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Sentencing That is Indeterminate v. Determinate

minimums with the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984 (1994). Since that time, stiffening or adding to mandatory minimums has ...

Antiterrorism and Human Rights

against terrorism per se may still be in favour of what he terms extreme action. For example, the bombing of civilians by the Alli...

Judiciary Function Theories

legislation: where the two conflict, national laws are subordinate to those of the EU. If judges are uncertain as to how a ruling ...

Federal Level Crime Prevention

attempting to finalize legislation regarding federal aid as well as a number of local anti-crime programs (5). The appropriations ...

Analysis of the 2002 Sarbanes Oxley Act

included in this Act is criminal provisions that aimed at preserving evidence of fraud (Leahy, 2003). This means that CPAs and aud...

Gun Control, Pro and Con

weapons in such crimes as drive-by shootings, minor altercations and myriad other random acts of violence. With the ongoing gun c...

Smoking and Teens

years. Smoking is a problem which continues on through the college years of the individual and on into adulthood. Between 1993 an...

Business and the Effects of Environmental Regulation

that time, the U.S. enacted a "new pesticide law, a solid waste law, a new toxic law, clean water, clean air, safe drinking water ...

The Protection of Human Rights in the UK

when an examination is undertaken of the way in which human rights are protected, the value of independent organisations such as A...

Accounting Audits, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and the Sarbanes Oxley Act, Statements on Auditing Standards 99

the creation of a Public Co. Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB). One year later, during 2003, the American Institute of Ce...

Overview of the New York State Factory Investigating Commission

loss of life. New laws specified that there must be two exits per floor, one of which could be a staircase, but the other had to b...

New Deal and Mechanisms of Commitment

restore public confidence (Byrd, 1990). While this legislation was an unequivocal success, not all New Deal policies were as ef...

Racial Equality and Tort Law

case, Buchanan had entered into an agreement to purchase a city residential lot, and to pay for it only if he were able to success...

A Policy Analysis of the Adoption and Safe Families Act

time minors spent in "foster-care limbo" (Spake, 1999). When President Bill Clinton signed the law in 1997, he summarized the ASFA...

International Cooperation and Chinese Competition Law

China in the direction of greater economic and personal freedom by adopting a consistent, long-run policy that normalizes trade re...

Civil Rights and Differing Perceptions Contained Within Congressional Committee on Domestic Affairs Testimony

when the nation was desperately trying to establish policies and procedures which would act to protect the rights of the freed sla...

United Kingdom's Double Tax Relief and the Impact of 2000's Finance Act

In ten pages this report which also includes an Appendix of three pages examines how the UK's double tax relief loophole closing a...

European Monetary Union and Portugal

This paper discusses the impact of EMU integration upon Portugal and the role Europe's legislation has had on the country's compet...

Great Britain's Policy of Homosexual Consent

In five pages the British law that reduces the age of homosexual consent from 18 to 16 is examined along with the implications of ...

Seat Belt Laws As an Exercise in Futility

In eight pages this paper examines the importance of safety laws but how seat belt legislation has thus far been futile with vario...

Europe and Pharmaceutical Waste

This paper consists of five pages and discusses pharmaceutical hazardous waste as it pertains to the United Kingdom and Italy wher...

Continuing Debate on Bilingual Education

entered the educational mainstream. This sink or swim approach was the standard modus operandi at the turn of the century, and t...

Comparing Anti Discrimination Legal Approaches Between the UK and US

In fourteen pages this paper discusses discrimination legislation in terms of The Human Rights Act, the Bill of Rights, the influe...

1968 UK Hinks Case and the Theft Act

In five pages this British legislation known as the Theft Act of 1968 is examined in a consideration of dishonesty. Five sources ...

A History of the U.S. Labor Movement from Presidents Richard Nixon to G.W. Bush

March 1970, for the first time in the history of the U.S. Postal Service, there was a walkout in Brooklyn which grew to include ov...

Cases and History of Antitrust Law

wealth has serious consequences for the economy and to other individuals because "such trusts minimize, if not obliterate normal m...

Overview of Mercy Killing

history Even though the debate over life vs. assisted death keeps heating up, it is by no means a new one. The...

In Support of Gun Control

would indeed reduce the number of deaths due to guns and would eliminate much of the violence in this country. In order to fully ...

Business and the Impacts of the SEC and Antitrust Laws

to pay consumers for any harm they decide has been done (USIA Electronic Journal, 1999). * Clayton Act of 1914: This Act enhanced...

The Law's Role in Anti Oppression

cannot change peoples attitudes, even if it successful in changing an individuals behaviour. We first need to accept that a law i...