Essays on Cheeseman

Literature Review

Impact Mitigation

Intelligent locomotive bumper designs have been touted as possible life-savers for pedestrians. Paden, Kelly, Hines, Botham and Simms explored the feasibility of a life-saving locomotive bumper (103). There were several motivations behind their paper. Perhaps the most important one was the high number of pedestrians that were killed every year in train impacts. Between the years 2007 and 2012, about 10,950 non-suicide deaths were attributed to train impact on humans. Including suicide deaths on railroads, 28,800 pedestrians were killed during that 6-year period. Also, Paden et al., noted that passenger trains served densely populated areas ( ...

Briefing Paper 1

a.) The “act of state doctrine” provides that a court in the United States, cannot pass judgement on the actions of a foreign government taken within their own country or territory that it has jurisdiction over (Cheeseman, 2012). In essence, the doctrine bars U.S. courts from interfering in the domestic policy actions of another government in their own country. b.) Under a communist theory of the world, the government of Cuba did act ethically when it appropriately the Glens’ property. From an American perspective, the expropriation was not only ethically questionable but most likely illegal. Club Med, under the ...

The Biblical Scripture and the U.S. Civil and Criminal Codes

Research Paper

Introduction Almost all countries nowadays comply with one of two main legal systems-- civil law or common law. The civil law system originated from continental Europe and was implemented by European colonizers, like Portugal and Spain, in their respective colonies. On the other hand, the common law system was developed in Great Britain and was implemented in the British colonies. In the 19th and 20th centuries, civil law was accepted and enforced by countries previously implementing unique legal systems, like Japan and Russia, which aimed at reforming their legal ...

Business E-Commerce Cases

Business E-Commerce Cases The main issue that was being litigated in this case was whether the NFL, the NFL Teams, and the NFLP separate legal entities were capable of engaging in a contract, combination or conspiracy as defined by Section 1 of the Sherman Act? (Cheeseman, H.R., 2013). In order to understand the issue that the case outlined in the facts how Section 1 of the Sherman Act was approached by the United States Supreme Court. The United States Supreme Court ended up holding that the NFL, the individual tams, and the NFLP were separate entities capable of engaging ...

A fundamental problem facing new democracies is the hijacking of the political process by elites. Economic performance is affected by elite politics leading to underdevelopment and sometimes morphing into political violence. The transition from colonial regimes to democracy has been subverted by the harm that was done by the colonial subversion of traditional institutions in favor of artificial Western ones. This provided an opening for the rise of elites and the rule of ‘the big men’ (Owusu, 1992). What role do elites play in transition to democracy or its opposite? This paper seeks to provide an analysis on how ...

BUSINESS LAW

Chanel Inc. v. Banks In the case before the court, the plaintiff deems it appropriate to file charges against Banks who runs a website selling counterfeit products bearing the trademarks that are identical to Chanel’s trademarks. However, being in a foreign region, Banks is not bound by the laws of the other region. However, by running an interactive website, she is liable to trial.

It is a multiplicity of factors that are put together to define a course of action. The test takes consideration of the nature of the website and the level of activity. The nature of ...

Integrated Marketing Communication: Easy Jet

Executive Summary UK airline industry is one of the most advanced in the global market with a number of the globally leading operators. The industry is highly competitive and marked by local and international airlines which accounts for the creation of more than 220,000 jobs. (BATA, 2014) However, the market is subject to several factors including technological advance, economic factors variation, social preferences and lifestyles changes, political factors, environmental regulations as well as legal requirements. Those factors set industry trends and determine the industry dynamics including increasing competition, operation’s efficiency and wider market reach as well as ...

There was an interesting book that I read a few years back that did not seem to leave my mind. The book read something like society is clouded by the idea of creative solutions that makes them so enamored by the thought that what we have now is progress at its finest. However, the question is whether innovation actually transcends to the cornerstone of human values or is it isolated to the superficial and the materialistic realm of our existence. Are we just naïve and gullible that we failed to see what media and popular culture are doing to ...

Introduction

The shoe industry is known to be one of the non-environmental friendly industry segments. The use of hazardous raw materials and chemicals while manufacturing shoes, especially the use of highly toxic element chromium, adhesives, toxic solvents and non-renewable synthetic materials can do serious damage to the environment and human health. Apart from, a large amount of water is used to manufacture the materials like leather, fabrics and synthetic petrochemicals (Grahame 2014). Therefore, it is very important for the shoe companies to practice sustainability. In recent times, a trend of environmental consciousness has engulfed the shoe companies. Most of the big shoe ...

Employees are expected to be in submission to their bosses; this is a common knowledge that is recognized all over the globe no matter what the nature of the work process is as recognized by the organization (Cheeseman, 2013). Nonetheless, there are instances when such knowledge is being used to overpower the employees especially based on racial and gender differences. Among the most common cases that impose such abuse of the law is that of the occurrence of sexual harassment in several institutions. Paula is noted to have just started her job at a corporation, and she was noted to be ...

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Introduction

Every time disagreement arises, and there is a need to bring it to court, the initial process would involve trying to resolve the issue out of court (Evans, 2014). This process is called Alternative Dispute Resolution. This process of resolving issues is usually done without needing the help or the assistance of a third-party mediator. The purpose for resorting to a particular type of alternative dispute resolution is to avoid the physical, emotional and financial burden of going through the ordeal of litigation (Bryant and Lane, 2013). There are different kinds of ADR. Among those includes negotiation, arbitration, mediation and ...

Zoom Car is an automobile manufacturing agency that seeks to satisfy its customers. Client satisfaction is vital, and the company offers a compass installation in its cars as an after-sale service. Zoom Car Company is involved in installing the compasses, which are manufactured by a different company called Corrigan, Inc. one of the Zoom company clients, Daniel Boone purchased an automobile, which was installed with this feature. He was involved in a crime scene after driving to an unsafe place; this was because the compass malfunctioned and lost direction. The client suffered injuries due to beatings from thugs in the insecure location ...

CCJ 101: Intro to Criminal Justice

1.) The different types of indigent defense systems include: states public defender agencies; state public defenders without commissions; state public defender agencies commissions with a director; states with a public defender commission with partial authority; state appellate commissions or agencies; and states without commissions (del Carmen, Vollum, Cheeseman, Frantzen, and San Miguel, 2010, p. 194). These public defender agencies derive funding from the states to provide full state funding and to expand the funding capacity of the state for indigent defense services. All these different types rely mainly on statewide resources. Each of the state public defender organization is composed of ...

Where the federal and state courts obtain their authority

So as to enforce federal law, the Constitution created the federal judicial authority and therefore, the Constitution merely permitted the states to keep hold of their existing judicial authority. The Tenth Amendment stipulated that all powers not provide to the federal government were maintained by the states and since the Constitution never took away state court authority above internal matters, the state courts retained their authority (Constitution of the United States).

The structure of the federal court system, and the types of cases addressed at the various federal court levels

The federal court system may be basically a 3-tiered structure. The district courts are the lowest federal courts and there currently number is ninety four. Each state has at ...

Distinguish between slander, libel, defamation, deceit, and trade slander, indicating the instances each would apply and the significance of the dissimilarity. For a statement to be actionable and considered to be defamation, it has to be published, false, and derogatory and must refer to a specific person. If it refers to a group of people, it is not defamation. A defaming statement cannot be complimentary even if not true. It must also have the effect of disadvantaging the individual, in that it has to be told to a third party possibly the media causing other people to avoid the plaintiff. Slander ...

News Corp

News corp. is one of the world‘s second largest media company, after the Walt Disney Corporation in terms of its yearly income Mphail (2010 (2010, pp.168). It has established a vast and diverse media holding all over the world, these holdings include; Limited, 20th Century Fox, Fox Broadcasting Company, HarperCollins Publishers and many others. News Corp has faced many challenges in the past years. Notably, from the difficulties they face, many people would say it is because of their on purpose actions. These challenges began when the company started engaging itself in illegal unethical issues in its operation.

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Apple Vs Samsung Legal Suit

One of the largest global technology companies, Apple Inc., has instituted several legal claims and suits since its inception. As a registered limited company, Apple Inc. has the rights to sue and be sued in front of the courts as a recognized legal body. A majority of the company’s litigation has been in its quest to safeguard its ownership of intellectual property developed by its employees. However, the company also has been a party to civil actions involving consumer actions, defamation claims, antitrust claims, practice suits, and corporate espionage. Since the late 20th century to present, the company has sued and ...

The concept of consumer protection can to be summarized as all efforts in developing structures and legal responses to outrage and crises developed by consumption of substandard products. Americans have in the past been subjected to consuming products that are a dangerous to the health. Once the dangerous nature of such products is known to the public, public outrage is usually the first response and such outrage is usually directed at any form of government, either federal or state. To this end, several government agencies and bureaucracies have been developed to address protection of consumers. These agencies have either federal ...