...Case Brief GM520, Legal, Political, and Ethical Dimensions of Business Style of Case and Citations Kelo v. City of New London 545 U.S. 469 (2005) Court Rendering Final Decision U.S. Supreme Court Identification of Parties and Procedural Details Susette Kelo and the other affected property owners (Plaintiff) filled a suit challenging New London's legal authority to take their homes in order to make room for Pfizer and the economic development plan. Discussion of the Facts The City of New London came up with a plan to redevelop an area in which they would develop a state park and other architecturally eclectic homes. Part of the deal included Pfizer corporation who would also put a research facility in the area. The development would match what Pfizer corporation was planning and would also increase revenue, create jobs, and promote the waterfront area. This would then be the start of a much needed revitalization of the rest of the city. The New London Development Corporation and other nonprofit corporations planned to bring in Pfizer with hopes of an economic boost. Statement and Discussion of the Legal Issues in Dispute Kelo and other residents are challenging the New London's legal authority in taking their homes. They are questioning if the property meets the requirements as public use within the means of the Taking Clause and the Fifth Amendment. New London's plan is to develop a 90-acre area on the waterfront near the Fort...
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...Week 2 Homework – GM520 Brad Booth 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (1) a Word doc with the questions and your answers and (2) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) The Department of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives – I am a firearms dealer and wonder how the Firearm regulation will affect my sale of guns. This will affect me who I can sell guns to and the cost of background checks. 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) The change will require people to do a more extensive background check and depending on the background it will disqualify them on getting a weapon and affect how many guns I can sell. 3. Write the public comment which you would submit to this proposal. If the proposed regulation deadline has already passed, write the comment you would have submitted. Explain briefly what you wish to accomplish with your comment. (10 points) I wish to have them reconsider this new rule by at least putting some additional provisions in place to protect the privacy...
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...Week 2 GM520 - Assignment 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interest you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (1) a Word doc with the questions and your answers and (2) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Department of Defense ACTION: Proposed rule :: Smoking Cessation Program under TRICARE This will affect me as most of my friends/neighbors/relatives do smoke and I am always being a passive smoker which is affecting my health badly. 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) The proposal helps smokers to quit smoking under TRICARE coverage. Which would help common people with wider access and ways to quit smoking. The proposed rule should expand the phone access & face-face interaction at least to the military personnel internationally in the initial phase also. 3. Write the public comment which you would submit to this proposal. If the proposed regulation deadline has already passed, write the comment you would have submitted. Explain briefly what you wish to accomplish with your...
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...Week 2 Homework Help – GM520. Here is an example to get you started on the Week 2 Homework: 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (1) a Word doc with the questions and your answers and (2) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) The Department of Health and Human Services; the Food and Drug Administration is the agency which controls this regulation. The topic that will be discussed is the information required in prior notice of imported food. This interests me greatly because I majored in Hospitality manangement for my Undergraduate degree with the aspirations of someday opening a restaurant. This topic deals with what is needed to import food from abroad, and this will greatly impact my restaurant when I open my business. 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) The proposal requires additional fundamentals of information submitting prior notice to imported food, including food for animals, to report the name of any country in which the article has been denied entry. This information...
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...Week 2 Homework Help – GM520. 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (1) a Word doc with the questions and your answers and (2) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) regulated interstate surface transportation between 1887 and 1995. This interests me because of the changes of transportation. Yes, it does affect me because they are doing price controls and entry controls on the collective vendor’s price setting in the United States transportation. 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) It is regulated through varies transportation modes starting with the railroad industry and later the trucking and airline industry. 3. Write the public comment which you would submit to this proposal. If the proposed regulation deadline has already passed, write the comment you would have submitted. Explain briefly what you wish to accomplish with your comment. (10 points) Deregulation—freeing up the trucking market to permit much more flexible pricing and...
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...GM520 - Week 2 Homework 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (1) a Word doc with the questions and your answers and (2) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) Nebraska Department of Revenue – I own an operating farm in the state of Nebraska and this new bill hold potential tax saving. This will affect me by potentially reducing or refunding the sales and use tax liability on farm equipment. 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) This bill will eliminate the application and imposition of sales and use tax on the “sale, lease, or rental of and the storage, use, or other consumption” of repair or replacement parts for agricultural machinery and equipment used in commercial farms. 3. Write the public comment which you would submit to this proposal. If the proposed regulation deadline has already passed, write the comment you would have submitted. Explain briefly what you wish to accomplish with your comment. (10 points) My comment is that the elimination of sales and use...
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...Week 2 Homework Help – GM520. 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (1) a Word doc with the questions and your answers and (2) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) Internal Revenue Service – This regulation interests me because members of my family are both employees and employers and IRS will benefit one and harm the other with it. It will take an affect in 2014. 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) This proposed regulation will require employers with more than 50 full-time employees to provide affordable health care coverage with a minimum level required. Otherwise, employers will be punished with penalties. Regardless, it would increase expenses for any company having more than 50 employees especially since health care costs are increasing on yearly basis. 3. Write the public comment which you would submit to this proposal. If the proposed regulation deadline has already passed, write the comment you would have submitted. Explain briefly what you wish to accomplish with...
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...Hatem Al Rifai GM520: Legal, Political, and Ethical Dimensions Professor: Bijan Zayer Week 2 Assignment 1. State the administrative agency, which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interest you (briefly). How will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? Provide the URL to the website where the regulation change proposal is located. (Check your URL to be sure it takes the reader to the actual regulation). (10 points) The FDA or also known as the Food and Drug Administration are agencies that control the rules and regulations. I decided to use this agency as my reference because the FDA is one the most popular and important agency. This proposed regulation change who filed this petition with the FDA to amend their rule is Cargill. Scientist and researchers in Cargill research and development laboratories and engineering departments have worked on this project for a number of years. If Cargill plant expansion to produce their product on that specific location, this would bring a positive economic impact to that location, only if the rules by the FDA become permanent. 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) According to the FDA Summary, “amending the health claim regulation entitled ‘Soluble fiber from certain foods and risk of coronary heart disease (CHD)’ to add barley beta fiber as an additional eligible source of beta-glucan soluble fiber.” The FDA has come to the agreement...
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...TAK MENG CHOY GM520: Legal, Political, and Ethical Dimensions Week 2 TCO B Homework 1. State the administrative agency, which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interest you (briefly). How will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? Provide the URL to the website where the regulation change proposal is located. (Check your URL to be sure it takes the reader to the actual regulation). (10 points) The FDA or also known as the Food and Drug Administration are agencies that control the rules and regulations. I decided to used this agency as my reference because the FDA is one the most popular and important agency. This proposed regulation change who filed this petition with the FDA to amend their rule is Cargill. Scientist and researchers in Cargill research and development laboratories and engineering departments have worked on this project for a number of years. If Cargill plant expansion to produce their product on that specific location, this would bring a positive economic impact to that location, only if the rules by the FDA become permanent. 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) According to the FDA Summary, “amending the health claim regulation entitled ‘Soluble fiber from certain foods and risk of coronary heart disease (CHD)’ to add barley beta fiber as an additional eligible source of beta-glucan soluble fiber.” The FDA has come to the agreement that there is an important...
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...Week 2 Homework GM520 Joefred B Devicais 1. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services – The USCIS is the government agency that oversees lawful immigration to the United States. The agency provides accurate and useful information to customers granting immigration and citizenship benefits. Proposed changes: USCIS Proposes Process Change for Certain Waivers of Inadmissibility. I am a business owner in Daly City, California and this interests me and will impact my potential immigrant employees with the new USCIS regulation. This will affect my employees emotional and financial stability due to family separation. 2. The change will reduce the time US citizens separated from their immediate relatives to include spouse, children and parents. If the relative can prove that being separated from their US citizen relative would cause extreme hardship, applying for a provisional waiver of the unlawful presence ground of inadmissibility while in the United States reducing the time separated from their relative. 3. My comment is that this provisional waiver would be very beneficial to the US citizen relative emotionally and financially. Most families live with dual income status and spouse support with childcare and other day to day functions and work at the same time. Therefore, shorter family separation lessens the burden of the US citizen’s hardship. 4. Comment period from April 2,2012 to June 1,2012. 5. a. Once you have submitted your...
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...Week 2 Homework GM520. 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (1) a Word doc with the questions and your answers and (2) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) Federal Register Volume 77, Number 205 (Tuesday, October 23, 2012). International Mailing Services: Proposed Product and Price Changes. My business utilizes The United States Postal Service for small shipments and packages.. The price increase in product and service for international mailing could heavily affect our business. Thirty percent of our products are ordered by foreign customers. For the whole online selling industry, we will lose a large revenue if the new regulation is passed and applied to both individual and business. 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) The proposal will increase the cost of USPS mailing services including First-Class Mail International and extra services. The Postal Service proposes to adjust the price of various sections of Mailing Standards of United Stated Post Service. The proposal...
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...Week 2 Homework – GM520 1. State the administrative agency that controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you, or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (a) a Word document with the questions and your answers, and (b) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) Department of Justice (DOJ) – Being from Texas where there is no secret about one’s personal firearms, I found interest in this topic because of the many people I know that own firearms. This proposal will have an affect on many Americans depending on what state you are in. 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) The purpose of the proposal is to identify the definition of a “pistol”. Determining the definition will establish carrying permits and regulations for each state. 3. Write the public comment that you would submit to this proposal. If the proposed regulation deadline has already passed, write the comment you would have submitted. Explain briefly what you wish to accomplish with your comment. (10 points) As a Texas native, I have many friends and family who own...
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...Andrea Bing Week 2 Homework – GM520 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Department of Education – This proposed regulation interests me in particular because I personally know how hard it can be to pay back student loans after graduation. Students were once able to receive 2 Pell grants in the same year and now the Department of Education has changed to it to students can at maximum receive 1 Pell grant per award year. This results in students having to make up for that grant with more loans which ultimately means more debt. The changes were effective in the 2010-2011 award year and I was affected during my Bachelor Degree studies. 2. Describe the proposal/change. The proposal limits students from receiving 2 Pell Grants within the same award year. “The Secretary amends four sections of the Federal Pell Grant Program regulations to make them consistent” with these changes. 3. Write the public comment which you would submit to this proposal. If the proposed regulation deadline has already passed, write the comment you would have submitted. Explain briefly what you wish to accomplish with your comment. While it is necessary to have the documentation represent the correct facts of the Federal Pell Grant Program, in an economy where students and recent graduates...
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...GM520: Legal, Political, and Ethical Dimensions May 11, 2008 Week 2 TCO B Homework 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or USFDA) is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Service which main responsibility is to control the regulation of Food and Drug administration and is under the control of the United States federal executive departments. i. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). This agency interest me because I have a deep concern about the types of food and drugs that enter into our Caribbean market and other third world countries. After extensive research by many health professionals, it has been that many Caribbean islands and other third world countries are supplied with or import “rejected” foods and sometimes drugs from first world countries such as Europe and North America. If it is not good for one then why should it be good for the other? Are one of the many questions being asked by citizens. ii. Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. This proposed regulation wont affect the business in which i am working in but it will for certain allow citizens to become more aware as to the types of food that we import and will allow many to have an interest in medicine, thus, develop an...
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...Week 2 Administrative Regulations GM520 Legal, Political & Ethical Dimensions of Business Prof. Tonja Jordon 1. State the administrative agency which controls the regulation. Explain why this agency and your proposed regulation interests you (briefly). Will this proposed regulation affect you or the business in which you are working? If so, how? Submit a copy of the proposed regulation along with your responses to these five questions. The proposed regulation can be submitted as either a separate Word document (.doc) or Adobe file (.pdf). This means you will submit two attachments to the Week 2 Dropbox: (1) a Word doc with the questions and your answers and (2) a copy of the proposed regulation you used for this assignment. (10 points) Food and Drug Administration – I love going to the beach to enjoy the sun, but burn easily and rely on sunscreen to protect me. This interests me because I burn very easily and this regulation will make going to the beach expensive. This will affect me directly as it will force me to see a doctor to obtain sufficient sunscreen protection at the beach instead of my local drug store. 2. Describe the proposal/change. (10 points) The proposal limits the maximum labeled SPF value for over-the-counter (OTC) sunscreen drug products to 50 SPF. 3. Write the public comment which you would submit to this proposal. If the proposed regulation deadline has already passed, write the comment you would have submitted. Explain briefly what you wish...
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