Legal Issues

 For there to be good governance in any system, there is need for the parties that are involved talk. This should apply to all the leaders be it a leader in an organization or a leader in a state. There is need for dialogues among these people who are involved as this is the only way that good decisions will be made. In addition, with different views from different people, it will be possible to come up with a better solution to the problem that needs to be solved. A good leader is one who...

The Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Case raises a number of issues with respect to criminal procedure. The case involves the purported mastermind of a number of terrorist acts including the September 11th, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. If one were to treat the case as a normal criminal procedure in Federal Court, ignoring the enemy combatant or terrorist designation issues, a number of evidentiary issues would arise.The basis of the case against Mohammed lies in his alleged confession, and a volume...

This brief paper discusses the federal and state court systems in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and finally concludes by upholding the need for such a dual court system. Court Structure In The State of GeorgiaThis paper discusses the structure of the federal court and the state court systems in the State of Georgia. The capital of Georgia is Atlanta, and that is where most superior courts are situated. A.    Federal Court Structure    There are three federal...

I attempt to analyze an article by New York Times columnist Bob Herbert (Kleck) in which he advocates gun control and does so with suitable references and statistical data. THE ARGUMENTS      Herbert begins his piece with small tit-bits of incidents and news headlines which show how dangerous carrying a gun could be. It is well established that the most prone age towards gun related hazards is childhood and teenage. Apart from that the article doesnt deal much with the adult...

The Sarbanes–Oxley Act is also referred to as SOX and came into force on 30th July 2002. This was necessitated by many accounting and corporate scandals in United States back then. The main aim of this law was to bring back the trust the Americans had in the corporate sector. This law emphasis that public traded corporation should have large number of board members that oversee the entire transactions and the auditing process in the organization. Although the bill deals specifically with the...

Prostitution is one of the oldest professions in the world today. Its nature involves the exchange of money for sex. Definitely, where money and sex are going hand in hand, there is room for controversies. Prostitution has existed in almost every human culture and has been tolerated both from a legal and a moral perspective. Prostitution is legal in many Western jurisdictions like England, Wales, Denmark and Israel which is better known as the brothel capital of the world. In Asia and Iran, it...

Company X is a corporation which provides trucking, cargo, freight and logistic services for the delivery of dry goods to and from any point of Massachusetts. It specializes in contract carrier services and storage of food products. It is incorporated under Massachusetts’s laws and its principal office is located in Springfield, Ma. It has 30 branches around the state.     The family owned business started in since 1971with only 6 trucks and expanded after ten (10) years as X. Inc....

To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee is so intricately woven that it virtually bagged  a place as a classic novel : it appealed to a lot of readers around the world for the values it deeply upholds. In writing the book, the author drew inspiration from the environment and society once she grew up with. Depicting the real-life scenarios of Black people living in White society. In the court scenario of Tom's (Black Guy's) Rape Trial for a White Girl—indeed it was convincingly clear that the...

Authors of this handbook have done a remarkable job by covering wide-ranging analysis of topics regarding sports and particularly media that has changed the whole scenario of sports in current era. Authors have focused primarily on the effects of media on sports, and crime or cheating in sports has been one of the significant impacts of media that has commercialized the sports industry enormously. One of the attributes of this handbook is consideration of different aspects of sports from historical...