Group Assignment #1 Group 11 Runcheng Zhang‚ Blair Macaulay October 13th 2014 ACC-1100-D01 Debbie Mortimer *Note: The other two group members did not contribute to this assignment 1a) Predetermined overhead rate. b) Overhead costs per program base on predetermined rate c) Total cost per student of each academic program 2a) First stage allocation of overhead costs b) Activity rates c) Second stage allocation of overhead Professional Arts Technology 3. Total cost
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synonym of common law: general rule. In the case of Child V. Desormeaux‚ it was proven by the courts that the social hosts did not own a duty of care to the people injured by the defendant’s actions. “I conclude that as a general rule‚ a social host does not owe a duty of care to a person injured by a guest who has consumed alcohol and that the courts below correctly dismissed the appellants’ action.” The Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in the case of Child v. Desormeaux supports the current common
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In Benjamin Franklin’s letter from Paris‚ he writes to Mary Stevenson‚ a woman who he parted ways with at the Society of Bromley‚ to share his two week Parisian adventure with her while discussing how “traveling is one way of lengthening life.” Franklin writes in his letter about his experiences that he has encountered. He writes‚ “The Roads we found equally good with ours in England‚ in some Places pav’d with smooth Stone like our new Streets…yet there are no Turnpikes.” He compares Paris
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this case was later appealed in 2010 by Mr Homer. Heard in the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal‚ the judgements given by Maurice Kay LJ‚ Richards LJ and then Mummery AJ all affirmed the previous decision‚ contending that Mr Homer’s case was not one of particular disadvantage‚ but one of a claim for more favourable treatment on account of age. Issues/Law- What does the law assume and why? – have I covered law relating to justification and discrimination? The law influencing this case/of which
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2.1 (a) In the decision of District Court of New South Wales‚ Appellant (Ms Derrick) owed the Respondent (Rosannie Cheung) a duty of care‚ as she was driving at such a speed that it was beyond her ability to stop the car in time and notice that a child which suddenly darted from one of the parked cars. In addition‚ nearby shops and houses combined with the date‚ Saturday morning shortly before Christmas‚ should have alerted Ms Derrick that small children might be playing around‚ so she needed to
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Mer·cy‚ noun: kindness or help given to people who are in a very bad or desperate situation (Merriam-Webster). That is the definition of mercy and the key point in the book Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson. Throughout the book there are many different cases brought up of poor‚ innocent‚ African Americans who face a corrupt criminal justice system and are put on death row for crimes they did not commit. Although this was in the past‚ it is still happening in today’s criminal justice system and there
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The Liebeck v. McDonald’s case was a product liability lawsuit filed by Stella Liebeck‚ a 79 year old woman who was burned by a scalding hot coffee. One Sunday afternoon in 1994‚ Stella Liebeck ordered a cup of coffee at a McDonald’s drive through in Albuquerque‚ New Mexico. As she sat alongside her grandson in a 1989 Ford Probe‚ Liebeck noticed that there were no cup holders on the passenger side. Acting quickly‚ Liebeck decided to put the coffee cup between her knees. When she removed the coffee
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RENO v. AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION US Supreme Court‚ 1997 1. Claim: Attorney General Janet Reno‚ the appellant appealed directly to the Supreme Court as provided for by the Act’s special review provisions against the appellee‚ ACLU. 2. Facts: The 1996 Federal Communications Decency Act sought to protect minors from “indecent” and offensive Internet materials. The Act made it a crime to transmit obscene or indecent messages over the Internet. Immediately after the CDA became law‚ twenty
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Case Name: National Legal Services Authority (Petitioner) v Union of India & Ors. (Respondent). Court Name: Supreme Court of India. Bench: J.‚ K.S. Radhakrishnan & J.‚ A.K. Sikri. Date of Decision: April 15‚ 2014. Citation: AIR 2014 SC 1863. Statement of Facts: 1. The National Legal Services Authority filed a writ petition no. 400 of 2012 seeking relief that Hijras/ Eunuchs/ Transgenders (herein after refer as TG) be given legal status as ‘third gender’ with legal and constitutional provision.
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802 The Evolving Stance of Segregation In Plessy v Ferguson the court ruled that segregation was constitutional so long as the provided separate facilities were equal. For the next fifty eight years‚ states created laws that supported their own policies of segregation. Known as Jim Crow Laws‚ these laws continued to discriminate against African Americans across nation. It was not until 1954 when the case Brown v Board of Education when the court reached a decision to overturn segregation and ruled
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