District Court of Appeal of Florida‚ Second District. Facts: In 1998‚ investigative reporting team‚ Jane Akre and her husband Steve Wilson‚ brought suit against their employer WVTV‚ a subsidiary of Fox TV‚ under violation of Florida’s whistle-blower statutes. They argued that the station had terminated their employment under grounds of retaliation because the team refused to suppress and distort the contents of a story regarding the controversial Bovine Growth Hormone in Florida’s cattle. Additional
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At present (April 2001) only the state of Oregon has a statute permitting doctor-assisted/physician-assisted suicide (DAS/PAS) and then only within very narrowly prescribed circumstances‚ i.e.‚ for a terminally ill patient. In the November 1998 elections‚ voters in Michigan defeated a ballot measure to legalize doctor-assisted suicide. Earlier in the last decade‚ voters in California and Washington state defeated similar ballot measures. A bill similar to Oregon’s PAS law died in the Maine
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brief commentary or explanation of the same. RULES OF LANGUAGE IN STATUTORY INTERPRETATION. The traditional common-law approach to statutory interpretation was to "look at the words of the Act". This approach was founded on the assumption that the statute alone was a reliable guide to the intent of the Parliament. To assist the courts in interpreting legislation‚ judges relied upon three general rules‚ the literal rule‚ golden rule and the mischief rule. These traditional approaches relied heavily
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The Case of the Speluncean Explorers 01/21/2007 03:58 PM « zurück © 1949 by Harvard Law Review Vol. 62‚ No. 4‚ February 1949 The Harvard Law Review Association Cambridge‚ Mass.‚ U.S.A. THE CASE OF THE SPELUNCEAN EXPLORERS by LON L. FULLER IN THE S UPREME COURT OF NEWGARTH ‚ 4300 The defendants‚ having been indicted for the crime of murder‚ were convicted and sentenced to be hanged by the Court of General Instances of the County of Stowfield. They bring a petition of error before
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countries have a mixed common law and civil law system because of their histories. Two of these are St. Lucia which has aspects of the French Civil Code and Guyana which has remnants of Roman Dutch law. COMMON LAW AS A SOURCE OF LAW Common Law and Statute Law Common law as a source of law refers to the body substantive law developed by the court over time in the decisions of various cases. This definition is based on a system of precedent which will be discussed later. Before discussing the system
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International Criminal Court in 1993; in 1998‚ at a Diplomatic Conference in Rome‚ the Rome Statute establishing the ICC was signed. The ICC issued its first arrest warrants in 2005. Origin International criminal law is a subset of international law. As such‚ its sources are the same as those that comprise international law. The classical enumeration of those sources is in Article 38(1) of the 1946 Statute of the International Court of Justice and comprise: treaties‚ customary international law‚
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factor which influenced the development of law in religious and custom. Law can be found through statutes‚ law reports‚ textbooks and decision of courts. Legal sources is the legal rules that make up the law whether it is written or unwritten law. There are two sources of law‚ written law and unwritten law. Written law is the law embodied in the Federal and State Constitutions and in a code or a statute including subsidiary or delegated legislation. Examples of written law are legislation‚ subsidiary
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consideration the remedy provided by the statute. Other states limit the reach of public policy exception to statues that contains no remedy for an employee injured by the employer’s violation. Until all states have the same clear distinction on how public policy exceptions should be handled I think the possibility is slim at this point. Some states treat public policy exception claims as providing a cumulative remedy in addition to the remedy provided by the statute. Those states allow the employee
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Conrail G455: Corporate Restructuring Team 7 1) Why does CSX want to buy Conrail? In an industry beset by limited options to consolidate domestic rail traffic‚ CSX looked at Conrail as an avenue to increase market share and gain access to the North East rail network. With air travel‚ road travel and trucking taking an increasing share‚ significant revenue growth became difficult. As Conrail became profitable‚ Congress explored ways of privatizing it‚ giving CSX an opportunity to acquire Conrail
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of a bone marrow transplant. The Defendant‚ Shimp‚ was a suitable potential donor who refused to undergo the procedure needed to harvest the bone marrow. When Shimp refused‚ McFall sought an injunction to compel him to do so based on an out dated statute of an old English court which the current court is derived from. The court was faced with the question of whether or not an individual is under legal compulsion to give aid to save another. Judge John Flaherty denied the Plaintiff’s request for an
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