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Legal Cases and Appeals of Mike Tyson

Alan Dershowitz, filed an appeal immediately following sentencing. After the conviction, Tyson was denied an appeal for a new tria...

Short Briefs on Famous Legal Cases

of that right. In making this ruling the court established the parameters on which subsequent jurisdiction could be based. Barron ...

Obstetrics and Legal Considerations

In ten pages this paper discusses obstetrics regarding the legal complexities associated with this profession. Eight sources are ...

Social and Legal Evolution of Marital Rape

In twenty pages this paper examines the problem of marital rape in a consideration of its legal and social evolution with its impl...

Public Policy, Economics, and the US Legal System

in American society but the debate continues to circle around issues relating to the laws that defines the penalties and processes...

Canada and Legal Issues Involving Regulation of the Internet and Computer Hacking

In twelve pages Canadian law is examined as it addresses such issues as regulating the Internet and computer hacking and considers...

Historical and Legal Perspectives on Federal and State Citizen Equality in America

The concept of equality and how it has been reflected legally throughout American history is the focus of this sixteen page paper....

Legal Excuse of Mental Illness

rationale for this plea and the heart of its meaning. The desirability of even raising these questions seems hardly to have been n...

Establishing a Legal Age for Drinking

Typically, the national laws that determine the age as which individuals in that society may legally drink and purchase alcohol te...

The Legal Issues Involved in Animal Rights

groups, such as PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), have won some legal battles. Germany has changed its constitut...

Ancient Legal Codes

woman, then she was free to take back her dowry and return to her fathers house (Brians, 1998). While this sounds quite humanistic...

Double Indemnity and Insurance Payout Legal Memo

Hathaway. However, the Columbia claims department feels that Windsors death does not meet the criteria set forth in his policy cov...

Legal Brief of Experience Hendrix, L.L.C. v. Hammerton

decide whether to prevent Mr Hammerton and the Jimi Hendrix Fan Club using this domain name, a name that the company Experience He...

US Legal System and the Changes Brought About by the Scottsboro Boys Trials

boys with a fair trial by an impartial jury which eventually led to the end of jury restriction based on race throughout the count...

Analysis of 3 Legal Issues

adverse to removing them from the law abiding citizen, who often needs a gun to protect himself from the very criminal element of ...

U.S. Legal Questions on Estates, Wills, and Contract Law Answered

agreement had an agreed price of $30,000, but this was changed to $27,500. This was amended in the contract before John singed it,...

The Legal Use of Violence and Adversial Process

at the film "12 Angry Men." There are two versions of this film, each dating from different time periods but essentially remaining...

Questions and Answers Regarding Legal Issues

which would violate the dormant Commerce Clause (2001). In the case at hand, the state of Alabama is prohibiting a right that al...

Theories on the Legal Relevance of International Law

1979). As the world has developed from a separated and isolated set of civilisations and societies into what is now referred to as...

A Legal Courtroom Visit

the description of the room itself and the way the people orient to that room. There is, for example, the distinct separation of ...

Canadian Legal Cases and Promissory Estoppel Not as a Sword But as a Shield

the party making the representation will be estopped from following a contrary course of action" (Landry, 1997). Generally,...

Workplace, Sexual Harassment, Legal Issues, and the U.S. Supreme Court

as the accused, and also how due process is factored into the complex equation. Sexual harassment is regarded as a violation of t...

Legal Business Meaning of Copyright

creator to profit from his creation for 28 years, but after that become the property of the public. "That way we would never end ...

2000 Case of Conjoined Twins and Legal Alternatives

II. Facts of the Case The case in question was presented to Lord Justice Ward, Lord Justice Brooke and Lord Justice Robert Wal...

Timothy McVeigh's Execution and Its Social and Legal Repercussions

suffering, and death upon fellow Americans. Evidence quickly developed to incriminate at least two individuals associated with th...

Legal Brief on Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier Case

shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of s...

Legal System History of the Bahamas

in some countries we may see that there have been more reforms that others when it comes to the rule of law and the separation of ...

Driving, Drinking, Legal and Moral Responsibilities

legal, however recent harm reduction programs which were previously used for illicit drug use are now being applied to those who d...

Legal and Medical Issues Associated with a Patient's 'Right to Die'

providers and also provide a well-balanced outline about the issues involved in a patients "right to die" (Hendin, Foley and White...

Bipolar Disorder from Ethical, Legal, and Cultural Perspectives

have a variety of manifestations and patients are typically classified as either Bipolar I, Bipolar II, or Unipolar based on the s...