Legal Issue A paper submitted in the course of Business Law BUS/415 University of Phoenix March 16‚ 2008 Introduction Agency Law in a Business Environment A principal is the party who employs another person to act on his or her behalf; an agent is a party who agrees to act on behalf of another. In order for the agent to successfully fulfill their tasks for their principal’s they have duties that they are expected to fulfill. The duty to obey instructions‚ to act with skill‚ loyalty‚
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generation. The final contrasting point would be that it states some human behavior is a result biological propensity inherited from more primitive developmental stages in the evolutionary processes. Whereas with psychological theories it said that personality is the major motivational element within individuals. Also stated was that crimes result from inappropriately conditioned behavior or from abnormal‚ dysfunctional‚ or inappropriate mental processes. The final point is that defective or abnormal
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Legal Defenses Checkpoint Elizabeth Stebbins 220 March 1‚ 2013 David McNees Legal Defenses Checkpoint Three legal defenses that could be used in court to excuse behavior are insanity‚ self-defense‚ and entrapment. Insanity is when the defendant did not know what he or she was doing at the time of the crime‚ or did not know that it was wrong. It is when the individual is not in their right mind because of mental illness or such. Usually they are sent to psychiatric facilities for treatment
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of and the areas that they are in control of. The police departments’ operational units are responsible for maintaining order‚ enforcing the law‚ and providing services to citizens. Organization is very important to the effectiveness of the police department. Police have areas‚ or a beat‚ that they are assigned to in order to maintain order‚ enforce the law‚ and provide services to citizens. The patrolmen have times that they are assigned to these areas since the job is one that is a twenty-four
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MR. CROOK’S LEGAL DEFENSE CJ 227 Criminal Procedure Unit 8 Explaining Legal Procedure and Defense PRE-ARREST PROCESS • Mr. Crook‚ the following information is provided to you to assist you through your legal process since you have been identified as a suspect to a robbery. • Any information you tell me is confidential by attorney-client privilege. • I will make arrangements for you to turn yourself into local authorities. • Once you have surrendered yourself you will be searched and booked. • During
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References: Grant‚ H. B.‚ & Terry‚ K. J. (2008). Law enforcement in the 21st century (2nd ed). Upper Saddle River‚ NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall. Ury‚ A. (2009‚ July 08). Everest. Retrieved from http://news.everest.edu/post/2009/07/police-have-non-lethal-weapons Walker‚ S.‚ & Katz‚ C. M. (2011). The police
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CheckPoint: Ratio‚ Vertical‚ and Horizontal Analyses The calculations you perform for this CheckPoint form the basis of your analysis of your capstone project. · Write in 100 to 200 words an explanation of the three tools of financial statement analysis and the function of each. · Examine PepsiCo‚ Inc.’s Consolidated Balance Sheet on p. A6 in Appendix A of Financial Accounting‚ especially its Current Assets‚ Current Liabilities‚ and Total Assets for years 2005 and 2004
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Checkpoint Week 8 John McManamon IRN: 9048277815 IT/205 4/16/2014 John Gosney 1. How important is the reservation system at airlines such as WestJet and JetBlue? How does it impact operational activities and decision making? As an employee of an oil company‚ I am keenly aware that the price of gulf coast kerosene (jet fuel) is almost $3.00 per gallon. With an estimated 30‚000 flights per day in the US alone‚ there is a tremendous amount of money spent by planes idling at the gate‚ or on
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Legal Defenses JB August 19‚ 2013 CJS/220 ESTANISLAO ROSAS In the readings that I have done I have found that there are three different types of legal defenses‚ they are: self-defense‚ insanity‚ and provocation. In a case where a person is charged with first degree premeditated murder‚ if they were to use one of the three defenses the punishment would not be the maximum that is normally imposed depending on the crime and type of defense that is used. If reasonable force
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Axia College HSM 230 Legal Considerations Compose a 200- to 300-word response to the following: The Community Services Code of Ethics in Appendix A of Ethical Leadership in Human Services states‚ “Whatever your personal feelings about the justice and appropriateness of particular laws‚ all board members‚ staff‚ and volunteers are to obey all laws in the performance of their work on behalf of Community Services.” Why do you think this instruction is necessary? What does it tell you about the relationship
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