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Credibility
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Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Discounting Credibility: Doubting the Stories of Women Survivors of Sexual Harassment
By Tracy Thomas
Deborah Epstein, Discounting Credibility: Doubting the Stories of Women Survivors of Sexual Harassment" For decades, federal and state laws have prohibited sexual harassment on the job; despite this fact, extraordinarily high…
Arbitration Matters
State Attorney’s refusal to use police offer because of Brady concerns found insufficient, without more, to support termination of officer
Grievant began his employment with the Marco Island, FL Police Department in October 2006. He was hired 18 months after having been terminated by the Collier County Sheriff's Office after…
The Asylumist
Neuroscience, Memory, and Credibility in Immigration Court
By Jason Dzubow
This article is by Aldis Petriceks of Harvard Medical School, Erin Shortell of Harvard Law School, and Dr. Francis X. Shen, JD, PhD. Executive Director, Massachusetts General Hospital Center for…
The Right Coast
China s Communist Party Struggles to Restore Credibility After Virus Outbreak
Once the full power of the Communist State has been summoned, some Chinese observers fear, it will be hard for Xi to put the genie back in the bottle. China…
Zalma on Insurance
Insurance Fraud Conviction Helps Establish Lack of Credibility
By Barry Zalma
Prescriptive Easement Established by Fraudulent Testimony of Defendant An New York trial court, after finding that defendant’s credibility was called into question by inconstancies in his testimony and a felony…
The Right Coast
Is Ford’s Credibility Undermined by Her Refusal to Produce Her Therapy Records? – Volokh Conspiracy : Reason.com
I've seen it asserted with confidence that no woman would forget exactly who perpetrator was of such an incident, even decades later, so it's impossible to believe that she initially…
The Right Coast
Ideological warfare blinding Catholic Church to its real problem: credibility and leadership
It is with no small amount of frustration to this Catholic in particular to see the latest revelations of abuse and cover-up played out in political terms, both in the…
Appellate Advocacy Blog
Make Sure You’re the Lawyer That the Judge Can Trust
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” -Mark Twain When I talk about legal writing, I like to stick to specifics. Like how to write punchy first…
Drug & Device Law
In a Word − Incredible
By Bexis
Summary judgment isn’t normally available for credibility issues. During the “summary judgment trilogy” of 1986, the Supreme Court stated, “[c]redibility determinations, the weighing of the evidence, and the drawing of…
EvidenceProf Blog
Is Failure to Register as a Sex Offender a Crime of Dishonesty or False Statement?
By Colin Miller
Similar to its federal counterpart, Arkansas Rule of Evidence 609(a)(2) provides thatFor the purpose of attacking the credibility of a witness, evidence that he has been convicted of a crime…