Strict liability

legal aspect that enabled Enron’s façade to go on for years. As a result, Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The act was meant to protect investors from fraudulent accounting activities by corporations. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act mandated strict reforms to improve financial disclosures from corporations and prevent accounting fraud. In 2013, John Yates, a commercial fisherman from Florida, was found guilty by the Court of Appeals…

I Introduction The environmental movement has been underway for some time now with the intent on protecting the environment. Through this movement there has been many different agencies formed in the United States Federal Government to help protect the environment. The values and missions of these agencies are not what they seem and do not protect the environment as one should think they would. They strive more to meet the needs human needs than those of the environment. When thinking of…

Chinese immigrants post 1965 face difficulties when coming to America. Chinese immigrants can re-establish ethnic networks but the connected are mainly from strangers instead of family and friends who have the same background (475). One challenge is their connections and networking are disrupted. Those immigrants who is in the middle class and chose to live in white suburbs have difficulties connecting with people of their “kind” (475). The second challenge is things are different in family…

TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 2 Causes of Bullying 3 Bullies 4 Victims 5 Kinds of Bullying 6 The Effects of Bullying 9 School’s Responsibility 10 Parent’s Responsibility 11 Legal Acts to Avoid Bullying 12 Stop Bullying 13 Bullying Statistics 14 List of Social Networking Sites 15 Conclusion and Recommendations 17 Introduction Bullying conduct has become one of the most controversial…

Professional Standards and Use of Excessive Force in New Jersey State There are several laws governing police misconduct including current laws pending in legislation statewide. Ethically, all laws must focus on the overall “good for everyone”. Police officers should not be excused from holding up to their professional standards. Deontology systems of ethics is said to deal with intentions and motives. Deontological ethics is concerned with acts-- if it is intrinsically right or wrong.…

Declaratory Theory Is A Fairy Tale Blackstone proposed the declaratory theory, namely judges are ‘not delegated to pronounce a new law, but to maintain and expound the old one’. Lord Esher’s judgment in Willis v Baddeley contended that judges ‘frequently have to apply existing law to circumstances as to which it has not previously been authoritatively laid down that such law is applicable.’ They believe that judges’ role is just to discover law and apply it to different circumstances. However…

HealthSouth was what seemed to be an ordinary striving medical business. Some would even say it was the most successful in its field , but unlike other corporations, it had a foul secret. All the grand success that HealthSouth was known for was a lie, a mask to hide what was going on behind the scene, hidden from the public eye. A secret so well hidden, that it went unnoticed for years. A secret so large it broke not only the law but several accounting principles. It was the rise and fall of the…

Staffing in hospitality industry Staffing requirements for the hospitality industry The basic role of the hospitality industry is customer satisfaction. The hospitality industry provides best services to the customers. The industry includes food and beverages, food service management, tourism etc. The staff of the hospitality industry should behave well with their customers to make them satisfy. They should also have customer communication and customer services skills to work with the public.…

Summary Written below article discusses reasons why present-day managers should cross the line of traditional organisational scheme for companies own benefit. How organisational strategies and hierarchical structures impact employees and influence their work capability and performance. It describes what an employee looks for in future or current job placement and how a manager should motivate his workers. In which conditions does an employee “shines”. It gives you a clear…

APPLE & DELL Financial Analysis Project INTRODUCTION Dell and Apple are American companies that participate in the industry of Electronic Computers, according to the SIC 3571. This industry is oriented to the manufacture of diverse kind of data processing systems. In 2001, the largest computer makers in the United States were Dell, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard and IBM. They produced about 40 percent of personal computers shipments in the world according to International Data Corporation…