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California Family Code and Property

kicked in. In this way, the value would be calculated for the 10 years prior to the marriage during which the husband owned the pr...

1990 Case of the US Supreme Court v. Employment Div., Ore. Department of Human Resources v. Smith, 494 US 872

for ingesting peyote, a hallucinogenic drug. This was not recreational drug use, however, but rather, for sacramental reasons as p...

Australian Courts and Statutory Interpretation

are not necessarily the same words (or meanings) and as a result, the photographer can argue that the purpose of the import was no...

Truck Driving Laws

operate trucks only within a state are "only subject to rules at the state level" ("Why Arent Trucking Laws National in Scope?"). ...

Copyright and Music Streams

when an artists music is played via streaming audio, what is their expectation as far as royalties go? It seems as if royalties ar...

The Utilitarian Approach to Obeying the Rules

in question happens to be offensive to seventy-five percent of the population, it is highly likely that the twenty-five percent wh...

Product Liability and Tort Law

lack of fasteners or screws to hold this segment in place, resulted in his injuries. Claims of product liability based on two ele...

Male Sexual Harassment

In seven pages this paper discusses how contemporary society defines sexual harassment and considers how the law addresses victimi...

Studies in Contract Case Law

In twelve pages four cases involving contract law are analyzed in terms of contractual issues and legal definitions....

Criminal Justice, Social Justice, and Morality

the right to be treated the same as others Conclusion Although we know that the US Constitution guarantees certain rights to its ...

1979's Sale of Goods Act and British Law

Goods Act 1979 requires goods sold by traders to be of satisfactory quality" (Anonymous Representation in the United Kingdom, 2002...

Mistakes in United Kingdom's Common Law

the case given that this is a matter of common mistake (McKendrick, 2000). In this case the agreement can be seen as fulfilling t...

CONTRACTS, JET FIGHTERS AND PEPSI POINTS

of that offer creates the binding contract (Larson, 2003). Mutual consideration is the exchange of something of value for somethin...

Taiwan and the US/Comparing Domestic Violence

domestic violence, offering comparison to the legal standard on this issue in the US. In 1993, a horrific incident, the stabbing ...

HIPPA and California Policy

"drastic changes and levels of ambiguity contained in the proposed regulations" would be problematic to implement and compliance v...

LAW FOR TENANTS AND LANDLORDS

This 3-page paper analyzes tenant and landlord law, going into issues such as Implied Warranty of Habitability and tenant rights. ...

A UK 'Loss' Cass

it may be argued that there was undue influence exerted. Transactions concerning mortgages may be set aside when there are undue i...

Marketing Strategies for the Fitness and Body Building Industry

potential target market (Kotler 429). This is untaken using "memory tests " and "learning tests" (Kotler 430). Another name may be...

The Impact of Film Piracy

were not carrying any copying devices; camera phones were immediately confiscated; officials policed the movie aisles in search of...

Service Consultants and Differences Between Patents and Copyrights

copyright does not protect ideas but just the way the idea is expressed in a piece of work (UK, 2002). A patent, on the other han...

Development of Digital Audio Recording

early years of the new century. It reached its peak after reaching a turning point in 1948, when a disc improvement was developed...

Business Issues in the Music Industry

acquired by larger companies seeking to grow through that route. Traditional retailers have blamed Internet retailers, piracy and...

Ethics, Law, and Regulation

more regimented a country is, it seems, the more thought is invested into the consideration of how to structure e-businesses so th...

Violations of Copyrights and Ethics

plagiarism sometimes enters the picture. For example, after a certain number of years, a copyright is exhausted and writers can us...

Google's Acquisition Of YouTube: Ethical Considerations of Content

others? Is the decision to remove offensive or illegal material only after receiving takedown requests a legitimate way to quickl...

Creativity, Systems Theory, Problem Solving

reapplying existing ideas" (p. 46). Creative thinking is about putting a new twist on something but it will always involve the kno...

Copyright in the 21st Century.

not liable to be put under copyright include works that consist "entirely of information that are natural or self-evident facts an...

Issues in e-Commerce

IT security professionals must take a "comprehensive view of threats both inside and outside the direct control of the enterprise"...

A Critique on the October, 2008 Ringtone Decision

to royalties for the songs that are used as ringtones. In early October of 2008, the Copyright Royalty Board decided to freeze the...

Design Company in Cyprus

2007). Corporation tax is the lowest in Europe; a flat rate of 10%, next closest in corporation tax rate of 12.5%. In addit...