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Diversity Hiring and Affirmative Action in the Law Enforcement Profession

an extremely long history in the United States, equity per se, has an even longer history. The earliest laws were designed to spe...

Physical Scientist John Dalton

John Dalton, 1999). In 1800, at the age of thirty-four he resigned from his teaching position at New College and became secretary...

Treatment of the Unborn Child, Surrogacy Laws, and Abortion

Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom v DHSS (1981) with reference to the Abortion Act 1967 (Lexis, 2003). This makes abo...

Nonmobile Vehicle Police Searching

The US Supreme Court has defined curtilage as "the area to which extends the intimate activity associated with the sanctity of a m...

Equity Law Flexibility

in law means fairness. The law of equity had developed in parallel to common and statute law but is very different. The rules have...

Case Study on Family Law

no mention of joint property or the family home so we will assume there are no assets of this nature in this case. We will also as...

UK Confidentiality and Doctors

a relativity new situation (Porter, 1999). This indicated the need for rules and guidelines on what would and would not be classed...

Contract Law Application

of Goods by Sea Act 1992, this repealed the former Bills of Lading Act 1855 and was seen to bring English law onto the same level ...

English Law and the Legal System of England

new law since the seventh century (Barker and Padfield, 1996). These are seen as the more modern laws. This took the place of prim...

Children and Legal Responsibilities

for decision making (Lexis, 2004). This approach also reflects the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (Cretney , 1998). Ho...

Case Study on Agency and Contract Law

we need to ascertain if the title had passed when the goods were destroyed, if title had passed to the buyer then the risk has als...

Amazon.com and Internet Jurisdiction

have been forced to cease operations. Today Amazon maintains sites in Austria, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, the United ...

Ethics and Laws/Healthcare Organizations

informed consent as one would with other patients, who are not of this culture. Such questions that address the role of the law ...

Arming Airline Pilots

the cockpit with lethal force" (Up in arms, 2002, p. 3). There is a great deal of evidence to support Luckeys assessment, as liber...

Women and the Australian Legal System: A 13 page paper in 2 parts

of men only. It was not until 1987 - nearly 100 years after the schools emergence as a school and well over 100 years after its f...

Preventing Sexual Harassment in Tennessee

president of a state university keeping his job but also being sanctioned for his behavior in Allen v. McPhee (2007). Preventing S...

EMTALA and Illegal Aliens

to 20 minutes, an increase of 150 percent but at least 25 percent of these heart patients actually waited at least 50 minutes (Kro...

The Nature and Purpose of Criminal Law

of law" (Lippman, 2006, p. 3). This is what sets crime apart from acts we might find morally objectionable or distasteful, such as...

Laws About On-The-Job Injuries

to all workers in the state (U.S. Department of Labor, 2009). The specific qualifying criteria and benefits may differ from one st...

The Application of Product Liability Law; The Case of An Exploding Coffee Pot

of a manufacturer under two or more of the few theoretical approaches, for example they may be liable under negligence, strict lia...

Impact of Women in Law Enforcement

they approach law enforcement less as "control through authority" but more like performing a public service (Wells and Alt 105). ...

North Carolina Sex Offender Registry

sentence; 5. when enrolled in a NC institute of higher education 6. when working in the State for more than 14 days or a period th...

African Americans in the Legal Profession

to increase number of African American lawyers and judges," 2008). This is true even though the African American population is sli...

A Consideration of Ann Wells' 'Who Owns Information?: From Privacy to Public Access'

risks which currently exist in regard to information privacy and eloquently addresses the evolutionary trend toward information ma...

Child Labor Practices Among Farm Workers in Florida

Labor Standards Act of 1938 (Smith, 1995). At the same time, children who work all around the nation are being either hurt or kill...

Riggs et al v Palmer

of the defendant; Elmer Palmer, was that the will was made in the correct form and complied with the letter of the law. As such, i...

Reading: The Rule of Law and Military Tribunals

the most immoral atrocities ever committed, but it was not enough for the Allies to condemn them morally: "... this was to be a le...

Environmental Management Systems; Environmental Policy Statements, the Regulatory Register and Key Legislative Characteristics

confirm the companys commitment to environmental management strategies. This will often include a recognition of the impact the co...

U.S. History and American Racism AMERICAN RACISM AND HISTORY

subconscious, if a man has intercourse with a women, he claims ownership of her. Likewise, in a larger world view, if the white ma...

Assimilation of History's Lessons with Thatcherism

In nine pages theoretical comparisons are made between Look Back in Anger, a play by John Osborne, Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Or...