...Legal Case Study This study is about a 41 year old woman whose name is Terri Schiavo. She was in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years with a brain injury before she died on March 31, 2005. This paper discusses her 15 year ordeal, the effects of it on her husband and family, Terri’s right to die, and the importance of end of life choices. We discuss the ethical and legal issues involved in the decision making of this case. Her husband and family disagreed on how to handle her situation, whether or not to remove her feeding tube. Even though their Terri was in both of their best interest, they could not agree on, would removing the feeding tube be killing her or letting her die? Ethical Importance Terri had left no written instructions as to what her wishes might be if she were no longer able to make her own medical decisions. The only thing that the court and her family had to go on was what her husband and family remembered her saying in conversation over the years. The memories of her husband and family were very different. In the beginning of this ordeal they both agreed that everything should be done for Terri’s survival because at that time there was hope. After a while, when Terri did not appear to be changing, or getting better, her husband believed that the quality of life that Terri had was not the quality that she would have wanted had she been able to voice her opinion. “Michael Schiavo said his wife had said that she would never want to be...
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...How to write a case review assignment 1. TITLE 2. INTRODUCTION: * Which court decision has been discussed here? * What is the case about? * What are you going to discuss in each chapter/section 3. THEORY and/or CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK * Explain the theory or concepts, or define the legal terms that are important for understanding the case and they are usually provided in the book. For example: * What does the concept ‘negotiations’ mean? * Explain the link between these concepts 4. THE PROBLEM [that the Court has to deal with] * What is the problem that the Court has to deal with/solve? * For example: the application of Art. 74 CISG regarding the delay in delivery or defect of goods * Why is this case important? 5. FACTS of the case (What has happened?) * Who are the parties involved: who is a plaintiff – defendant; applicant – respondent * What has happened (the sequence of, for the case, important events)? 6. APPLICABLE LAW: * Which law has to be applied on this case * Explain the relevant rules (Articles) * What does this article regulates/The purpose of this article 7. POSITION AND ARGUMENTS OF THE PARTIES * Explain the main arguments and reasoning of the parties in this Court Case: * What is a point of view of each party? Explain! * What kind of reasoning each party follows? * Make link with the theory...
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...Risk Management- Drunken Patient Lawsuit The IRAC method is an instructional tool that can aid students in the comprehension and evaluation of information so that they can make informed value decisions. It is an acronym for Issue, Rule, Analysis, and Conclusion. Although this is a legal model used to evaluate hypothetical situations in law cases, it is by no means limited to the study of the law. Useful for case studies presented in varied mediums such as narratives, videos/films, or recordings, the IRAC method may be applied to other activities such as defining a term or demonstrating a concept, principle, relationship, analogy, or contrasting idea. Often the instructional focus is on the end result of case study discussion rather than on how to "walk through" a method or approach to be used by the students in the case analysis (Bittner, M.1990). Issue: A recent court ruling should motivate hospital risk managers to conduct a careful periodic review of their facility's procedures and legal obligations when it comes to treating intoxicated patients. The patient, Kevin Kowalski, later wandered onto a nearby highway and was struck by a car, leaving him paralyzed below the neck. Throughout the case, Mr. Kowalski contended that even though he decided on his own to leave the hospital, the hospital should have prevented him from doing so based on his level of inebriation. Analyze: In order to analyze the specific details of our risk management-drunken patient lawsuit, we need...
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...Case Study and Treatment Recommendations This is a comprehensive project. The expectation is that you will be able to show a working understanding of the course material. The suggested readings will enhance your ability to excel in this project. You are asked to read Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America. You will be required to complete a thorough assessment of Rosa Lee or one of her family members, using the Case Study Template below. The information should be obtained from the book, Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America, but written in a clinical style. You should still be using proper APA style citing and quoting to indicate that this information is from the book. Hence, frequent citing of Dash (1996) is expected—and proper quoting if you use direct wording from this book. Although this is practice for professional writing, this is an academic assignment, thus proper citing throughout is expected. Not properly citing/quoting is a form of plagiarism. Include an APA style title page before the template and include an APA style reference page as well. Please note that on the Case Study Template there is a section for psychosocial information; developmental, family, and current functioning. You are to use information given in this biography of Rosa Lee to complete the psychosocial section. In addition, the Case Study Template has sections requiring you to address the person’s attitude, social functioning, occupational functioning, financial functioning...
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...a Business Case Study A business case study confronts students with a real-life dilemma and engages all their abilities to solve its challenges. In presenting a specific business or policy situation—one that does not have an obvious solution—the case provides information for classroom discussion and other study. A good case study stimulates an educated conversation and the building of business knowledge. The best case studies are learning-centered, not instructor-centered. Details describing the differences between the two can be found in Exhibit 1. A student reading the case should be provided with the information needed to make good decisions about the case, or the ability to find the information if that is a learning objective. Information critical to solving the case should never be contained exclusively in the case’s teaching note, because doing so puts the instructor in the center of the learning, and leads to frustrated students. Cases should satisfy professors and students as well as the businesses, organizations, and people featured in the cases. Although these interests might appear in conflict, a case that is written with fairness and intelligence will ultimately receive the respect of all parties. The best cases have several structural characteristics in common including a protagonist, specific time frame, and use of past tense. An author who becomes experienced in case writing may deviate from this pattern, but doing so may result in an inferior case. The structure...
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...level of analysis required may be greater and more reliance on primary sources (e.g. precedent cases and legislation) and secondary sources (textbooks, articles) may be required. But the basic fundamentals are still the same: a well-structured piece of work that leads the reader through a discussion of a particular problem or issue. There should be an introduction, a body and a conclusion. Inevitably, either you will be required to put up arguments for hypothetical parties dealing with a hypothetical business problem or you may be asked for your view about a particular legal issue. It is essential that you base your arguments and views on legal principles and cases and thus reliance on what others have written is necessary. This guide attempts to provide you with some assistance in writing and referencing law academic papers. Some basic resource materials are also noted. [NB: This guide is a starting point only.] There are two types of Law Academic Papers Students who take the Business Law Major will inevitably be expected, at some stage, to answer at least two different styles of legal questions: legal case studies and essays. Legal case studies These are questions based on a set of hypothetical facts. The purpose of legal case study questions is both to engage you in problem solving and to consider the issues relevant to risk management. In particular, case studies test your ability to complete an IRAC analysis of the question. This analysis proceeds as follows: ...
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...benefits of this book? Everything you need to know about syndicated lending is in one place. The book is a practical guide to the subject. Armed with the book the reader would have all the information needed to be able to bid for and win a mandate, price the deal, document it and close syndication. It covers the legal and economic issues comprehensively. All the contributors are leading practitioners in today's markets including lawyers, bankers from every relevant banking discipline (origination, syndicate, sales, transaction management, agency), IT providers, information platform professionals. This new edition includes the following: - Extensive statistical information on the history of the market and current market trends - Case studies on two example transactions (a corporate backstop facility and an acquisition finance facility) involving extensive analysis of tactics for bidding for mandates and of all-in costs of transactions - Sample term sheets for both transactions with guidance notes plus a sample facility agreement for one of the transactions (also with guidance notes) - Case study for secondary loan trading with pricing analysis and legal documentation - A full glossary of market terms - Supplements by leading market practitioners, borrowers, service providers and trade associations (including the LMA and...
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...acknowledges that the poor in many developing countries remain largely excluded from ICT and its benefits. This paper aims to address three issues. Firstly, identify ICT barriers in the literature from 2000 to 2011. Secondly, identify ICT barriers through empirical findings and thirdly, categorize these barriers into critical success factors. These aims are achieved by comparing the findings in the literature to our recent empirical results. Two methodologies are used in this study, namely, a systematic literature review and a case study; the empirical data for our case study was collected from The Gambia in autumn of 2012. The systematic literature review covers 1107 studies (2000-2011) published in the top five ranked ICT4D journals in terms of journal citation ranking. The paper identifies a total of 43 ICT barriers. Forty of them are common to both studies while the remaining three were revealed in the case study, namely, lack of Internet exchange points, micromanaging and invisible hands. The barriers in both studies are grouped into eight possible critical success factors and their degrees of severity are then compared. This paper argues that lack of Internet...
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...High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsales.support@ft.com to buy additional rights. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6c92feaa-fc0f-11e0-b1d8-00144feab49a.html#ixzz2Cu5c99bj Case study: Diageo By Abby Ghobadian The story: After a series of mergers, demergers and acquisitions, the management of Diageo, the conglomerate formed by the 1997 merger of Guinness and Grand Met, made a strategic decision to focus on premium alcohol drinks. Diageo was in charge of an expanding and wide-ranging collection of brands, some of which had broad appeal across many countries while others had more regional appeal, sometimes limited to just a few markets. The challenge: After both organic growth and acquisitions, three key dilemmas emerged by 2002. First, how to manage brands with significantly different appeal, such as Guinness, a brand with strong Irish roots but huge global appeal, or Buchanan’s, the leading Scotch whisky in Latin America. Second, how to rejuvenate tired brands and third, how to improve the market share of the most successful brands, such as Captain Morgan, J & B, Smirnoff and Johnnie Walker. The initial strategy: To help managers maintain focus and allocate resources, Diageo developed three brand classifications: global priority, local priority and category. The global priority brands were the big sellers that were...
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...Case Study Paper MGT448 – Global Business Strategies October 11, 2011 Professor Dana Moore Gray, Ph.D., APR Case Study – Google in China This case study paper will examine Google’s entry into China. This case study will be focusing on the following topics; the legal, cultural and ethical challenges that Google experienced, the role that the Chinese government played, and a summarization of the operational and strategic challenges that faced Google’s managers. Google in China Looking to gain access to China’s 100 million internet users, Google launched their services in China in 2000. However, in 2002, the Chinese Government blocked Google’s services. Than two weeks later the government restored Google’s services along with a censoring program to block out any political sensitive material. This censoring program significantly slowed down Google’s site in China, and therefore it became obvious that Google would have to, in accordance with the Chinese government, self-censor their own site in an effort to speed up the service (Hill, 2009) Challenges Google Faced There were many legal, cultural and ethical challenges facing Google when they decided to provide their services to China. The fact that China is ruled by communism made it difficult for Google to acclimate themselves to the legal and cultural complexities. They also faced ethical issues as the aforementioned decision to self-censor their site from certain political information was in direct opposition to their...
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...Associate Level Material Appendix D Acre Woods Retirement Community Case Study Acre Woods is a private retirement community with 275 senior residents. Its mission is to improve the quality of life of its residents through physical and emotional care. Sarah Armstrong, Acre Woods’ resident physical therapist, manages the retirement community’s activity program. Recently, Acre Woods added a pool to its rehabilitation center to facilitate resident exercise and aquatic therapy. The residents’ monthly rent was raised to help finance the pool. After the pool was constructed, Sarah immediately contacted the director of Acre Woods, Mark Adams, with concerns that the pool did not meet some important specifications included in the original design, such as nonslip treads on the stairs and improved wheelchair access to the pool area. Mark advised Sarah that the residents would be happy to have a pool, even if it did not incorporate all the requested special features. When Sarah asked why the new ramp and stair treads were not provided even though they were included in the budget, the director remarked that Sarah’s job was to provide physical therapy, not to worry about the budget. Over the next month, four Acre Woods residents had minor falls using the pool stairs. While the accidents were not serious, other residents began to express fears about using the pool. Sarah contacted Mark again to relate resident complaints and to stress the need for pool accessibility and safety improvements...
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...Assignment 1, 2013 – Case Studies Tutorial-based group assessments Due: See ‘Due Dates for Case Study Submission’ section Marks: 30% of the total marks for the unit Background – Learning with Cases Harvard University, probably the most famous source of teaching cases, describes these resources as follows: “Teaching cases – also known as case studies – are narratives designed to serve as the basis for classroom discussion. Cases don’t offer their own analysis. Instead, they are meant to test the ability of students to apply the theory they’ve learned to a ‘real world’ situation … where good accounts of specific events can help exemplify and illuminate theory” (Harvard, 2000). The use of cases based on or around real organisations and/or current issues provides an entirely different approach to learning from that of lectures or more conventional tutorial exercises, where students solve specific problems in isolation from the world of business. Case preparation is a significant part of both undergraduate and postgraduate business study – particularly in the English-speaking world – and it is important to learn to do it effectively and efficiently. I have provided two introductory readings to help you with this process: “Learning Information Systems with Cases” (a pdf file available from your KXO223 MyLO resources) and “Notes on Writing a Case Study Report” (included in this document as Appendix A). Please begin by reading these carefully. Cases are usually based around...
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...Corporate Taxation | Case Study Analysis | Section 37: General Deductions | By | K Srilekha MBA | | I. FACTS: The assessee company who carried on the business of manufacture of silk was a member of Indian Silk Mills Association. The members entered into a working time agreement to restrict the working hours of the looms to 42 hours per week, so that over-production could be avoided. But, the members could transfer these loom hours amongst themselves. The assessee purchased loom hours from two members for a consideration of Rs 20 lakhs for a period of 6 months. The assessee claimed deduction of Rs. 20 lakhs as business expenditure, under section 37(1) of Income Tax Act. Is the claim justified? II. ANALYSIS OF FACTS: Each member of the association was manufacturing less than what it could have, if it was working full time. The members agreed to such an agreement as otherwise there would have been over-production of silk. The loom hours could be traded for, if you had an excess of them. Loom hours are the number of hours that you work your looms (mills) for. Section 37 speaks about ‘General Deductions’: Any expenditure not specifically covered by sections 30 to 36 is deductible under section 37, if the following conditions are satisfied: a) It should be in respect of business carried on by the assessee b) It should have been laid out or expended wholly or exclusively for the purpose of business c) It must have been incurred in the previous...
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...CIS 462 WK 2 CASE STUDY 1 ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY To purchase this visit here: http://www.activitymode.com/product/cis-462-wk-2-case-study-1-acceptable-use-policy/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@ACTIVITYMODE.COM CIS 462 WK 2 CASE STUDY 1 ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY CIS 462 WK 2 Case Study 1 - Acceptable Use Policy An Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) is a very important policy within organizations to define acceptable employee behavior when accessing company resources. Additionally, there are also legal implications within AUPs. Use an existing AUP that you are familiar with, such as from a current or previous workplace, or search on the Internet for an example AUP to complete this case study. Write a three to five (3-5) page paper in which you: 1. Describe the purpose of an Acceptable Use Policy you have selected and explain how the AUP helps provide confidentiality, integrity, and availability within the organization. 2. Critique the AUP you selected and provide recommendations for improving the AUP. 3. Explain methods that organizations can implement to help ensure compliance with the AUP, mitigate their risk exposure, and minimize liability. Describe how your selected AUP accomplishes these goals. More Details hidden... Activity mode aims to provide quality study notes and tutorials to the students of CIS 462 WK 2 Case Study 1 Acceptable Use Policy in order to ace their studies. CIS 462 WK 2 CASE STUDY 1 ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY To purchase this visit here: http://www.activitymode...
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...Ratification: an agent secures a contract on behalf of the principle and the principle agrees to it. Buy custom Law of Agency: Amber and Ashgan Case Study Analysis essay The law of agency applies to both the two individuals in the case given that they possess an agent-principal type of relationship. Thus, the law of agency between the two is narrowed-down to the duties of the agent in respect to their respective principals. It should be noted Ashgan, the personal assistant, is the agent while Amber, who happens to be the employer, is her immediate Principal, The first duty of Ashgan, as an agent, is not to become the principal as against her employer’s or principal’s knowledge. This duty, on the part of the agent, is meant to prevent her from situations in which there will be possible conflict of interest between her duty as an agent and her personal interest. Notwithstanding, a breach against this course of duty renders the contract, entered into by the agent, as voidable at the desire of the true principal. For this case, the contract to purchase the limited edition, sliver Bays-water Tote handbag created the aforementioned type of conflict and thus, it was Amber to decide whether or not the contract was voidable. Second, the agent has a duty not to engage in business activities and hence making secret profits. It should be noted that secret profits is a phrase taken to mean any form of material or financial benefit that may be accrued on the part of the agent without...
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