Checkpoint Legal Terms HCR 210 1. Assault: an attempt or threat to do bodily harm to someone that is against the law like not giving a person their required medication or placing a patient in restraints without legal right to 2. Battery: Touching a person without their consent‚ like if a doctor does a physical on someone without written consent 3. Breach of Confidentiality: is when
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Cases Comm 315 Case1 : King v.BioChem Therapeutic Inc. Fact: Dr King is hired by Bio Chem. She signed a special contract that specifies a period of probation. During this period‚ she can be let go but you have to be known the wrong behavior in order to be able to rectify it. If the wrong behavior persists then your contract will be terminated. Issue: Is the termination of the contract of Dr King for fault justified? Ratio Employer version of facts: 1st meeting: after 5 months and a half
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I am writing to dispute/remove a billing error in the amount on the account 36224* with The Bank of the West. This account is not my account. The account 34224‚ the Bank of the West was opened by Mr. Craig L. Mezey on March 1st‚ 2006. Craig L. Mezey opened this account/loan for a purchase a Recreational Merchandise “2005 Sea Hunt 202.” The boat was registered on his (Craig L. Mezey) name. In October 24‚ 2007‚ the Circuit Court‚ Fifth Judicial Circuit in and Marion County‚ Florida ordered to Craig
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Public Interest Litigation (PIL) PIL in broad terms means litigation filed in a court of law for the protection of “Public Interest” on the wide variety of subjects concerning citizens. The history: Public Interest Litigation popularly known as PIL can be broadly defined as litigation in the interest of that nebulous entity: the public in general. Prior to 1980s‚ only the aggrieved party could personally knock the doors of justice and seek remedy for his grievance and any other person who
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Small Claims Courts in the Philippines Going to court for a small sum of money has just become cheaper and faster with the establishment of small claims courts. A simple procedure makes it easy for everyone. According to former Court Administrator‚ now Supreme Court Associate Justice Jose P. Perez‚ 70% of cases before Metropolitan Trial Courts in Metro Manila are small claims (involving small amounts of money) and many of the litigants in these cases are poor. The same thing is true‚ if not more
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CIVIL LITIGATION AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION (Corporate) RESOURCE PACK Objectives: You should regard this pack as a tool to help you understand the CPR in context and to start drafting the legal documents covered by it. You are encouraged to add your own precedents as you collect these and to file your case papers for the 2 case studies in the sections provided. This pack contains details of both the CPR and some of the documents that are drafted by solicitors during the different stages of Civil Litigation
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Week II Assignment Group II – Cases 8 & 10 Case 8: Galindo v. Town of Clarkstown Identify the parties involved in the case dispute (who is the plaintiff and who is the defendant). The case involves Mr. Galindo’s wife as the plaintiff and her employer‚ Mr. Richard Clark‚ as the defendant. Identify the facts associated with the case and fact patterns. Javier Galindo‚ the husband of the plaintiff‚ was sitting in his car in the driveway of Mr. Clark’s property waiting to pick up his wife
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Case 13-8 Accounting for a Loss Contingency for a Verdict Overturned on Appeal M International (“M”) and W Inc. (“W‚” a competitor of M) have been engaged in long- standing litigation over a specific patent infringement matter. Below is a summary timeline of specific events that have taken place related to this matter: In May 2007‚ W filed a claim against M for patent infringement. For the year ended December 31‚ 2007‚ management of M determined that a loss for this matter was probable
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Ruth Koch v. George Koch FACTS: The parties were married on March 1‚ 1959. Plaintiff had a 15 year old daughter by a previous marriage. It was planned that she would live with them‚ as well as agreed upon that after marriage the defendant’s mother from Hungary would be moved in with them (September 11‚ 1964). Defendant testified that he would not have married plaintiff if his mother could not live with them. Within a very short time after the arrival of the mother-in-law‚ the incompatibility
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Business law 1101 ATRA Professor. Waller 10/20/14 Hamer V.S. Sidway Facts: William E. Story promised his nephew William E. Story I I $5‚000 under the condition that the nephew refrains from drinking‚ using tobacco‚ gambl ing‚ and swearing until he turned 21. When William E. Story II turned 21‚ his uncle sent him a letter saying he earned the money‚ When the nephew turned 21 the uncle said he would hold the mone y with interest until the nephew became capable of taking care of it responsibly
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