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The U.S. Supreme Court delved into the complexities of federal special education law last week as it took up a case involving the burden of proof in disputes over individualized education programs.
Embrace the burden of proof. If government does that, it will show respect for civil liberties, it will propose more sensible restrictions, it will exhibit awareness that it is not our ruler but ...
One of the exhibits at Burden of Proof shows perpetrators directly confronting their crimes. At the Nuremberg hearing on 29 November 1945, 21 Nazi war criminals watched a film projected onto a ...
The circumstances under which the burden of proof might be shifted during a Will contest are discussed in the precedential case of D. Haynes vs. First National State Bank of New Jersey.
An article I wrote recently about New Jersey shifting the burden of proof in individualized education program hearings is generating a lot of thoughtful reader comments.