Thirteen years of research | When groups meet | | Man of the hour – Gordon Allport I remember quite clearly reading about Gordon Allport’s work on the discrimination in my Social Psychology text in undergrad, it set of a chain reaction of thoughts – could it really be that simple. “Contact” true and meaningful goal oriented between different groups of people could potentially spark cognitive, behavioral and affective change. The suggestion that with the right mix of conditions could over
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3and4 relate to property 3. In Rem – dispute is about the property itself 4. Quasi in Rem – breach of contract (attach the prop to the dispute) 5. Long arm statute – minimum contact rule. Revenue 15% Example: purchased a toy from a biz in Indiana. Child got hurt and wants to sue the person. You can use the 5th rule. The judge will order and accounting and if the rev is equal to or higher than 15% the trail is heard in Cali if lower than the trail is heard in Indiana. Federal 1. Federal question
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Data Mining Prepared by: Kirsten Sullivan Strayer University CIS 500 Dr. Baab September 9, 2012 Data mining is a concept that companies use to gain new customers or clients in an effort to make their business and profits grow. The ability to use data mining can result in the accrual of new customers by taking the new information and advertising to customers who are either not currently utilizing the business's product or also in winning additional customers that may
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United States, the Court noted, and the 14th Amendment requires judges to uphold those standards in every State. Evidence gained by an illegal search became inadmissible in State courts as a result of the decision. The “Mapp Rule” has since been modified, so the exclusionary rule is no longer as absolute as when first handed down in Mapp. Critics of the Warren Court charged that it “had gone too far in interfering with police work.” With its decisions in the cases of Mapp v. Ohio, Gideon v. Wainwright
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a size 10, while H&M's standard line goes up to a size 16, and American Eagle offers up to 18. It's not surprising that Abercrombie excludes plus-sized women considering the attitude of CEO Mike Jeffries, said Robin Lewis, co-author of The New Rules of Retail and CEO of newsletter The Robin Report. "He doesn't want larger people shopping in his store, he wants thin and beautiful people," Lewis told Business Insider. "He doesn't want his core customers to see people who aren't as hot as them
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Right to Counsel Every individual is afforded the right to counsel in criminal proceedings. It is the liability of the government to provide every defendant facing criminal charges with legal representation that also is considered sufficient (2011). The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees every individual the right to a swift and public trial from an unbiased jury of his or her peers in the state or district in which the crime was committed in (1995-2011). The district
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law should conform to the laws of the rest of the world ought to be rejected out of hand.” Arguing that the Court’s use of foreign law was inconsistent and unprincipled, as shown by the deviation between American and foreign case law on the exclusionary rule, church‐state relations, and abortion, Justice Scalia concluded that “the Court should either profess its willingness to reconsider all these matters in light of the views of foreigners, or else it should cease putting forth foreigners’ views
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conformity or regulate the individual and collective conduct of its members. Social control refers generally to societal and political mechanisms or processes that regulate individual and group behavior, leading to conformity and compliance to the rules of a given society, state, or social group. Many mechanisms of social control are cross-cultural, if only in the control mechanisms used to prevent the establishment of chaos or anomie. Some theorists, such as Émile Durkheim, refer to this form of
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Chapter One: The Legal Environment 1. Business activities and the legal environment 2. Sources of American law 1) Primary sources of law * Constitutional law (The U.S. Constitution, state constitutions) * Statutory law ( federal statutes, state statutes, ordinances; uniform laws) * Administrative law (administrative agencies: federal, state, local) * Case law 2) Secondary sources of law * Books , articles 3. The common law tradition 1) Stare decisis
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Government to establish rule regulating the admission of noncitizens into the country. The Supreme Court has invoked the doctrine to permit the federal government, and at times the states, to discriminate against immigrants with the lawful right to remain permanently in this country
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