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Bouchie: Court Dissent Based on Factual Error
by Tanner Bouchie The United States Supreme Court has a history of deciding questions of Equal Protection based on social and psychological studies. Studies, however, are often poorly designed and misrepresented by litigants. Appellate judges are especially poorly situated to evaluate those studies to determine the facts of a case at hand. The Court has…
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Franke: Summer Vacations for the ‘Retired’
by Mark Franke I spent my professional career in higher education administration, specifically in the enrollment and finance areas. What that meant was summer was my busiest time with students to enroll, orient and bill, and then there was the fiscal year closing accounting work. Other than a few days over the course of the…
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McGowan: Ignoring Crime Patterns
by Richard McGowan, Ph.D. June was not a kind month for Indiana. Shortly before Father’s Day, two very young children were fatal victims of child abuse. Then, to end the month, Trooper Aaron N. Smith died after being hit by a stolen car in which two people were fleeing police. Smith was setting up stop…