Statute of limitations

Immediately after the September 11, 2001 attacks, President George Bush was able to push one of the most controversial acts through Congress. This act is called the U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T Act; which stands for “Uniting and Strengthening American by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism.” This act focused on giving “...federal officials greater authority to track and intercept communications, both for law enforcement and foreign intelligence-gathering purposes...”…

In the back of the book where Cylin and John answered questions, he said, “The second reason is now that the statute of limitations for my attempted murder has expired, the only justice for us is to put this out to as large an audience as we can reach to expose the people responsible and those who aided them by butchering the police investigation of the crime.” Throughout…

So if genetic testing can be so beneficial, why is it ethically controversial? As President Bill Clinton once said, we must “recognize that this extraordinary march of human understanding imposes on us profound responsibilities, to make sure that the age of discovery can continue to reflect our most cherished values” ("President Clinton 's Comments on the Signing," 2013). Because of its nature, genetic testing leads to a whole host of potential problems including genetic discrimination, the use…

techniques to subvert justice, such as intimidation, bribes or kingship/social connections. Sometimes the king relied on commissions and justices with special powers granted by the king to hear and determine cases. Other times the king tried to enact statutes and laws to help curb the problem. However, mostly the idea was to regulate not eradicate noble crimes. Another approach was to elevate crimes to more serious charges, such as treason. This gave the king more legal clout to act and punish…

Ohio. Terry v. Ohio was a, “case dealing with the constitutional limitations of police to stop and search individuals in street encounters” (Association of the Bar of the City of New York, n.d). Riots had taken over many states due to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. prior to the rule of Terry v. Ohio, leading “several states to pass statutes authorizing stop and frisk tactics, and the courts of other states recognized such authority under common…

illness deviations from “normal” emotional functioning have been recognized and documented for as long as written accounts of history have existed. After all, parables concerning mental disorder appear in the written works of all major religions, and statutes concerning the mentally ill were a part of early Roman law. However, depending on the on the particular historical period in which they lived, those whose behavior did not conform to accepted norms were labeled variously as possessed, holy,…

that there are positive and negative case characteristics that lead to a cert being accepted or denied by the Supreme Court. The authors define positive case characteristics as: “cases that involve the interpretation of the constitution or federal statute”, “the presence of amicus curiae”, “death penalty issue”, “First amendment issue”, “presence of a dissent”, and “a conflict among circuit courts” (Bowie and Songer, 2009). Bowie and Songer (2009) hypothesize that all of these positive…

What do you think are the most difficult types of claims for emotional damage to prove (types of lawsuits) and why? I think the most challenging type of tort is defamation of character because you have to prove actual harm. Elements of defamation involve a defamatory statement that is published to someone other than the plaintiff and the defendant. The plaintiff must prove that the defendant made such a statement and that they (the plaintiff) suffered as a result of the defamation such as loss…

In the article, “14%: WHY SO FEW WOMEN AT THE TOP?” by Beverly Creamer, Creamer questions the nationwide stagnation of female cooperate executives between the years 2005 and 2011. She also correlates how gender roles have impacted Hawaiian corporate culture and how the legal system has both hindered and facilitated progress in pay discrimination. Creamer refers to a 2011 Catalyst survey of Fortune 500 leadership, asserting that for every seven executive officers only one is female, a 14%…

Case 5: “Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc., et al. v. Weyerhaeuser Co., No. 8:2011cv0047 (Md. Dist. Ct.Jan. 6, 2011)”. Facts. In August 1998, Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) signed a separate contract with Clark Construction Group, LLC (Clark) to construct CBF’s headquarters in Annapolis, Maryland, and Clark, in March 2000, made a purchase order with Weyerhaeuser Company, the defendant in this case, in order to supply Parallams, which is a LEED recycled product, for the columns in this project.…