Washington state’s highest court unanimously ruled on February 16 against a florist who refused to provide floral arrangements for a same-sex couple’s wedding‚ deciding that her refusal was a discriminatory act. The case involved 72-year-old Barronelle Stutzman‚ who denied services for the wedding of same-sex couple [insert names here] in 2012. Stutzman had served the couple previously‚ but said she could not provide services for the wedding out of concern that doing so would cause her to participate
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retains all ownership rights to the development of X. It also states that in R&D arrangements the entity (in this case Pharmagen) usually has an option to either purchase the partnership’s interest (PEI) or to obtain the exclusive rights to the entire results in return for a lump sum payment or royalty payments to the partnership (in this case PEI). This clearly fits into Pharmagen’s case since PEI is entitled to receive future royalties from Pharmagen in return for contributions (funds) for the development
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with pay allows the organization time to have the pretermination hearing and allow the appeals process time to work towards the resolution. Courts are backlogged and nine months in this case is not unheard of‚ that is a long time to be waiting to see if you will get your job back if you are not being paid. This case also addressed the need to expediency in completing the hearing and appeal process. “Since the Due Process Clause requires provision of a hearing “at a meaningful time‚” at some point‚
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exception make it to another facility for delivery. On reviewing the case and other associated evaluations performed by Memorial Hospital‚ it becomes clear that the hospital has established a pattern of not managing indigent patients and was involved in the practice of diverting them to other facilities. Based on these findings it appears that several infractions of the EMTALA have been committed by the facility. Whether the case in question falls strictly under these guidelines it is unclear. I
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Milford Case After reading this case‚ my ranking is as follows: Dufree‚ Burke‚ Harlow‚ Alderson‚ Eaton‚ Gibson‚ Furness‚ and Caplan. The way in which I rated these salesmen was based on the information given in both cases (A&B). Dufree was given the number one sales person for the simple fact that she was able to have the third highest sales with relatively no large accounts. This shows that she is maximizing her profitability and sales in these smaller markets. I believe that she has the
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Question 1: What‚ if any‚ is the likely impact of the Bilski case on future Business Method Patents? The Supreme Court unanimously agreed that Bilski’s method patent for hedging risk in commodities trading did not meet the legal requirements. They also agreed that the Federal Circuit’s "machine-or-transformation" test is not the sole test for what constitutes a process. However‚ the remainder of the decision is divided between the conservative majority and the liberal minority as to whether
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The case of Siegel‚ et al. v. Ford Motor Company is a class action suit brought around by older managers who indicated the company ’s performance appraisal system unethically targeted them for termination due to their age. AARP assisted as co-counsel for the case which aids over four-hundred elder supervisors working with Ford Motor Company. The plaintiffs proclaim that senior administration established the system to remove older managers (US Newswire‚ 2002). The claim is that by constantly receiving
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COSTCO Case * In 1998‚ How were membership fees recorded in COSTCO’s financial statements? The membership fees recorded as revenue when received in Costco’s financial statement in 1998 according to the cash accounting. * Was this correct? If not‚ what accounting principle does it violate? No. It violates the revenue recognition principle because they did not provide services to members when they pay the membership fee during this fiscal year. It can only record this item as unearned
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The court’s decision‚ prompted by Thind’s attempt to claim that being Caucasian was the same as being white‚ provided an explicit definition of what the term meant. The court concluded that when the government was drafting the regulations in 1906 they were referring to the common understanding of the world and a scientific understanding. Therefore‚ white did not mean Caucasian or Aryan but only the type of man that those who wrote the statute “understood as white”‚ which included primarily immigrants
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subsidy scheme and the Plaintiff sued the Government for subsidies it claimed it was due. Rules There was no contract. The statement made by the Commonwealth was not offered as consideration for the plaintiff buying the wool. The Court stated that in cases such as this: ‘… it is necessary‚ … that it should be made to appear that the statement or announcement which is relied on as a promise [here the subsidy statement] was really offered as consideration for the doing of the act‚ and that the act [buying
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