Patton, Gwyneth Navitsky Law/421 Contemporary Business Law November 10, 2013 Boni Cherelle Introduction On December 15, 1791, the First Amendment Rights were set forth to protect the citizens of the United States and be governing by the Bills of Rights. As time passed and the U.S. changed the First Amendment, it became more of a pillar for free speech, free press and the right to peacefully assemble. The First Amendment, at its early stage, was only applied by laws by Congress but now it has
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Apples Eat Themselves Marquis Garrett LAW 421 November 1, 2012 Geoffrey L. Fogus Apples Eat Themselves Article Synopsis A review of the legal battles between Apple, a computer company and Apple, a record company, are discussed in this article. Both share a similar logo (an apple) and since 1981, the companies have gone to court to claim the Apple logo should only be unique to one company. In 1991 the Court agreed for each company to continue
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Sarbanes- Oxley Article Review Rafael Perez LAW/421 November 7, 2012 David Cory University of Phoenix Material Article Review Format Guide MEMORANDUM UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX DATE: November 7, 2012 TO: David Cory FROM: Rafael Perez RE: Still Debating the Merits of Sarbanes-Oxley, 10 Years Later (Dunn, 2012)
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Article Review: Sarbanes – Oxley Act LAW/421 August 20, 2012 Jane Schneider Sarbanes – Oxley Act of 2002 Modern businesses have their full share of ethical dilemmas. With law and ethics, business environments can be equipped with tools to successfully handle ethical situations. Without legal and ethical discipline, a business can deteriorate in the blink of an eye. Because of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, businesses can be controlled on the way they conduct business through the instruction
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|LAW/421 Version 1 | | |Contemporary Business Law | Copyright © 2011 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course reviews the U.S. legal system, common law and its development, organizational structures, and the regulatory
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Sarbanes Oxley Act Article Review Amber Means LAW 421 November 24, 2014 Jane Schneider Sarbanes Oxley Act Article Review Corporate fraud and mismanagement scandals in publically held companies, along with the public outcry for stricter regulations and accountability in early 2000 led to the passing of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX Act) of 2002. The primary purpose of the SOX Act is to overhaul the structure of corporate governance regulatory structure and impose stricter regulation and controls
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Article Review: Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 Melissa Adams LAW/421 October 16, 2014 Mrs. Lydia Quarles Article Review: Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX Act) of 2002, passed by the United States Congress with the intention of protecting investors from fraudulent activities experienced by business entities or corporations. The enactment of the SOX Act happened at a time when various scandals such as Tyco, Enron, and
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State of Confusion Xxx LAW/421 July 22, 2010 David Feedman The federal government has the responsibility to regulate and establish safety requirements for vehicles. The scenario for this paper describes the situation in which the State of Confusion enacted a statute that requires all trucks and towing trailers that travel its highways to use a B-type truck hitch (University of Phoenix, 2010). However, only one company in the State of Confusion manufactures this type of truck hitch making
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Article Review-E-Business and Intellectual Property LaTanga Washington Law/421 January 21, 2013 Dr. Thomas Wilson Abstract There are two important resources for small-business owners and they are time and money. When the subject of intellectual property comes up, most business owner’s run the other way. Business owner’s see pictures of lawyers and they use that as an excuse to not to talk about the topic, for reasoning that that is a problem for big companies to worry about. There is one
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Puerto Rico LAW 421- Contemporary Business Law July 8, 2014 On week three of our course, we were ask to write a word paper on Contracts in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in which we will describe the contracts according with the following cases; * Muñiz v. COPAN, 113 D.P.R. 157 (1982) * Trinidad v. Chade, 153 D.P.R. 280 (2001) * Las Marías v. Municipio, 159 D.P.R. 868 (2003) First, we must define contract in order to understand what role they have in our business law. A business
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