Discuss the following: As a small-business owner, you are faced with rising costs, particularly employment costs, insurance, and the like. You decide to hire some friends and pay them as they work rather than go through the expense and procedure of bringing in “actual” employees. Your friends wear the business uniform, deal with vendors […]

Instructions This week you will be writing an essay, 2-3 pages double-spaced in length, on what happens when Constitutional rights collide. You can find an example from the news or caselaw, but here are some suggestions:   Religious rights (1st amendment) versus equal protection (14th amendment): https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/05/opinions/masterpiece-cakeshop-supreme-court-opinion-gupta   Freedom of speech (1st amendment) versus equal […]

Order Instructions After a rash of automobile deaths, Congress holds a series of hearings about the effectiveness of state seatbelt laws. Much testimony before Congress indicates that although all states require their drivers to wear seatbelts, many states do not effectively enforce these rules. Congress finds that this lax enforcement leads to thousands of the […]

Order Instructions The state of East Masshampshire is suffering through a fiscal crisis. Last year, the state ran a budget deficit of $34 billion, which constituted 15% of all state spending. State legislators are concerned that without dramatic reduction in spending, the state will not be able to pay for basic services and debt service […]

 The protection of personal and confidential information is tremendously important to U.S. citizens and organizations. The security of a private citizen's information and personal effects is specifically addressed in the Constitution and in the Bill of Rights. In modern times, the Internet has provided a venue where information about individual users is gathered, stored, analyzed, […]

 The Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees criminal defendants: The right to a public trial without unnecessary delay. The right to an attorney, the right to an impartial jury. The right to know one’s accusers. The nature of the charges or evidence against them. Preparation Analyze the following U.S. Supreme Court cases: Ballew v. […]

The Supreme Court recently issued four important and somewhat controversial employment law decisions, In one case, Janus v. AFSCME, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in June 2018 that requiring public employees to pay union dues for collective bargaining violates their free speech rights under the First Amendment. In a May 2018 decision, Epic Systems v. […]

Scenarios 1. Paula Plaintiff owns Paula’s Boutique, one of the most popular stores in town. William Wicked owns the store next to Paula’s Boutique. William has been jealous of Paula’s success. William, in an effort to increase his own business, begins to tell his customers that Paula is dishonest and unethical. William even puts a […]

 ****ANSWER EACH POST MIN 250 WORDS EACH POST**** ***FIRST POST*** Most people are apt to label any sort of suicide bombing or use of an improvised explosive device (IED) as terrorism. 1) The USS Cole was attacked by suicide bombers in the Port of Aden, Yemen in October 2000. Was this terrorism? Why or why […]

 Questions 1) What are the purposes of offenders’ cognitions? Just to make themselves feel better or to balance their interactions with others and their environments? 2) How can offenders’ childhood traumas influence their distorted cognitions of social reality? 3) What is the psychological source of mental conflicts? 4) How does prejudice influence criminal behavior? 6)Are you […]