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Procedure and Criminal Law II

The definition of felony murder is that it is a killing that is unintentional, occurring "during the commission or attempted commi...

Influence on Current Real Estate Market in California

exorbitant prices in order to keep up with the real estate market boom. Many believed the year 2000 would finally allow for level...

Legislation on Nursing Overtime

the risk of medical errors, such as dispensing the wrong medication or the wrong dose (Nursing overtime, 2004). The study, which w...

Policies on Aging and Developmental Disabilities

School, 2004). Ageing is a little more difficult to define -- according to Wordreference.com, ageing is considered to be "...

Crime, Drugs, and California Legislation

attempting to curb activity until such a time as when other social policies provide a more amenable application? Indeed, the stud...

Health Care Industry and Medication Errors

potential for depression. It stands to reason, therefore, that if nurses in critical care units are experiencing higher rates of ...

Antitrust Laws and Microsoft

first needs to review the Microsoft case and then consider how anti-trust laws should be applied. Microsoft is one of the ...

1919's House and Town Planning Act, Also Known as the Addison Act

beginning of the twentieth century that many of the building socialites were formed, which unlike today, had the task of helping t...

NCLB and AR Program

determining comparative success in educational. The NCLB has not only redirected educators to a "teach to the test" method for in...

Change and High Stakes Testing

a high school diploma, as well as promotion from grade to grade (Alexander and Alexander 361). However, the US Supreme Court has b...

American Steel Industry

administration is ignoring the problem. After the repeal of the policy, the administration plans to closely watch imports as well...

Law and Rights of Workers

One of the most commonly discussed realms of workers rights if fair pay. Federal law specifies a minimum wage that a worker can b...

Gender Gap and the 'Glass Ceiling'

one that focuses on interactions between individuals is still beneficial in determining reasons the organization as a whole behave...

Canada's CRTC

running of the entire organization, and the commissioners include the chairperson, senior advisor, executive assistant, administra...

Recent Cases on Workplace Sexual Harassment and Policy Protection

three male supervisors subject Suders to what was described as a "continuous barrage of sexual harassment that ceased only when sh...

Would NCLB Act be Successful in the United Kingdom?

despite the optimistic revulsion there is still concern. Research conducted by universities into the level of literacy and numerou...

Stronger Laws Regarding Air Quality Are Needed

the congressional activities affect the consumer. It was explained that Congresss passage of a law would force consumers to pay an...

Enron and Can This Type of Corporate Scandal Happen Again?

the wake of Enron and SOA, however, experts have pointed out that if nothing else, auditing and auditing structures have been incr...

Transgendered Community and Civil Rights

themselves. There is a definitive move in fact, to abolish the term from the "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorde...

2004 Unborn Victims of Violence Act and its Impact

legal status to the embryo, fetus or fertilized egg, and it may be enforced even in the case when the woman did not know of the pr...

Battered Women Policy Analysis

at which point ideals began to shift toward the notion of male superiority. Once the ideal fully developed, the belief of male su...

'Con' Argument on Quotas in Nursing

Sharon Bernier, RN, PhD and President of the National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, points out that Aikens study also...

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Unsucessful Filibuster that was Launched in an Attempt to Prevent its Passage

our Republic, forbids it. Morality forbids it. And the law I will sign tonight forbids it (Friedman). The 13th, 14th and 15th Am...

Federal Health Care Legislation

included doctors, hospitals, lab work, dentistry and nursing (The history of Medicare). In addition, medical insurance for the nee...

Food Advertising & Children

target children as their principle demographic also have Web sites that market to children (Cowdrey 19). A child who gets bored wi...

Legal Issues and the Woman's Movement

professional schools" (Eisenberg and Ruthsdotter, 1998). The results have been amazing: "The number of women doctors, lawyers, eng...

Federal And Connecticut Resident Rights: Nursing Homes And Assisted Living Facilities

?19a-490, Connecticut Department of Public Health Code ?19-13-D105 and Residential care homes ?19-13-D-6 (National Academy for Sta...

The Dangers of Using a Cell Phone while Driving

driving, 2006). "Inattentive driving accounted for 6.4 percent of crash fatalities in 2003 - the latest data available - according...

Is there an Inherent Bias towards Employers in Unfair Dismissal Law?

this time cases would usually be brought for a breach of contract (Card et al, 2003). Unfair dismissal is first seen in the Indust...

Difficulties in Constructing Robust Legislation to Impose Enforceable Health and Safety Duties on Directors of UK Companies

a particular person responsible especially when the company also has a legal identity and can be seen as a defendant. However, alt...