Precedent

The recent changes and precedents in privacy, search law and technology adequately achieve a balance between individual and collective rights. Every individual should know the limit to their right, leading into the idea that citizens should be well know-ledged about the rights they are guaranteed. This does not mean memorizing the Charter, but it does mean knowing that the rights may be infringed under specific circumstances with a justification. An individual should be aware as to when their…

The American colonies, which became the United States, have had prosperity since their inception. However, with time, tensions between sides grew, which eventually culminated in the American Revolutionary and Civil Wars. Both wars were the product of the very prosperity experienced, tensions between, respectively, the colonies and Great Britain as well as the free North and the slave South, with the latter regarding the future of slavery. The significance of the American Revolutionary War stems…

Was Ackley provoked by Antolini? Did Ackley lose protection after spreading false information regarding employee wages relative to competitor wages? 1. Were the employees participating in protected concerted activity? A. One case that serves as precedent to this issue…

fund his military display, which they view as unnecessary. Roosevelt sent the ships out anyway, daring Congress to take the money back and leave the ships half way around the world. This cemented the president’s role as commander in chief and set a precedent future presidents would use to command the armed forces without Congressional…

History acts as a precedent for the society that helps people determine their moral code by learning from the lessons their ancestors taught them by virtue of their actions. Therefore, history is an important aspect of comprehending the right and wrong, and it's almost elementary for us to be able to learn from history and not repeat the mistakes made by those preceding us. However, the human rationale is erroneous at times, therefore, we never learn, and more often than not, history repeats…

It is known that the Great Depression was a serious crisis for America, and it needed to be resolved for the country to flourish again. Franklin D. Roosevelt saw that he made a list of legislation focusing on the 3 R’s for the country, Relief, Recovery, and Reform. While the Great Depression was something of a massive scale, FDR’s only hope was for the New Deal legislation to have the ability to pick the country up off its feet, metaphorically speaking. The New Deal practiced extreme federal…

In law and rulings many things affect the outcome like criminal record, time period, and precedent amongst a few things but our main goal should always be justice. Procedure and process are key by all means but you may follow every step in a manual or recipe right and still produce an outcome unlike you are supposed to its human error our main goal should simply be that of justice. If we can simply take our time and be persistent the truth of every situation will make itself evident we shouldn’t…

Justice of the US Supreme Court (LII: US Supreme Court: Justice Breyer). Justice Breyer’s judicial philosophy is best described as having “a concern for consequences” (John Fox). Breyer tends to weigh both stare decisis, or the concept of judicial precedent against his concept of the Constitution's long-term fluidity and ability to change (Fox). Breyer tends to vote with justices Ginsburg…

courts. In some countries the power of the judiciary is limited to interpretation of the law made by legislature, while in Australia and other common law legal systems the judiciary plays a more active role in the creation of law of the doctrine of precedent. Hence, one arm of government should not control or interfere or exercise a function of another arm. (James N., Business Law, 3rd Ed,…

cross Antarctica via the South Pole." Ernest Shackleton has faces many challenges, such as leading the expedition to Antarctica on the ship ‘Endurance’, without a death of any of his crew members, despite all of the struggles they went through. A precedent of this is when the ship eventually got stuck in the ice, and later sank. In 1916, Shackleton sailed his crew in three lifeboats to Elephant Island,…