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Facts March 2001, L. L. Bean’s corporate counsel mailed Gator a cease and desist letter requesting that Gator stop its pop-up windows from appearing when customers visited their website. Gator refused to change its practices and instead filed a lawsuit in federal district court in California seeking a declaratory judgment. L. L. Bean filed a…

Many of the products we buy today are no more than large collections of zeroesand ones. High-priced software, high-quality music, and valuable referencematerial such as computerized databases or CD-Rom encyclopedias are commercialproducts like any other, but the media of their transmission makes themdifferent in at least one aspect: it is possible to copy them freely,…

The following report has been undertaken by James Catley on behalf of the Attorney General. The report addresses the proposed amendments to the Victims of Crime Act 2001 (SA) for which the Attorney General will have responsibility. The proposed amendment will give the Commissioner for Victims’ Rights and/or the alleged victim of a sexual offence…

Stockholm syndrome derives its name from a 1973 incident at Kreditbanken in Stockholm, Sweden. In this event, four bank employees were held hostage by two robbers from August 23 to 28. Surprisingly, the captors developed an emotional bond with their victims and even protected them. Presently, this syndrome is recognized as a psychological reaction to…

The debate over internet censorship is fiercely debated globally, not just in the United States. The question of who should bear responsibility for this censorship, governments or parents, is a crucial aspect to consider. Some argue that censoring the Internet violates the First Amendment’s right to free speech, while others believe it is necessary to…

1. Introduction Capital punishment or the death penalty is a person who is put to death by the state as a punishment as a legal process for a crime. While the person actual process of killing is an execution, the manner is a death sentence that someone be punished by the judicial decree. Currently there…

“Forgiving violence does not mean condoning violence. There are only two alternatives to forgiving violence: revenge, or adopting an attitude of never-ending bitterness and anger. For too long we have treated violence with violence, and that’s why it never ends.” (Coretta Scott King, Widow of Martin Luther King) The Catholic Church strongly opposes capital punishment,…

A defined lump sum plan expresses employees’ pension benefits as a lump sum amount, which makes it easy for them to understand and appreciate the benefits. In many cases, the plans also allow employees to accrue larger benefits at younger ages than they would under a traditional pension plan. And, increasingly, defined lump sum plans…

 On July 13th of 2003, a Vietnamese woman named Cau Thi Bich Tran was fatally shot in the chest and killed. She was killed in her apartment in front of her boyfriend, with her two children in the adjacent room. On the night of July 13, Tran had accidentally locked herself out of her bedroom….

Both Marxist and neo-Marxist perspectives are controversial because they claim that the ruling class is to blame for criminalizing the working class, contradicting official statistics and the beliefs of Functionalists. However, both Marxism and Functionalism agree on the importance of societal structures and institutions in shaping individuals’ behavior, including their involvement in criminal activities. According…