The Personal Finances of United States Supreme Court Justices and Decision-making in Economic Litigation

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-405
Author(s):  
Jordan Carr Peterson ◽  
Thora Giallouri ◽  
Elli Menounou
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
United States Supreme Court ◽  
United States Supreme ◽  
Personal Finances

Legal Issues Facing Parole

1979 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-235
Author(s):  
Eugene N. Barkin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Due Process ◽  
United States Supreme Court ◽  
The United States ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
United States Supreme ◽  
Parole Board

Judicial decrees enunciating the due process required in parole board decisions impose restraints upon the boards' decision making and supervision. Confusion reigns in many instances because the courts do not speak with one voice or even clearly. As a consequence, parole board administrators often remain in states of uncertainty for long periods of time. It is vital that the United States Supreme Court speak clearly and categorically on the issues in question.

The whole is sometimes less than the sum of its parts: toward a theory of document acts

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
TODD OAKLEY ◽  
VERA TOBIN
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
United States Supreme Court ◽  
Test Case ◽  
United States Supreme ◽  
Rhetorical Questions ◽  
Citation History ◽  
Broad Outline ◽  
Linguistic Material

abstractWe present in broad outline a theory of document acts, using the influential Supreme Court opinion inMarbury v. Madison(1803) as our principal test case.Marburyhas a superabundance of rhetorical questions. They make up a significant and stylistically prominent portion of the total linguistic material of the text, yet they all but disappear fromMarbury’s citation history and thus its content as an enduring jurisprudential entity. To account for these facts, we examineMarburyas a whole text addressing a particular situation, as a pastiche of constructions, and as a tool of jurisprudential decision-making. The intersection and independence of these ‘modes of being’ call for an overarching theoretical framework capable of accounting for facets of documents’ existence at three distinct but interpenetrating strata:system,artifact, andconstruction. We base our theory on primordial cognitive capacities for joint attention and joint commitments, with the strata as consequences of embodied human minds born into and embedded in intersubjective environments filled with and shaped by documents and their circulation. The closed system of United States Supreme Court opinions makes an excellent case for a theory of document acts that will eventually be used to understand and explain more open-ended systems.

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