Business Law Sample CASE STUDY SITUATION GO FAST is a motorcycle manufacturer in the southern United States. Though sales have been steady‚ profits have declined because of increasing operational costs. The Board of Directors felt a fresh look at the operations side was needed. They developed a 5-year plan to increase operating efficiency and set out to find someone to lead the effort. Four months ago‚ GO FAST found what they saw as “the person” to be the new operations director and develop a
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to previous judicial decisions‚ rather than to written statutes drafted by legislative bodies. The decisions came from English Common Law courts and are essential case law made by English judges. It is based on tradition‚ past practices and legal precedents set by courts through interpretation of statues‚ legal legislation‚ and past rules. The existence on English Common Law assists judge to decide cases when Statute is not adequate to cover the situation. Section 5 of the Criminal Procedure Code
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This case addresses the continuity of segregation practice in the decade of 1950. This kind of issue was defined by the Supreme Court in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson of 1896 with the “separate-but-equal” doctrine which recognized that separate but equal facilities do not violate the constitution (Essex‚ 2016). Linda Brown was an African American girl who tried to attend a less-crowded white school close to her home in Topeka‚ Kansas but‚ because of her race‚ she had to travel away of town in
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Year 12 Legal Studies Exam Notes YEAR 12 LEGAL STUDIES NOTES UNITS 3 AND 4 Year 12 Legal Studies Exam Notes AREA OF STUDY 3 LAW-MAKING Year 12 Legal Studies Exam Notes AREA OF STUDY 1 PARLIAMENT AND THE CITIZEN Year 12 Legal Studies Exam Notes The Principle of Responsible Government • Our government is answerable and accountable to parliament‚ therefore to the people • It must act fairly and responsibly • If it doesn’t it will lose the support of the parliament/people and
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Congressional Jurisdiction: Congressional oversight refers to oversight by the United States Congress on the Executive Branch‚ including the numerous U.S. federal agencies. Precedent: an earlier event or action that is regarded as an example or guide to be considered in subsequent similar circumstances. Stare decisis: a doctrine requiring that judges apply the same reasoning to lawsuits as has been used in prior similar cases. What article created the judicial branch in the
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This was set off by the Truman Doctrine - the first formal policy of containment. As the Soviet Union continued their geopolitical expansion‚ the Truman Doctrine acted as the foundation for the decisions made by the U.S in the following years. As Foner notes‚ “it set a precedent for American assistance to anti communist regimes throughout the world‚ no matter how undemocratic‚ and for the creation of a
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It noted that racial segregation was constitutional under the separate but equal doctrine. The court reasoned that the Fourteenth amendment was intended to secure the legal equality of African Americans and not their social equality. This decision allowed state sanctioned segregation. The court noted that although the intention of the
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“A constitution is a thing antecedent to a government and a government is only the creature of a constitution.A government without a constitution‚ is power without a right”. A written constitution is a set of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is governed. An important theme in the literature is that the UK lacks a codified. A distinction is drawn between a constitution as the rules determining political conduct‚ which the UK like any other
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Unit 3 AOS 1‚ 2 & 3: AOS: Parliament and the citizen 1 Principles of the Australian parliamentary system: Representative government‚ responsible government and the separation of powers 1 Representative government Central to Democracy‚ because Government is formed by the political party with the majority of seats in the lower house‚ it represents the views and values of the majority of people. If the Government fails to represent the views of the majority adequately‚ the electoral
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are classified The different meanings of the terms “common law” and “civil law” What happens if there is a conflict between common law and statute law What is a ’federal” system of government and how this operates in Australia The doctrine of “separation of powers” and division of power under the Commonwealth Constitution How a law is made through the Australian Parliament Tutorial Questions 1. How does law regulate business conduct? 2. Briefly explain how and when the Commonwealth
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