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The Social Security Protection Act of 2004 (SSPA), with its administrative remedies and program protections, can be seen as another incremental step in the development of a social insurance program that best meets the evolving needs of American society. This article discusses the legislative history of the SSPA in detail. It also includes summaries of the provisions and a chronology of the modification of these proposals as they passed through the House and Senate, and ultimately to the president's desk.
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WASHINGTON - Newt Gingrich overlooked a couple of years of red ink when he asserted Thursday night that he balanced the budget for four years as House speaker. And in claiming sole credit for the achievement, he glossed over the fact that budgets are not a one- man show: There was a Democratic president in town, too. In the last debate before the leadoff Iowa Republican presidential caucuses, Gingrich persisted in repeating a claim he has made often in the campaign, sometimes more accurately than others. Here and there, other candidates, too, reprised misstatements or partial truths.
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There has been a recent upsurge of interest among legal and social science scholars in analyzing judicial reasoning from an empirical perspective. Examining how the justices use legislative history to support their decisions offers insights for lower courts and attorneys as they consider legislative history arguments in future cases. Here, Brudney and Ditslear explore the Court's reasoning techniques, specifically it's reliance on various interpretive resources to help the majority reach its result.
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Under this choice-of-law rule, the Federal Circuit applies its own law to decide whether or not a patentee's behavior can subject it to antitrust liability while the law of the appropriate regional circuit still applies to the other elements of an antitrust claim such as relevant market, market power, and damages.6 A. The Federal Circuit's Choice-of-Law and the Court's Justification Prior to the Federal Circuit's appropriation of non-patent law in Nobelpharma, the court had applied regional circuit law to all non-patent issues pursuant to its decision in Atari Inc. v. JS & A Group, Inc.7 In Atari, the Federal Circuit was presented with an appeal of a contributory copyright infringement claim that had originally been brought along with a patent claim giving the Federal Circuit juri...
