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RAND Corporation researchers surveyed experts from five states that use a variety of approaches to funding state court systems to assess financing, accounting, and governance issues under various systems.

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Bankruptcy --- Evidence (Law) --- Personal injuries --- Asbestos --- Finance --- Business & Economics --- Credit, Debt & Loans --- Trial practice --- Extrinsic evidence --- Parol evidence --- Trial evidence --- Cessio bonorum --- Insolvency --- Privileged debts --- Amianthus --- Asbestus --- Law and legislation --- Actions and defenses --- Judicial process --- Estoppel --- Business failures --- Commercial law --- Debt --- Heat resistant materials

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The authors provide a framework for an integrated Department of Defense (DoD) supply chain, associated policy recommendations, and a companion framework for management practices that will drive people to take actions aligned with this integrated supply chain approach. Building on the framework and policy recommendations, they identify opportunities to improve DoD supply chain efficiency and highlight several already being pursued by DoD.

Logistics -- United States. --- United States -- Armed Forces -- Supplies and stores. --- United States. Defense Logistics Agency. --- United States. Dept. of Defense -- Rules and practice -- Evaluation. --- Logistics --- Military & Naval Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Military Administration --- Logistics. --- United States. --- Rules and practice --- Evaluation. --- United States --- Armed Forces --- Supplies and stores. --- D.O.D. --- DOD (Department of Defense) --- Mei-kuo kuo fang pu --- Ministerstvo oborony SShA --- Министерство обороны США --- D.L.A. --- DLA --- Military art and science --- National Military Establishment (U.S.)

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Intellectual property (IP) consists of intangible creations of the human mind that are entitled to legal protection. IP includes inventions, works of art, and written products. A host of protections, including copyright, trade secret, patent, and trademark, support the defense of creators' rights and facilitate the distribution of the creations into the broader world. IP lawyers work to ensure that their clients' IP assets are protected, distributed, and enhanced. They also work to ensure that their clients abide by IP laws when using others' creations (i.e., copyright infringement or other misappropriations). The dual nature of IP efforts — the proactive and the defensive — gives IP attorneys a unique position to guide, enhance, and achieve organizational goals. Given that the speed of technological innovation has led more organizations to rely on an array of technical and software-based systems and solutions, IP is an increasingly important component of mission success. Researchers assessed IP support at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its components and found that IP initiatives offer greater opportunities for operational improvement than DHS currently recognizes. The research revealed several IP issues that expose programs to substantial risk. The authors believe that the current funding and organization of IP activities do not serve DHS's long-term interests and that DHS should manage IP as an element clearly connected to organizational success. They also provide some alternatives that DHS might consider.

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Payments by asbestos bankruptcy trusts have played an increasingly important role in compensating asbestos injuries and have become a matter of contention between plaintiff and defense attorneys. At issue is how tort cases take into consideration compensation paid by trusts and the evidence submitted in trust claim forms. This monograph examines how such evidence and compensation are addressed by state laws and considered during court proceedings. It also examines how the establishment of the trusts potentially affects plaintiff compensation from trusts and the tort system combined, payments by defendants that remain solvent, and the compensation available to future, as compared to current, plaintiffs. The authors find that the potential effects of trusts' replacement of once-solvent defendants are very different in states with joint-and-several liability than in states with several liability. In states with joint-and-several liability, total plaintiff compensation should not change. In several-liability states, the replacement of once-solvent defendants by trusts can cause total plaintiff compensation to increase, decrease, or remain unchanged. The findings underscore the importance of information on plaintiff exposure to the products and practices of the bankrupt firms in determining the trusts' effects on plaintiff compensation and on payments by defendants that remain solvent.

Bankruptcy trustees --- Compensation (Law) --- Toxic torts --- Personal injuries --- Trusts and trustees --- Asbestos --- Law and legislation