A Civil Action Position Paper
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two main defendants were the W.R. Grace corporation, a chemical and
manufacturing giant that built stainless steel equipment at a plant in
Woburn, and Beatrice Foods, another mega-corporation, which operated a
tannery there. Toxic chemicals from these operations, many thought, had
leaked in and contaminated the wells. The most serious of these chemicals
was a carcinogen called trichloroethylene, a solvent used to dissolve
grease and oil, which explained the leukemia.
In civil suits, the plaintiff wants justice to be served because
they claim one to be responsible for their hurt. They want the defendants
to pay, in terms .....
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"Three Strikes And You're Out"
.... this new law, this crime would be tried as a misdemeanor but
would have s felonious sentence. Our buddy gets sent to 7 years at the
state penitentiary. While lodging at one of our nations finest resorts, our
sticky handed friend meets Bruno. After a painful greet and hello the two
become close personal friends. Bruno has this enemy. Another criminal who's
feelings got hurt when Bruno made a new friend. His name is Moose. Moose
begins to beat up our poor little crook something fierce. The guards do
nothing about it because, after all, they are a bunch of criminals. Bruno
and our severely bruised brother, having no other way o .....
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Analysis Of Police Corruption
.... for the past 22 years.
I compiled my information from numerous articles written in the New York
Times over the last 5 years. My definitional infornmation and background
data came from various books cited that have been written on the issue of
police corruption. Those books helped me create a basis of just what the
different types of corruption and deviances are, as well as how and why
corruption happens. The books were filled with useful insite but were not
update enough, so I relied on the newspaper articles to provide me with
the current, and regional information that was needed to complete this
report. In simple terms, corrupti .....
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Divorce Litigation
.... with out proving grounds if both parties wanted
the divorce. Such divorces were obtained by having the plaintiff in effect
lie about the grounds without objection from the defendant.
A divorce reform movement took place in the early 1970's in the
United Kingdom and the Untied States. The movement was initiated by a
group, assembled by the archbishop of Canterbury, who proposed a single,
no-fault ground that required a judge to grant divorce if he or she finds
the marriage is irretrievable broken. The notion of irretrievable
breakdown was promulgated in the United States by the Uniform Marriage and
Divorce Act.
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International Law
.... and aims to serve the state, as well as protect
the state by giving its rights and duties. This is done through treaties
and other consensual engagements which are legally binding.
The case-law of the ICJ is an important aspect of the UN's
contribution to the development of international law. It's judgements and
advisory opinions permeates into the international legal community not only
through its decisions as such but through the wider implications of its
methodology and reasoning.
The successful resolution of the border dispute between Burkina
Faso and Mali in the 1986 Frontier Dispute case illustrates the ut .....
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Capital Punishment: Justice To The Victims And Their Families
.... This was
meant to limit the severity of punishment imposed on an offender by judge
or jury, but instead it creates a paradox with its usage of the words
'cruel' and 'punishment.' Webster's dictionary defines cruel as "causing,
or of a kind to cause pain, distress, etc." Using this definition, one has
to wonder how our justice system is suppose to punish criminals at all.
Wouldn't every punishment be cruel if we took the criminal's point of view?
Obviously we must punish criminals, so who's to say the punishment
shouldn't fit the crime. The U.S. justice system seeks prevention of
crimes, retribution for victims, or reformat .....
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The Death Penalty Is Needed
.... either crime or murder
rates.
Don't murderers deserve to die? Certainly, in general, the
punishment should fit the crime. But in civilized society, we reject the
"eye for an eye" principle of literally doing to criminals what they do to
their victims: The penalty for rape cannot be rape, or for arson, the
burning down of the arsonist's house. We should , therefore, punish the
murderer with death along with all other heinous crimes.
If execution is unacceptable, what is the alternative?
Incapacitation. Convicted murderers can be sentenced to lengthy prison
terms, including life, as they are in countries and states t .....
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Death To The Death Penalty
.... that the fear to be sentenced to death could act as an effective
deterrent.
There is another heavy limit. One who plans a crime rationally can
choose to go on, although he knows the risk he's running, thinking that he
won't be discovered. Most of the criminologists assert that the best way to
discourage murderers isn't increasing the severity of punishment, but
increasing the possibility of discovering the crime and condemning the
culprit. This will take care of the truly deserving people, who know and
understand what they are doing.
Sometimes death penalty has opposite effects to the ones wanted.
Those who know t .....
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Marijuana
.... The last reason is the Fedral government
would benifit two ways, First the fedral revenues would increase, because
marijuana ciggaretes would be taxed at the point of sale. The companies
that make the ciggaretes would also pay income taxes. Secondly there would
be a reduse in the amount spent on law enforcement efforts to apprehend and
procecute users and sellers of marijuana.
III. There are reasons why marijuana shouldn't be legal. One reason is
because there was one study that shows their were about 55% of all fatal
accidents in the U.S. were related to alcohol intoxication. Marijuana may
prevent similar risks .....
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Ross Rebagliati And The Marijuana Issue
.... this, many doctors have
stated that marijuana gives the athlete a disadvantage over others because
it could make that athlete tired, or weak.
Rebagliati's urine test showed trace amounts of marijuana. Doctors
say that it is very possible that one could inhale this small amount,
strictly from being in the same room as other people who were smoking it.
Ross Rebagliati told the press that he had not smoked marijuana since last
April, 9 months before the Olympics, and the last time he come in contact
with the drug, was at a party about a week before the Olympics, where
others were smoking marijuana. This means that the Olympic .....
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The Drinking Age: An 18-Year-Olds Right
.... that since these studies came out right after the drinking
ages had been lowered, they would naturally show that there was an increase
in death among teenagers. Anytime you change something dramatically it
takes a while for things to settle into a routine. If all of a sudden,
for instance, you allow 18-year-olds to drink alcohol when before they
couldn't, it's going to take a while before that becomes the norm, and
therefore less exciting and alluring. These studies would have been far
more accurate if they had been done after society had adapted to the change.
When the government found that many of the states were lowering th .....
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Capital Punishment: Injustice Of Society
.... the executive director of the
Montgomery based Equal Justice Initiative, has stated that "…people are
increasingly realizing that the more we resort to killing as a legitimate
response to our frustration and anger with violence, the more violent our
society becomes…We could execute all three thousand people on death row,
and most people would not feel any safer tomorrow."(Frame 51) In addition,
with the growing humanitarianism of modern society, the number of inmates
actually put to death is substantially lower than 50 years ago. This
decline creates a situation in which the death penalty ceases to be a
deterrent when .....
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