Essays Tagged: "plaintiffs"

Electronic Monitoring and the Employee

ury Company2 and Bonita P. Bourke vs. Nissan Motor Corporation in the USA3. In the Nissan case, the plaintiffs, Bonnie Bourke and Rhonda Hall were hired as Information Systems Specialist to assist Inf ... aware that the company could randomly monitor email. During a training session, a co-worker of the plaintiffs was demonstrating the usage of email and randomly selected a message sent by Bourke to an ...

(11 pages) 124 0 5.0 Aug/2007

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Management Planning & Decision Making

Racial Discrimination

. Their accounts are impossible to reconcile with the corporate culture of bigotry described by the plaintiffs. So which practice represents the norm at Cracker Barrel? Can such questions ever be trul ... en, one added hassle to pile on top of all the other hassles people have to put up with. One of the plaintiffs in the Cracker Barrel suit is Chandra Harmon, a Georgia woman who described going to the ...

(8 pages) 109 0 4.3 Aug/2007

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Africans in America: The effects of African-American on 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s culture

e a bus for an hour and in some cases given no transportation at all to a one-room shack. While the plaintiffs won, not all Delaware schools were affected by the decision. South Carolinas Briggs vs. E ...

(9 pages) 113 0 1.0 Sep/2007

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Case Portfolio

s still lead in the paints supplied by the defendants although it the levels may have been low. The plaintiffs argued that the paint still posed a threat to people." Many of plaintiffs' specific alleg ... presentations that fueled that effort could not form a basis for an unbarred fraud cause of action. Plaintiffs could not have justifiably relied on any post-1978 representations that lead paint was sa ...

(20 pages) 175 0 4.0 Oct/2007

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Cases

Walmart Versus Target Compensation

on) to file a suit against the company for discrimination. The Judge noted that in their case, "the plaintiffs present largely uncontested descriptive statistics, which show that women working at Wal- ...

(5 pages) 102 0 3.0 Oct/2007

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies

Tort law

'Jackpot justice' could be referred as 'the practice of awarding huge monetary settlements to plaintiffs in court cases'. Generally, it gives confidence to people to 'file multimillion-dollar la ...

(10 pages) 106 1 3.0 Nov/2007

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

The runaway jury

ction of the jurors. Each perspective juror is investigated and watched. The defense as well as the plaintiffs want to secure a verdict so they only want jurors sympathetic to their side. Fitch along ...

(10 pages) 14 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Mountain Top Mining And The Law

W. T. MOBIL HOME COMMUNITY HOME OWNERS ASSOCIATION, Plaintiffs, v.UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE Defendants.I. BACKGROUND This case involves the proposed ... e, temporarily and permanently, and the removal of contamination on the site.A. Factual Development Plaintiffs argue that, without Preliminary injunctive relief current conditions of Beaver Creek will ... e place the stream will cease to exist due to the further impoundment of water dammed by overburden.Plaintiffs also argue that continued mining practices threaten to only complicate the existing probl ...

(26 pages) 1148 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry

Sydney v. Pingree         It all started when husband, Dean Skylar,

iscussed their desire to give the child a combination of both their surnames. In March of 1982, the plaintiffs requested permission from the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services of the sta ... The issue in hand is the constitutionality of the Florida Statute 382.16 5(a). Subsequently, the plaintiffs decided to seek declatory judgment. The key question was whether this statute in question ...

(2 pages) 1799 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Lawsuit Against The Tobacco Industry

oth? What kind of results are you finding at the trial level? On appeal? Which side is winning, the Plaintiffs or the tobacco industry?Legal Basis for LawsuitThere are several. One is a failure to pro ... t the trial judges cut the awards in half so now they are on appeal. It seems that technically, the Plaintiffs are winning, all though it may not be what they were originally awarded.ConclusionLawsuit ...

(3 pages) 24 0 0.0 Oct/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Employment Law Paper

e United States is difficult to determine. Laws have differed greatly between the States. Generally plaintiffs have had difficulty when asserting and attempting to prove that an employer has retaliate ...

(4 pages) 278 0 3.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Management Planning Paper MGT 330

nce that pay differential existed, the company was slow in providing the necessary documents to the plaintiffs' attorneys. In 2004 The Boeing Company settled the suit out of court and saved itself fro ...

(6 pages) 157 1 3.0 Dec/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management > Leadership and Communication

Gender Roles

ducational equity. For example, in the case, Sharif versus New York State Education Department, the plaintiffs charged that using SAT scores as the only basis for the awarding state merit scholarships ... n high school achievement and since the program based its awards only on the results of a test, the plaintiffs argued that the process denied girls a fair opportunity to demonstrate their eligibility ...

(3 pages) 26 0 0.0 Mar/2009

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Civil Matters

the attention of a limited jurisdiction trial court has a chance of being successful as long as the plaintiffs has standing to sue. It is also possible depending on the dollar amount that this case co ... In such case Mr. Jones is being sued by the city as well as the owner of the adjacent property. The plaintiffs must demonstrate that they were in some way harmed by the actions of Mr. Jones or the cas ...

(2 pages) 10 0 0.0 Mar/2009

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Final Project Case Portfolio

s still lead in the paints supplied by the defendants although it the levels may have been low. The plaintiffs argued that the paint still posed a threat to people." Many of plaintiffs' specific alleg ... presentations that fueled that effort could not form a basis for an unbarred fraud cause of action. Plaintiffs could not have justifiably relied on any post-1978 representations that lead paint was sa ...

(20 pages) 50 0 0.0 May/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Procedure Civil Court and Criminal.

Business LawMay 11, 2008Process Civil Court and Criminal CourtSteps need to be taken by the plaintiffs when a lawsuit is filed. In a civil court procedure papers must be file correctly by lawy ...

(3 pages) 11 0 0.0 Jan/2010

Subjects: Law & Government Essays