acting in violation of the prisoner’s First Amendment rights. Perez was identified by officers at another prison as a member of the Mexican Mafia. After he was identified in 2005‚ Perez was transferred to Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit. The lawsuit was filed against the officers who claimed they identified him as a member of the Mexican Mafia. Perez claims that their determination and decision to reassign him was a violation of his rights by way of the constitution. The case was settled near
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Hooters Current Ethical Issue Over the years the national chain restaurant Hooters has had lawsuits brought against them for discrimination based on gender. Currently‚ the issue is weight discrimination. Not just one lawsuit‚ but two‚ and maybe three lawsuits may be filed. The waitresses claim that they lost their jobs because they weighed too much. They were put on a 30-day weight probation and offered gym memberships. The ethical issue here is the fact the company practices such discrimination
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Local Lawsuit Alyssa Harpster Professor Richard Landoll Business Law 100 November 4‚ 2012 Local law firms (2012) states that Fischer Hardware of Springfield‚ VA has filed a lawsuit against Ace Hardware over Business law violations. According to 7 on Your Side (2012)‚ Fischer Hardware has been around for over sixty years and was convinced by Ace Hardware to purchase the franchise based on fraudulent papers. 7 on Your Side (2012)‚ states
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Situational and Psychological Determinants of Wrongful-Termination Claims‚ the authors were trying to determine factors that contributed to employees filling wrongful-termination lawsuits. They reviewed the literature relevant to wrongful-termination lawsuits and constructed twelve hypotheses of why they believed these types of lawsuits occur. However‚ their main argument suggests that the attitudes of the former employee are based upon how fair they believed their former employer was during their employment
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English Only or Not? I Table of Content Page Content 1. Introduction 2. English only Policies 3. Lawsuits of Discriminations 4. EEOC vs. Pro English 5. Conclusion 6. Works Cited English Only or Not? Introduction In the United States we are filled with different cultures and backgrounds form other countries‚ for that reason many other languages other than English are often spoken in the workplace and
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selling them to consumers at rock-bottom prices every day. In late 2005‚ the ILRF on behalf of factory workers from Indonesia‚ China‚ Bangladesh‚ Nicaragua‚ and Swaziland filed a lawsuit against Wal-Mart Stores charging that Wal-Mart knowingly and systematically violated its Standards for Suppliers. On July 10‚ 2009‚ this lawsuit was dismissed by the 9th Circuit court in California. In February 2009‚ the Clean Clothes Campaign launched the Better Bargain campaign targeted at reforming the purchasing
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of race‚ gender and age bias was bases for the 2001 class action lawsuit of Streeter et al. vs. Ford Motor Co and Siegel et al. vs. Ford Motor Co. for possible age bias. The legal accusations of gender and race claims were dismissed in the Streeter lawsuit but age was still a legal accusation. Ford Motor Co. denied any legal accusations of wrong actions in either lawsuit (The Union Times‚ 2001). “The reverse-discrimination lawsuits claimed that Ford ’s employee evaluation system preferred candidates
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reasonably estimated. Therefore‚ Norman should provide a provision for loss and recorded the transaction as a liability and an expense. The journal entries would be as follow: Dr. Cr. Lawsuit Loss Lawsuit Liability $250‚000 $250‚000 Lawsuit Loss will be recorded in Income Statement under Non-operating Expenses while Lawsuit Liability will be recorded in Balance Sheet under Current Liabilities (as the trial will be held on 2011). Customer asked for $500‚000 damage. After discussion with customer’s attorney
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District Court for "the widespread and illegal supply and sale of contact lenses." (Roca‚ A 2006) The lawsuit‚ filed against C&C Trading Company and MAS Wholesale & Retail contend that both companies sold and dispersed color contact lenses without prescriptions or instructions for use‚ plus without the legally required medical bulletins. (Roca‚ A 2006) Also in November 2002 CIBA had filed a lawsuit against Ocular Sciences in a Federal district court in California claiming that Ocular ’s Colors contacts
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is obvious or evident. Libel per se is the more serious of the two types‚ and persons libeled in this manner do not have to prove that they suffered damage to their reputations‚ monetary loss or other injury. Libel per se can support a lawsuit in itself. There are probably thousands of words‚ phrases and statements in the English language that are libelous in themselves. Some of them are of a political nature; others refer to race or religion and still others involve specific professions
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