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The Politics, Figures and Facts of Air Pollution

In eleven pages policies and legislation applicable to the issue of air pollution including the Clean Air Act are discussed in a d...

Overview of Environmental Law

In eight pages environmental law is discussed in a consideration of two pieces of legislation from the 1960s, the Clean Air Act of...

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...

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 ...

Technology and Privacy Rights

and even peruse employee movement and behavior in the workplace utilizing closed-circuit TV (Benigno, 2002). As science-fiction s...

Ethical Dilemmas and Moral Responsibilities

little intrinsic value in society. No one would trust anyone else. A degree of trust is necessary in order to keep anarchy at bay....

United Kingdom's Water Quality Laws and the EU's Impact

any other type of pollution. Humans depend on water both directly and indirectly for their sustenance. Clean water is important...

Sexual Discrimination, European Union and English Laws

implemented by those states whom it is aimed at. Under the principle of subsidiary the member state may choose how it is enacted w...

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 ...

Education, Special Needs Individuals' Rights, and the Law

from the regular classroom at her middle school on the basis of her condition. The parents contended that the school and its super...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

United Kingdom and Computer Crime

censorship, where there has been increased realisation and commitment to deal with the type of information that is on the internet...

Internet Laws and Pornography

has no place debating the issue. The primary issue with regard to Internet control is how it negatively affects society by being ...

1998's Aviation Medical Assistance Act

In five pages this Act is discused in detail as are its purposes, passenger benefits and resulting legislation. Five sources are ...

Article X, Section Four of the Homestead Protection Laws of Florida

property owned by a natural person " (quoted Cohen, 1998). Therefore, we can see from this that in theory there are only three sit...

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 ...

Communism, Soviet Relations, and the Effects of the National Security Act, the Marshall Plan, and the Truman Doctrine

Plan and the National Security Act impacted the USSR, its important to understand the relationship between these two great powers ...

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...

European Union and Competition Control Suitability

was achieved through the creation of a trading zone, where the barrier to trade were to be reduced and then eliminated. If differi...

BC's Gay Marriages

being primarily procreative, there is also a distinction made between marriages which cannot be consummated or which are sterile, ...