Case Study: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services‚ Inc. Joshua Weisman Webster University HRMG 5700 QD F2 In the case of Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services‚ Inc.‚ Joseph Oncale was the victim of repeated harassment‚ sexual‚ physical and mental‚ from at least three members of the work crew‚ of which two had a supervisory position over him. When Oncale brought his complaints to the supervisors‚ they took no noticeable actions against the harassers and‚ after he had experienced
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The positive attitudes are from the wealthier people because they are able to purchase and have luxury cars when negative attitudes may come from the middle class individual or the lower class individuals because they have different needs and wants. 5. The role that Porsche brand play in the self-concept of its buyer is that is a successful company that holds to produce luxury vehicles to
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Case 5-1 1. How should AMAX be organized and controlled? * Measuring the management performance to provide proper motivation for managers for measuring profitability. * The quality measurement of manufacturing process such as scheduling product‚ quality control‚ and the decision making. * By focusing on the profit centers that give the information about profitability to upper management. * By focusing on the ending profit or loss that encourage managers to make more profits from
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reasonably to enhance the contractual objectiveness of a case. Judges use the grounds of how a ‘reasonable’ observer would interpret the facts to determine whether the elements of a contract are evident within an agreement to then make it legally binding‚ and whether the contractual performance of the parties was acted in good faith. This in effect allows for more procedural fairness‚ taking into account all matters within judicial review. Within this case‚ Robb J reasons that there is a legally binding contract
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this case was later appealed in 2010 by Mr Homer. Heard in the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal‚ the judgements given by Maurice Kay LJ‚ Richards LJ and then Mummery AJ all affirmed the previous decision‚ contending that Mr Homer’s case was not one of particular disadvantage‚ but one of a claim for more favourable treatment on account of age. Issues/Law- What does the law assume and why? – have I covered law relating to justification and discrimination? The law influencing this case/of which
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2.1 (a) In the decision of District Court of New South Wales‚ Appellant (Ms Derrick) owed the Respondent (Rosannie Cheung) a duty of care‚ as she was driving at such a speed that it was beyond her ability to stop the car in time and notice that a child which suddenly darted from one of the parked cars. In addition‚ nearby shops and houses combined with the date‚ Saturday morning shortly before Christmas‚ should have alerted Ms Derrick that small children might be playing around‚ so she needed to
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Group Assignment #1 Group 11 Runcheng Zhang‚ Blair Macaulay October 13th 2014 ACC-1100-D01 Debbie Mortimer *Note: The other two group members did not contribute to this assignment 1a) Predetermined overhead rate. b) Overhead costs per program base on predetermined rate c) Total cost per student of each academic program 2a) First stage allocation of overhead costs b) Activity rates c) Second stage allocation of overhead Professional Arts Technology 3. Total cost
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The Liebeck v. McDonald’s case was a product liability lawsuit filed by Stella Liebeck‚ a 79 year old woman who was burned by a scalding hot coffee. One Sunday afternoon in 1994‚ Stella Liebeck ordered a cup of coffee at a McDonald’s drive through in Albuquerque‚ New Mexico. As she sat alongside her grandson in a 1989 Ford Probe‚ Liebeck noticed that there were no cup holders on the passenger side. Acting quickly‚ Liebeck decided to put the coffee cup between her knees. When she removed the coffee
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RENO v. AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION US Supreme Court‚ 1997 1. Claim: Attorney General Janet Reno‚ the appellant appealed directly to the Supreme Court as provided for by the Act’s special review provisions against the appellee‚ ACLU. 2. Facts: The 1996 Federal Communications Decency Act sought to protect minors from “indecent” and offensive Internet materials. The Act made it a crime to transmit obscene or indecent messages over the Internet. Immediately after the CDA became law‚ twenty
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Case Name: National Legal Services Authority (Petitioner) v Union of India & Ors. (Respondent). Court Name: Supreme Court of India. Bench: J.‚ K.S. Radhakrishnan & J.‚ A.K. Sikri. Date of Decision: April 15‚ 2014. Citation: AIR 2014 SC 1863. Statement of Facts: 1. The National Legal Services Authority filed a writ petition no. 400 of 2012 seeking relief that Hijras/ Eunuchs/ Transgenders (herein after refer as TG) be given legal status as ‘third gender’ with legal and constitutional provision.
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