Kevin Han Case #1: Stanford Financial R. Allen Stanford is accused of pulling off a $7 billion Ponzi scheme that defrauded thousands of investors. Prosecutors allege that Stanford lured investors to purchase Certificate of Deposits with returns that were consistently higher than the market and used the proceeds to finance his lavish lifestyle. Stanford currently faces 14 criminal charges‚ including wire and mail fraud‚ in addition to civil suit from the SEC. Adding to the case are charges against
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Ladies and Gentleman of the jury‚ W.R. Grace and Beatrice foods have polluted the aquifer located under East Woburn. There is no question of this‚ as testimony from workers such as Al Love show that they have spilled‚ poured and dumped TCE‚ or Trichloroethylene. Mr. Reilly testified that he should have known what was happening on the 15 acres of property he leased out to the Whitney barrel company. By dumping TCE and other chemicals onto the ground‚ these companies introduced these harmful substances
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Understand employment responsibilities and rights in health‚ social care or children’s and young people’s settings. 1. Know the statutory responsibilities and rights of employees and employers within own area of work. 1.1 The most common aspects of employment covered by law are: Pay Hours of work Health + safety Employment contracts Bullying‚ Harassment‚ Victimisation Dismissal Discrimination Absences (Holidays‚ sickness‚ maternity/paternity leave) Grievances Disciplinary The transfer of undertakings
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Alstyne‚ R. W. V. (1949). THE NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY. Current History‚ 16‚ 321-326. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.vortex3.uco.edu. Richard W. Van Alstyne is the author of this article but he also went but the name Richard Warner. Warner has his PHD in history from Stanford University and was a professor for seventeen years at Chico State University and taught for twenty years at the University of Southern California. The warrants presented in this article are that in order to be at peace
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Justice R e s e a r c h i n A c t i o n February 1999 Jeremy Travis‚ Director Highlights Jurisdictions across the country have adopted case management techniques to combat recidivism‚ homelessness‚ and joblessness. Case management is being used for arrestees‚ probationers‚ and parolees who need services such as batterer intervention‚ drug treatment‚ mental health treatment‚ or to provide help for mentally retarded offenders. This Research in Action examines different criminal justice
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Jonathan Crespo Mr. Mouser Government 5/11/2018 United States v Nixon In the case of United States v. Richard Nixon‚ seven of Nixon’s closest aides were convicted of many crimes in the Watergate affair. The name of the aides that were convicted are John N. Mitchell‚ former Attorney General; H. R. Haldeman‚ John D. Ehrlichman and Gordon C. Strachan‚ former White House aides; Robert C. Mardian‚ a former aide to Mr. Mitchell‚ and Kenneth Wells Parkinson. Nixon was named by the Watergate grand jury
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1. Discuss the challenges faced by HR management when significant staff cutbacks occur and how they should be addressed. In my opinion one of the most difficult challenges faced by HR management when significant staff cutbacks occur is having to lay off fellow co-workers that do not deserve to lose their jobs. When laying off part of your work force you have to find a way to get the same amount of work done but with less people. This is very hard because once a layoffs occur other workers tend
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Citation: Powell V U.S. No. 405‚ Supreme Court of the United States‚ 1968‚ 392 U.S. 514‚ 88 S. Ct. 2145 L. Ed 2d 1254‚ 1968 U.S. 1140. Facts: Leroy Powell was arrested December‚ 1966 for public intoxication‚ which is in violation of Texas state law. Powell was found guilty and fined. He appealed and at trial Powell argued that he was not at fault for his behavior due to chronic alcoholism‚ which is a disease. He further argued that punishing him for his behavior was cruel and unusual behavior‚ a
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R. v. MacIsaac‚ 2015 ONCA 587 Facts The appellant‚ MacIssac‚ was charged with one count of aggravated assault that occurred in a collision during a recreational non-contact ice hockey game. The appeal was upheld in the Ontario Court of Appeal in a decision written by Hourigan J.A.‚ reasoning that the trial judge erred through impermissible speculation to reach their verdict. The appeal concerns a collision between the appellant‚ who played for the Tiger-Cats and the complainant‚ who played for
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2000 CASE DIGESTS C R I M I N A L L A W SUMMARY OF DOCTRINES JUSTIFYING CIRCUMSTANCES Self-Defense The invocation of self-defense is an admission of the killing and its authorship. By this admission‚ the burden of proof shifts to the accused who must establish all elements of the justifying circumstance. The nature and number of wounds inflicted disprove the plea of self-defense because they demonstrate determined effort to kill and not just defend himself. (People v. Magayac
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