrong and Wargrave is guilty. Ever since Judge Lawrence Wargrave was a child he had a thing for seeing and causing death. He had a tormented mind. He himself could

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    The United States Court System: An Overview Article III of the United States Constitution states “… Judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court‚ and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish‚” (Osterburg& Ward‚ 2004‚ p. 617) providing the basis of the federal systems of government. This system is known as federalism embracing national and state governments. A significant and complex feature of the judiciary in the United States

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    Probability Case Problem: Hamilton County Judges The data in the table provides the basis for the analysis. We provide notes as a guide to answering questions 1 through 5. 1. The conditional probabilities of cases being appealed in the three courts are given in the 3 Total rows in the table. For Common Pleas Court‚ the probability of an appeal is .0401; for Domestic Relations Court‚ the probability of an appeal is .00348; and for Municipal Court‚ the probability of an appeal is .00461

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    Investiture‚ from the Latin (preposition in and verb vestire‚ ’dress’ from vestis ’robe’) is a rather general term for the formal installation of an incumbent as the insignia can include the formal dress and adornment (robes of state‚ headdress etc.) the etymology refers to‚ but also other regalia in the widest sense‚ such as a throne or other seat of office‚ the word is a convenient generic term‚ also for such more specific cases as coronation (see that article and regalia for more on such ceremonies)

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    Don’t judge a book by its cover means not to judge people or things by what they look like from the outside. People shouldn’t be judged by how they look but be judged by their actions. It actually means that people cannot be judged by what they appear like to you at first‚ it is necessary to get to know them and "read" them before you can judge them It means not to judge people by the way they look or act. Something very powerful can be inside them. it means dont judge a person on how they look

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