Question One: Explain the difference between substantive and procedural law. Substantive law is the statutory or written law that defines rights and duties of people as they act in society and it deals with the legal relationship between people. Substantive law is an independent set of laws that decide the fate of the case and cannot be applicable in non-legal contexts. So substantive law underlines the essential substance of a trial. Procedural law provides the machinery to enforce the substantive
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An appeal is a “proceeding in which a case is brought before a higher court for a review of a lower court’s judgment”. This basically means a process which takes place because the defendant and their attorney feel that the verdict that was given was inaccurate which was due to something that may have happened during trial or the arrest. Appeals are done to make sure that the person has had a fair trial and none of their rights were violated. An appellate court as the text states can help an area
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State of Confusion LaJean Adame, Ben Bush, Lynda Fae, Robert Ralston, Loquenta Spencer BUS/415 July 23, 2012 James Zaccaria State of Confusion Trucking companies have the right to travel from state to state without incurring additional expenses or duties. When states impose laws that incur additional costs to the distribution companies the state is interfering with the commerce clause (Farlex, 2012). The state of Confusion has enacted a statute requiring trucks towing trailers on its highways
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the products your company is selling to the public. This is no different for a sports team whose commodity is people. This company uses its product (the team) to promote and sell itself. The players have to have ability, market ability, and public appeal. The team has to be able to build up enough community support to keep them in business even when they are not winning. To accomplish this they must be very heavily involved with the community. This company relies heavily on their marketing team whose
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Legal Cases to help define Piggly Wiggly June 18, 2012 Legal Cases to help define Piggly Wiggly Part I: When looking at the case of Blue v. Environmental Engineering, Inc., 828 N.E.2d 1128 (Ill. 2005) we are talking about a products liability case that went all the way to the Illinoi’s Supreme Court. On the way to the supreme court the case was looked at in several different lights of the law like Negligence of a defective design, strict liability, fore seeable harm, failure to warn,
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CJS/200 Week 5 Discussion Questions How would you define the pretrial criminal process? How does the pretrial criminal process affect post arrest processes and trials? Is there a better solution to the current process? Explain. * * * * Pretrial process is when the prosecution and the lawyer provide all the evidence that will presented in the case. This would be a list of all the witnesses that will be call by either party or from one party. Both the prosecution and lawyer
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In this scenario, the state of Confusion passed a law that requires all trucks and towing trailers that use Confusion highways to use a B-type truck hitch. The hitch is made by one company in Confusion, and any trucker who wants to drive through the state of Confusion has to stop and have the B-type hitch installed or they would have to drive around Confusion. The federal government has not made any attempt to regulate the truck hitches used on the nation’s highways. Tanya Trucker, who trucking company
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Gus Weekley responses: Good start but be sure to use legal terms na definitions in your responses to support your broader statements. Law will take a bit of time to get used to reading, but stick with it. Law is like long division show every step of your work. There is more to the case and analysis then you have provided. Please do a more indepth analysis of the topic using specifics, legal terms and definitions. You provided a good review of the case, but what were some of the specific
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You are a clerk for the judge assigned to this case. The judge asks you to prepare an essay, explaining to her why, under Illinois law, she should grant or dismiss the motion for summary judgment. Please help the judge. CASE SCENERIO: The plaintiff Alan was trying to catch a plane at Chicago's O'Hare Airport. He knew that he was late for his plane and so, he was running through the airport as fast as possible. Unfortunately, Alan does not see the banana peel that was lying on the floor in the
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State of Confusion BUS/415 State of Confusion Tanya Trucker owns a transportation company who intends to bring a suit against the state of Confusion to overturn a statute that requires all trucks and trailers to use a B-type truck hitch. The problem is that the B-type hitch is manufactured by only one company in the state of Confusion. In order for Tanya Trucker’s equipment can drive through the state of Confusion, the driver must stop at this manufacturer and have the
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