Law of the United States

each individual. Therefore we must follow the four stage test set out under P S Johnson v Bucko Enterprises:1 1. There is work for copyright to subsist 2. Copyright does subsist 3. Plaintiff owner the work 4. Work has been infringed Copyright Law The requirements…

officers saw the vehicle during the arrest they can legally search the general area for things in plain sight, which the car was. The preservation of evidence is also an exception to searching inside a house incident to arrest. In the textbook it states that there are two main purposes of searching incident to arrest, safety and for evidence relevant to the crime. The car was the reason for the arrest making it very relevant evidence. Also the evidence could have gone out of existence if the…

C. Course Textbooks 1. Mandatory Textbooks Columbia Law Review Association et al., The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (20th ed. 2015). 2. Recommended Textbooks Linda H. Edwards, Legal Writing and Analysis (3d ed. 2011). Christina L. Kunz et al., The Process of Legal Research, Authorities and Options (8th ed. 2012). Mary Beth Beazley, Legal Writing for Legal Readers (2014) Amy E. Sloan, Basic Legal Research (6th ed. 2015). Richard C. Wydick, Plain English for Lawyers (5th…

In the state of Alabama, no person convicted of embezzlement of the public money, bribery, perjury, or other infamous crime, shall be eligible to the legislature, or capable of holding any office of trust or profit. Also, in the state of Mississippi no person shall be eligible to a seat in either house of the Legislature, or to any office of profit or trust, who shall have…

card tends to be pulled. II. Common Ground A. “Eight states -- Alabama, Florida, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nevada, Virginia and Wyoming -- permanently bar ex-felons from voting without exception. Maryland and Arizona permanently disenfranchise those convicted of a second felony, and Tennessee and Washington state permanently bar from voting felons convicted before 1986 and 1984…” (Dowdy). B. There are states constantly looking over their laws to get them changed. III. Evidence A. They served…

right that according to law is entitled to everyone, once you have reached the legal age of 18. But what happens if you break the law? Do you still have the right to choose elected officials, or once the law has been broken, has the right to vote been forfeited? According to the constitution the Fourteenth Amendment grants to the states the authority to deny voting rights to anyone that has a criminal conviction. On paper this does seem to be pretty valid, if you break the law, things that at…

it written down. Once written, someone needs to be in charge of them/to protect them/to enforce them. We'll call them layers/government/judges/law enforcement. There are thousands of laws that are written down in your country/state/city. Do you know all of them by heart? Of course not. But it doesn't matter if you didn't know if something was agaisnt the law, you are subject to it. Consider also that a tribe lives as one big family, so just as our own families have rules that are unwritten by…

USA PATRIOT Act, as civil liberty violations, it set the baseline for the implementation of the USA Freedom Act. Additionally, if one decides to participate in any activities that are a direct or indirect threat to the homeland security of the United States, then your civil liberties should be taken away. Every means needed to stop said direct or indirect threat should be implemented, regardless if the person is a citizen or not. There are seven characteristics in which every…

of the incidents they receive from local law enforcements agencies. Hate crimes are defined as a criminal act that are motivated wholly or partly by criminals because of race, religion, ethnicity, disability or sexual orientation. Hate crimes are committed against people, against property and against society. Each state has its own legislation, which allows each state to define hate crime laws and to choose which classification to include in their laws. Hate crimes are usually targeted in…

larger system, and of a broad series of patterns in the "juridical field" in general. Not surprisingly, Bourdieu takes the law to be a constitutive force in modern liberal societies. Thus, many of his perceptions and conclusions concerning how the law functions within such societies apply as well to the United States as to France. Bourdieu's essay considers the "world of the law" from several related points of view: the conceptions that professionals working within the legal world have of their…