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Fault and Divorced Mother Who is Out of Work

In five pages a young Josephine County, Oregon Caucasian divorced mother of 3 is examined in a consideration of how society and cu...

Families on the Fault Line by Lillian B. Rubin

In five pages this sociological text is summarized and analyzed in a consideration of the working class 'invisible' American citiz...

School Field Trips, Tort Liability, and In Loco Parentis

In eight pages school settings are considered in an in loco parentis application that discusses field trips and teacher liability ...

Defense Tort Case Strategies

alcohol consumption prior to the accident as well as blood-alcohol tests, if taken, should be utilized to determine if her drinkin...

Hypothetical Legal Case Decisions and American Law

In six pages this paper examines hypothetical legal cases involving concepts such as the 'Necessary and Proper' clause of the US C...

Abuses and the Need for Tort Reform in the United States

In seven pages this paper discusses how in the US tort reform is desperatly needed because of system abuses. Six sources are cite...

Connecticut and Malpractice Litigation

was initiated, however, the Sabias settled with Humes for $1.35 million, before then moving on to try to get what they could from ...

Proposed Tort Reform

significant (Albert, 2004). As indicated by the position of the ATLA (1994), "defensive medicine" refers to tests or procedures th...

Issues of Special Interest Groups

first special interest crusaders Ralph Nader, "Corporations already exercise almost total control over legislatures and regulatory...

Business Operations' Criminal and Tort Liability Identification and Assessment

is safe from a clients legal right to sue. What is negligence, and why is it such a significant basis for judicial interjection? ...

Medical Practices and the Effects of Malpractice

hopefully - ultimately - reduce malpractice premiums. In its most basic form, the medical malpractice liability system has ...

Tort Reform Arguments Both For and Against

both pain and suffering and punitive damages. Hofmann (2003) believes that the Presidents: "... call for the reform of medical mal...

The History of the Alien Tort Statute

This was especially important at that time because the United States was very weak in its military sector, and would be unable to ...

Pennsylvania's Medical Malpractice Tort Reform

200 percent of the compensatory damages awarded" (Bamonte PG). Currently juries have plenty of room to award large damage claims ...

Tort Reform and Medical Malpractice

the implications and recourse citizens have in regard to torts. What determines whether or not an individual seeks tort action an...

Chetum v Knarles

operate a facilities maintenance company that includes four other employees, one of whom is a licensed plumber. The company pays t...

Compensating the Victim in Crime and Tort Cases

Law provides both the rules by which we are expected to abide and legal remedies for situations in which one individual has wronge...

Tort Reform and HBO's Hot Coffee

had to undergo numerous skin grafts and almost died because McDonalds was serving coffee at absurdly high temperatures ("Synopsis,...

Religion and Issues of Privacy

lawsuit, the disclosure must be public, that is, disclosure to a limited number of people or to those who have a legitimate need t...

Medical Malpractice, Overview of State Statutes

This research paper discusses issues relevant to medical malpractice tort reform. The statutes of Oregon and Virginia are describe...

Tort Reform An Analysis

Tort reform has been bantered about for decades. Court awards for punitive damages, pain, and suffering are...

Alumina Case Study

is exacerbated by the previous lawsuit, which occurred five years earlier, in which Alumina was found to be in violation of enviro...

LEGAL ANALYSIS: BUG INC

the domain name is not similar in terms of product or service, there is no physical proximity of goods or services and its unlikel...

Legal Matters at Bug, Inc.

can be used to help prevent another company from benefiting from Bugs efforts. 2. Industrial Espionage Corporate spying alw...

Florida State Laws: Underage Alcohol Consumption/Possession And Public Urination

are on their own at school; however, the soiree does not last long once law enforcement officials find out those who are imbibing ...

Issue of Tort Reform in Florida

Tort reform does make sense because the system is broken, encouraging people to sue anyone due to negligence or carelessness. The ...

Principles for Life/Apology and Crito

if "what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or bad man" ("Apology" 28b)(Plato 32-33). In regards to how ...

Philadelphia, Legal Issues in the Film

and complicated issue of AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) in any notable fashion" prior to this movie (Tepper, 1995). Fi...

Islamic Law, Aboriginal Customary Law and Queensland Law; a Comparison of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Systems

there are also some commonalities in the way that the law has been developed and the way it is implemented. In each case the evo...

Issues in Australian Law

The second basis of the appeal was that evidence of an alibi had been excluded by the initial trial judge under s.150 of the Crimi...