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BU 642- Business and Labor Law Herzing University Mrs. Smith Marsheena Hall Assignment Week 6 "Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a federal law that protects employees against discrimination based on certain specified characteristics: race, color, national origin, sex, and religion." (Justia Legal Resources, n. d. ) Under government law, an employer can't settle on business-related choices in view of the employee's religion. This implies the employer is giving employees time off from work to practice their beliefs and commend religious events. Employers may confront legitimate issues and be fined if they reject time off without a decent reason. Time off can't be denied just
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Learning Summary
Short Summary
Business law conclude Contracts, the law of Corporations, and other Business Organizations, Securities Law, Intellectual Property, Antitrust, Secured Transactions, Commercial Paper, Income Tax, Pensions and Benefits, Trusts and Estates, Immigration Law, Labor Law, Employment Law and Bankruptcy. I have learned about the Canadian law which is applied to business including the introduction to the legal system and the courts, “Tort Law”, “Negligence”, "Contract Law”, “Employment Law”, “Insurance Law”, the methods of carrying on business, and the “Sale of Goods” during this semester.
The reason why I decided to take Business Law this semester is that I am majoring
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Memorandum
To:
James Kelley
Professor of Business Law
From: Matthew R. Bannon
Date: November 20, 2018
Subject: Business Law II Term Paper
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Attached please find the resume which is due on February 1 as the first assignment in BUS 381N, Introduction to Business and Management, T 6:30-9:00.
The work and writing presented in this term paper unless specifically specified in an appropriately cited footnote, endnote or reference note is solely mine.
Matthew Bannon
Attachment
Executive Summary
Affirmative Action has been a debated all throughout its an implantation back in the early in the 1960’s. The ultimate goal was to
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into the lease.
· Business efficacy - the main terms the law will imply into commercial (non-consumer) agreements, that is those "necessary and obvious...to give business efficacy". Terms shall not be implied merely because they appear "desirable and reasonable"
· The Moorcock (1889)
· Implied term that ground would be
safe to moor vessel – term necessary
for the contract to make sense
(parties must have intended that)
Contract terms
Condition: breach of CONDITION entitles the claimant to TERMINATE the contract and/or claim DAMAGES
Poussard v Spiers (1876)
· Actress in opera had a lead role. She was ill and couldn’t attend first performance and the role was given to someone else. She sued
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Business Law and Ethics
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Advise Neil with regard to the law relating to offer and acceptance.
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Zach Von Eiff
Professor Hartman
Bus Law 1
11/9/17
“How Do Insurance Companies Use Credit Scores”
Insurance companies are using certain parts of credit scores to affect the premiums they charge people for auto insurance. Companies started doing this in the 1990’s working with creator of the standard credit score, FICO. It gained a lot of traction quickly and by 2006 almost every major insurer was using it as a part of their rating system. For the purpose of understanding how insurance companies actually use your credit score to affect your premium I’m going to go through how the rating system works. The way the rating system works for insurance companies is quite simple actually
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parrots were not fit for the purpose for which they were bought -- breeding.Conclusion (issue 2): I therefore feel it is a condition.Issue 3: What are the remedies for the breach of condition? Law: A breach of condition entitles the innocent party to affirm the contract, keep it on foot or discharge the contract in addition to damages claims.Application: Since both buyers and seller have already executed consideration, there are no outstanding obligations owed to either party so Cheong and Chow can only claim for damages.Conclusion (issue 3): I feel they can claim damages for breach of contract. And in the case of misrepresentation, they can get a refund through rescission.Final conclusion: I feel that the statement was a term and there was a breach of contract so Cheong and Chow can claim damages.
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Hammurabi's Code of Law Due to the Code of Hammurabi, men had impressive control over their families. Babylonian men could offer their spouses or kids into servitude with a specific end goal to pay off their obligations. They could likewise exclude a child on the off chance that they decided to. These measures were outrageous and expected men to legitimize their activities in an official courtroom. Men who needed to offer their relatives or exclude their spouses or kids needed to demonstrate that it was important, particularly because excluding a kid was a confirmation of awful conduct. This system gave ladies and their youngsters some insurance from a plainly male-centric culture
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Hello, As you know my name is ****. My topic for the law seminar is Piracy. Piracy is the unauthorized duplication and distribution of copyright-protected items. These items can be Music, Software, Games, and printed works. I will talk about the penalties of piracy, the way it effects the economy. Now the 2 main questions.(Show the Over Head)Maybe you have downloaded a song from the Internet lately. And perhaps that song that you downloaded was by an artist that you had never heard before. Then you might have gotten their CD or gone to see them live. Maybe that artist supported downloading music. Say it was an artist that you had heard of by radio, TV, or another source; if it is that
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Law and Music Charles Biederman of the law firm Bass, Berry & Sims visited with our class on April 2 to discuss his role in the music industry through law. After graduating from Vanderbilt Law School in 1989, Mr. Biederman worked as a New York trial lawyer for four years. By his own admission, he was attempting to carve out a niche for himself and not be "somebody's son," as his father was legendary entertainment lawyer Donald Biederman. After working in New York, Mr. Biederman moved to Atlanta, where for 3-4 years he worked with baby rock bands in a two-lawyer firm. In Atlanta, he worked for Alan Katz (one of the best music attorneys in the nation) and then moved to Nashville
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business, which operates with an equal opportunities policy. One is that they would gain a positive image. Employees then will have a positive image of the company that they are going to work for and therefore become more motivated, this has the advantage to the business as if they have more motivated staff they will be able to work with more enthusiasm and commitment to their work leading to improved working methods.Two, is that they are complying with the law so that under the law they have to produce an equal opportunities policy to all of their employees so that they know that if they are facing any sort of discrimination they can go to court and claim this. A benefit is that the business is
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: Speculations on the Limits of Legal Change." Law and Society Review vol. 9 (1974). pp. 95-160.
Giddens, Anthony. (2003). Runaway World: How Globalization Is Reshaping Our Lives. New York: Routledge.
Greenhouse, Carol. (1986). Praying for Justice: Faith, Order, and Community in an American Town. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Harvey, David. (1990). The Conditions of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.
Macaulay, Stewart. "Non-contractual Relations in Business: A Preliminary Study." American Sociological Review vol. 28 (1963). pp. 55-69.
Merry, Sally Engle. (1990). Getting Justice and Getting Even: Legal Consciousness
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?fair dealings? and develop its own system specific for day-to-day commercial/private contracts in Australia.The evolving contract law involves the imposition of a hierarchy of standards on parties that are entering into a contract, depending on the relationship that has developed between them. At the top is the fiduciary duty under which a party must subordinate his or her own interest to that of the other party. In short, the person under such a duty must behave in a commercially altruistic way or act in ?good faith?. Such a duty will not be common in business relations, though some types of long-term relational contracts, particularly joint ventures, are a more likely place to find
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admission she knows little about people management and her knowledge is not extensive on Employment and the Law as she is too busy consulting and growing her business. After an unfair dismissal claim she has realised the importance of HR management to her business growth and taken steps to remedy her "weak area"; people management by employing a Practice Manager, Adam to improve her HRM.For Adam to implement a successful HR plan he needs to ensure that all Freda's employees understand the HR planning process, that management is supportive which Freda appears to be, that communication is healthy between management and employees and that the plan is integrated with the organizations strategic
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) plea of guilty entered by one fully aware of the direct consequences, including the actual value of any commitments made to him by the court, prosecutor, or his own counsel, must stand unless induced by threats (or promises to discontinue improper harassment), misrepresentation (including unfulfilled or unfulfillable promises), or perhaps by promises that are by their nature improper as having no proper relationship to the prosecutor’s business (e.g. bribes).”
Finally, the majority observed that the plea was intelligently made, in that he was “advised by competent counsel, he was made aware of the nature of the charge against him, and there was nothing to indicate that he was incompetent or
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a senior manager at a major bank.
Q. What sort of skills do you look for when filling positions in your graduate programs?
A. We need people with good numeracy and an aptitude for finance. We also need people who can
think creatively and critically.
Q. What degrees do your graduates tend to have studied at university?
A. The vast majority have done economics or business, but we also get a number from law, often
people who aren’t sure if they want to go on and be lawyers. We also get smaller numbers from
humanities and science.
Q. So you would recommend business and economics to people who are looking for a job at your
organisation?
A. I certainly wouldn’t discourage it, but, that said, much
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bilateral or unilateral. A bilateral contract is a contract wherein the parties makes promises to another having legal intention to be legally bound by the contract. For instance- Allan makes an offer to sell his book to Bernard for three hundred dollars and he can claim the property title as guaranteed by the merchant. When parties enter into contract related to business transactions, such contract must include the prerequisites of a valid contract and the parties must fulfil the requisites in order to make the contract enforceable at law (Andrews, 2015).
In a unilateral contract, one of the parties is legally bound to perform his part of the contractual obligations and the other party is not
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directors who act with care and diligence in making a business judgment. The threshold for the business judgment rule is, a director must act in good faith and for a proper purpose, does not possess personal interest in their decision, take reasonably appropriate steps to inform themselves about the subject of the decision and rationally believe that the decision is in the best interest of the corporation.
4.08 [Condition Satisfied]
[4.08] Daniels v Anderson (1995) where it was held that the director owes a common law duty to their company to take reasonable care in performance of their duties therefore the director is liable for the losses as a result of the directors acts.
[4.09] [Condition
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· Is it reasonable to deny the recouping of interest by a mortgagee as originally planned
· Palk v Mortgage Services (1993)
· A £300,000 mortgage loan was taken out by the claimants, secured against their jointly owned house
· The first claimant’s (husband’s) business became insolvent, and payments on the mortgage loan ceased
· The property was only worth £283,000, whilst mortgage redemption would cost £358,587, to increase at £43,000 per year, and with a likely property rental income of £14,000 per year
· Could the mortgagors (husband and wife) have a sale of the property ordered?
· Yes
· Under section 91(2) of the Law of Property Act, a court’s jurisdiction to order sale is very wide
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police officers would have free reign to abuse their powers as they please. In the case of Hussein v Chong Fook Kam (1970) Lord Devlin explained suspicion in further detail. “Suspicion in its ordinary meaning is the state of conjecture or summarise where proof is lacking”. Therefore so far in the eyes of the law PC Potter has not yet acted unlawfully. Also Hermione saying ‘mind your business’ could be deemed as wilful obstruction, which is defined as doing anything which makes it more difficult for the police to carry out their job. However, although PC Potter has reasonable suspicion to speak to Hermione, he has not yet put her under arrest so Hermione is within her rights to refuse
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