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Monthly Archives: June 2010

Blacks still unfairly excluded from southern juries, says new study

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

I have posted up a discussion on a new study discussing race-based jury exclusion. I’ve also briefly examined how such exclusions are (almost always unsuccessfully) challenged in North Carolina. You can find the article here. Please share your thoughts on the subject here or at examiner.com.

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Small Claims Court Getting Kind of Expensive

Monday, June 7, 2010

As part of an empirical study I’m working on concerning the impact of filing fees on small claims court filings in my State, I have generated this simple little graph. This shows how the filing fees have changed for the three levels of North Carolina trial courts over the last 30 or so years. I [...]

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Ethical Consumerism: The Paradox of the Global Marketplace

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Recently, the Associated Press reported on the suicide of a Chinese woman, identified only by her surname ‘Chu,’ who worked at a Shenzhen manufacturing plant.  The plant is operated by Foxconn Technology, the world’s largest contract maker of electronics, and employs some 300,000 workers.  Foxconn’s employees manufacture many products for many American companies such as [...]

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