In Brown v. Cerberus Capital Mgmt.‚ L.P.‚ No. 17-63‚ Doc. 49-1 (2d Cir. N.Y. July 11‚ 2017)‚ the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (the “Court of Appeals”) affirmed the District Court’s holding‚ which dismissed under Rule 12(b)(6) the former employees (“Plaintiffs”) of Covis Pharmaceuticals Inc. (“Defendants”) federal securities fraud claims. According to the factual allegations‚ Plaintiffs’ grievances arose out of a 2013 reorganization of the “Covis enterprise”. Plaintiffs
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John Augustus is credited with being the father of probation. A Boston shoemaker‚ Augustus spent his spare time observing what took place in the courts. Disturbed that minor offenders and common drunks were often forced to remain in jail because they had no money to pay off their fines‚ he convinced authorities to let him pay their fines and offered them friendly supervision. When the defendants later came into court for sentencing‚ Augustus would report on his progress toward reformation. Augustus
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When probation first started‚ it was to help a person get back into the community to the point where they could contribute to society again. It was for situations when a correctional institution was too harsh of a punishment‚ but the crime could not go unnoticed. According to the Oxford Dictionary‚ probation is defined as “the release of an offender from detention‚ subject to a period of good behavior under supervision.” (18) Probation started in the 1800’s with one man wanting to make a difference
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Poverty: A study of town life INTRODUCTION After reading Booth’s work on The Life and Labour of the People of London led me to construct my own investigation on poverty but in a provincial town so I can then find an applicable general conclusion for a smaller populated area. My objective is to investigate upon the living conditions that the working classes of small towns inhabit as well as the growing problem of poverty. Preparing for my observational research I had to decide on how to collect
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Subject: Sexual harassment case against supervisor. Questions to witness. Q1.What is the proof you have to show that you really had sex with Correspondent? I went to dinner with the accused (Taylor) many times.He booked the hotel room for both of us for having sex.I can tell you the names of the hotel and show you the rooms used for sexual harassment. Q2.What is the proof you have to show that accused(Taylor) had forced you for sex? At this point of time no doctor can give a test report giving
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Available‚ Approachable‚ and Supportive I believe that a good supervisor must possess the characteristics of being available‚ approachable‚ and supportive. I remember my favourite job was working as a sales co-ordinator on the sales team. My overseeing boss wanted to ensure that I learnt the job well‚ but quickly. I was trained in a month of all the different aspects of the job. Most jobs rarely give employees much training before the new employee jumps into the workload. What I like about this job
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Your town | * Can you describe your town or village to me? * Tell me something about your hometown. * Where are you from? * Where is your hometown? * Where do you come from? * What is the name of the street you live on? * What kind of street do you live on? * What do you like about your town? * I live in Lahore. It is my favourite place. It is the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and the second largest city in the country. A 2010 government estimate now puts the population
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Thesis: Probation officers face the fact that the profession has become dangerous‚ as the juveniles are not scared to hurt anyone. The fact that the caseloads of the probation officers has risen is another matter. The probation officer can not request that the caseload halt‚ as more juveniles are coming aboard to the system. There are rising Numbers of Juveniles in the Court System 1 Probation Officers are being looked at 1 Juvenile cases up 2 Abuse Detention
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Predicting Students Drop Out: A Case Study Gerben W. Dekker1‚ Mykola Pechenizkiy2 and Jan M. Vleeshouwers1 g.w.dekker@student.tue.nl‚ {m.pechenizkiy‚ j.m.vleeshouwers}@tue.nl 1 Department of Electrical Engineering‚ Eindhoven University of Technology‚ the Netherlands 2 Department of Computer Science‚ Eindhoven University of Technology‚ the Netherlands Abstract. The monitoring and support of university freshmen is considered very important at many educational institutions. In this paper we describe
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I was glad to find that my supervisor evaluation was generally very positive and this backed up the positive verbal feedback I had received throughout my work placement. It reinforced my belief that I picked things up quickly and that I integrated well into the team and I’m glad they shared this view. In terms of showing initiative‚ I gave myself an average rating in my self-assessment but Jennifer for commented it was good as I asked for new tasks and didn’t wait for tasks to be assigned‚ which
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