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History of U.S. Sexual Harassment Legislation

simple discrimination against women (Wyatt, Background, 2000). One of the bases of their arguments was that the women harassed wer...

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 ...

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,...

Tort Reform An Analysis

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

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 Practices and the Effects of Malpractice

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

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...

Proposed Tort Reform

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

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...

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? ...

Issues of Special Interest Groups

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

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...

Legal Matters at Bug, Inc.

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

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...

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...

Sophocles, Gilman & Browning/Oppressed Women

finer points of interpretation. However, the general consensus, down through the ages, is that Sophocles main theme had to do with...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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...

Life's Service and Disservice According to Friedrich Nietzsche

lessons. There is an old saying that claims that those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it. And although most ag...

McWhorter/Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue

Another feature that is unique to English is the way in which English uses the that "-ing thing" (McWhorter 2). In English, the pr...

Disputes and Western Civilization History

the author indicates were very gracious to those they conquered and allowed them the right to still possess their traditions and t...

Male Historians and the Challenges of Women's History

social relations formed by them impinged on the lives of Renaissance women in different ways according to their different position...

'Nightmare of History'

In three pages this paper examines the observation by J. Baldwin that James Joyce 'is right about history being a nightmare--But i...