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Legal Environment of Business
Simulation: Business Regulation Legal Environment of Business Simulation: Business Regulation Alumina Incorporation Alumina Incorporation is an USA-based $4 billion alumni maker. It operates in eight countries around the world with the USA counting for seventy percents of its sales. Situated in the fringes of Lake Dira in the state of Erehwon, Alumina Inc. has business interests in automotive components and manufacture of packaging materials, bauxite mining, etc. Alumina Inc. falls under the jurisdiction of region
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Legalization of Marijuana
Legalization of Marijuana From the executive that sits behind his desk collecting his money, to the drug dealer on the street trying to make his money in order to survive, the drug dealing business gives money to criminals, while innocent users are being put away in jail. The issue of legalization and/or decriminalization of marijuana use have been a highly controversial issue over the years. At present, it is a crime to possess and use
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English Legal System
Question 1. The most fundamental distinction between civil and criminal law is the concept of punishment: 1. The criminal law: • Criminal Law regulates offences affecting community as a whole; crime is committed against the state. • In criminal law defendant is punished either by fine paid to the government or imprisonment. • In criminal litigation burden of proof is always on the state which must prove beyond reasonable doubt guiltiness of the defendant. •
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Ethical and Legal Obligations Paper
Ethical and Legal Obligations Paper All members of a civilized and harmonious society have ethical and legal obligations. We are obligated to act in an ethical and law abiding manner in our day-to-day activities within our community. It stands to reason that our financial reporting should fall within this expectation as well. So much of our lives and well-being is dictated by the business environment around us. It is where we work, where we invest
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Legality
Today the vast majority of authors get little or no income from copyright royalties. For instance, scientific, technical, and academic journals usually pay nothing to their authors, and most scientific, technical and academic books earn only a few hundred dollars in royalties. Newspaper writers work on salary, and so do magazine writers, or they are free lancers who are paid a flat rate, not a royalty. Only a tiny percentage of authors make any significant
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Legal Issues in Reduction of Workforce
Legal Issues in Reduction of Workforce Introduction FastServe Inc. is a $25million company involved in the direct marketing of branded sports apparel. They once had two online websites, one for girls and one for boys. The websites didn’t do well and became and expense and subsequently that division had to be disbanded and the websites shutdown. Due to this shutdown, FastServe will now have to reduce its workforce by 10% in an effort to decrease
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Legalization of Marijuana
The question of whether marijuana should or should not be legal has asked for many years. Supporters of legalizing marijuana point to the non-dangerous nature of the drug. Those who favor the ban of marijuana say that it is a gateway drug that leads to other more serious substances. Marijuana has been prohibited since the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. Marijuana prohibition costs taxpayers 7.5 billion dollars annually. Since 1993, there have been over
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Legal Issues in Reduction of Workforce Simulation
Running head: LEGAL ISSUES IN REDUCTION OF WORKFORCE SIMULATION Legal Issues in Reduction of Workforce Simulation Scott University of Phoenix Introduction Fast Serve, Incorporated is a $25 million company whose main product is direct marketing of branded sports apparel. They have recently decided to end their online retail outlet. Because of this draw down, they must also reduce their workforce. For this simulation, they must decide to layoff 3 employees out of the 5 employees
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Marijuana - Why Legal?
Marijuana: Why Criminal? In a country where freedom is the basis of all social life one has to feel that all the laws are made up to protect them, but that is not necessarily true. When one looks at the laws prohibiting the use of marijuana it is hard to see why it is needed. There are a few basic reasons why marijuana should be legal, and although there are nay sayers , no one
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Legal Process Paper
Discrimination can be defined as the “treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual merit and / or unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice” (http://www.dictionary.com ). Employers have to be careful concerning the treatment of their employees not only in the hiring and termination process, but in day to day business as well. When an employee perceives he or she has been discriminated against by his
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Ethical, Legal, and Regulatory Issues
Ethical, Legal, and Regulatory Issues First, how ethical issues differ on a B2C site compared to a B2B site? B2C and B2B sites generally deal with different ethical issues. Consumer privacy is an important concern for B2C sites. For example keeping e-mail addresses secret and hiding from third parties to avoid unsolicited emails and spam is considered as an ethical responsibility for B2C sites. Cookies are small data items that contain information about us and
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Should Prostitution Be Legalized Just like Any Other Businesses?
Prostitution or women trafficking (so called) is one of the oldest trades known to man and even at the present time, while it is illegal in most areas of the United States, it is still employing many women and is solicited by even more men. Prostitution should be decriminalized because we are paying too high a financial and social cost for the ineffective enforcement of laws against it. The money and the law enforcement personnel
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Should It Be Legal
Should it be Legal? In 1978 the state legislator of New Mexico made a law allowing physicians to prescribe marijuana to patients suffering from nausea caused by chemotherapy, much of this due to the efforts of a cancer patient by the name of Lynn Pierson. The Federal government modified the law to make it comply with IND regulations requiring a research program. The FDA also demanded many studies and required the doctors to fill out
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What Is Legal Scalping?
What is Legal Scalping? A true fan, be it of a particular musician, sports team, or theater performance, will wait endless hours in a box office line, on the Internet, or by their phone anticipating incredible seats to an event. However, when it’s their time to purchase tickets, the only available seats left are obstructed view or the “nosebleed” section. That seems impossible because the purchase maximum is six tickets at a forty thousand-seat
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Gay Marriage - Should Gay Marriages Be Legal?
Gay Marriage Should gay marriages be legal? Clearly we as a nation are undecided on this issue. 36 states have passed legislation banning gay marriages, yet the state of Vermont recently passed a law that allows homosexual couples the right to participate in civil unions. Some other states are also debating whether or not to allow these couples to marry. Unfortunately, the dispute has left the United States homosexual community in an awkward position. There
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Legal Process Paper
There are many laws the federal government has adopted to ensure that employees are protected against discrimination in the workplace. This paper will discuss some of those laws, as well as explain the civil litigation process. One of the most well-known is Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) which prohibits discrimination against an individual in any aspect of employment due to their race, religion, sex, color, age or national origin.
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Legalizing Marijuana
Legalizing Marijuana Marijuana is a hallucinogen; its active property is THC. Marijuana is the most widely used illegal drug in the U.S., and is often the first illegal drug used by teenagers. Some states have legalized marijuana for medical purposes only. From a rational point of view, individuals deserve the right to make choices for themselves. The government only has a right to limit those choices if the individual's actions endanger someone else. This does
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Legal Process Paper
Introduction Based on the proposed scenario, if John, the employee of the private sector organization wants to file a discrimination complaint, there are specific procedures, which need to be taken. This procedure has been designed to lead, instruct, and protect both the employee and the employer from unnecessary litigation or the lack thereof. Discrimination Complaint and Civil Litigation Processes from the EEOC to the U.S. Supreme Court In the Proposed scenario, John must begin the
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Ecommerce Legal Issues
In the past several years, more and more business has moved online. Companies are opening a new channel of business by selling their goods and services online to a wider market. Consumers are also looking toward the internet, and the percentages of online sales are growing each year. Consumers are buying everything from car insurance to clothes online, as well as booking travel, buying or searching for cars, and purchasing their music online through various
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Legalization of Prostitution
Legalization of Prostitution University of Phoenix [Name Removed] COMM 215 [Name Removed] September 22, 2006 Prostitution can be traced as far back as the 6th century B.C. during the great Roman and Greek empires. Although an overwhelming amount of people feel that prostitution should not be legalized, it is still here today and is one of the oldest professions. There are various reasons why society still rejects the idea of legalizing prostitution. In America, most
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Legalizing Marijuana
The debate on legalizing marijuana is one that is very controversial in today's society. To the AIDS or cancer patient, marijuana is the plant that fights nausea and appetite loss. To the nutritionist, its seed is second only to the soybean in nutritional value and is a source of cooking oil and vitamins. To the paper or cloth manufacturer, it is the plant that provided much of our paper and clothing for hundreds of years
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Legalization of Marijuana (against)
Roger Beaman April 10, 2008 Legalization of Marijuana The legalization of marijuana has been a controversial issue ever since it was made an illegal substance in 1937 with the passage of the Marijuana Tax Act. Currently the DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) lists marijuana as a schedule I substance, meaning that it has a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use in the US[2]. Many groups have formed attempting to change marijuana legislation. The
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Aborts Are Legal
Abortion is not easy decision, but women has made that choice for hundreds years, for many different reasons. Since 1973 abortions are legal in the United States, but we have some people who still are disagree with this position. They are talking about religion, that children are viewed as a gift from the Lord, about the health, and about the moral side of the issue. Should a fetus have rights equal or superior to woman’s?
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Legalization of Drugs
The legalization of drugs. Legalization of drugs is a subject that shouldn’t even be discussed. The problems that this country has with drugs will still exist if they are legalized, but most likely those problems will increase and cause many illnesses and deaths among our citizens. Legalizing drugs is a way for the government to give up. “Illegal drugs are illegal because they are harmful” Drug dealers are experts on how to market to children.
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Legalization of Marijuana
Legalization of Marijuana Marijuana never kicks down the door in the middle of the night. Marijuana never locks up sick and dying people, does not suppress medical research, does not peek in bedroom windows. Even if one takes every reefer madness allegation of the prohibitionists at face value, marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could. It's a strange twist of justice in the land of freedom. A
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