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Can eliminating two-grade interval promotions allow the U.S. Government to promote 250 federal employees and still save over $7,000,000?
Get PDFThe United States continues to overspend on their annual budgets; consequently, increasing the already unsurmountable national debt. In order to start reducing this debt, Government agencies, and the Government as a whole, should begin to look at broad ways they can reduce spending. One of these areas to examine should be federal employee salaries, as there are numerous studies that demonstrate how Government employees make more than private sector employees, which will be corroborated by several discussions in the literature review. An easy, but not so simple solution, is to reduce annual salaries of the current Government employees without having to take away jobs. The elimination of the two-grade interval promotion for General Schedule pay scale employees would do just this, reduce their current promotion salaries, while still allowing them to maintain their job and benefits. An analysis comparing the current two-grade interval to the proposed one-grade interval will validate the costs saving per employee over a four-year period
Impact and Perceptions of AB 1076, Automatic Relief of Criminal Records for Eligible Californians, by Public and Private Employers in the Bay Area
Get PDFOn February 21, 2019, Assembly Member Phil Ting introduced AB 1076, Criminal Records: Automatic Relief, for consideration to become law. The bill passed with majority votes through the Assembly Public Safety Committee, Assembly Appropriations Committee, and the Assembly Floor. It was signed into law by Governor Gavin Newson on October 8, 2019. The law goes into effect January 1, 2021. This paper discusses an overview of the law, identifies which Californians will be impacted, and offers a description of how arrest records and similar law is managed throughout the United States. This paper explores how public and private employers in the Bay Area will perceive and be affected by this law. Six (6) key informant interviews were conducted to understand the development of the law and its long-term implications and their opinions are discussed. Public and private employers were surveyed, forty-two responses were received and their results were analyzed. The new law will play a major role on how background checks and potential employees are conducted; this paper attempts to identify the extent of those impacts on the employers who will have the burden of following this new mandate. Lastly, this paper offers recommendations based on findings and lists areas for further research
Fictional Discourse and the Law
No full textAuthor of Chapter 2.3: Memory, History, and Forgetting: Shelby County v. Alabama.
Drawing on insights from literary theory and analytical philosophy, this book analyzes the intersection of law and literature from the distinct and unique perspective of fictional discourse.
Pursuing an empirical approach, and using examples that range from Charles Dickens’ law reports to the 2014 Ferguson riots, the volume challenges the prevailing fact-fiction dichotomy in legal theory and practice and provides a better understanding of the peculiarities of legal fictionality, while also contributing further material to fictional theory’s endeavor of finding a transdisciplinary valid criterion for a definition of fictional discourse. Following the basic presumptions of the early law-as-literature movement, past approaches have mainly focused on textuality and narrativity as the common denominators of law and literature, and have largely ignored the topic of fictionality. This volume provides a much needed analysis of this gap.
The book will be of interest to scholars of legal theory, jurisprudence and legal writing, along with literature scholars and students.https://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/book_chapters/1038/thumbnail.jp
Blockchain Is the Key To Facilitating the Healthcare System
Get PDFThe healthcare industry is one of the world’s largest industries, accounting for 17.7% of the United States Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Unsurprisingly, the health spending share is projected to rise from 17.7 percent, as reported in 2018, to 19.7 percent by 2028. The U.S. spends more on healthcare than any other country in the world. Being that we spend the most on healthcare, one would assume that we are the healthiest nation in the world. Unfortunately, despite the highest spending, “Americans experience worse health outcomes than [our] international peers.”
It is time for the United States to take appropriate measures to reduce healthcare spending and improve the overall healthcare experience. Without an initiative for greater efficiency and innovation, the cost of the U.S. healthcare system will continue to rise. While there are several flaws within our current healthcare system, this paper will discuss how blockchain technology has the capability to revolutionize the healthcare industry. Accordingly, part II of this paper will provide an overview of blockchain; Part III will explain blockchain’s popularity; Part IV will discuss three critical areas plaguing our current healthcare system; Part V will analyze current healthcare services; Part VI will explain how healthcare will benefit from blockchain; and Part VII will analyze legal implications that may arise
Corporate Compliance in International Technology Licensing
Get PDFAccording to the U.S. Congress, it can be inferred that In general, the process of commercializing intellectual property is very complex, highly risky, takes a long time, cost much more than you think it will, and usually fails.”
This quote from the Congressional Committee on Science and Technology is validation on how complex commercializing intellectual property protected technology and transferring it is. International businesses are required to comply with a vast range of domestic and foreign laws and regulations when transferring or licensing their technology. A key concern is how the achieved technology would be used elsewhere and the responsibility they feel for having access to it.
The objective of this work is to provide a comprehensive comparative study on the formulation of international technology licensing transactions in compliance with corporate regulations and fair competition, tax regulations and intellectual property protection rights. Also, this paper is headed to hopefully provide a game plan for developing countries which are not in possession of a comprehensive regulation for the discussed matter, to help them benefit through this comparative study of three very developed texts of law and practices in three very diverse legal systems
Using Citizen Suits To Remedy Environmental Injustice and Achieve Clean Water in California
Get PDFNearly fifty years since the passage of the Clean Water Act (“CWA”) in 1972, widespread pollution of California’s surface and groundwater continues across the state. “Over half of California’s lakes, bays, wetlands, and estuaries are too polluted to swim, drink, or fish,” according to the State Water Resources Control Board. Poor and working-class communities suffer disproportionately from the negative externalities and environmental impacts of water pollution, including effects on human health and wellness.
With a focus on the CWA citizen suit provision, this paper examines how the legal and administrative processes for water pollution control have not effectively addressed the disproportionate burden of environmental hazards borne by California’s poor communities. Part I discusses the background and legal history of water pollution control in California. Part II considers that CWA citizen suits play an essential role in enabling plaintiffs to supplement government enforcement of water pollution and to challenge agency inaction. Lawyers representing environmental justice communities have successfully used the citizen suit provision to enjoin and penalize polluting activity in clients’ neighborhoods.
Part III focuses on two major limitations of CWA citizen suits: addressing agricultural pollution and seeking appropriate remedies. Agriculture is the primary source of California’s water pollution but its runoff is regulated by California law and cannot be challenged by federal citizen suit actions. Plaintiffs that do succeed against polluters are limited to injunctive and punitive relief and may be left without a meaningful acknowledgement of the affected community or a reasonable likelihood that the plaintiffs will attain clean water. Part IV recommends that a state-level citizen suit provision should be written into California’s Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act (“Porter-Cologne Act”) to allow plaintiffs to challenge agricultural runoff. This section also recommends that plaintiffs should be allowed to seek comprehensive remedies under federal and state law to ensure that judicial relief properly acknowledges, respects, and remedies environmental injustice suffered by the poor