RENO v. AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION US Supreme Court‚ 1997 1. Claim: Attorney General Janet Reno‚ the appellant appealed directly to the Supreme Court as provided for by the Act’s special review provisions against the appellee‚ ACLU. 2. Facts: The 1996 Federal Communications Decency Act sought to protect minors from “indecent” and offensive Internet materials. The Act made it a crime to transmit obscene or indecent messages over the Internet. Immediately after the CDA became law‚ twenty
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Finally‚ on July 27‚ 2000‚ Marie Villette (plaintiff) had a carport installed from Sheldorado Aluminum Product (defendant). The covering would collapse six months later on top of the plaintiffs Mercedes Benz. All the plaintiff is requesting is the $3‚000 she has spent on the carport. Ms. Villette filed a lawsuit opposing Sheldorado expecting the return of her $3000. Ms. Villette and Sheldorado‚ had no formal written contract‚ however‚ there was a bill of sale; it is dated 11 July‚ 2000. Ms. Villette
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Background and Problem definition: Jones-Blair is privately held corporation which produces architectural paint coatings and markets them under Jones Blair brand name. Addition to that it also sells paint sundries under Jones Blair brand name even though these items are not manufactured by them. Apart from these the corporation also operates on OEM coating division. The problem in front of the company is to decide where and how to deploy corporate marketing efforts among the various architectural
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Plaintiffs making a claim under Rule 10b-5 must plead scienter by “stat[ing] with particularity facts giving rise to a strong inference that the defendant acted with the required state of mind.” Livid‚ 403 F.3d at 1055 (internal quotation marks omitted). The higher pleading standards incorporates the scienter standard in the federal rules that requires the circumstances constituting the fraud be pled with particularity‚ but allows the plaintiff to plead the state of mind generally. Fed. R. Civ. P
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Course: General Management and Organization Behavior Date: October 14th‚ 2013 TIFFANY & CO. THE COMPANY OVERVIEW Tiffany & Company (known colloquially as Tiffany or Tiffany ’s) is an American multinational and one of the world’s premier luxury jewelry and retailers. It is a public company having headquarters in New York City‚ NY‚ United States. Tiffany sells jewelry‚ sterling silver‚ crystal‚ stationery‚ fragrances‚ personal accessories‚ as well as some leather goods. The company
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non-client in order for that auditing firm to be liable for any damages done unto the third party. In the Ultramares v. Touche case‚ the judges found that a liability arose out of a duty that Touche‚ the accounting firm‚ owed to the non-client‚ Ultramares. Touche certified that their client‚ for whom they were performing the audit‚ was solvent when in fact it was not. In the case‚ it is pointed out that Touche knew their client was borrowing at large sums and required “certified balance sheets for
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Men and women have always had specific roles that are played when starting a family. Women being viewed as the fulltime house worker‚ and men as the income support. Hope Edelman writes on her essay “The Myth of Co- Parenting: How It Was Supposed To Be. How It Was” how her martial experience was conflicted with ingrained gender roles. The role women played in a household‚ as oppose to the role women currently now play in the household are very different. Hence‚ the typical stigma that the man is the
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CLAW1001: Commercial Transactions A Case Analysis Hollis v Vabu Pty Ltd [2001] HCA 44 Submitted by: Sindhuja Shankar SID: 305 127 950 3/10/2007 Table of Contents Introduction 3 Case Summary 3 Facts 3 Issues 3 Ratio 3 Decision 4 Critical Analysis 4 Commercial Implications 5 Legal Implications 6 Conclusion 6 Bibliography 7 Appendix † Research Plan 8 Introduction The case Hollis v Vabu Pty Ltd[1] confirms the long held doctrine that employers are vicariously
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Questions 2-4 The estimated costs calculated using the activity-based costing method is very different from the existing standard unit costs and the revised unit costs. Exhibit 3 uses the traditional cost allocation system‚ which allocates all costs based on measures of volume. In the standard unit costs‚ Destin Brass uses direct labor as the only cost driver‚ which rarely meets the cause-effect standard wanted in cost allocation. Exhibit 4 is similar to exhibit 3‚ but instead‚ 4 uses materials
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Co –education is considered to be best system of education- The most important parameter of countries progress is education .so‚ it is not whether the school is all of girls or the school is all of all boys the school‚ so it should be the guiding forces where the schools are built to impart knowledge to the children. Gone are the days when the girls were not allowed to go out by themselves and talking to boys was considered to be orthodox. Today can you imagine a workplace without a women
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