Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

Labor Legislation Analysis The goal of labor laws is to equalize the bargaining power between employers and employees. The laws mainly deal with the relationship between employers and unions. These laws allow employees the right to unionize, as well as allow employers and employees to engage in certain activities, such as strikes and picketing. There are also laws that are aimed at protecting employees in other ways, such as health. Two laws that will be discussed here are the Labor-Management…

After a great struggle between scientific establishment and the Indian human rights group in 1990, the Native American Graves protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) was made (Watson, 2017; Fine-Dare, 2002). This was the most significant part of the civil and human rights quest of the American Indians enacted in the twentieth century. Grave belongings and skeletons that collected dust in museums during the period would come home as Indian graves were kept from desecration. A case that tested…

As of today the United States has a total of 2.3 million people in 1,719 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 942 juvenile correctional facilities, 3,283 local jails, and 79 Indian Country jails as well as in military prisons, immigration detention facilities, civil commitment centers, and prisons in the U.S. Territories. Overcrowding prisons and not enough staff are becoming a serious issue in America. Everyday more citizens are committing crimes that lead them in either prison or jails. And…

cigarettes on a billboard in Salt Lake City. Even though Parker Corporation was authorized to do business in Utah, the defendant claimed that since both the poster and product were made outside the state of Utah it violated several provisions of the Federal Constitution. In a unanimous decision by the court, the objections were overruled and the defendant was convicted and sentenced. In his opinion, Brandeis distinguished difference between display advertising and those in periodical newspapers.…

of civil rights in the equation. It was observed that the ramifications in this sense cantered on the need to develop a formative basis of all case procedures as means of getting equity. Unlawful dispensation of the decision would go in a long way to determine the fate of the offenders. Rehabilitation at this juncture was welcome as it was a concern on the lawlessness, crime escalation, and repeat offending in the communities (Weitzer, 2012). The third phase was injection made by the federal…

Corporations Act Part 9.4B provides for two types of penal consequences, civil penalties and criminal penalties. Two kinds of civil penalties are prescribed: a pecuniary penalty of up to $200,000 and/or an order banning a person from managing a corporation for an unspecified period.4 Criminal penalties comprise a fine of up to $200,000 or 5 years imprisonment or both.5 Criminal penalties are only imposed where a person contravenes a civil penalty provision knowingly, intentionally or recklessly…

some differences. To put it simply, similarly to New Zealand’s current system, the main aspects of the Westminster system include the sovereign/head of state, a head of government (head of the executive/Prime Minister), executive branch, judiciary, civil service, parliamentary opposition and the legislature (Mulgan 55). However, the amount of power the head of state has is different in New Zealand. Today, the governor-general is elected by the Queen as per recommendation from the Prime Minister.…

Standard interrogation procedures failed to produce what the Administration deemed to be “actionable intelligence;” consequently, the Administration ordered detainees being held in Guantanamo, the Abu Ghraib prison, and the Bagram Air Force Base be forced to endure degrading tactics…

QUESTION NUMBER 1: The civil rights movement of 1960’s was a set of movements in the United States to end racial discrimination against the black Americans and to get them a legal recognition. The movement also attempted to gain federal protection of the rights of citizenship as explained in the constitution. In the late 19th century, black Americans were stripped of their rights by numerous discriminatory laws in the South. Unlawful violence became a normal scenario for the blacks of South.…

ABC News held a recent experiment where they staged a purse snatching in Atlanta’s Piedmont Park. The object of the scenario is to give awareness on primetime that human perception is faulty and can lead to the imprisonment of innocent people. Actors were hired to play the victim and the criminal. The criminal walked up to the victim and asked if he could use her pen to write a phone number down. The criminal then proceeded to yell and then snatch her purse. The victim immediately turned to…