Legal Case Study Essays

  • Legal Case Study

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    Legal Case Study Chronological order of events ============================= 1. Xavier wrote to YY stating, “I hear you have a Nokia 7600 mobile for sale. I would be interested in buying it for $2,000 if it is in good condition.” 2. YY wrote back to Xavier, “I

  • CASE: Paul Cronan and New England Telephone Company (A)

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    CASE: Paul Cronan and New England Telephone Company (A) I.     LEGAL CASE ANALYSIS A.     Facts Paul Cronan was hired by New England Telephone (NET) in 1973 as a file clerk. In 1983 he was promoted to service technician. He worked in Needham, Massachusetts for 18 months before transferring to South Boston, Massachusetts. In 1985, Cronan suffered from medical symptoms due to AIDS-related complex (ARC), and missed work sporadically for 6 months. In June, 1985 Cronan requested a third leave

  • Tenancy Legal Case Study

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    Tenancy Legal Case Study The distinction between having a tenancy and a simple permission to enter premises known under English law as a licence; is defined by the case of Street v Mountford. This case sets out the requisite, which is required in order to create a tenancy, one of which

  • Nike: From Sweatshops to Leadership in Employee Practices

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    with its reputation due to the location of its suppliers and the linkage of Nike to sweatshops. Nike was publicly criticized for these things and it proceeded to avoid the problem and even mislead the public. Finally after having to settle on a legal case brought about by this lying Nike actually addressed the problem. Nike began taking an interest in its suppliers developing new ways of testing and screening the suppliers. The changes have lead to Nike earning many different awards or recognitions

  • Physicality and Emotional Attachment in Shakespeare's Sonnet 46

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    away from such wording, setting his debate in the civilized context of a courtroom. While the parties engaged in a lawsuit are competing, they are not seeking the destruction of their opposition. A common bond exists between the two sides of a legal case, the bond of society. They are parts of the same whole, or they would not be bound by the laws of that whole. The same holds for the eye and the heart, as well as their metaphysical counterparts, lust and spiritual bonding. The eye and the heart

  • Female Lawyers in the 20th Century

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    Female Lawyers in the 20th Century As early as the American Civil War, women fought to enter the legal profession. Since then, they have repeatedly proven themselves competent, and yet many have felt the pressure of opposition from their male counterparts. Even today, discrimination still exists, not from outside the profession, but from within. The reader will confront the history of female attorneys, what obstacles stand in their way, what advances are being made with regards to equality

  • Legal Studies

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    Legal Studies Essay Joey Agerholm Exclusion clauses determine the liability of something that might go wrong within a contract. They are used by sellers as an attempt to avoid or limit their liability. The seller has the advantage over the buyer who must agree to the clauses to purchase the product/service. Because of the buyers disadvantage the court takes such cases, involving exclusion clauses, very seriously, and the content of the clauses are carefully interpreted. With the current Trade Practises

  • Experiences and Characteristics of Absconding Patients from Psychiatric Units

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    first, by Intansari Nurjannah, Mary FitzGerald & Kim Foster, was a yearlong case study that looked into the experiences of patients who had absconded from psychiatric facilities in Indonesia. The experiences were documented through 16 semi-structured interviews, focusing on qualitative information. The second journal article, written by Eimear Muir-Cochrane, Krista Mosel, Adam Gerace, Adrian Esterman & Len Bowers, was a study of the characteristics of absconding patients from a psychiatric ward in Australia

  • Mr

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    Legal Studies Assessment Law to punish miscarriage assaults ASSAULTS on pregnant women leading to the deaths of their unborn children will be punishable by up to 25 years in prison under new New South Wales laws. NSW Attorney-General Bob Debus said the Government would amend the definition of grievous bodily harm under the Crimes Act to include the loss of an unborn child. Mr Debus said the amendment would not interfere with existing abortion laws. He said the amendment was being introduced

  • Social Work Case Plan

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    The case study I read involves three children who were under the Child Protective Plans and in April 2010 a social worker begun to take over their case. This case had been worked on by an assessment team who filed a core assessment prior to the case being handed over to the social worker. There was a two year old, four year old, and a seven year child who the social worker had to advocate for (CSWM, 2014). The main concern that got the Children’s Social Care involved was due to one of the children

  • Lego.com Case Study

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    Lego.com Case Study Lego Mindstorms The non-commercial website Lego.com has been an enormous success providing Lego with a strong presence on the Internet. However, implementing a website capable of handling sales transactions requires a great deal more than a non-commercial site. The firm has implemented an ERP system which may provide some technical support for the website. The details of the ERP system are unknown at this time; however, the goal of implementing the system was to optimize

  • Case Studies of Warranty Liabilities

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    Case Study 1 Erica contracted to purchase a giant 72” television from Hometown Electronics with the delivery included in the purchase. Thus, Erica had a contract for goods and services where the sale of the good predominates and is covered under UCC Article 2 (Business Law II, Week II, Nature and Form of Sales, 2014) (U.C.C. - ARTICLE 2 - SALES (2002)). If Erica had participated in a cash sale that was concurrent that did not require delivery she would have taken possession of the goods at the

  • Case Study Don Willetts

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    Discussion Board Forum 2 Case Study Topic: Contracts During this case study we will evaluate a unique business transaction which is composed of good faith and fraud by undue influence with a minor. Don Willetts is not a Christianity, but with the encouragement of his wife Don is beginning to explore the faith. Don is the Oblige (Promisee) who owns a small, local health food store and is interested in growing the business by adding some new product lines. Don was interested in going into business

  • Illegal Employee Case Study

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    Illegal Employee Case Study 1 a. Summary of the case: Maria Elena works as a cleaner in your home You find her quite pleasant but of late she seems to be restless so you decide to find out the reason for it and you are shocked Her story in short goes this way .Maria Elena is an illegal immigrant who lives in San Jose with her husband and 2 children in a run down apartment with two other couples. Maria and her husband Luis heard of how good everything was in the USA from a cousin and decide

  • Escape From Violence: Conflict and the Refugee Crisis in the Developing World

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    The developing world has been overwhelmed by major refugee crises in the past few decades, and a rapidly changing world has altered the dynamics of refugee flows and their root causes. For this reason, the authors of Escape From Violence: Conflict and the Refugee Crisis in the Developing World, attempt to provide a more realistic theoretical framework of refugee trends in order to prescribe ways in which the developed world can help alleviate the problem. The book attempts to clarify why there have

  • The Anti-Marijuana Advertising Campaign

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    little girl on a bike, molesting a passed out girl, supporting terror, and impregnating/becoming impregnated. I feel that these advertisements are ridiculously tasteless and misleading. Through personal experience, surveys, an interview, and a case study I intend to prove that marijuana users do not behave in the fashion that the anti-marijuana campaign ads would suggest, and furthermore, I expect to find that the ads so grossly misrepresent the common user, even those who do not use disagree with

  • Differences in Public and Private Sector Labor Relations

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    In the case study I am asked the major differences between public and private sector labor relations. Throughout my research I will use the text along with outside sources to help in finding the significant differences between the two. Furthermore as outlined in the text of (Holley, Jennings, & Wolters, 2012) have indicated some of the major differences between public and private sector including the market economy such as the relationship between the budget and the bargaining process, employee rights

  • Business and Social Responsibility

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    can hold responsibilities, not businesses. He stated that associating responsibilities with the word business is too ambiguous. I will examine three discussion questions and three compare and contrast questions which Jennings (2009) posed in a case study that is related to Friedman’s (1970) article “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits”. The first discussion question posed was, “How does Dr. Friedman characterize discussions on the “social responsibilities of business”

  • Teaching Assistant Case Study Essay

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    The case study presents a complicated dilemma involving a supervisor and two employees. Hubert Johnson the department head of a particular company has been faced with unpleasant task of choosing between two well qualified employees, Neil and Harriet for a supervisory position. The current business that all three people work at has begun to fail and a reduction in workforce put into effect, it has become a priority for Hubert Johnson to pick a person that he believes best fits the job. The issue here

  • Abuse And Murder Of Kelly Anne Bates

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    My case study will be on domestic violence focusing on the abuse and murder of Kelly Anne Bates who was murdered by her partner in 1996. A wide range of issues will be discussed based on domestic violence and what Kelly Bates and may others have experienced. These include perceptions, changes in responses, criminal justice system police and courts changing attitudes and legislation, primary secondary victimisation, statistics, underreporting, health professionals, male victims and Northern Ireland