Yearly Archives: 2022

How does your experience change if you engage with your environment? What are the rules? Does everyone follow them? Does law create difference (inequality), or does it create equality?  

You are at a birthday party where every guest was asked to bring a pie because the person whose birthday is being celebrated loves pie. 20 people attend and, on the dining room table, there are 20 pies waiting for the celebration. But   before the group can sing “Happy Birthday” an argument occurs.   […]

In a typical tort lawsuit, the injured party is the plaintiff who brings suit against a defendant who is allegedly liable for causing that harm. However, that defendant might be able to lessen liability, in whole or in part, by asserting that the plaintiff is subject to contributory negligence or comparative negligence.   What is […]

On August 25, 2020, Kyle Howard Rittenhouse fatally shot two people, Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, and wounded another person, Gaige Grosskreutz, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The shootings occurred during civil protests that followed the shooting of a black man, Jacob Blake, by a white police officer. Rittenhouse was charged with two counts of homicide, one […]

The Black Lives Matter movement has brought national attention to racial violence by members of law enforcement.   42 U.S.C. Section 1983 is a federal statute that allows people to sue the government or an agent of the government for   violation of their civil rights. It provides:   “Every person who, under color of […]

 “The Ethics of Philippa Foot.”  author’s arguments about theory, her ‘Trolley Problem’ as an illustration of an ethical dilemma, and her approach to an issue in applied ethics.  her approach to Ethics in these various dimensions, and evaluate what you see as its strengths and weaknesses.  

Could you bring a claim on a dissolved company under theThe UK Health and Safety Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005   

The UK Health and Safety Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005 (Is a there a case law on a dissolved company under    

With regards to the Administrative Procedures Act. I would like you to consider the issue concerning the assistance that major telecommunications companies provided to the National Security Agency which included collecting information on Americans’ phone calls and emails.  See e.g. http://time.com/3999527/att-nsa-spying/.   As a result, do the mechanisms for accountability sufficiently protect the rights of individuals […]

With regards to the Administrative Procedures Act, what do you think of the most recent changes being made by Apple to its Operating System as to regard to child trafficking etc.  See https://www.manhattanda.org/written-testimony-for-the-united-states-senate-committee-on-the-judiciary-on-smartphone-encryption-and-public-safety for an analysis by the District Attorney of Manhattan and a recent NYT article https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/05/technology/apple-iphones-privacy.html.   Should the government have more oversight, is […]