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Trends in Special Education Due Process Hearings in Texas from 2010-2015: School, Parent, and Social Justice Issues that Inform a Principal's Decision-Making

Description: This study explores all due process hearings that occurred in Texas public school districts from 2010-2015. Special attention was paid to the reasons for the hearings within the legal reports addressed and their outcomes. The study was conducted using a quantitative approach involving a legal document content analysis of due process hearings to select the participants to be interviewed with a qualitative semi-structured interview protocol. Following this process, nine participants from one dist… more
Date: December 2017
Creator: Poton, Marcy Rose
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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A Legal Analysis of Litigation Against Mississippi Educators and School Systems Under the Mississippi Tort Claims Act

Description: This dissertation analyzes court cases involving tort claims filed against Mississippi public schools and their employees under the Mississippi Tort Claims Act. The question addressed was: How have the Mississippi courts interpreted the Mississippi Tort Claims Act in litigation against Mississippi school districts and their employees? The intent of this dissertation is to add to the understanding of the legal concept of sovereign immunity as it has been applied to public schools and their emplo… more
Date: May 2013
Creator: Kriesel-Hall, Sara B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Litigation Subsequent to a Mandated Psycho-Educational Seminar for Divorcing Parents

Description: This study was designed to assess the difference in litigation between two courts: one mandating For Kids' Sake, a psycho-educational seminar for divorcing parents, and the other not so mandating. The level of difficulty of children's adjustment to divorce has been positively correlated with parental hostility. More hostile parents would have more contested cases, interim motions, and relitigations. This research compared final dispositions, interim motions, and relitigation between parents in … more
Date: May 1997
Creator: Buckner, Brenda Sullivan
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Student Legal Issues Confronting Metropolitan Institutions of Higher Education

Description: This study examined perceptions of student legal issues confronting metropolitan institutions of higher education. The data for the study were collected using a modified version of Bishop's (1993) legal survey. The sample for the study consisted of 44 chief student affairs officers and 44 chief legal affairs officers employed with the 44 institutions affiliated with the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities. Frequency counts and percentage distributions were employed to analyze the d… more
Date: December 1996
Creator: Elleven, Russell K. (Russell Keith)
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Partner: UNT Libraries

[Deepwater Horizon Response and Trial Websites]

Description: Websites related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, recovery efforts, and trial. It includes sites established to document corporate and governmental actions to clean up the Gulf of Mexico after the oil spill in 2010, and ongoing efforts to restore ecosystems in the region as well as documentation related to the civil action filed against BP and the subsequent trial.
Date: 2010/2017
Creator: Deepwater Horizon Unified Command
Item Type: Refine your search to only Website
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Land scam #2]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: April 5, 1985, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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The Indian Trust Fund Litigation: An Overview of Cobell v. Kempthorne

Description: This report provides a brief background of the history leading up to the litigation, a review of the issues that have proven so difficult for the judiciary to resolve, and a brief description of the method used by the trial court to determine the amount of the restitution.
Date: August 20, 2008
Creator: Murphy, M. Maureen
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Alaska Pipeline

Description: This report is intended as a follow-up and continuation of the events and legislative history evoked by the discovery of petroleum on the North Slope in Alaska and the subsequent construction of the Alaska pipeline.
Date: December 28, 1976
Creator: Dyas, Norma W.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Script: Belli]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about San Francisco attorney Melvin Belli, who defended Jack Ruby; Mr. Belli is in Fort Worth for litigation involving the estate of Kay Kimbell, who has left the bulk of his estate to the Kimbell Art Foundation to found (what would become) the Kimbell Museum. Ruby does not expect difficulties with the Texas State Bar Association, which unsuccessfully sought to have him permanently barred from practicing law in Tex… more
Date: November 29, 1964
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Beyond the Affidavit: Towards Better Standards for Web Archive Evidence

Description: Presentation for the IIPC General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference held on May 10-12, 2023 in Hilversum, Netherlands. This presentation discusses the challenge of identifying authenticity of web documents, web archiving standards for trustworthy content, and the Internet Archive affidavit.
Date: May 3, 2023
Creator: Taylor, Nicholas
Item Type: Refine your search to only Presentation
Partner: International Internet Preservation Consortium
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