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- Title
- Your rights under the National Labor Relations Act.
- Date Issued
- 1937-12
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/DT/369310
- Subject Headings
- Labor laws and legislation --United States.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Labor and the new deal.
- Creator
- Stark, Louis
- Date Issued
- 1936
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3332831
- Subject Headings
- Labor laws and legislation -- United States.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Labor unions and the law.
- Creator
- Merritt, Walter Gordon
- Date Issued
- 1918
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3358318
- Subject Headings
- Labor unions -- Law and legislation -- United States.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Proposed legislation on public policy and industrial warfare submitted to industrial conferees, Washington, D.C.
- Creator
- League for Industrial Rights
- Date Issued
- 1919
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3332782
- Subject Headings
- Industrial laws and legislation -- United States.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The worker and government.
- Creator
- MacDonald, Lois, Stein, Emanuel
- Date Issued
- 1935
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3090822
- Subject Headings
- Labor laws and legislation -- United States., Labor -- United States.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Labor on new fronts.
- Creator
- Brooks, Robert Romano Ravi
- Date Issued
- 1938
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/DT/369294
- Subject Headings
- Labor unions --United States., Labor laws and legislation --United States.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Protect the National Labor Relations Act! : facts and figures on the act, the board, and their achievements.
- Creator
- Labor's Non-Partisan League
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/3358289
- Subject Headings
- Industrial relations -- United States., Labor laws and legislation -- United States.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970: Its Genesis, Implementation and Impact (Including a Case Study of the Texas Gulf Coast Petrochemical Industry).
- Creator
- Anderson, Bruce McDonald, Florida Atlantic University, Zimmerer, Thomas W.
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis reviews the historical background, legislative history, implementation and impact of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970. A study was conducted to determine the impact of the Act on forty-five petrochemical plants located in the Texas Gulf Coast Region. Factors surveyed included costs associated with compliance with the Act, staffing, union and employee relations, safety standards, compliance activities and Federal inspections.
- Date Issued
- 1974
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13620
- Subject Headings
- Industrial safety--Law and legislation--United States, Industrial hygiene--Law and legislation--United States, Petroleum products
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The market valuation of the effect of the tax amortizability of purchased goodwill.
- Creator
- Alshinifi, Saleh H., Florida Atlantic University, Hopwood, William S.
- Abstract/Description
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This study investigates the market valuation of the effect of goodwill tax amortization on corporate acquisitions. Specifically, the study tests whether a significant positive change exists in the market reaction to acquisitions qualifying for the Internal Revenue Code section 197. Two methodologies are employed in the examination of the market assessment of the effect of the Internal Revenue Code section 197. First, a market model methodology is utilized in order to pre examine whether the...
Show moreThis study investigates the market valuation of the effect of goodwill tax amortization on corporate acquisitions. Specifically, the study tests whether a significant positive change exists in the market reaction to acquisitions qualifying for the Internal Revenue Code section 197. Two methodologies are employed in the examination of the market assessment of the effect of the Internal Revenue Code section 197. First, a market model methodology is utilized in order to pre examine whether the market reacted differently to acquisitions that qualified for goodwill tax deductibility relative to acquisitions that did not. Second, multiple regression models were obtained for testing the study's hypotheses. The results of this study support the hypothesis that a positive change exists in the market reaction to acquisitions that qualify for the internal revenue code 197 relative to those that do not. There are two implications for these findings. First, they imply that acquiring firms did retain some of the tax benefits associated with the change in the tax law. Second, and given the findings of previous studies, the findings of this study also imply that the expected tax savings are actually shared between the acquiring firm and the target's shareholders.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2002
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12020
- Subject Headings
- Industrial safety--Law and legislation--United States, Industrial hygiene--Law and legislation--United States, Petroleum products
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Brownfields, hometown democracy and development: an uneasy sustainability alliance.
- Creator
- Kleeger, Jeff, Comparative Studies Program, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
- Date Issued
- 2008-10-24
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FADT165268p
- Subject Headings
- Brownfields -- Law and legislation -- United States, Hazardous waste site remediation -- Law and legislation -- United States, Industrial real estate -- Environmental aspects, Urban renewal -- Environmental aspects
- Format
- Set of related objects
- Title
- The revolutionary labor amendment and the Constitution.
- Creator
- Child, Sampson R.
- Date Issued
- 1925-02-24
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/DT/369297
- Subject Headings
- Children --Employment --Law and legislation --United States., Constitutional amendments --United States.
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- MONEY, OUTPUT, AND PRICES: A CROSS SPECTRAL ANALYSIS.
- Creator
- DMYTROW, ERIC DONALD., Florida Atlantic University, Redman, Milton, College of Business, Department of Economics
- Abstract/Description
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This thesis tests the transmission mechanism through which changes in the rate of growth of the money supply affect changes in output and prices. Cross-spectral analysis was used to test the transmission mechanism. The results support a neo-keynesian transmission mechanism which associates changes in the money supply with changes in investment.
- Date Issued
- 1974
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FCLA/DT/13646
- Subject Headings
- Legislators--United States, Economic assistance--Law and legislation, Voting
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A HISTORICAL LEGAL STUDY OF THE VULNERABILITY OF EDUCATIONAL OFFICIALS TO THE PRESS.
- Creator
- HORRIGAN, TERRANCE EDWARD., Florida Atlantic University, Connelly, George W.
- Abstract/Description
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The need that prompted this study was the educational officials' lack of exposure to changes in the libel law concerning their rights as educators and their newly defined classification as public officials. This classification creates the primary need for the study. Educational officials must prove actual malice when seeking libel suits. The purpose of the study was to historically investigate the present vulnerability of educational officials to the press. This vulnerability has been created...
Show moreThe need that prompted this study was the educational officials' lack of exposure to changes in the libel law concerning their rights as educators and their newly defined classification as public officials. This classification creates the primary need for the study. Educational officials must prove actual malice when seeking libel suits. The purpose of the study was to historically investigate the present vulnerability of educational officials to the press. This vulnerability has been created by the Supreme Court decisions since 1964. The New York Times Company , Inc. vs. Sullivan landmark national libel standard creating actual malice as the criterion for civil suit by a public official, set the pivotal point as a demarcation from the past to the present in the legal cases concerning defamation. This study researched the law of the past to the present to set the background to develop the manner by which legal research may be accomplished by the educator. The major conclusion of the paper is the need for a fairness doctrine for press coverage, the equal of the fairness doctrine of the radio and television. The paper supports the contention that the newspaper is a major industry in a protected status without the restrictions of a fairness doctrine not only for the public official, but for the private citizen. Even though the private citizen need not prove actual malice, as does the public official, he does not have the right to fair reply in the newspaper as he does on the radio and television. This in itself is a modern logical anachronism in the law. How can other forms of the media be open while the press is closed to public response? Another conclusion of the study is the need for the present-day educational official to be able to do preliminary legal research in educational problems. The research in libel is but an example of the manner in which a professional educator should be trained. Simply stated , the modern educator training centers must place more emphasis on the legal training of educational officials .
Show less - Date Issued
- 1977
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/11688
- Subject Headings
- Educational law and legislation--United States--Cases, Libel and slander
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- DEMOGRAPHIC DETERMINANTS OF SENATORS' ROLL-CALL VOTING POSITIONS ON FOREIGN AID LEGISLATION, 1947-1974.
- Creator
- DEMACK, GARY CLARK., Florida Atlantic University, Gatlin, Douglas S., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Political Science
- Abstract/Description
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Political scientists have attempted to determine why legislators vote as they do on proposed legislation. An integral part of this research is how selected demographic characteristics influence legislators on roll-call votes. Party, region, and senators' service on the Foreign Relations Committee are found here to be related to senators' votes on foreign aid legislation, the issue perhaps most representative of voting on foreign policy in general. While these relationships are significant in...
Show morePolitical scientists have attempted to determine why legislators vote as they do on proposed legislation. An integral part of this research is how selected demographic characteristics influence legislators on roll-call votes. Party, region, and senators' service on the Foreign Relations Committee are found here to be related to senators' votes on foreign aid legislation, the issue perhaps most representative of voting on foreign policy in general. While these relationships are significant in several sessions of the Congresses studied here, none of them remain statistically significant throughout the eight sessions of the four Congresses studied. Even where significant relationships have been hypothesized here on the basis of past research findings, findings from the present study do not altogether support earlier findings. In particular, service on the Foreign Relations Committee ceases to be a significant determinant in later sessions and representing Eastern states is the strongest regional determinant.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1976
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13800
- Subject Headings
- Legislators--United States, Economic assistance--Law and legislation, Voting
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Employment rates and average wage of Targeted Jobs Tax Credit participants in Florida compared to selected Job Training Partnership Act participants by target groups.
- Creator
- Gnage, David Charles, Florida Atlantic University, Thai, Khi V.
- Abstract/Description
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Purpose. The purpose of this study was to examine the third quarter 1992 employment rates and average wages of individuals who were Targeted Jobs Tax Credit (TJTC) certified in Florida during the third quarter of 1987. The employment rates and average wages were compared to a select group of individuals who were released for employment in Florida by the Jobs Training Partnership Act (JTPA) during the same time period. The primary research question concerned the effectiveness of the TJTC...
Show morePurpose. The purpose of this study was to examine the third quarter 1992 employment rates and average wages of individuals who were Targeted Jobs Tax Credit (TJTC) certified in Florida during the third quarter of 1987. The employment rates and average wages were compared to a select group of individuals who were released for employment in Florida by the Jobs Training Partnership Act (JTPA) during the same time period. The primary research question concerned the effectiveness of the TJTC program, a tax expenditure program, compared to the direct budget program JTPA. Problem. The social goal of both programs was to encourage firms to hire those individuals who traditionally experience high unemployment rates. The TJTC approach was intended to increase employment incentives to employers to recruit, hire, and train members of specific target groups. In general, JTPA provides training then releases the individual for employment. Critics of TJTC have claimed that the employers have hired individuals who they would have hired anyway (windfalls) or that they have laid off non-target group members (substitutions). Employers have also been criticized for not providing the necessary training to provide for long term employment. Methodology. The study examined the employment records of four sets of individuals: (1) individuals who were TJTC vouchered but not certified, (2) individuals who were TJTC certified, (3) individuals who completed JTPA training and were not TJTC eligible, and (4) individuals who completed JTPA training, were TJTC eligible but not vouchered. This study included five target groups: disadvantaged youth; disadvantaged ex-convicts; AFDC recipients; disadvantaged Vietnam veterans; and vocational rehabilitation referrals. The economic status was identified as employment rates and mean wages. Both chi-square and log-linear analysis were used to compare the employment rates for each target group and each race, for both TJTC and JTPA one program was more effective in increasing the probability of future employment. Variance analysis was used to determine if one program was more effective in increasing future compensation for members of a target group. Findings. TJTC served many more individuals than JTPA across of the five target groups. JTPA may increase the probability of employment for AFDC recipients and Whites. The mean wage was found to be independent of both TJTC and JTPA. The disadvantaged Vietnam Veterans had the highest mean wage and the AFDC recipient the lowest. The mean wage for Blacks was found to be lower than that of other races.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1993
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12356
- Subject Headings
- New jobs tax credit--United States, Occupational retraining--Law and legislation--United States, Employees--Training of
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Penny stock IPOs as investments.
- Creator
- Konku, Daniel K., Florida Atlantic University, Wiley, Marilyn
- Abstract/Description
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Researchers of Initial Public Offerings, IPOs, have, traditionally, filtered out low-priced stocks with cut-off prices depending on individual study. This study examines underpricing, short- and long-run performance of one special class of such low-priced stocks. I examine IPOs filed for and issued as Penny Stocks, as defined by the amended SEC Act of 1990. The study finds average first-day excess returns of 128% over a benchmark NASDAQ Decile 1 Index. The excess returns on nonpenny IPOs...
Show moreResearchers of Initial Public Offerings, IPOs, have, traditionally, filtered out low-priced stocks with cut-off prices depending on individual study. This study examines underpricing, short- and long-run performance of one special class of such low-priced stocks. I examine IPOs filed for and issued as Penny Stocks, as defined by the amended SEC Act of 1990. The study finds average first-day excess returns of 128% over a benchmark NASDAQ Decile 1 Index. The excess returns on nonpenny IPOs issued on the same markets as the penny stocks are 7.6% over the S&P 500 Index. Cross-sectional analyses show that lower-priced penny stocks and stocks of smaller firms are more highly underpriced. Consistent with the information asymmetry hypothesis, penny stocks that were issued on the pink sheets are more highly underpriced than those on the more exposed and more regulated environments of the NASDAQ Small Capitalization markets and the OTC markets. The short- and long-run performance analyses show that, in general, penny stocks have a high performance of between 18% to 20% raw returns in the first year of issue but that declines sharply after a 13-month period. I find an 11-month optimal holding period over which an investor could maximize his returns in a portfolio of penny stocks. I further show that a passive buy-and-hold investment in penny stocks held longer than this optimal period can be a poor investment but an actively-managed penny-stock portfolio can outperform comparable benchmark portfolios of various market indexes on both raw and risk-adjusted basis. Penny stock issuers have shifted from public issues to private placement since 2001. I examine the return to investors in these private issues during the lockup period or until those issues eventually end up in the public domain. The average annualized return to investors during the lockup period is 229%, with only 5% of those issues recording negative returns. Investors who bought these stocks immediately after the lockup period, however, experience an 11% drop in value but the trend reversed after about 10 months, indicating a better long-run performance than those initially issued on the public markets. I examine the effect of the Penny Stock Reform Act (1990) on the number of sanctions that were imposed on the penny stock issuers. The policy intervention analysis shows that the number of sanctions dropped by 9% in the immediate aftermath of the enactment of the Act but increased significantly by nearly 4.7% per quarter thereafter.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2006
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12223
- Subject Headings
- Going public (Securities)--Law and legislation--United States, Portfolio management, Penny stocks--Rate of return, Investment analysis
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Eminent domain as enclosure movement: the privatization of law under neoliberalism.
- Creator
- Kleeger, Jeffery, Araghi, Farshad A., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
- Abstract/Description
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Law is a means to an end. The state has always claimed it uses law as a tool to promote social order and progress (the Brazilian National Flag is an example). The use of law to force social change to facilitate capital accumulation for elites in society flies in the face of what the takings clause is supposed to stand for. This research examines the connection between economic development and public good. It focuses on takings because takings lie at the intersection between economics,...
Show moreLaw is a means to an end. The state has always claimed it uses law as a tool to promote social order and progress (the Brazilian National Flag is an example). The use of law to force social change to facilitate capital accumulation for elites in society flies in the face of what the takings clause is supposed to stand for. This research examines the connection between economic development and public good. It focuses on takings because takings lie at the intersection between economics, politics, and social relations. Takings are justified by necessity and public good, but the claim isn’t genuine. Takings condone displacement and cause harm. State-authorized condemnation juxtaposes civic duty with social obligation, ownership with license and privilege. The thesis developed here is the state is pushing the law of takings toward the satisfaction of private interests. To that end the public use concept was expanded. Kelo v. City of New London (2005) holds economic development is a public use and in making that fallacious claim the case has ruptured takings law. Public use shouldn’t be about private gain. Property should be creative and is when it facilitates productivity, but it’s destructive if it erodes personal autonomy. The state claims it promotes social good when it reorders uses, but the claim is false. Instead the state achieves an air of legitimacy, offering a sound rationale for acts of displacement and uses law to support the claim it promotes public good. If an individual doesn’t want to part with her property she shouldn’t be forced to do so. Taking is use of state power to accomplish ends that can’t otherwise be achieved. Taking is a lawful means to displace to benefit private interests. The proof of this is in the pudding of the transformation of law between Berman v. Parker (1954) and Kelo v. City of New London (2005). Berman (1954) required blight. Kelo v. City of New London (2005) eliminated that requirement. This thesis explains how law and state are captured by private interests.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2015
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004386, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004386
- Subject Headings
- Common good, Eminent domain -- Law and legislation -- United States, Land use -- Economic aspects -- United States, Neoliberalism, Privatization -- United States, Property -- Social aspects, Right of property -- United States
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The rhetoric of law and love: legally (re)defining marriage.
- Creator
- Higgs, Volrick Wallace, Mulvaney, Becky, Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies
- Abstract/Description
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In just over one year since United States v. Windsor— the case invalidating sections of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) that defined marriage, for purposes of federal statutes, as the “union of man and woman”— more than a dozen states have had their same-sex marriage bans ruled unconstitutional. This suggests a shift in legal meaning; previously successful arguments against same-sex “marriage” now seem irrational as argumentative ground has shifted. Since favorable rulings redefine ...
Show moreIn just over one year since United States v. Windsor— the case invalidating sections of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) that defined marriage, for purposes of federal statutes, as the “union of man and woman”— more than a dozen states have had their same-sex marriage bans ruled unconstitutional. This suggests a shift in legal meaning; previously successful arguments against same-sex “marriage” now seem irrational as argumentative ground has shifted. Since favorable rulings redefine “marriage” to include same-sex unions, this thesis analyzes Kitchen v. Herbert, a 2014 legal opinion from the United States Court of Appeals Tenth Circuit, to understand the rhetorical processes underpinning its redefinitional act. That analysis draws on Kenneth Burke’s theories of entitling and constitutions and discusses the rhetorical concepts of terministic screens, casuistic screens, scope and circumference as key features of the rhetoric of the legal opinions. The findings call for a balancing of deconstructive and conventional approaches to legal discourse.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2015
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004378, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004378
- Subject Headings
- Constitutional law -- United States, Identity (Psychology), Marriage -- United States -- Government policy, Same sex marriage -- Law and legislation -- United States, United States -- Defense of Marriage Act
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- SECONDARY DATA ANALYSIS ON AMERICAN PUBLIC OPINION AND IMMIGRATION POLICIES OF THE UNITED STATES IN 2016.
- Creator
- Lopez Pelaez, Kevin
- Abstract/Description
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Immigration policies in the United States remain a paramount topic in shaping the nation’s sociopolitical culture in the status quo; nuances in public sentiment pertaining to both immigration and are imperative in recognizing the broader implications of this issue. To gauge public sentiment on this and associated issues, a poll was conducted titled Taking America’s Pulse 2016 Class Survey. The Survey organization was the German data and analytics firm, Growth from Knowledge (GfK) Group, and...
Show moreImmigration policies in the United States remain a paramount topic in shaping the nation’s sociopolitical culture in the status quo; nuances in public sentiment pertaining to both immigration and are imperative in recognizing the broader implications of this issue. To gauge public sentiment on this and associated issues, a poll was conducted titled Taking America’s Pulse 2016 Class Survey. The Survey organization was the German data and analytics firm, Growth from Knowledge (GfK) Group, and was sponsored by Cornell University faculty members, Peter K. Enns, Ph.D., Professor of Government, and Jonathon Schuldt, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Communication. This research will examine two (2) questions from the referenced 2016 poll, Question I, “Do you think the number of immigrants admitted into the US is too high, too low, or about the right amount?” and Question II, “Would you support or oppose a proposal to increase penalties for undocumented immigrants who overstay their visa in the US?”. This secondary data analysis further studies the aforementioned questions by examining respondents’ political party affiliation.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2021
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FAUIR000404
- Subject Headings
- United States. Emigration and immigration. Government policy, Public opinion polls--Law and legislation--United States, Public opinion--United States, Immigration issues in the United States
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- The politics of cable regulation: The passage of the 1992 Cable Act.
- Creator
- Bergal, Jenni., Florida Atlantic University, Pritchard, Anita, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Political Science
- Abstract/Description
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The re-regulation of cable television in 1992 represented an end to the deregulatory policies that had become an integral part of government during the Reagan-Bush administrations. Deregulation had turned the fledgling cable industry into a giant $20 million unregulated monopoly which had boosted cable rates skyhigh and turned a deaf ear to customers' complaints about shoddy service. After years of political wheeling and dealing, compromising and debate, Congress finally re-regulated the...
Show moreThe re-regulation of cable television in 1992 represented an end to the deregulatory policies that had become an integral part of government during the Reagan-Bush administrations. Deregulation had turned the fledgling cable industry into a giant $20 million unregulated monopoly which had boosted cable rates skyhigh and turned a deaf ear to customers' complaints about shoddy service. After years of political wheeling and dealing, compromising and debate, Congress finally re-regulated the cable industry, under pressure from an unusual coalition comprised of consumers, senior citizens, cable competitors and the broadcasting industry. These groups combined their political strength and won their battle against the powerful cable lobby, which had been joined in its fight against re-regulation by Hollywood film studios.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1993
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/14961
- Subject Headings
- Cable television--Deregulation, Cable television--Law and legislation--United States, Television broadcasting policy--United States, Price regulation--United States
- Format
- Document (PDF)