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Appealing Against an Unfair Statute or Unfair Implementation of a Statute

This 9 page paper looks at a fictitious statute which has been applied unfairly by a commission set up under the act. The writer c...

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 ...

Overview of the International Court System

means that they have agreed to abide by the findings of the ICC and will not work against the treaty. Originally the United States...

Cases of Personal Injury and NC's Statute of Limitations

cause of action shall accrue more than 10 years from the last act or omission of the defendant giving rise to the cause of action ...

Procedure and Criminal Law II

The definition of felony murder is that it is a killing that is unintentional, occurring "during the commission or attempted commi...

Against the Practice of Race-Based Jury Nullification

to be guilty, innocent, in order to nullify unfair laws. This is particularly true of black juries finding black defendants innoce...

NEW YORK CITY AND PARKING TICKETS - UNFAIR?

very much there. One man, Simon, Belsky, is convinced of this - hes fighting a ticket he received in 2006 for blocking a fire hydr...

AIRBUS, BOEING AND SUBSIDIES

But is this true? Is Airbus the villain in this while Boeing sits aside without the lucrative financing its competitor can get? As...

A Solution for the Diversity of Problems Caused by Sweatshops

of many versions, the real problem with sweatshops arises when the workers that are producing it are not being fairly compensated ...

Insuring Fairness in Testing

continues to exist even today, such attacks are certainly warranted. It is up to those administering tests to insure that t...

American Universities - Profit Driven Unfairness

complaints usually tend to arise because of the existence of affirmative action policies that stipulate quotas that universities m...

Fair and Unfair Dismissals

the job * Conduct on the job * Illegal actions * "Some other substantial reason" is a general rule that can be applied to a number...

Argument: It is Unfair to Cut Veterans' Benefits

crackdown on veterans is the ballooning deficit, which is growing daily as the war in Iraq continues. Ironically, it is the veter...

5 Questions on Problems Facing a School Principal

teacher needs to be more concerned about the possibility of legal entanglements arising from striking a student. Even though the ...

Student Questions on Different Law Issues

S 699 and also Gillespie Bros & Co v Cheney, Eggar & Co [1896] 2 QB 59 indicate that the terms of the written contract may have ad...

Changing an Unfair Criminal Justice System

heading of the United States Department of Justice (Glover 92). The U.S. Marshalls, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the D...

United Kingdom's Compulsory Purchase Orders and Unfair Property Compensation

loss of property due to a compulsory purchase order can, itself, be an experience that is devastating. The accompanying administra...

Is there an Inherent Bias towards Employers in Unfair Dismissal Law?

this time cases would usually be brought for a breach of contract (Card et al, 2003). Unfair dismissal is first seen in the Indust...

Unfair Treatment for Afro-Latin America

Us," 2007). The World Bank is made up of two institutions that are actually owned by member countries ("About Us," 2007). There ar...

Does Oedipus Receive Justice?

the way; at the same time, the "old man," who was watching carefully, "struck me from his carriage, / full on the head with his tw...

Argument: The Status Quo Favoring the Death Penalty is Unjust

all those "red blooded Americans" who have the "love it or leave it" mindset, it might be useful to point out that this list conta...

Case Study on Australia Employment Law

then it looks like Henry was not in a union. Therefore, he also has the right to go to the civil courts and claim wrongful dismiss...

Race and Unfair Mass Media Representation

the stereotypical racial images portrayed in media today. Racism, which is the belief that skin color "determines intelligence, c...

Employment Law of the UK and the Unfair Dismissal Concept

times between its enactment and the Employment Rights Act 2002. ACAS has the authority to issue Codes of Practice for the purpose ...

Sports and Children

of the young children who will soon bloom into adolescence. In fact, LeBlanc and Dickson in their book Straight Talk About Childre...

1954 U.S. Supreme Court Case Brown v. Board of Education

The Facts of the Case Dougherty (2002) explains that the case was based on the events surrounding the attempts by several A...

English Employment Law and the Unfair Dismissal Concept

The reason that the introduction was seen at this time can be traced to the high level of grievances seen between the...

Liability and Contractors

be any unusual use here. The well known case here is Grant v Australian Knitting Mills [1936] AC 85, the case of Henry Kendall & S...

Criminal Justice System and Fairness

amazed that Bostick consented to the search. The United States Supreme Court held that Bostick had the ability to refuse. ...

Case of Johnson v. Unisys

to discriminate against workers, including by dismissal, specifically on the grounds that they are union members....