United States bankruptcy law

Since they were still a developing territory of the United States, the government began to obtain municipal bonds from bondholders and investors who invested in their land. According to New York Times article, “How Puerto Rico Debt Is Grappling with a Debt Crisis,” for many years Puerto Rico has been borrowing…

some consumer to file bankruptcy and to simply improve the bankruptcy law. The theory that it seems to apply to the bill is the elite theory because the duration of the debate is fast, only involving one or two elite groups, and because it only benefits the riches. Our country is considered a pluralistic nation because we have a lot of diversity of people, languages, and religion. Pluralism is the theory that a multitude of groups, not the people as whole, govern the United State, basically is…

interest money could corrupt the process. Some states use competitive elections to fill state Supreme Court seats, at least some of the time. Voters then periodically vote on whether to retain these judges. Some states use bipartisan commissions to help choose Supreme Court justice’s judicial appointment. Judges need to be able to make decisions they believe to be fair, regardless of whether voters agree with them. The selection of judges to state courts is variable. In California judges and…

Justice The United States of America utilizes a duel court system in its judicial system. The two courts systems are federal and state. Courts that exist at the state or local level are established by the individual state, and exist “within states there are also local courts that are established by cities, counties, and other municipalities, which we are including in the general discussion of state courts.” Courts that exist at the Federal level have been established under the United States…

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care (PPACA) also known as Obamacare, or Affordable Care Act (ACA), had an enormously impacted public health services in the United Stated since it was sign into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. The Act become the most significant regulatory overhaul of the U.S healthcare system since the Medicare and Medicaid was passed in 1965 by President Lyndon Johnson. Even though it is debatable whether access to healthcare is right or a privilege and…

Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States, making it different than the fifty states that constitute the nation itself. It lacks the sovereignty of a classical state and thus lacks many of the protections afforded its more established brethren. These can include, but are not limited to, the ability to trade freely (a…

The United States adopted the English Common Law and court structure in the early day there were quarter sessions courts and surrogate courts. America was a frontier country, and each colony adapted differently. This all changed during the Constitutional Convention the decision was the separate the federal court and the state court known as the dual court system. Even in today’s society, we are under that same dual court system. A parallel system of criminal justice was formed with this.…

“Brexit” and the European Union On June 24th, 2016, The United Kingdom voted in a historic referendum which caused the countries of England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland to leave the European Union. “Brexit”, as the referendum was nicknamed, was strongly supported by England and Wales, while Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to stay within the European Union. Even in countries where the overall result was to support Brexit, the margins were small, with an overall split of only 51.9%…

health through services that diagnose, treat, and prevent illness and injury. In the United States, almost all health care facilities are owned by the private sector. Private industries are not government owned and therefore can charge whatever price they want for their product, therefore it is not surprising that the number one cause of bankruptcy in America is medical reasons. The government has enacted some laws to help provide healthcare to those who cannot afford insurance, but there is a…

“The United States has been engaged in a “war” for nearly 25 years. A war in which there is a great deal of confusion as to why we are engaged in it, and if we are in the war for the right reasons” (“The United States…”)Daily the world is facing unrepairable loss of people, money and power. People are able to notice by watching the T.V. news that their sons and daughters are on risk of consume drugs.It is impossible that humans don’t worry about it. Continuously they are asking if this war will…