Legal Issues

The 2008 Moot Court Tournament dealt with whether a motion for summary judgment should be granted or denied. The plaintiff is Deborah White. Mrs. White filed a lawsuit against Patrick Gibbs and OMalleys Tavern, the defendants, to recover damages for injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Mrs. Whites lawsuit is based on a claim that the defendants breached Ind. Code Ann.  7.1-5-10-15.5, and as a result, the defendants are liable for her injuries. The defendants in the case submitted a...

One of the pros of this verdict is that Frances aim of ensuring public order and the rights of its entire citizenry got a boost. France is a multi-ethnic society whose members are drawn from a wide range of cultural, religious and political backgrounds. While Muslims comprise only a minority of the countrys population, allowing them to wear to school attire which manifest their religion is unhealthy (Kelly, 2009). It may attract members of other religions to borrow a leaf and dress in clothes which...

If one of the main purposes of law is to effectively govern and condition human behavior then the Massachusetts seatbelt law is fundamentally a failed law.  It is a failure because, as the statistics demonstrate, the majority of Massachusetts residents openly acknowledge that they frequently fail to wear a seatbelt in a variety of circumstances.  Perhaps the most surprising statistic relates to the fact that more Rhode Island residents report wearing seatbelts and Rhode Island does not...

Fire captains and fire paramedics have a greater responsibility of rescuing lives and property in case of a fire incidence. Their noble task is full of dangers and risks and is heavily governed by legal and moral principles. Fire departments face the challenges of making sure that they are ready day and night as they can be called on duty any time. Although it is clearly known to both the firefighters and paramedics that they have a legal responsibility of responding to any emergency of fire incidence...

The experience the Jews and other minor races went through during the Nazi regime was traumatizing and its magnitude exceeded virtually any other genocide that has ever occurred in the history of mankind. People were imprisoned in various camps across Germany where they went through severe torture and millions of them were persecuted and brutally murdered by the Nazis under the leadership of former German chancellor, Adolf Hitler. The devastating experience took more than a decade before it ended...

Men in Black How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America is a book which was authored by Mark Levin in 2005. The introduction of the book was written by Rush Limbaugh. Levin book was meant for people who actually want to understand the power grab and the constitution by the very institution which has been given the mandate and responsibility of interpreting it i.e. the Supreme Court. Levin is a conservative radio host and a frequent National Review contributor as well as a lawyer. He is also the...

Criminal law and procedure is filled with many little ins and outs that determine how laws are executed.  One must pay careful attention to these intricacies or find later that erroneous mistakes have been made.  This cannot be truer than for that of members of law enforcement.  Officers are responsible for making judgments calls daily based on suspicions and facts in plain view.  These situations are termed as reasonable suspicions and probable cause.  They are very similar...

The Superfund program was established by Congress in 1980 with the sole aim of providing government financing into cleaning activities of highly contaminated waste sites in the United States. Initially, the funding for the program was from dedicated taxes sourced from the chemical feedstock, corporate income and petroleum industries. Such went directly to the trust fund meant to help the Environmental Protection Agency .This however lasted up to 1995 and henceforth, the fund dwindled gradually because...

Any person who has ever applied for an admission in a prestigious college or job is well aware of the feelings people go through before knowing their fate. It is the same feeling the applicants at Harvard business school had and the opportunity was presented to them to know their fate by an anonymous hacker. The information on how to access the site was posted on the Business Week Online by anonymous hacker who gave out details on how to know the admission decisions which had been made by the school....