Statute Research Papers Samples For Students

ADULT

Abstract
Sexual offences on children are a very traumatic event for them. This is the main reason why they repress this abuse in order to protect themselves from the memories. The statute of limitation comes in handy for this kind of claims. It enables people to be able to defend themselves against these claims when they are innocent and it helps the plaintiff to give evidence they may have about the issue. There have been many cases where adults have been able to remember abuses from childhood and have taken their perpetrators to court. The main reason for doing ...

Abstract

This paper will discuss the emergence of national security policies and laws in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Prior to these attacks, there was relatively little coordination between different government agencies and branches with regards to counterterrorism. But the 9/11 attacks led to significant changes. All three government branches are highly involved in national security measures and interests. Congress responded by passing very important statutes to augment the government’s authority to conduct and investigate terrorist threats and apprehend suspects. These statutes reflect the practical difficulties of apprehending and prosecuting terrorists. Terrorism is unique in that if ...

The Arab Spring which began in Tunisia snowballed and among the countries that were affected is Syria. However, the events in Syria hardly followed the same course as the events in other countries affected by the Arab Spring. This was because, in most of these countries, the clamor for regime change by the citizens resulted in the removal from power of their then leaders. This was the case in Egypt with the ouster of the then President Hosni Mubarak and in Libya with the ouster of the then President Muammar Gaddafi after an approximately six months civil war in ...

- Mission/ Purpose of the Agency

The Department of Defense had been established to sustain the country's need for military strength to deter war and protect the nation from any threat, may it be internal or external threat. According to Trask and Glennon (2008) the department is also created to maintain and continue employing Armed Forces or military personnel to support and protect the Constitution from any threat. In addition to this, the department is also tasked to ensure that military action is done effectively and efficiently to ensure the security of the nation and all its national interest. Finally, the DoD is also ...

Arunabha Banerjee

Senior Associate, Corporate & Compliance Solutions, Thomson Reuters
Abstract
With the advent of technology, the level of invasion into the territory of our individual privacies has increased significantly. Fancy gadgets have crept into changing rooms, lockers, washrooms and in some cases public places to record the most intimate acts, which when revealed would embarrass any victim. In spite of the best efforts of the state legislators, the laws do not sufficiently address the core issues. Even the judicial pronouncements lack sufficient foresight in laying down the gauntlet for the peeping toms. The situation is clearly calling out for ...

Theories of Behaviorism and Operant Condition or Learning

Theories of behaviorism relate to principles that seek to explicate behavior in terms of overt or observable actions and responses. Behaviorism is essentially defined by the theories proposed by John Watson and B.F. Skinner, which highlight the stimulus and response mechanism as a way to observe and understand human behavior. Behaviorism highly values observable behavior because it is a manifestation of internal behavior that is measurable and may easily be recorded (Nevid, 2012). Behaviorists such as Watson and Skinner argue that the observable and measurable nature of overt behavior makes it an essential and reliable gauge of human behavior. Watson is ...

Criminal Law

Abstract
This study aims to present the concept of child abuse in the view of the criminal justice system. It will also present the history of child abuse in the United States as well as the prevalence of child sexual abuse in the United States, particularly in the state of Michigan. This research paper will discuss the current federal policies on child abuse and the intervention strategies and policy scheme involving child abuse cases. Finally, the conclusion of this study will present the new laws that will prevent sexual abuses cases and the role of the government to ...

Overview of contraceptive use in America

Close to 60 million women in America are estimated to be at the appropriate age of childbearing. Majority of this group are sexually active but always in fear of becoming pregnant. In order to fulfill their desires, there must be use of contraceptives. Women are the majority consumers of contraceptives with close to 99% of women at reproductive age. It is estimated that 62% out of the 60 million women population between the ages of 15 and 44 (reproductive age) use contraceptives as a birth control method. It is also estimated that a third of the women population are not using ...

Toward a Happy Medium: Maintaining Balance Between America’s Right to Liberty and Need for Security Through the Fourth Amendment

Abstract

The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution is near the heart of the American model of civil liberty. In no other amendment do the notions of liberty and security rest at such delicate legal counterpoints. Maintaining balance between the two is a constant challenge. Decisions in landmark cases in the last half of the 20th century helped to affirm important Fourth Amendment principles and protections concerning search and seizure, drug testing and probable cause. But in the post-9/11 world, Americans’ right to ...

Origin of the statute

Hate crimes are criminal activities motivated partly or entirely by the hostility of the perpetrator who perceives the victim differently (Jacobs & Potter, 2000). These crimes have great impact on the immediate victim and the group to which that victim belongs. Biases against the victim’s ethnicity, sexuality, debility, dialectal, or religion facilitate to commit hate crime. Hate crime statutes aim at stopping bias-motivated outrages. The federal and states have adopted hate crime laws in order to increase penalties for these criminal activities.

In the United States, hate crime statues began early in 1968. After the civil war in America, ...

Abstract

This paper puts the legal and ethical issues of physician-assisted suicide in the context of the larger debate on privacy and the right to die, which can be divided into three constituent parts: (1) a patient’s constitutionally protected right to privacy in all matters involving end-of-life treatment decisions. So long as a patient has the mental capacity to make informed consent, the government does not have a legitimate interest to override end-of-life decisions. Critical to the analysis of a patient’s refusal of life-sustaining treatment is the burden of the state to prove a patient did not have ...

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to critically appraise and evaluate whether the directors are abusing their powers and privileges based on existing laws. The study will also show whether the key duties imposed on directors by statutes as interpreted by the judiciary are being fulfilled. The article gives a detailed analysis of the duties of directors and determines the instances when they had exceeded the authority granted to them by the company, laws and statutes. Directors exercise potentially a broad range of powers in managing the company business and there are instances when they may be held personally ...

Abstract

The widespread use of the Internet, cell phones, and laptops has introduced a new type of bully on the school block: cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is a particularly difficult type of bullying for schools to punish and prevent. This is because most incidents of cyberbullying occur off school grounds. Currently, there is no federal law that specifically addressed cyberbullying. It has been largely left up to the states to define the parameters of cyberbullying and to set forth the corresponding penalties and punishments for such infractions. While some states extend criminal liability for cyberbullying off school grounds, other states limit liability ...

Law

Introduction
A Good Samaritan Statute is a state law which instructs that those individuals who offer emergency services or rescue another person who is in peril cannot be sued for negligence, unless they acted in a reckless manner, which results to further harm to the victim (Miller and Jentz, 2010). There are several states that have established their own statutes that set the duties and responsibilities as part of the Good Samaritan Statutes. The law provides that any person who has been given voluntary assistance by another cannot turn around and sue “The Good Samaritan” for the negligence (Miller and ...

Abstract
International Criminal Court commonly referred as the ICC is a permanent tribunal that prosecutes people for crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crimes of aggression (although though currently it does not have powers to prosecute or exercise any jurisdiction over crimes of aggression.) Since 1945, the courts creation has been constituted by the most significant international law reform. The International Criminal Court was found by the Rome Statute and it is therefore mandated to prosecute crimes that were committed after that date. This paper observes and explains and critiques the benefits of the International Criminal Court.
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The Federal Torts Claims Act (FTCA) is the statute that allows for the recovery of damages against the United States (Cann 487). This Act allows prisoners of the federal government and pretrial detainees in federal correction facilities to file lawsuits against the United States if a federal officer injures them.
The Federal Torts Claims Act enables a litigant to sue the federal government over torts committed by its employees (Cann 487). The United States has no qualified immunity under this Act. It is important to note that the Act does not limit a noncitizen from suing the federal government. ...

Introduction

NEW YORK v. BURGER, 482 U.S. 691 (1987) 482 U.S. 691 is a leading case on the American criminal justice system. This paper intends to discuss the abovementioned case in detail along with the facts, issues, and findings of this case.

Brief Facts

Brooklyn based Respondent used to own a junkyard. He was in the business of dismantling automobiles and selling the dismantled parts. Police Officers of New York City department suspected his business and rushed at his premises on 17th November 1982. Police officers were in civil dress, and they wanted to conduct an inspection of the premises. Police officers asked for ...

ECON 30423

Economic Implication of the Black Plague
Abstract
Britain and Europe, during the early ages were economically strong. With the growth of industries, job opportunities rose and there were jobs for all people in that region. However, this was short-lived as the Black Plague caused considerable damage to lives and economy. The Black Plague almost wiped out the whole of civilization and this period was one of the darkest periods in Europe’s history.
Keywords: Black Plague, Europe, labor, environment, upheaval, industry

ECONOMIC IMPLICATION OF THE BLACK PLAGUE

Abstract
“The plague had large scale social and economic effects, many of which are ...

Political Science

Federman (2010, p.215) stated that the Writ of Habeas Corpus provides a mode of redress for violating the provisions of the due process law under the Constitution. Under the U.S. federal law, the writ has permitted the state prisoners who have been convicted to appeal their cases to the federal district court and question the basis for such judgment finding them guilty. However, it is mandatory for the federal habeas corpus courts to have jurisdiction over the subject matter before setting the case for hearing and issue a ruling based on the merits. In the event that the federal court shall ...

Flag Burning as a Symbolic Speech

Nature of the case
When thinking about the symbols of a nation, the flag comes into mind; this is the principle upon which a country is built and of national unity. The flag possesses a special and revered role that is exhibited with pride from different groups and individuals. The lingering question is what would happen in the event that the flag is treated with disrespect, or dishonored. The Supreme Court of the United States addressed flag burning issues and free speech on Texas vs. Johnson. The burning of the American flag is expressive or symbolic speech and it fell within ...

Racial segregation is a dark and painful past of the American people. It has been landmarked by various criminal and legal cases such as the Plessy versus Ferguson court case. In this particular issue, Plessy did not follow the vehicle segregation and was punished by law. This is a landmark case which hinges on the issues of separate but equal doctrine along with de facto and de jure segregation, and the overall discrepancy in the criminal justice system.
In actual terms, there is an evident conflict and diversity in the US criminal justice. It reflects the inequality in the general ...

Introduction

Literary appropriation may be defined as the legal beneficial and creative art of borrowing from literary work of another author to come up with a completely different work from the original (Adeney 2013). It is simply the unoriginal, imitative or different perspective of the original work as seen and created by the ‘new’ author. It is different from plagiarism, which is essentially copying, direct lifting of an author’s words without acknowledgement, stealing of another’s work or pirating. These borrowed ideas are geared towards achieving certain literary objectives such as to criticize, ridicule, create new literary work, prepare ...

The First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech by restricting legislations that curtail this freedom. U.S. Supreme Court decisions reinforce respect for the freedom of speech against legislations by the federal and state governments. However, some forms of communication are exempt from First Amendment guarantees. Obscenity is one such exemption. In Roth v. the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court cited a series of cases dating back to 1877 to demonstrate the Court’s consistent regard of obscenity as an expression that is not protected by the First Amendment right to free speech. Since obscenity does not form part of ...

The First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech by restricting legislations that curtail this freedom. U.S. Supreme Court decisions reinforce respect for the freedom of speech against legislations by the federal and state governments. However, some forms of communication are exempt from First Amendment guarantees. Obscenity is one such exemption. In Roth v. the United States, the U.S. Supreme Court cited a series of cases dating back to 1877 to demonstrate the Court’s consistent regard of obscenity as an expression that is not protected by the First Amendment right to free speech. Since obscenity does not form part of ...

The First amendment guarantees freedom of speech by restricting legislations that curtail this freedom. U.S. Supreme Court decisions reinforce respect for the freedom of speech against legislations by the federal and state governments. However, some forms of communication are exempt from First Amendment guarantees. Obscenity is one such exemption. In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court cited a series of cases dating back to 1877 to demonstrate the Court’s consistent regard of obscenity as an expression that is not protected by the First Amendment right to free speech. Since obscenity does not form part of protected ...

Abstract

This paper examines the case of Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, a 5-4 Supreme Court decision that combined the substantive, environmental law question of whether the Environmental Protection Agency erred in its initial decision not to regulate greenhouse gas emissions for motor vehicles with the procedural issue of whether states, cities, and environmental organizations had legal standing (defined as the right to use the courts as opposed to Congress to force governmental action) for the environmental claims at issue in the case. This paper begins with a brief overview of the political, legal, and cultural context for assessing the ...

Organized crime has often been branded as one of the most difficult types of crimes to deal with, and rightly so, given its nature. The extreme preparedness and structuring that goes into executing each criminal activity, as well as the number of people involved in an organized crime makes it difficult for the investigating authorities to apprehend the criminals involved therein.
According to Blacks Law dictionary, the most distinct feature of organized crime is the fact that it is extremely planned and systematic. It is never sudden as it involves many people acting in concert with the common intention ...

Organization

Introduction
In America, one of the most important matter of national concern is clean water. Almost half the Americans believe that clean water is one the fundamental rights of every citizen. Thousands of Americans take part in the local and state water protection group. The Clean Water Act or the Federal Water Pollution Control Act is the principal law that governs the pollution of the surface water of United States of America. The act was originally enacted in 1948 but it underwent certain amendments in 1972 to come to its present form. The 1972 act laid out ambitious ...

The following are the facts of the case of Commissioner of internal revenue, petitioner vs. Kate j, Crinchton.The defendant and her children had a tract of land that has a developed side o and undeveloped part. They all owned the land in undivided interests. The fact that one of the lands was improved and the other one not developed lead to a difference in the exchange interests. Her children transferred to her their undivided interests in the developed part of the land and she made a counter offer of transferring to them 3/12 interest of the country land. The transfer-included oil, gas and ...

The Second Amendment (U.S. citizen's right to bear arms)
The Second Amendment (U.S. citizen's right to bear arms)
The Second Amendment got adopted on December 15, 1791 which provided U.S. citizens the right to bear arms. The amendment led to the horrible massacre at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007 when single gunmen shot 32 people (Virginia Tech massacre, 2014, May 3). The Second Amendment holds that, the right of an American citizen to have and keep arms were respected at all times. As a result of that statute, research indicates that over 40% of the American homesteads ...

The Affordable Care Act is also known as the Patient Protection. However, its most common name is “Obama care”. This is a federal statute of the United States which was signed into law on 23rd of March 2013 by President Obama. This Act represents one of the most important United States Healthcare System overhaul since Medicaid and Medicare passage in the year 1965 (Tate 22).
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed with three main goals in mind. One, to reduce healthcare costs to both the government and individuals in the country, two, to lower the rate of the ...

Collective Bargaining Rights and how they Impact Employment Law in the U.S.
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Abstract

In the United States, collective bargaining rights have provided a stable voice to the millions of employees against their employers who represent the industrial organizations and companies. Collective bargaining plays a strong role in defining the terms of employment in the U.S. and thus, it has had significant impact on the various employment laws that have emerged in the nation. They dictate the overall cost of employing and firing new members of staff in the company ...

Write a paper discussing the relationship between these arguments and at least two or more of the arguments presented in your text:
Death sentence is simply, a lawful killing inflicted upon the criminals/convicts. The capital punishment, in the form of death penalty, is an age-old phenomenon and has been in vogue in America since 1608. Prescription of death sentence is evidenced in the Bible for the crimes like murder, kidnapping, witchcrafting and other heinous acts. Incidentally, the death penalty exits in military and federal crimes of spying, espionage etc.
Principally death as a capital punishment is awarded to murder and ...

Criminal Law

Michigan Mandatory Reporting Requirements Regarding Children
The definition of “child abuse” as stated in the case of People v. Beardsley, and pursuant to the MCL 722.622(e), as enacted under 2000 PA 45 stated that the term “Child Abuse” shall refer to harm or threatened harm that may be caused to the health and welfare of the child by his or her parent, a legal guardian, or any other individual who is accountable for the health or welfare of the child, or by the child’s teacher or the teacher's aide, that may take place occur through maltreatment, sexual ...

A review of the Stand Your ground Act

Abstract
Although laws are made with an intention to help people, sometimes it is unfortunate there is no consensus on its necessity among the people.. The ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws in one such law in which there is much controversy. While use of deadly force to defend self is acceptable by all, there is a possibility of the Act being revoked by the defender after unnecessary killing to go scot free. After the Trayvon Martin case of 2012, there has been a major outcry to reform it or abandon it. Although ‘Stand Your Ground’ law has been determined as right ...

Introduction

Sexuality refers to sensation and linked closeness between two human beings. In psychological terms, sexuality is the way through which people make an expression of the completeness of love between a woman and a man. In biological terms, this is the means through which the conception of a child occurs and the ancestry is passed over to the next generation. The purpose of this paper is to look at the issue of public expressions of sexuality concerning the law in the United States. In this paper, is going to be established that public expressions of sexuality in the United ...

When people look at the Statue of Liberty, they see a large effigy of a woman wearing a crown, holding a torch up towards the heavens and standing with a broken chain at her feet. Stationed on Liberty Island, which is located in New York City’s New York Harbor, the Statue of Liberty has captivated the imagination of millions since it was opened to the public on October 28, 1886. There have been many interpretations as to what this larger-than-life monument constructed out of copper iron actually symbolizes. What can be seen when looking at the evidence is ...

The bill of rights refers to the significant rights of the American citizens and plays a critical role in safeguarding the rights from infringement by the government. The original constitution was outlined in Philadelphia in 1787 and was ratified by the different states in America. The original constitution laid a base for the bill of rights. However, this constitution contained less number of individual rights guarantees and was focused on launching a system for an effective federal government. Persons such as Pinckney and Madison are perceived as the ‘architects’ of the bill of rights that is applied in America ...

Introduction

Passengers aged over fifty years often develop Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)during prolonged flights. The development of DVT among passengers is well documented but is not often experienced by pilots flying commercial aircraft; however, there are a few cases where pilots have developed DVT in the course of duty.The potential liability of airlines is much more expounded with respect to claims arising from injuries caused to passengers without any sort of monetary limitation. In order to address the problem and help balance the liability to a proper proportion, the Convention for the Unification of Certain Rules Relating to International ...

Causes of the Revolution

The American Revolution occurred between 1765 and 1783 after the colonists within the thirteen American colonies declined the British aristocracy and monarchical rule. Beginning 1765, the American colonists refused to acknowledge the power of the British parliament to tax the American colonists while the latter did not have colonial representatives in the governments. The following years were marred by protests as American patriots sought to ventilate their disapproval of the authority of the British monarchy and aristocracy over the thirteen American colonies. Religion played an important role in ushering the revolution as the Christian revivalists in the Great Awakening ...

Historical significance of the Roe vs. Wade case

The Supreme Court in the Roe vs. Wade case (1973), made a ruling challenging a Texas statute that prohibited abortion unless the life a woman was in danger. Jane Roe, an unmarried woman, filed the case so that the law could be adjusted to let her have a safe and legal abortion. Wade, a judge at the Supreme Court, sided with Roe and termed the Texas statute unconstitutional. For the first time in history, the Supreme Court acknowledged that the constitutional right to privacy is far-reaching to entail the decision of a woman whether to keep or terminate the ...

Introduction

Child sexual abuse refers to the any form of maltreatment which involves sexual contact with a minor. Under the United States of America federal and state laws, a child lacks the capacity to consent to any sexual activity (Butler, 2013, p.34). A redefined view of child sexual assault broadens the definition to include non-physical contact. The non-physical contacts include sending obscene texts messages and phone calls, sex trafficking, masturbation in presence of a minor, and production and sharing of pornographic materials with minors. Child sexual abuse occurs in a variety of settings including school, home, or in places where ...

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) is comprehensive federal legislation that prohibits discrimination against persons that have a disability of impairment (Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990). The ADA was the culmination of years of effort from disability and civil rights advocates (Concannon 90). The ADA has made great strives in combating discrimination against those with disabilities. Sharing many qualities with racial discrimination, disability discrimination is now a protected class under the ADA.
The history of the ADA has many commonalities with race discrimination. Not until approximately 60 years ago was racial discrimination completely outlawed in the ...

The Armenian Genocide is one of the vigorously contested incidents of mass murder in the 20th Century. The Armenian Genocide is alleged to have been the Ottoman government’s systematic extermination of the minority Armenian population. This occurred in the historic homeland of the Armenians which is within the territory of present-day Turkey. In spite of the many claims, the Turkish government denies it was a genocide. They claim it was a war which involved the mass killing of Ottoman citizens including Muslims and Ottomans. The Turkish government also claims that the number of Armenians who died in the ...

When most Americans hear that the Supreme Court has utilized judicial review to strike down a federal legislation, they often understand the Court’s act as a nullification of the legislation. Simply put, the court has undone the work of the congress and ended the life of the statute. The other branches of the federal government are elected by the Americans and are entrusted with the responsibility of making laws. Nevertheless, the reality is that judicial review does not usually end the life of the statute, but offers an exemplary opportunity for the congress to review the legislation and incorporate or ...

BACKGROUND

The Individuals with disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is the principle federal statute that has been mandated to authorize federal aid for the education of more than 6 million children with disabilities nationally (Huefner, 2008, p.371). IDEA guarantees eligible students a Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE), therefore, education becomes free to both the child and the parent in the sense that, the school, insurance company or any other specified state agency will incur the costs of education for the child. The IDEA statute is made up of two components: The due process provisions that detail parental rights and the permanently authorized ...

The Constitution was written for the purpose of granting the people of the United States their inalienable rights. The constitutional rights were established in the Bill of Rights and the First Ten Amendments that include some of the rights that people and the courts still used every day. This paper is tasked with providing an analysis of the case, Korb v. Raytheon, 707 F. Supp 63 (D. Mass. 1989). This paper will discuss the challenges that were discussed in regards to the Constitutional rights. This paper will provide supporting cases that touch on the same themes in order to ...

Abstract

The right to work laws, as provided by the Taftharthartley Act, protects employees from compulsory unionism. The American workers under the legislation have a right of association both financially or membership. The Right to Work law is currently used in twenty states. It is essential to analyze how the law works, for instance the channels of justice used in implementing the formulated regulations. Analyzing whether the law is for or against unionism helps to clear the prevailing misconceptions. The effect of the Right to Work legislation can be helpful in determining its essence in the member states.
The proponents ...

The stand your ground law is a type of jurisdiction in which, individuals are given the right to use force in the event they are in danger or approached by such circumstances. The law does not provide any statute for the evasion of such circumstances but allows for the individual to counteract the force with an equal measure of force. When this law is reviewed with respect to the humanitarian perspective of human rights, it is considered as a wrong undertaking. As a matter of fact, I consider this law as a discriminative law and violate the natural course of life forms. There ...

Of the 14 states with state-based marketplace healthcare plans, eight have defined contributions options at present or being planned in the near future. These states include California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Rhode Island and Vermont. Other states have no defined contribution plans and these states include Hawaii, Idaho, Maryland, and New York.

A. STATES WITH DEFINED CONTRIBUTION

California
California allows employers to offer defined contribution health plans to their employees. The use by employers of such type of plan requires compliance with ERISA and HIPAA guidelines. This means giving employees the freedom to choose their respective health insurance plans ...

The U.S. has made many attempts over time to restrict access to addictive and dangerous drugs and medications in order to protect its citizens. The result was more than 200 drug and medication laws that were impossible to monitor and was not effective in solving drug problems in the country. Compliance with the numerous state and federal laws which often differed substantially was hard to enforce and those dealing substances illegally could often get off by dealing in a different state and pleading ignorance if they were caught. Due to the major differences in numerous large and small details related ...

English

Introduction
Most lawyers grapple with First Amendment Issues Daily according to Professor Marvin Amori as they have to deal with laws that govern and concern speech and consequently write rules on them. Laws on speech are a crucial component in the society due to their significant contribution not only to national matters but also in global corporate boards as well as different public and private institutions. These lawyers therefore have to operate globally and are not only concerned with the First Amendment of the United States constitution but with customs, laws, and practices of different foreign nations (Mark 2238).

Tinker’s Decison

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Introduction

A pretty, articulate African-American woman stands before a University of Chicago audience to deliver a lecture on her latest book. She is Michelle Alexander, a highly acclaimed civil rights attorney and Associate Law Professor at Ohio State University. The Stanford Law School graduate is the author of the book, which discusses the modern effects of a viciously racist Jim Crow system on today’s society. Significant patterns have continued to emerge regarding racist voting practices in the United States. Is it little wonder, given the historical debauchery that has occurred? Various inconsistencies in prison policy practices (and voting rights discrepancies) have engaged critical ...

Organized Crime in the United States and its impact to the US Criminal Justice System

The United States of America has its fair share of problems when it comes to maintaining national security and stability against international and domestic threats. The federal government has to contend to the threat of various actors wishing to destabilize the country either through fear or terror or through illicit activity that paralyzes the country. One of the most crucial threats the US government faces today are the transnational organized crime groups which endangers the country from within its borders and through the rest of the world. The problem with this threat is the fact most of these organize ...

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In the aftermath of the suicide of Aaron Swartz, who hanged himself after Federal prosecutors charged Swartz with 11 felony cases that could landed him in prison for 35 years, there have been calls for reforming the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), the frontline statute tasked to combat cyber crime and fraud committed on the Internet.
The 1986 law was designed to providing a law to combat “unauthorized access” to large computers that are “time-shared”. In the past, the assumed threat was activities related to computer “hacking”- individuals who illegally gain access into computer databases, such ...

- Evaluating media/news sources
In the United States of America, the mass media plays a crucial role in transmitting information to the wider audience that is the American public. Mass media may include the television channels, newspapers, radio and to some extent, the internet. These sources give different types of information to the consumers, depending on their preference or orientation to the political parties.
- CBS Corporation
The CBS Corporation puts much of its emphasis on publishing, commercial broadcasting and television production. Most of the corporation’s operations are based in the United States of America. Currently, ...

Wesberry v. Sanders

Wesberry v. Sanders
The case of Wesberry v. Sanders was decided by the United States Supreme Court in 1964. The case originated in the state of Georgia and involved United States Congressional districts. Wesberry is one of the seminal redistricting cases of the 1960. Wesberry v. Sanders was a part of a series of “one man, one vote” cases that had a significant impact on the composition of the United States House of Representatives. It was decided on the heels of Baker v. Carr, a 1962 redistricting case that held that redistricting question were not political questions outside of the court’s ...

The Regulation of Federal Acquisition (FAR) section 46.703 basically envisages the law of warranty. This statute sets the reasons for the need for warranties, defines the types and gives the scope and overview thereof. The first segment of this law gives the scope and overview of the warranty requirements. It gives Program Managers (PM), Logistic Managers (LM), Contracting Officers Representatives (COR), Contracting Officers (CO) and Project Officers (PO), together with others who are responsible for the implementation and development of warranty guidelines and steps to this great task. For example, the first step to developing a warranty is establishing a warranty ...

Abstract

Whether or not slaves were owned by free African Americans back when slavery was actually an institution in the United States is one of the most perplexing questions in African-American history. While some Americans might not be aware of and might not have suspected this, but truth, which will be discussed in this paper, is that black people in the country indeed purchased and sold other black people as slaves. In fact, there were black slave owners in the United State since 1654 and they continued to own slaves through the Civil War. This paper will answer many perplexing ...

Reframing organizations: Lilly Ledbetter’s treatment while at Good year tire

Summary
During the nineteen years she served at Goodyear tire, Lilly Ledbetter was constantly offered very low rakings with regards to annual performance, remuneration reviews and lower raises. Her fellow employees received higher emoluments than she did. As a result of this, Lilly sued Goodyear for gender discrimination. She argued that the company contravened Title VII of the 1964 civil rights. She made an argument that the firm accorded her a lower remuneration merely because of her gender. The jury awarded Ledbetter a huge pay of 3.5 million dollars, a sum that was later reduced to only $360,000 by the Court ...