Gupta sued the SEC in federal court, saying that the administrative proceeding deprived him of his constitutional right to a jury and also deprived him of the pre-trial discovery available in federal court but not in administrative proceedings.

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Some ask whether Stanford has struck the right balance between commerce and learning, between the acquisition of skills to make it and intellectual discovery for its own sake.

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The bonanza was spurred by the Obama administration's apparent discovery of a constitutional right for every citizen to squander tax dollars while farming.

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The only bit of slightly good news, and I hesitate to use that expression at all, was the discovery that the culprit was a deranged Norwegian right wing extremist of the Unabomber ilk and not a foreign jihadist, as had been widely assumed by everyone I spoke to in Norway.

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In fact, studies have demonstrated that confirmation bias transforms the exchange of information during discovery proceedings into a more polarized and certain sense on each side that they are right and good and their opponent is wrong and evil.

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Although learning-by-discovery is being phased out of schools, the government seems prepared to accept that it is right for nursery pupils: ministers are said to have noted that in the successful education systems of Switzerland and Hungary, pupils start in the nursery with play-based education and then switch to traditional teaching at the age of six or seven.

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