What is the impact of the experience incarceration on the incarcerated?
Category: Law
Tort litigation
Large damages awards in tort litigation by someone. If the defendant is insured, then insurance companies pay the bill. Ultimately, though, high insurance rates are passed on to consumers of goods and services in the United States. Will tort reform that reduces the size and number of damages awards ultimately mean lower costs of goods and services? Will tort reform lead to higher risks associated with services and products?
Prosecuting law breakers
Can federal agencies make their own rules and prosecute those who violate the rules?
Law questions
In New York City, 2406-12 Amsterdam Associates, LLC, brought an action in a New York state court against Alianza Dominicana and Alianza, LLC, to recover unpaid rent. The plaintiff asserted cause to pierce the corporate veil, alleging that Alianza Dominicana had made promises to pay its rent while discreetly forming Alianza, LLC, to avoid liability for it. According to 2406-12 Amsterdam Associates, LLC, Alianza, LLC, was 90% owned by Alianza Dominicana, had no employees, and had no function but to hide Alianza Dominicana’s assets from its creditors. The defendants filed a motion to dismiss the plaintiff’s claim. [2406-12 Amsterdam Associates, LLC v. Alianza, LLC, 136 A.D.3d 512, 25 N.Y.S.3d 167 (1 Dept. 2016)]
Assuming that 2406-12 Amsterdam Associates, LLC’s allegations are true, are there sufficient grounds to pierce the corporate veil of Alianza, LLC? Explain your answer and why you believe your answer is correct.
Relevant law enforcement intelligence topic
All students will be required to submit on a relevant law enforcement intelligence topic of their choice. may include legal, technological, or moral issues impacting law enforcement intelligence collection and/or analysis. It is highly desirable that your topic would have application or relevance to your current or intended profession or agency, or to your own academic research interests on a major topic within law enforcement intelligence.
Law questions
1) What is meant by “trials of the century”? What is the relation between the court and the media in so-called trials of the century?
2) How much pretrial publicity is necessary for a change of venue?
3) What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of allowing the media into courtrooms?
4) What are some opposing views regarding frivolous lawsuits and excessive jury awards? Should defendants be allowed millions of dollars in damages for minor injuries or mental suffering? Why or why not?
5) What is tort reform? Who benefits from tort reform?
6) What types of circumstances suggest that pretrial publicity is unfavorable to defendants?
7) What is the litigation explosion? Why do you believe that it has occurred?
8) What is a gag order? Why do judges impose gag orders on jurors and other participants in legal actions?
9) Do media representatives have a constitutional right to enter and record what is going on in U.S. courtrooms? What are your opinions on this issue?
10) What is the court of public opinion? How does it affect or influence trial outcomes?
Legal Memorandum
You are expected to write a Legal Memorandum (information note) of 800 words maximum about Sustainability and Climate Change related policies for corporations. The reader of the memorandum is the board of directors of a privately held company that is about to go public (and thus become a listed company). The advertorials claim that its business activities are “completely sustainable and green”, but it outsources its forestry productions to firms established in Brazil.
Content: You are expected to focus on (i) decreasing companies’ carbon footprint by mandatory or voluntary regulations or (ii) managers’ and companies’
liability arising from environmental damages and greenwashing, or (iii) corporate supply chain due diligence. In this context, you are supposed to identify the existing policies and strategies, provide recommendation(s), and show the current regulations’ shortcomings with justification.
Format: You may use subheadings for the existing policies, recommendations and critics (shortcomings) about the current approaches. You may use any format that is compatible with legal memoranda.
The Legal Memorandum has to be uploaded to the relevant Turnitin folder in the Assessment tab (at Blackboard). Submission by email is not accepted.
I want to remind you that your paper is subject to Koç University’s “Student Code of Conduct”. We will upload the papers to ChatGPT with a prompt asking if the AI has written or contributed in any way to the Memo
Supreme Court staff
The three videos below produced by the Supreme Court staff provide an overview of the court. After watching the learning resources, provide an analysis addressing: 1) What is the purpose of the oral argument? 2) What happens to each petition that is sent to the Supreme Court for review? 3) If the Supreme Court decides not to take a case, is it an implicit affirmation of the lower court’s decision? Why or why not? 4) What is a dissenting opinion?
Law – Criminal
In a minimum of 150 words, compare and contrast Bowers v. Hardwick (1986) and Lawrence v. Texas (2003) and the key legal point of each case, and how Lawrence v. Texas (2003) upheld the right to sexual privacy.
Wentworth and the campaign treasurers
William Wentworth, a wealthy and influential business owner, had a vested interest in seeing his preferred candidate win the Senate election. Wentworth has unlimited monies but he is subject to the strict limits placed on individual contributions to one specific Senator’s campaigns. Wentworth asked all one hundred employees to write $1,000 personal checks in order to make contributions to Senator X’s federal election campaign. Wentworth then reimbursed each employee, in the form of a check or cash, the exact amount of the checks they wrote. Senator X’s campaign staff is required to file reports that include contributors’ names with the Federal Election Commission (FEC). And Senator X’s campaign treasurers were seemingly unaware that the FEC campaign finance reports they filed were actually false due to Wentworth’s ability to conceal that he was the source of all of the contributions.
Please use IRAC format
Issue 1: In what ways, if any, have Wentworth and the campaign treasurers violated 18 U.S.C. Section 1001? Be sure to reference what mental state is required under 18 U.S.C. Section 2.