...The Backgorund of the Case Gregory Lee Johnson was arrested and charged with violating a Texas statute that prevented the desecration of a venerated object. In 1984 during the Republican National Convention, held that year in Dallas Texas, Johnson had accepted an American flag from a fellow protester which had been taken from a flagpole of one of the protest’s targeted buildings. After unfurling the flag, he soaked it in kerosene and then lit the flag on fire. Protestors nearby gathered around the flag and chanted the phrase “America, the red, white, and blue, we spit on you”. Although none of the participents or bystanders were physically injured or threatened, several witnesses testified that the burning of the flag was offensive to them....
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...This case study references the Texas Penal Code Annotated (Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 42.09(a)(3), which penalizes such physical mistreatment of "a national flag" as Mr. Gregory Lee Johnson should know this incident could possibly offend some people and cause a lot of controversy as well. The state of Texas Legislative branch created this statue. The case study discussed the court case of the state of Texas versus Gregory Lee Johnson. This case was heard by three lower courts before it reached the United States Supreme Court. The first court was the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals which is deemed the highest court in the state of Texas, the Texas Court of Appeals, Fifth District and Dallas County Criminal Court. The United States Supreme Court’s decision on the case rendered the Texas statute invalid for the charges made against Gregory Lee Johnson however; the Court did grant Texas permission to make flag burning punishable by law in instances where it constitutes an actual danger or lawless action. Common law is defined as law that has been developed on the basis of preceding rulings by judges. Common law is by far and wide based on judgments made in the past over hundreds of years. Common law is also known as case law and is of two types – one where judgments passed become new laws where there are no statutes and the other where judges interpret the existing law and determines new boundaries and distinctions. Determination of common law for a particular...
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...Case Law and Statutory Law Katrina Allen Kaplan University 1. Gregory Lee Johnson was charged with violating 42.09(a)(3) of the Texas Penal Code, which prohibited the “desecration of a venerable object.” Which means he wrecked something that is deemed important or sacred. (The American Flag) 2. This law was made and passed in the state’s legislative branch. 3. Everyone that was there was probably affected in some way or another. But it started with * Gregory Lee Johnson * Dallas Police Dept. * Dallas County Criminal Court * Texas Court of Appeals 5th District * Texas Court of Criminal Appeals * State of Texas * United States Supreme Court 4. * Texas Court of Criminal Appeals * Texas Court of Appeals 5th District * Dallas County Criminal Court 5. The United States Supreme Court stated that it was against Gregory Lee Johnsons First Amendment rights of expressive conduct. 6. The statute did not meet the states goal of preventing breaches of peace. Which means a person must intentionally disrupt the public a certain way. (www.legalmatch.com) 7. Case law is a law that is established by judicial decision. Ex. When I went to court to have my child support amount changed, the Child Support Recovery Unit (CSRU) had his amount at $978, however in his bonus from work were included in the figuring of this amount. His lawyer brought other court cases where judges have declined to have that amount in there. So his...
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...Case Study Shawn Padgett Kaplan University Case Study The statute referred to in the case of Texas vs. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989) is 42.09 (a) (3) in the Texas Penal Code. This statute, 42.09 (a) (3), created by the executive branch, prohibits the desecration of a venerable object”, (a) a person commits an offense if he knowingly or intentionally desecrates; (3) a state or national flag. To desecrate a venerable object is to destroy, deface, or physically mistreat in a way that the one doing the action will seriously offend one or more persons observing the action. This statute was inconsistent with the first amendment. (Texas vs. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989)) The parties involved in this case are the state of Texas and Gregory Lee Johnson. The citation for the United States Supreme Court’s decision on this case is, Texas vs. Johnson, 491 U.S. 391 (1989) (Burning of the flag at political protest rally.). There was three court that heard Johnsons case before reaching the United States Supreme Court. Ranking from the highest court to the lowest for this case is the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals, Texas Court of Appeals (5th District), and the Dallas County Criminal Court. Creating a law is done by Congress, which are called statutes, or court-made, also called case law. Laws can also be by anyone that wants to propose to Congress of an adoption of new law. Case laws are based on the judicial opinions, including decisions that interpret statutes. Statutory...
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...PA205: Introduction to Legal Analysis and Writing Unit 1 Case Study In 1984, the Republican Party met in Dallas, Texas for their national convention. President Ronald Reagan, seeking a second term in office, was to be officially named the Republican Party’s candidate for President. During the convention, opponents of Reagan’s policies organized a political protest in Dallas, which attracted over 100 protestors. Among the protestors was Gregory Lee Johnson. As the demonstrators marched through the streets chanting slogans, another protester handed Gregory Johnson an American flag that had been taken from a flagpole at one of their protest locations. Upon reaching Dallas City Hall, Johnson doused the flag with kerosene and set it ablaze. Johnson and his fellow demonstrators circled the burning flag and shouted anti- American slogans. No one was injured or threatened with injury by Johnson’s act, but many who witnessed it were deeply offended. Dallas police officers arrested Johnson and charged him with violating section 42.09(a)(3) of the Texas Penal Code, which prohibited the “desecration of a venerable object.” Johnson pleaded not guilty in Dallas County Criminal Court, and after a trial was found guilty of violating the statute. He was sentenced to one year in prison and fined $2,000. State v. Johnson, No. CCR 84-46013-J (Crim. Ct. No. 7, Dallas Cnty. Tex. Dec. 13, 1984). Johnson appealed his case to the Texas Court of Appeals, Fifth District, claiming that the statute under...
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...Unit 1 Assignment PA205-03 UNIT 1 ASSIGNMENT CASE STUDY QUESTIONS 1. The case study references one state statute. Identify it and explain what it prohibits. My understanding of the case study is that the identifiable state statute is section 42.09(a)(3) of the Texas Penal code, which prohibited the “desecration of a venerable object.” 2. Which branch of government (executive, judicial, or legislative) created the state statute? The legislative branch of government created the state statute. 3. The passage above also discusses one court case. Who were the parties involved in the case? The parties involved in the court case in the above passage are Gregory Lee Johnson and the State of Texas. 4. The case was heard by three lower courts before it reached the United States Supreme Court. List those three courts in order, beginning with the court that has the most authority and ending with the court that has the least amount of authority. Most authority = Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Middle authority = Texas Court of Appeals, Fifth District Least authority = Dallas County Criminal Court 5. Provide the citation for the United States Supreme Court’s decision in this case. After hearing the oral arguments and reading the parties’ appellate briefs, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 vote, affirmed the decision of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989). 6. What effect did the United States Supreme Court’s decision have on the Texas...
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... PA 205-01 Unit 1 Assignment * Read case study * Describe the difference between legislation and case law The main difference between legislation and case law is who makes them. Legislation (or statutory) law consists of laws that are passed by the legislature, that is legislative branch of the U.S. government, or other governing agency. Examples of legislation include rule regulations and statutes. Judges can interpret what legislative law signifies if a dispute arises about a particular statute’s meaning. Also, a judge can declare a statute unconstitutional if it conflicts with the U.S. Constitution or state constitution. Case law is court or judge made law. It is also referred to as common law. Case law, on the other hand, is not based in origin by the government or legislature but evolves with new decisions made by a judge or court (Cheeseman & Goldman, 2010). * Answer Questions 1. List a statute from the case study and explain what it prohibits The statute in the case of Texas v. Johnson was Texas Penal Code section 42.09(a)(3). This statute prohibited disorderly conduct by a citizen. The Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute (LII) noted that in this case, Gregory Johnson’s desecration of a venerable object (the U.S. flag) was viewed as disorderly conduct and a direct violation of this Texas statute ("Texas v. Johnson", n.d.). 2. List the branch of government that created the statute The...
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... Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989) PA 205: Introduction to Legal Analysis and Writing, Unit one, Assignment 1). The case study references section 42.09 (a) (3) of the Texas Penal Code. The statute prohibits the desecration of a venerable object. 2). Legislative 3).The passage discusses the court case that involved State V. Johnson (Gregory Lee Johnson). 4). The three courts that heard this case: 1). Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (most authority) 2). Texas Court of Appeals 3). Dallas County Criminal Court (least authority) 5).Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989) 6). The Texas statute was struck down since the Supreme Court ruled it was inconsistent with the First Amendment. 7). Statutory laws are laws passed by sending a bill by passing it through a legislative body. Statutes are created when original court cases are heard and ruled upon. Case law is created by rulings that are a result of examining statutes. Case law can either uphold the original statute or strike it down. Case law turns out to be an interpretation, or a “second look” at statutes, determining whether or not they uphold the U.S. Constitution. Statutes can be either struck down after interpretation or continue to be enforced. If someone challenges the statute, it could travel all the way to the Supreme Court to be interpreted. The Supreme Court can provide a decision whether that statute is being applied in a constitutional manner. The state tried Johnson with a statute...
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...Bradley 1. The case study references one state statute. Identify it and explain what it prohibits. “The case study of State vs. Johnson references one specific state statue, 42.09(a)(3) of the Texas Penal Code, Desecration of a Venerated Object. A person commits an offense if he/she intentionally or knowingly desecrates, a state or national flag. “Desecrate” means to deface, damage, destroy, vandalize and/or mistreat in a way that the actor knowingly will greatly offend one or more persons are like to observe or discover his/her action. This offense is a Class A misdemeanor “(Case Study Texas vs. Johnson, 2014). The statue prohibits intentionally or knowingly desecrating, destroying, damaging, burning, mistreating of a state or national flag in public that will seriously offend one or more persons and is witnessed by one or more persons. This statue was made to prohibit only flagrant acts of flag desecration that take place in a public setting or place (Case Study Texas vs. Johnson, 2014). 2. Which branch of government created the state statute? The state statue, 42.09(a)(3) of the Texas Penal Code, Desecration of a Venerated Object, was created under legislative branch. The State’s interest is to prevent a breach of peace by prohibiting certain acts of flag desecration have been considered to be unrelated to the suppression of freedom of speech, the First Amendment of the Constitution. 3. The passage above also discusses one court case. Who were the parties...
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...PAD 525 Discussions 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 & so on……. Hope this helps ! Review Texas v. Johnson. Assuming you want to sustain the conviction, make the best argument you can for how that can be reconciled with the First Amendment. Of the opinions that would have sustained the conviction, which do you find most persuasive and why? Texas v. Johnson, 491 U.S. 397 (1989), was an important decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that invalidated prohibitions on desecrating the American flag enforced in 48 of the 50 states. Justice William Brennan wrote for a five-justice majority in holding that the defendant Gregory Lee Johnson's act of flag burning was protected speech under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Gregory Lee "Joey" Johnson, then a member of the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade, participated in a political demonstration during the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas. The demonstrators were protesting the policies of the Reagan Administration and of certain companies based in Dallas. They marched through the streets, shouted chants, and held signs outside the offices of several companies. At one point, another demonstrator handed Johnson an American flag stolen from a flagpole outside one of the targeted buildings. When the demonstrators reached Dallas City Hall, Johnson poured kerosene on the flag and set it on fire. During the burning of the flag, demonstrators shouted such phrases as, "America, the red, white, and...
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...Determinants Of Audit Fees: Empirical Evidence From Emerging Economy Kamal Naser* Hamed Abdullhameed** & Rana Nuseibeh*** Abstract This study investigates the structure of audit fees in an emerging economy, Jordan. Data were collected from a sample of companies listed on the Amman Stock Exchange that forms 90% of the total population and fairly presents all industrial sectors within the economy. Consistent with previous research, the results of the analysis revealed that corporate size, status of the audit firm, industry type, degree of corporate complexity and risk are the main determinants of audit fees in the Jordanian environment. Unlike previous studies, however, variables such as corporate profitability, corporate accounting year-end and time lag between year-end and the audit report date appeared to be insignificant determinants of audit fees in the sampled companies. Key Words: * Audit fees, Emerging Economy, Jordan. S S cientific Journal of Administrative Development Vol.5 I.A.D. 2007 Dean College of Business Administration, Al-Ain University of Science and Technology, UAE. ** Freelance Financial Analyst, Jordan. *** Link Officer, National Health Service (NHS), UK. 84 Determinants Of Audit Fees: Empirical Evidence From Emerging Economy Introduction Although a number of studies have provided empirical evidence on the relationship between audit fees and the attributes of audited companies, most have tended to focus on developed economies...
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...M A G A Z I N E FA L L 2 0 0 2 Volume 20 Number 2 SPANNING THE GLOBE Duke Leads the Way in International Law Teaching and Scholarship inside plus Duke admits smaller, exceptionally well-qualified class Duke’s Global Capital Markets Center to launch new Directors’ Education Institute from the dean Dear Alumni and Friends, It is not possible, these days, for a top law school to be anything other than an international one. At Duke Law, we no longer think of “international” as a separate category. Virtually everything we do has some international dimension, whether it concerns international treaties and protocols, commercial transactions across national borders, international child custody disputes, criminal behavior that violates international human rights law, international sports competitions, global environmental regulation, international terrorism, or any number of other topics. And, of course, there is little that we do at Duke that does not involve scholars and students from other countries, who are entirely integrated with U.S. scholars and students. Students enrolled in our joint JD/LLM program in international and comparative law receive an in-depth education in both the public and private aspects of international and comparative law, enriched by the ubiquitous presence of foreign students; likewise, the foreign lawyers who enroll in our one-year LLM program in American law enroll in the same courses, attend the same conferences...
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...Curriculum Source References The following references were used in the CFA Institute-produced publications Quantitative Methods for Investment Analysis, Analysis of Equity Investments: Valuation, and Managing Investment Portfolios: A Dynamic Process. Ackerman, Carl, Richard McEnally, and David Ravenscraft. 1999. “The Performance of Hedge Funds: Risk, Return, and Incentives.” Journal of Finance. Vol. 54, No. 3: 833–874. ACLI Survey. 2003. The American Council of Life Insurers. Agarwal, Vikas and Narayan Naik. 2000. “Performance Evaluation of Hedge Funds with OptionBased and Buy-and-Hold Strategies.” Working Paper, London Business School. Ali, Paul Usman and Martin Gold. 2002. “An Appraisal of Socially Responsible Investments and Implications for Trustees and Other Investment Fiduciaries.” Working Paper, University of Melbourne. Almgren, Robert and Neil Chriss. 2000/2001. “Optimal Execution of Portfolio Transactions.” Journal of Risk. Vol. 3: 5–39. Altman, Edward I. 1968. “Financial Ratios, Discriminant Analysis and the Prediction of Corporate Bankruptcy.” Journal of Finance. Vol. 23: 589–699. Altman, Edward I. and Vellore M. Kishore. 1996. “Almost Everything You Wanted to Know about Recoveries on Defaulted Bonds.” Financial Analysts Journal. Vol. 52, No. 6: 57−63. Altman, Edward I., R. Haldeman, and P. Narayanan. 1977. “Zeta Analysis: A New Model to Identify Bankruptcy Risk of Corporations.” Journal of Banking and Finance. Vol. 1: 29−54. Ambachtsheer, Keith, Ronald Capelle, and...
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...M A G A Z I N E FA L L 2 0 0 2 Volume 20 Number 2 SPANNING THE GLOBE Duke Leads the Way in International Law Teaching and Scholarship inside plus Duke admits smaller, exceptionally well-qualified class Duke’s Global Capital Markets Center to launch new Directors’ Education Institute from the dean Dear Alumni and Friends, It is not possible, these days, for a top law school to be anything other than an international one. At Duke Law, we no longer think of “international” as a separate category. Virtually everything we do has some international dimension, whether it concerns international treaties and protocols, commercial transactions across national borders, international child custody disputes, criminal behavior that violates international human rights law, international sports competitions, global environmental regulation, international terrorism, or any number of other topics. And, of course, there is little that we do at Duke that does not involve scholars and students from other countries, who are entirely integrated with U.S. scholars and students. Students enrolled in our joint JD/LLM program in international and comparative law receive an in-depth education in both the public and private aspects of international and comparative law, enriched by the ubiquitous presence of foreign students; likewise, the foreign lawyers who enroll in our one-year LLM program in American law enroll in the same courses, attend the same conferences...
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