Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A working paper or technical paper. This encompasses literature that has not been peer reviewed or published in an academic journal. [1] Working papers may be disseminated for the purpose of receiving feedback to improve the publication. [2] They are often the basis for related works, and may in themselves be cited by peer-review papers.
The E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse is the home of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which decides a large number of petitions for review of actions taken by federal agencies.
Fictitious entries on maps may be called phantom settlements, trap streets, [14] paper towns, cartographer's follies, or other names. They are intended to help reveal copyright infringements. [15] They are not to be confused with paper streets, which are streets which are planned but as of the printing of the map have not yet been built.
The report has an immediate purpose: to help the court determine an appropriate sentence as well as aide in officer sentencing recommendations. The report serves to collect objective, relevant, and factual information on a specific defendant. [7] Since the advent of the sentencing guidelines, the importance of the presentence reports has increased.
The specific rules of the legal system will dictate exactly how the appeal is officially begun. For example, the appellant might have to file the notice of appeal with the appellate court, or with the court from which the appeal is taken, or both. Some courts have samples of a notice of appeal on the court's own web site.
The Appeal Committee is a proposed committee of functionaries empowered to appeal sanctions imposed by administrators or by the community. The transfer of this responsibility from the Arbitration Committee to the Appeal Committee should reduce the workload for arbitrators and provide a more efficient, adaptable and far-reaching appeal process.
Appeal to accomplishment is a form of appeal to authority, which is a well-known logical fallacy. Some consider that it can be used in a cogent form when all sides of a discussion agree on the reliability of the authority in the given context. [2] [3]
[2] [3] [4] One participates in argumentum ad baculum when one emphasizes the negative consequences of holding the contrary position, regardless of the contrary position's truth value—particularly when the argument-maker himself causes (or threatens to cause) those negative consequences. It is a special case of the appeal to consequences.