Proposals have been put forward to replace the current paper Medicare cards, which display beneficiaries’ Social Security numbers, with electronica...

As part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), as amended, Congress enacted the "individual mandate", which requires certain indi...

Since 1 January 2014, most individuals have had to maintain health insurance coverage or pay a penalty for noncompliance implemented through the In...

The number of uninsured individuals and the rising cost of health insurance have been long-standing issues. The Patient Protection and Affordable C...

Untested sexual assault evidence is being discovered in police evidence rooms all across the country. It is unknown how many unanalyzed sexual assa...

The factors affecting the economic viability of high speed rail lines include the level of expected riders, costs, and public benefits, which are i...

Having written extensively on various aspects of the American constitutional order, Edward S Corwin is considered a leading constitutional scholar ...

Highway historian Stephen H Provost presents a fun-filled look at the history and attractions of one of California’s great highways in this book. T...

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) provides about $40 billion to the states annually to build and maintain highways and bridges through th...

The laws and regulations regarding the preferences in hiring that can or must be given to veterans and certain family members are extremely complex...

Kames presents a history of law as a history of the progress of humankind from savage to civil society.

Kames presents a history of law as a history of the progress of humankind from savage to civil society.

This book provides background on Holocaust-Era compensation and restitution issues; an overview of ICHEIC, including criticism and support of its c...

With the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), many observers are making a fresh assessment of where...

The causes of homelessness and determining how best to assist those who find themselves homeless became particularly prominent, visible issues in t...

This book examines the extent and nature of the issue of homelessness in the u.s. the number of people experiencing homelessness increased by 1.1 p...

The term "housing counselling" refers to a wide variety of educational activities geared toward homebuyers, homeowners, renters, senior citizens, o...

When making a decision about housing, a household must choose between renting and owning. Multiple factors, such as a household's financial status ...

Since the beginning of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic in the early 1980s, many individuals living with the disease have had...

This book is intended to provide a basic outline of the numerous steps of our federal lawmaking process from the source of an idea for a legislativ...

Pretrial publicity (PTP) has been found to have a biasing effect on jury decision making. This chapter explores how research and theory in cognitiv...

By five months of life, babies can raise their heads when in a supine position on the floor. This common and expected progression in controlling th...

Although the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States share many legal, social, and political values, they also represent different tradit...

Roscoe Pound, former dean of Harvard Law School, delivered a series of lectures at the University of Calcutta in 1948. In these lectures, he critic...