Subject-matter jurisdiction

federal crime, eligible for prosecution under federal mandatory minimum sentencing laws. Currently, repeat child molesters face a mandatory minimum of a life sentence. (http://famm.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Chart-All-Fed-MMs-NW.pdf). Federal jurisdiction may eliminate the problem of sex molesters moving out of the country, from state to state, or failing to register as a sex offender. If the molester is sentenced under the federal government there would be harsher sentences similar to…

5.1 Liquidated Damages: • Due to the contract being sucked away in the aftermaths of Hurricane Llewelyn, it is unknown whether the contract had a liquidated damage clause. (2-718) • If it did, we would be required to determine if the liquidated damage clause caused a penalty or not on the breacher 5.2 Expectation • The goal of the expectation damage would be to put MJC where they would have been had NSH performed. To do that you must take the difference of the market price at the time when the…

Twinkle and Sanjeev are nearly strangers to each other. No matter what romantic feelings bubbles within couples, each husband and wife in the stories remain individuals, each having their own secrets and desires. Sanjeev questions his love for his wife because of this disconnects. But, as it is proved by the narrator of The Third and Final Continent, that distance relationship can be closed by shared experience. In the story A Temporary Matter,Shukumar and Shoba are deeply altered by the death…

In 2008, approximately one in every 31 adults (7.3 million) in the United States were either behind bars or being monitored (on probation and parole). From 1978 to 2014, our prison population has risen 408%, partially as a result of mandatory sentencing that came about during the "War on Drugs." Mandatory minimum sentences take away the freedom of judges in sentencing, who are bound by statute to place the convicted behind bars. Existing statutes don’t allow judges to hand down alternative…

The environment is the “natural world in which living things dwell and grow.” Black’s Law Dictionary 651 (10th ed. 2014). It is a mother’s duty to provide a safe “environment” in which a child is to grow and properly develop. Some mothers involve themselves in illicit drug use while pregnant. There is a split between states on how to proceed and deal illicit drug use of mothers while pregnant. Can we legally prosecute? If so, under which statutes are we able or unable to? What is the…

overarching control over Bertha; he controls her care, her housing, her food, and essentially her quality of living. Not only does Rochester keep Bertha in a “room without a window [...], guarded by a high and strong fender” (Bronte 279), she is also subject to physical restraint, as Rochester used a “cord” as he “bound her to a chair” (279). Bertha is recurrently treated as a prisoner, but Rochester is a prisoner as well, “bound to her [Bertha] by marriage” (Donaldson 8). While Bertha is kept…

accepted in the recent years that the traditional Jewish culture, and the secondary role that the new state have when it shifted to the feminist ideology laws did not permit women to equally do everything as men; Israeli woman who disobeys these laws is subject to be fined and can be placed in jail for up to six months. This had changed when they define the equality factors for women in Israeli yet they are the conformity with the Jewish Laws and the socio-economic factors that surround it. The…

drastically changed from a cook to a lawyer. Just the other day I was interviewing my parents on the topic of this Career project. I decided to ask them what they thought would be a suitable career for me before I told them. Coincidentally within a matter of seconds the words “I think you would make a great lawyer” were already rolling off their lips. When I asked why they thought…

to creating a family. When it comes to raising a family, it seems like people have had more of an open mind on this subject. All of this new reproductive technologies has not only allowed people to have the family that they have always dreamed of, but it also allowed for people to gain a whole new perspective on life. From using a surrogate to freezing embryos, the thing that matter most is that people are happy with the family that they are given. I would say that the reason that I decided to…

Question 1: Phillippe v Amanda Is there a Qualifying Relationship? The Property (Relationships) Act 1976 (the Act) is concerned with the division of property of married couples like Phillippe (P) and Amanda (A), when they separate [s 1C(1)]. The Act applies differently depending on the length of the relationship [s 1C(2)(a)]. Under the Act, their s 2 property will be broadly classified as s 8 relationship property (RP) or s 9 separate property (SP). The Act only applies to RP. However, there are…