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CIVIL RIGHTS/CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: Pitt Bull Owners’ § 1983 Action May Proceed

NLRG (National Legal Research Group)

2009); Viilo v. 2005); Altman v. 08-CV-294-N-EJL, 2009 WL 3823106 (D. 12, 2009); Dziekan v. 2005); Warboys v. In short, “the law does not require the officer to wait until the approaching animal is within biting distance or is leaping at him before taking protective action.” Bethards , 826 F.3d Lewis , No.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009. There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. No country other than the UK has spontaneously abandoned its basic law on emergency management (in this case the Civil Contingencies Act of 2004).

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The former has been in widespread use since about 1993, and the latter since around 2009. Since the late 20th century, the concept of anomie has been reinterpreted (Allan 2005, pp. Law and Social Inquiry 43(4): 1427-1457. Something similar has happened with the Internet and social media. Early views of social media (e.g.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

It doesn’t take long before thousands of Facebook users join these pages (Fieser, 2009). And that feeling feeds communicative capitalism insofar as it leaves behind the time-consuming, incremental and risky efforts of politics. […] It is a refusal to take a stand, to venture into the dangerous terrain of politicization” (Dean 2005, p.