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George Fomum-Mugri MGMT 201 10/25/2016 Intellectual Property – Federal Trade Commission v. Actavis (2013) Summary: The case deals with an antitrust dispute of a progressively increasing practice within the pharmaceutical industry. Brand-name drug manufacturers, such as Solvay Pharmaceuticals and GlaxoSmithKline, challenged with the competition of generic drug manufacturers essentially bribe prospective competitors with cash payments incentivizing them to abstain from the market. These…

The Federal Trade Commission is an independent agency of the United States government founded in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act. The mission it possesses is the promotion of consumer protection and eliminate the antibusiness practices, such as a monopoly. Under the Act, they are to prevent unfair methods of competition. They also help seek monetary redress and other relief for conduct to consumers and international government agencies. The settlement had resolved a lawsuit that MIC…

pro choice is a very controversial topic in the United States. Pro life oppose abortions meaning once that moment of fertilization happens this is a new human life who has the same rights as other human beings. Whereas pro choice agree that women should have the right to abortion if she wishes to have one rather than the government make health care reproductive choices for her. People who consider themselves as pro-choice agree with the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade (1973) that fought…

The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest judicial body in the United States, and leads the federal judiciary. It consists of the Chief Justice of the United States and eight Associate Justices, all of which are nominated by the President and confirmed with the "advice and consent" of the Senate. The Court meets in Washington, D.C. in the United States Supreme Court building. The Supreme Court is primarily an appellate court, but it has original jurisdiction over a small range of…

withdrew from federal student loan programs and instead, created its own system. Because of the Grove City College versus Bell court case, the college is no longer able to offer some of the opportunities to incoming students that they once could. However, since then, Grove City College has been known for their exceptional effort and withstanding to the community. There are over 3,000 colleges in the United States, many being community colleges, city colleges, junior colleges, state…

A chief justice is the name of a presiding judge, which is in federal appeals and state court, the judge that chairs the panel of 3 or more judges during hearings and supervises the business of a court having several members. The US Supreme Court has a chief justice and eight associate justices who sit together as a panel. The General Assembly can increase the number of Associate Justices, but to no more than eight. If the chief justices are unable to perform any of the duties that they need to…

The U.S. Supreme Court decision reached in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) unleashed a process of public school desegregation that attempted to end the “separate but equal” doctrine of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896). However, large-scale desegregation did not occur before the mid-1960s, and some resistant school systems did not start implementing credible desegregation plans until the early-1970s. In North Carolina, Robeson County School System and Greensboro City School System…

after the issue gained national attention (Hansen 45). In contrast, in 2008 a 22 year old was brought to court as an adult for crimes committed as a juvenile. These included the murder of a seventeen year old student and a 43 year…

The Supreme Court of the United States has been, and will always be the most important national institution which has the power to influence the execution rate and the death penalty policy in the states. In the case of Herrera v. Collins in 1993, Leonel Torres Herrera (defendant) was sentenced to death by Texas state courts for capital murder two police officers. Ten years laters, after Herrera pleads guilty to the capital murder of two officers, Herrera filed a habeas corpus petition under the…

“Judges (courts) do not ‘make’ law but merely interpret the law.” The famous quote, “Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don 't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely” [Hamburger: http://www.quotegarden.com/justice.html (Downloaded 20th March 2016)] can be considered for interpreting that “Judges (courts) do not ‘make’ the law but merely interpret the law” as practically law is ruling our daily life as “the…