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13 Apr 2024, 3:33 pm
Prelude to Litigation Phenylpropanolamine (PPA) was a widely used direct α-adrenergic agonist used as a medication to control cold symptoms and to suppress appetite for weight loss.[1] In 1972, an over-the-counter (OTC) Advisory Review Panel considered the safety and efficacy of PPA-containing nasal decongestant medications, leading, in 1976, to a recommendation that the agency label these medications as “generally recognized as safe and effective. [read post]
2 Apr 2024, 12:56 pm
Lay juries can understand and respond to arguments about personal bias, which no doubt is why trial lawyers spend so much time and effort to emphasize the size of fees and consulting income, and the propensity to testify only for one side. [read post]
12 Mar 2024, 4:43 am
This was the statute under which Lawrence Walsh investigated the Iran-contra scandal and Kenneth Starr investigated Whitewater and President Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky. [read post]
29 Feb 2024, 7:15 pm
Kenneth B. [read post]
30 Jan 2024, 9:01 pm
Last week, Kenneth Eugene Smith became the first person in the United States to be executed by nitrogen hypoxia—in which a mask attached to Smith’s face poured pure nitrogen into his lungs, thus depriving him of oxygen. [read post]
29 Jan 2024, 4:00 am
" That reaction might most charitably be attributed to confirmation bias, given that Smith apparently suffered terribly. [read post]
10 Jan 2024, 10:50 am
One is simply bias and who gets credit for the inventions. [read post]
12 Dec 2023, 12:55 pm
See 1 Kenneth S. [read post]
1 Dec 2023, 3:45 pm
However, my favorite memory of the Justice is from a different occasion: I was speaking at a conference on gender bias in the federal courts, presenting results of research that I had conducted for the 9th Circuit Gender Bias Task Force, of which I was a member. [read post]
1 Sep 2023, 2:39 pm
But at a historic moment for our great state, these rights are imperiled by rules adopted in connection with the impending impeachment trial of Warren Kenneth Paxton, Jr., the third-term Attorney General of the State of Texas. [read post]
25 Aug 2023, 6:22 pm
Scientists will understand that he was setting out a predicate that calls for (1) an association, which is (2) “perfectly clear cut,” such that bias and confounding are excluded, and (3) “beyond what we would care to attribute to the play of chance,” with random error kept to an acceptable level, before advancing to further consideration of the nine viewpoints commonly recited. [read post]
12 Jun 2023, 1:09 pm
The most remarkable and disturbing aspect of the citation to Wells, however, was that the Court was unaware of, or ignored, the case’s notoriety, and the scholarly and scientific consensus that criticized the decision for its failure to evaluate the entire evidentiary display, as well as for its failure to rule out bias and confounding in the studies relied upon by the plaintiff. [read post]
19 May 2023, 2:50 am
Kenneth Elliott, an 88-year-old Australian doctor held captive in West Africa by al-Qaeda militants for more than seven years, has been released. [read post]
25 Apr 2023, 8:09 am
Along with these steps, businesses also provide mechanisms for reporting and conduct exit interviews to help uncover possible claims of prohibited bias or retaliation and should carefully respond to and investigate any reported or observed concerns. [read post]
18 Mar 2023, 8:08 am
As Talia Gillis, Stephanie Bornstein, and Chris Slobogin have each shown in their research on mortgage markets, workplace hiring, and criminal justice, respectively, allowing an algorithm to know the inputs and affirmatively consider protected identities (rejecting with Gillis coined “the input fallacy”) can in fact be the more promising path for combating inequality and bias and, as Bornstein writes, for “developing law… [read post]
3 Mar 2023, 1:22 pm
For instance, to the extent that comments submitted can introduce an intrinsic bias, such limitations indicate a design failure of the notice-and-comment process. [read post]
10 Feb 2023, 4:44 am
Putting aside the idiosyncratic chapter by the late Professor Berger, most of the third edition of the Reference Manual presented guidance on many important issues. [read post]
22 Jan 2023, 6:00 am
Some critics of the reasonable person standard argue that its "objectivity" is a mask for a bias that favors some groups over others. [read post]
19 Jan 2023, 12:55 pm
HKS, one of the top public policy institutions in the world, has violated Harvard's clear commitments to free expression by denying former Human Rights Watch executive Kenneth Roth a fellowship because of his purported "anti-Israel bias. [read post]
10 Jan 2023, 11:35 am
HKS, one of the top public policy institutions in the world, has violated Harvard's clear commitments to free expression by denying former Human Rights Watch executive Kenneth Roth a fellowship because of his purported "anti-Israel bias. [read post]
