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Identity Information Care & Control: A Brief History of Identity & Documents: Pertinent Fundamentals of Law: Identity Law - The Facts May Surprise You: CASE STUDIES from Firewire News:
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The National Council on Identity Policy Tips for Navigating This Site The National Council on Identity Policy (NCIDP) was born of the struggles of one tenacious survivor of domestic violence and stalking. The NCIDP continues her work with the help of many. Read more about the NCIDP... ~ A significant reorganization of the NCIDP website occurred on September 1, 2009. Most pages were reorganized into logical subdirectories/subdomains. Placeholder pages will be left for several months at the URL of each former page giving notice of that site upgrade and providing a link to the new URL. Please update your bookmarks appropriately.
The navigation column appearing to the left provides links to web pages and subdirectories on the NCIDP website. A few special links, such as to PDF files and our contact, can only be found within the content of the relevant web pages. For example, a link to contact us can only be found on our "Contact the NCIDP" web page. We suggest reading the web pages of this site based upon your areas of interest and preferences regarding legal language. Each part and subdirectory of the NCIDP site addresses subject matter as follows: The National Council on Identity Policy pages include core pages resident in our root domain (NCIDPolicy.org), such as our Home Page and IIULA webpage, and remain visible in every subdirectory. More About the NCIDP & This Site pages (about.ncidpolicy.org) provide information about The National Council on Identity Policy, including its History, mission, policies, and Contact information. Identity Information Care & Control pages (tools.ncidpolicy.org) is one of our most interesting yet easy-to-read sections, discussing the history and evolution of identity throughout U.S. and precedent English Common Law history. A recommended read for interested laypersons. Pertinent Fundamentals of Law pages (lawfundamentals.ncidpolicy.org) addresses foundational paradigms of the modern U.S. legal system fundamental to understanding modern law, here raising those concepts specifically pertinent to discussions of identity law. Identity & Law - The Facts May Surprise You pages (idlaw.ncidpolicy.org) delves into the heart of the specialization of The National Council on Identity Policy. The web content of this section merely scratches the surface of the knowledge base held at the NCIDP in this field, and this section is expected to see continuous growth in content for the forseable future. Indeed, the Identity Law content in our "Case Studies" and Legal Briefs, our IIULA, and our History of Identity pages, may exceed the working skeletal outline that this section may contain. Check back in on this section frequently. CASE STUDIES from Firewire News pages (cases.ncidpolicy.org) studies real-world cases affecting real people, and shows how identity law, and breaches of identity law, may affect you or someone you know now or in the future - if it hasn't already. Included in this section are legal briefs written by the NCIDP in specific cases, and these case studies can be very technical, very high-level reading. The remaining, less technical cases studies are a recommended read for interested laypersons.
Check back with this website regularly. Content will be added continuously. Our archives are brimming with information that we have yet to begin reviewing for addition to this site - this despite the significant amount of lost research information mentioned on our "About the NCIDP" page. Don't skip web pages thinking that you know the subject well enough already. Indeed, while we have tried hard to explain the law in the simplest possible terms for easy understanding by average people, the underlying facts of law that we discuss on this website are opaque to even the vast majority of legal professionals and scholars - that is why we are consultants to those legal professionals on this subject. Many a lawyer has flippantly dismissed, off the cuff, the legal facts presented here - facts defying their assumptions - only to experience jaw-dropping astonishment when they actually sit down to the research and validate those facts. We present the legal facts as they are, well defined at law and largely well-settled at case law. The only aspect of the information that we provide that is at all surprising is that it reveals how far off-base the assumptions of many, including legal professionals, are.
Please do visit our "Contact the NCIDP" and "Donations" web pages. We like to hear your feedback and your stories, and we are grateful for every donation that we receive. The legal facts that we provide on this website give you tools to empower you in the care and control of your own identity information. We also hope that you find here the inspiration to do so.
Reading our citations: Proper full case citations often appear to be lengthy exercises in numerology that really impair the readability of the material for average people. It is also only really useful to legal professionals. Consequently, we typically list only short citations to ease the reading. Generally, we show the case name, the court writing the decision, and the year of that decision. For example, the 1886 U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Boyd v. U.S. case will usually appear in our citations as "Boyd v. U.S. (S Ct., 1886)". Despite years of experience in reading these cases, we still find that form more readable, and we believe it to be more meaningful to the average person, than "Boyd v. U.S. 116 U.S. 616, 617", which more closely resembles how that same case would appear in standard legal citation format. We won't here try to explain what all of those numbers mean. We abbreviate the U.S. Supreme Court to "S Ct.". We abbreviate the King's Bench and Queen's Bench to "KB" and "QB", respectively. Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal usually appear something like "U.S. 9th Cir.". Federal District Courts usually appear something like "U.S. Dist. HI", with the HI referring to Hawaii in this case. If we occasionally cite a state court at some level, it will generally appear with the state name at the beginning of the citation, such as "Cal. S.Ct." for the California State Supreme Court.
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