United States v. Lopez Citations: United States v. Lopez‚ 514 U.S. 549‚ 115 S. Ct. 1624‚ 131 L. Ed. 2d 626 (1995). Facts: Alfonso Lopez‚ Jr.‚ a 12th grade high school student‚ was convicted for purposely carrying a handgun along with bullets onto a school zone for resale under the federal Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990. Issue: Did Congress really have the power to pass this act? Decision: The Court of Appeals took action and reversed the conviction on the basis that the commerce power
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known as capital. This provides an opportunity for investors who trade their money for potential future profit. Both private placements and initial public offerings‚ or IPOs‚ are methods of raising capital for a business. Initial Public Offer (IPO) | Private Placement (P.P) | The first sale of stock by a company to the public. IPOs are often used as a way for a young company to gain necessary market capital. When a company goes public‚ its financial data and corporate structure become public as
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Right to refuse treatment 2 In SELL v. UNITED STATES‚ the question was whether the constitution allows forcibly medicating a mentally ill defendant so that he/she can be competent for trial for serious crimes that are non-violent. The constitution does allow this but under certain circumstances. Sell was found to be mentally incompetent to stand trial after examination by a magistrate the United States Medical Center for Federal Prisoners. Sell decided to challenge the decision made by the
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Running Header: JetBlue Airways IPO Valuation JetBlue Airways IPO Valuation Borislav Belenov‚ Wade Brashear‚ Jamie Clausen‚ Paul Collier‚ Nicole Hagan and Melissa Lein Managerial Finance Chadron State College Professor Steve Stoner May 2009 David Neeleman is the founder of JetBlue Airways‚ which began under the name of “New Air” in 1999. Many JetBlue executives were previously employed by Southwest Airlines‚ a competitor in the area of low cost travel. However‚ Mr. Neeleman’s vision was
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USAA.COM COMPANY INTRODUCTION United Services Automobile Association (USAA) provides a full range of highly competitive financial products and services to the military and their families. USAA was initially founded in 1922 by twenty-five United States military officers who decided to ensure each other’s vehicles. Since then it has grown and expanded into one of the leading financial services companies. USAA’s mission today is “to facilitate the financial security of its members‚ associates‚ and
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JetBlue Airways IPO Valuation Summary In July 1999‚ David Neeleman announced his plan to launch a new airline that would bring “humanity back to air travel.” Despite the fact the airline industry had 87 new-airline failures in U.S. over the past 20 years. Neeleman’s plan convinced a group of investors and quickly raised $130 million from venture-capital community. This is the way JetBlue Airways established. With its strong capital base‚ JetBlue acquired a fleet of new Airbus A320 aircraft and focused
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United States v. Lee (1982) This case involved a conflict between the beliefs of the Old Order Amish and government regulations on employment and Social Security. The Amish regard the care of the sick and elderly to be one of their religious obligations; as a consequence‚ they believe that paying Social Security taxes (designed to care for the sick and elderly) would entail acknowledging that the government had that task rather than they. Thus‚ paying Social Security taxes would mean denying an
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Introduction In this essay I will discuss the case of New United Motor Manufacturing‚ Inc. (NUMMI) that jointly owned by the General Motor Co. (GM). From the case that NUMMI was starting badly because of the problem involved the employee‚ they were doing a lot of bad habits in the company including drug abused and results in lots of employee were laid-off. After joining with the Toyota‚ NUMMI starts new kinds of regulation to fix mistakes in the past as they made the No-strike‚ no-layoff agreement
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Public Offering (IPO) is when a private company sells its first stock to the public. This is usually done by company’s who are smaller and or “younger” looking to raise capital in order to expand. It can however be done by larger private companies that want to become public. IPO’s can be a risky investment‚ as the investors do not know how the stock will do on its first day of trading‚ in addition‚ there are not much historical data either. In August 2010‚ Gevo Inc.‚ filed for IPO with the SEC‚ which
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United Parcel Service’s IPO Case Talking points Value of the Knot We calculated Free Cash Flow and the pre-money NPV based on the same asset beta as we can derive from FedEx’s equity beta. The NPV is 35.4 billion and share price should be $31.5 for the current 1‚124‚000 share outstanding. Book Building Price As the book building data suggest‚ if we choose under $65/share‚ demands for the new-issued stock exceed the issuing stocks. Because of that‚ we recommend a price between:
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