A abstraction from the Texas Tech University Rawls College of Business™ indicates that English-speaking Hispanic plaintiffs acquaintance bigger after-effects in noncombatant lawsuits than their non-English-speaking counterparts.
The study, presented in a cardboard by Dallas advocate Angel Reyes and Texas Tech advisers Bradley T. Ewing, Ph.D. and James C. Wetherbe, Ph.D., is based on the outcomes of added than 200 claimed abrasion verdicts amid 1996 and 2007. In analytical the cases, the authors approved to actuate whether any accidental agency could be affiliated to board verdicts area the amounts awarded were decidedly beneath than what plaintiffs were offered in out-of-court settlements.
While added contempo analysis has apparent that board verdicts rarely beat the endure adjustment offer, the after-effects of the Reyes-Ewing-Wetherbe abstraction announce that Hispanic plaintiffs who relied on an analyst during affidavit were 15 percent beneath acceptable than an English apostle to access a board adjudication that exceeded the endure adjustment offer.
“What this abstraction shows is that while Lady Justice is blindfolded, she absolutely is not deaf,” says Mr. Reyes, co-author of the study. “This abstraction raises abstruse questions not alone about the appropriate to a fair board trial, which is one of the foundations of our Constitution, but aswell the bread-and-butter and amusing appulse presented by accent differences in our acknowledged system.”
The Reyes-Ewing-Wetherbe study, based aloft 223 claimed abrasion board verdicts over the accomplished decade in over 16 Texas counties, highlights the challenges adverse not alone non-English-speaking citizens, but the Hispanic association as a whole.
“We entered this activity assured to acquisition some disparity, and although this was a bound study, the after-effects were an eye-opener,” says Mr. Reyes. “The award that board verdicts may not be language-neutral should aswell be of absorption to policymakers, board and association leaders who accord with Hispanic issues. This is something that absolutely warrants added research.”
For added advice on the abstraction involving accent and balloon outcomes, amuse acquaintance Mark Annick at 800-559-4534, 214-213-1754 (mobile) or mark@androvett.com.
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Monday, December 21, 2009
Make Mine A Million $ Business™ Names Judges For Women Entrepreneur Event
Mary Cantando, coordinator for the North Carolina Make Mine A Million $ Business™ accident (www.makemineamillion.org), has appear the board for the accident to be captivated Tuesday, Oct. 7, at the Blake Hotel, amid at 555 S Mcdowell St. Each adjudicator will analysis women business owners as they angle their businesses to the board and audience. The board are Tara Olson, Carla Liberatore and Dr. Mona El Shazly. Olson, who has an all-encompassing accomplishments in business and bazaar research, is the buyer of AllPoints Research, Inc. in Winston Salem. Liberatore, an able in accounts and investments, is a First Vice President and Investment Officer with Wachovia Securities in Raleigh. Shazly, who is an able in economics and all-embracing business, chairs the Business Department at Columbia College in Columbia, South Carolina. These women represent what it takes to be a acknowledged woman in business.
Make Mine a Million $ Business™ provides a aggregate of money, mentoring, business and technology accoutrement that advice women entrepreneurs abound their businesses from micros to millions. Finalists will be called from applicants statewide and asked to bear a business angle to women entrepreneurs, board and guests at the event. Winners will be called by board and admirers members. Women entrepreneurs absorbed in applying for the North Carolina accident are encouraged to appointment www.makemineamillion.org for added information.
Related Links:
www.makemineamillion.org
www.mmimarketing.com
News Facts:
•Mary Cantando, coordinator for the North Carolina Make Mine A Million $ Business accident (www.makemineamillion.org), has appear the board for the accident to be captivated Tuesday, Oct. 7, at the Blake Hotel, amid at 555 S Mcdowell St.
•Each adjudicator will analysis women business owners as they angle their businesses to the board and audience.
•The board are Tara Olson, Carla Liberatore and Dr. Mona El Shazly.
•Olson, who has an all-encompassing accomplishments in business and bazaar research, is the buyer of AllPoints Research, Inc. in Winston Salem.
•Liberatore, an able in accounts and investments, is a First Vice President and Investment Officer with Wachovia Securities in Raleigh.
•Shazly, who is an able in economics and all-embracing business, chairs the Business Department at Columbia College in Columbia, South Carolina.
•These women represent what it takes to be a acknowledged woman in business.
•Make Mine a Million $ Business™ provides a aggregate of money, mentoring, business and technology accoutrement that advice women entrepreneurs abound their businesses from micros to millions.
•Finalists will be called from applicants statewide and asked to bear a business angle to women entrepreneurs, board and guests at the event.
•Winners will be called by board and admirers members.
•Women entrepreneurs absorbed in applying for the North Carolina accident are encouraged to appointment www.makemineamillion.org for added information.
Quotes:
“We are aflame to accept board from both North and South Carolina accommodating in the North Carolina Make Mine a Million $ Business™ event,” said Nell Merlino, architect and admiral of Count Me In. “The board play a basic role in our accident as the acknowledgment they will accommodate will advice the finalists apprentice how to addition their revenues to the $1 actor mark.”
“Make Mine a Million is accustomed to accept board from above the Carolinas who are accustomed experts in their fields,” Cantando said.
About Make Mine A Million $ Business™:
Make Mine a Million $ Business™, a affairs of Count Me In and founding partner, American Express OPENSM, provides women entrepreneurs with the befalling to aggrandize their businesses by breeding added than a actor dollars in anniversary revenue. A different civic affairs that provides money, mentoring and business opportunities to advice businesses abound from micro to millions, the ambition of Make Mine a Million $ Business™ is to advance one actor women entrepreneurs in the accomplishment to ability anniversary revenues of one actor dollars by 2010. North Carolina will host the state’s aboriginal Make Mine a Million $ Business™ accident on Tuesday, Oct. 7 at the Blake Hotel in Charlotte. For added advice amuse appointment www.makemineamillion.org or alarm (212) 245-1245.
Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
(919) 233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
PR Firms Raleigh, NC
Make Mine a Million $ Business™ provides a aggregate of money, mentoring, business and technology accoutrement that advice women entrepreneurs abound their businesses from micros to millions. Finalists will be called from applicants statewide and asked to bear a business angle to women entrepreneurs, board and guests at the event. Winners will be called by board and admirers members. Women entrepreneurs absorbed in applying for the North Carolina accident are encouraged to appointment www.makemineamillion.org for added information.
Related Links:
www.makemineamillion.org
www.mmimarketing.com
News Facts:
•Mary Cantando, coordinator for the North Carolina Make Mine A Million $ Business accident (www.makemineamillion.org), has appear the board for the accident to be captivated Tuesday, Oct. 7, at the Blake Hotel, amid at 555 S Mcdowell St.
•Each adjudicator will analysis women business owners as they angle their businesses to the board and audience.
•The board are Tara Olson, Carla Liberatore and Dr. Mona El Shazly.
•Olson, who has an all-encompassing accomplishments in business and bazaar research, is the buyer of AllPoints Research, Inc. in Winston Salem.
•Liberatore, an able in accounts and investments, is a First Vice President and Investment Officer with Wachovia Securities in Raleigh.
•Shazly, who is an able in economics and all-embracing business, chairs the Business Department at Columbia College in Columbia, South Carolina.
•These women represent what it takes to be a acknowledged woman in business.
•Make Mine a Million $ Business™ provides a aggregate of money, mentoring, business and technology accoutrement that advice women entrepreneurs abound their businesses from micros to millions.
•Finalists will be called from applicants statewide and asked to bear a business angle to women entrepreneurs, board and guests at the event.
•Winners will be called by board and admirers members.
•Women entrepreneurs absorbed in applying for the North Carolina accident are encouraged to appointment www.makemineamillion.org for added information.
Quotes:
“We are aflame to accept board from both North and South Carolina accommodating in the North Carolina Make Mine a Million $ Business™ event,” said Nell Merlino, architect and admiral of Count Me In. “The board play a basic role in our accident as the acknowledgment they will accommodate will advice the finalists apprentice how to addition their revenues to the $1 actor mark.”
“Make Mine a Million is accustomed to accept board from above the Carolinas who are accustomed experts in their fields,” Cantando said.
About Make Mine A Million $ Business™:
Make Mine a Million $ Business™, a affairs of Count Me In and founding partner, American Express OPENSM, provides women entrepreneurs with the befalling to aggrandize their businesses by breeding added than a actor dollars in anniversary revenue. A different civic affairs that provides money, mentoring and business opportunities to advice businesses abound from micro to millions, the ambition of Make Mine a Million $ Business™ is to advance one actor women entrepreneurs in the accomplishment to ability anniversary revenues of one actor dollars by 2010. North Carolina will host the state’s aboriginal Make Mine a Million $ Business™ accident on Tuesday, Oct. 7 at the Blake Hotel in Charlotte. For added advice amuse appointment www.makemineamillion.org or alarm (212) 245-1245.
Patty Briguglio
MMI Associates, Inc.
(919) 233-6600
patty@mmimarketing.com
PR Firms Raleigh, NC
Women On Board Announce Date For Launch Event
Women on Board (www.nccwps.org), a affairs of the North Carolina Center for Women in Public Service, will host the Women on Board barrage event, to be captivated Thursday, Oct. 15, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m, at Meredith College Massey House, amid at 3800 Hillsborough St. AT&T North Carolina will serve as the event’s presenting sponsor with a addition of $15,000. Virginia Parker of Paragon Commercial Bank will armchair the event, and N.C. Secretary of State Elaine Marshall, alternating with Cynthia Marshall, admiral of AT&T North Carolina, will act as honorary co-chairs. The accident will accession acquaintance and accretion statewide abutment for the Women on Board initiative.
QUOTES:
“We could not be added captivated about the acceptable addition from our presenting sponsor, AT&T North Carolina,” said Parker. “There are abounding abundant women and organizations that accept contributed to the success of this event, and we are so beholden to them. We achievement to actualize statewide absorption in the affairs and access acquaintance of the event.”
DETAILS:
- The Women on Board barrage accident will addition absorption and acquaintance for this statewide affairs in the Triangle
- Women on Board expects amid 150 and 200 guests. Invitees cover all accompaniment legislators, and arresting business and political abstracts above the state.
- For added advice about the event, alarm (919) 508-2308 or appointment www.nccwps.org.
ABOUT WOMEN ON BOARD:
Established in April 2009, Women on Board is a affairs of the North Carolina Center for Women in Public Service. The North Carolina Center for Women in Public Service, a nonprofit, multipartisan organization, prepares women to seek and serve in adopted and appointed offices, advocates for systems and basement to facilitate women’s involvement, and promotes the amount of women in governance. The Women on Board affairs is a four-prong access to accretion the amount of women on the boards and commissions of North Carolina. The affairs focuses on systems improvements accompanying with the alertness and presentation of alone candidates for appointed positions. Research shows that women accompany different abilities and ethics to accessible service, including a added across-the-board access to policy-making, greater accuracy of the process, and a focus on issues apropos to women, children, and families. For added information, visit: www.nccwps.org.
Jill Mastrangelo
MMI Public Relations
(919) 233-6600
jill@mmipublicrelations.com http://twitter.com/MMIPR
www.mmipublicrelations.com
QUOTES:
“We could not be added captivated about the acceptable addition from our presenting sponsor, AT&T North Carolina,” said Parker. “There are abounding abundant women and organizations that accept contributed to the success of this event, and we are so beholden to them. We achievement to actualize statewide absorption in the affairs and access acquaintance of the event.”
DETAILS:
- The Women on Board barrage accident will addition absorption and acquaintance for this statewide affairs in the Triangle
- Women on Board expects amid 150 and 200 guests. Invitees cover all accompaniment legislators, and arresting business and political abstracts above the state.
- For added advice about the event, alarm (919) 508-2308 or appointment www.nccwps.org.
ABOUT WOMEN ON BOARD:
Established in April 2009, Women on Board is a affairs of the North Carolina Center for Women in Public Service. The North Carolina Center for Women in Public Service, a nonprofit, multipartisan organization, prepares women to seek and serve in adopted and appointed offices, advocates for systems and basement to facilitate women’s involvement, and promotes the amount of women in governance. The Women on Board affairs is a four-prong access to accretion the amount of women on the boards and commissions of North Carolina. The affairs focuses on systems improvements accompanying with the alertness and presentation of alone candidates for appointed positions. Research shows that women accompany different abilities and ethics to accessible service, including a added across-the-board access to policy-making, greater accuracy of the process, and a focus on issues apropos to women, children, and families. For added information, visit: www.nccwps.org.
Jill Mastrangelo
MMI Public Relations
(919) 233-6600
jill@mmipublicrelations.com http://twitter.com/MMIPR
www.mmipublicrelations.com
The Distinguished Judges are Announced for the Final of the World Online Debating Championship
With England and Lithuania currently aggressive in the WODC Final, hosts Debatewise accept appear the six board tasked with chargeless who will be crowned the aboriginal anytime apple online debating champions. The awful admired console is blowzy with accomplished big names from the apple debating community.
The console of board are accurately declared by Chief Adjudicator Neill Harvey-Smith, who himself is a above World Championship admirable finalist, as one of the best anytime assembled, and appearance some 18-carat debating heavyweights. Omar Salahuddin has been badly acknowledged during his own debating career, acceptable the Asian Masters four times with Team Malaysia, area he currently resides. Fellow board cover Monica Ferris, Croat Branka Marusic, who is the above President of the Europeans Council, and Colm Flynn, above armchair of the World’s Council. The account is completed by Logan Balavijendran who served as arch adjudicator for Worlds 2005 in Malaysia and will reprise that role for Worlds 2011 in Botswana.
The English and Lithuanian teams will accept to appearance outstanding debating adeptness if they are to affect the apple chic console of judges. The role of the board is to rank anniversary aggregation on their debates, and accord acclaim for clear, simple, organised and connected account of the case presented. The board have to accomplish abiding anniversary case is accordant and logical, as able-bodied as evidenced. Whichever aggregation the board feel adheres to the rules and provides the added acute and accurate case will be advised the winner, with the board accepting just three hundred words to accommodate affidavit for their decision. With this awful admired and advisory console authoritative the final decision, the two teams will feel safe in ability that there is no bigger console of board out there that could be reviewing and adjudicating their argument.
The final agitation of the WODC can be beheld actuality (http://www.debatewise.com/debates/1192) with the board accommodation to chase already the final is completed.
Debatewise (www.debatewise.com) is a not for accumulation online debating website which aims to become the Wikipedia of debate. Anyone can alpha a agitation on any accountable they like and anyone can adapt and strengthen that debate. This ensures that over time the arch and a lot of absolute arguments appear and accommodate a awful admired ability for anyone analytic to accomplish up their mind. Debatewise was founded in 2008 by David Crane and is currently based in the London internet hub of Hoxton, East London. Patrons cover Michael Crick, Gabby Logan and Chris Heaton Harris.
The console of board are accurately declared by Chief Adjudicator Neill Harvey-Smith, who himself is a above World Championship admirable finalist, as one of the best anytime assembled, and appearance some 18-carat debating heavyweights. Omar Salahuddin has been badly acknowledged during his own debating career, acceptable the Asian Masters four times with Team Malaysia, area he currently resides. Fellow board cover Monica Ferris, Croat Branka Marusic, who is the above President of the Europeans Council, and Colm Flynn, above armchair of the World’s Council. The account is completed by Logan Balavijendran who served as arch adjudicator for Worlds 2005 in Malaysia and will reprise that role for Worlds 2011 in Botswana.
The English and Lithuanian teams will accept to appearance outstanding debating adeptness if they are to affect the apple chic console of judges. The role of the board is to rank anniversary aggregation on their debates, and accord acclaim for clear, simple, organised and connected account of the case presented. The board have to accomplish abiding anniversary case is accordant and logical, as able-bodied as evidenced. Whichever aggregation the board feel adheres to the rules and provides the added acute and accurate case will be advised the winner, with the board accepting just three hundred words to accommodate affidavit for their decision. With this awful admired and advisory console authoritative the final decision, the two teams will feel safe in ability that there is no bigger console of board out there that could be reviewing and adjudicating their argument.
The final agitation of the WODC can be beheld actuality (http://www.debatewise.com/debates/1192) with the board accommodation to chase already the final is completed.
Debatewise (www.debatewise.com) is a not for accumulation online debating website which aims to become the Wikipedia of debate. Anyone can alpha a agitation on any accountable they like and anyone can adapt and strengthen that debate. This ensures that over time the arch and a lot of absolute arguments appear and accommodate a awful admired ability for anyone analytic to accomplish up their mind. Debatewise was founded in 2008 by David Crane and is currently based in the London internet hub of Hoxton, East London. Patrons cover Michael Crick, Gabby Logan and Chris Heaton Harris.
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