Reasonably foreseeable victims were brought to the forefront by cases such as Tarasoff v. the Regents of the University of California and subsequent duty to warn cases. Foreseeable means that a “reasonable anticipation of the possible results of an action” exists (Foreseeability. (n.d.)). The Tarasoff decision defined the first two categories of reasonably foreseeable victims‚ a person directly named by the client as being the target‚ and a person that a psychologist deems identifiable by using
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subsidy scheme and the Plaintiff sued the Government for subsidies it claimed it was due. Rules There was no contract. The statement made by the Commonwealth was not offered as consideration for the plaintiff buying the wool. The Court stated that in cases such as this: ‘… it is necessary‚ … that it should be made to appear that the statement or announcement which is relied on as a promise [here the subsidy statement] was really offered as consideration for the doing of the act‚ and that the act [buying
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The Obergefell decision is a landmark case that deals with a much greater debate than just that of the legality of same-sex marriage. The majority opinion of the court ruled in favor of the guaranteed right to marriage in every U.S. state regardless of the sex of the individuals involved. While the advancement of liberal social rights is evident in this opinion‚ the ruling‚ perhaps more importantly‚ confronts the struggle between the dissenting views of the nature of Constitutional revision. Through
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the Rights of People of Color’ Homework Nidhi Lala Indiana University‚ Bloomington Philosophy-P 145 Professor Sandra Shapshay 18th‚ September‚ 2014 Ta-Nehisi Coates makes an incredibly powerful statement about the rights of African Americans in ‘The Case for Reparations’. He traverses American History by exposing the various socioeconomic ways in which African American have been exploited. Coates’ shows through this essay that the exploitative acts of the past directly caused the disadvantages facing
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The Bridgeton case introduced a relatively simple costing system: DM‚ DL‚ and one pool of indirect‚ support‚ or overhead costs. The one and only "cost pool" containing all overhead (OH) costs was allocated on the basis of DL$. In this case‚ the direct costs seem to be largely variable (i.e.‚ they vary proportionally with production volume)‚ whereas some of the indirect costs are relatively variable and others are largely fixed. Case in point: Not all INDIRECT costs are necessarily FIXED. To figure
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The case of Siegel‚ et al. v. Ford Motor Company is a class action suit brought around by older managers who indicated the company ’s performance appraisal system unethically targeted them for termination due to their age. AARP assisted as co-counsel for the case which aids over four-hundred elder supervisors working with Ford Motor Company. The plaintiffs proclaim that senior administration established the system to remove older managers (US Newswire‚ 2002). The claim is that by constantly receiving
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Washington state’s highest court unanimously ruled on February 16 against a florist who refused to provide floral arrangements for a same-sex couple’s wedding‚ deciding that her refusal was a discriminatory act. The case involved 72-year-old Barronelle Stutzman‚ who denied services for the wedding of same-sex couple [insert names here] in 2012. Stutzman had served the couple previously‚ but said she could not provide services for the wedding out of concern that doing so would cause her to participate
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The OIL INDUSTRY includes the global processes of exploration‚ extraction‚ refining‚ transporting (often by oil tankers and pipelines)‚ and marketing petroleum products. The largest volume products of the industry are fuel oil and gasoline (petrol). Petroleum is also the raw material for many chemical products‚ including pharmaceuticals‚ solvents‚ fertilizers‚ pesticides‚ and plastics. The industry is usually divided into three major components: upstream‚ midstream and downstream. Midstream operations
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BP OIL SPILL IN 2010 April 20th was a tragic day for BP and the crew of the Transocean’s Deepwater Horizon. “Floating fifty-two miles off the coast of Louisiana in 5‚000 feet of water was an oil rig drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.” (Hoffman‚ 2010) What unfolded next will go down in history as the worst accidental oil spill in the world. “The oil well a mile below the surface of the Gulf blew up from high-pressure methane gas expanding into the drill. As a result of the explosion‚ it ended
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exception make it to another facility for delivery. On reviewing the case and other associated evaluations performed by Memorial Hospital‚ it becomes clear that the hospital has established a pattern of not managing indigent patients and was involved in the practice of diverting them to other facilities. Based on these findings it appears that several infractions of the EMTALA have been committed by the facility. Whether the case in question falls strictly under these guidelines it is unclear. I
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