Under Washington case law‚ plaintiffs are required to prove causation with expert testimony if alleged injury involves obscure medical factors. [cite]. The trickier question is whether the expert needs to demonstrate a direct causal link between the alleged injuries and the negligent act or if the expert merely must demonstrate that the plaintiff’s injuries are of a type that can be caused by the negligent act. Washington courts have come down on both sides of this question. I. Plaintiffs are Required
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Abortion: Should be illegal & is immoral Many people believe that abortions should be legal because women should have the right to choose whether or not they want to bring a baby into the world. They believe a woman should have property rights which include the body and the fetus. They also believe a woman should have privacy rights which means the state should not interfere with private matters. These people are called pro choice. At the same time many people are anti-abortion because they
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MEMO TO: CEO FROM: Division Manager DATE: January 29‚ 2014 RE: Discrimination Research ****************************************************************************** The following are my findings regarding the constructive discharge from the employee that has left our company after our policy change. The employee is alleging that we discriminated against them because we made them work on a “Holy Day.” He is claiming “constructive discharge.” Constructive Discharge is when an organization
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(1872)2 where Blackburn J stated that if an article is attached by own weight than then it is not part of the land unless the circumstances are such to show it was intended to be part of the land‚ the prima facie finding is that it is a chattel. If it is affixed to the land even slightly than the prima facie finding is that it is a fixture. Thus permanent structures on land and items that are integral part of the land itself are normally held to be “part of the parcel” 3. This presumption can be rebutted
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1. Ethics is the study of (Points : 1) propositional knowledge. right and wrong. beauty. truth. none of the above. Question 2. 2. A sound-thinking deontologist might use which statement to support a woman’s right to vote? (Points : 1) The happiness of 50% of the population being allowed to vote outweighs the pain that might come out of the other 50%. Humans are autonomous beings that inherently have the same capacities.
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Normative ethics Normative ethics is the branch of philosophical ethics that investigates the set of questions that arise when we think about the question “how ought one act morally speaking?” Normative ethics is distinct from meta-ethics because it examines standards for the rightness and wrongness of actions‚ while meta-ethics studies the meaning of moral language and the metaphysics of moral facts. Normative ethics is also distinct from descriptive ethics‚ as the latter is an empirical investigation
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Karl Popper Karl Popper was a problem solver. He thrived on problems that were “urgent and concrete” rather than abstract or irrelevant. Popper had a natural infatuation with empirical science‚ but refused to accept the traditional way empirical science was structured. His argument ignites by questioning the various disciplines we all have been taught in school such as physics‚ biology‚ and mathematics. These disciplines are barriers; barriers that limit thinking and confine one’s ability to reach
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employment practice does not have an unjustified adverse impact on Willie Griggs and the other twelve who are all members of a protected class APPLICATION: Willie Griggs and the twelve other African American employees can prove one or more of the prima facie elements‚ for
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offering $100 dining credit are considered as the duties of reparation from Ross’ seven Prima Facie obligations. The action the writer took of ‘inform the guests’ in broad view of corporate responsibility respects the stakeholders. It shows honesty which is considered as ethical in virtue theory‚ and theories of Kant and Ross. From Ross’ theory‚ the loyalty is also mentioned in duties of fidelity from 7 prima facie obligations. In long-term view‚ the shareholders will be satisfied with increasing profit
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(Febreuary 15‚ 2005). Retrieved on April 15‚ 2007 from Medical College of Georgia http://www.mcg.edu/aaffairs/policies/pdfs/p310.pdf National Origin Discrimination – Example Prima Facie. (2007). Retrieved on April 15‚ 2007 from Nolo http://www.nolo.com/definition.cfm/Term/F6EF4EB8-4BF4-4E67-944F944804FDAFCB/alpha/P/ Prima-Facie‚ Evidence‚ Case Title VII‚ Civil Rights Act of 1964‚ as amended. Retrieved on April 15‚ 2007 from U.S. Department of Labor http://www.dol.gov/oasam/regs/statutes/2000e-16.htm
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