whether Florida's right-to-privacy law gives teens the right to have sex when they want and with whom they choose. Such a ruling would be a landmark decision in the state, because judges repeatedly - all the way back to a case heard by the Florida Supreme Court in 1901 - have ruled that consent is not a defense in statutory rape cases. Under current law, any person over the age of 18 who has sex with an unmarried person under the age of 16 can be charged with statutory rape. If the juvenile is over the
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STARE DECISIS. Formerly, the courts applies earning capacity in fashioning child support awards in limited situations where the record demonstrated that the parent was shirking parental responsibilities by refusing to accept or seek gainful employment. Philbin v. Philbin 19 Cal.App. 3d 115, 96 Cal.Rptr. 408 (1971) With enactment of the Agnos Child Support Standards Act of 1984, the Legislature observed , in former Civil Code section 4720 (a), California has no single standard to promote equitable
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regime has weaknesses in delivering appropriate regulation of insolvency office holders. Similarly, the legal and regulatory framework for secured transactions is modern, but enforcement is slow and sensitive to obstruction due to the inability of courts to cope with demands. Areas of commercial law regulated at the Entity level, such as securities markets, corporate governance and concessions, receive a score of “medium compliance” with international standards . The poor quality of legislation
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Description of the Hierarchy of the Courts In New Zealand, as in the United Kingdom and all other common law jurisdictions, there is a judicial hierarchy in which higher courts have superior power and status than lower courts. Lower courts in the hierarchy are bound to follow the previous decisions (precedents) of the courts above them. Generally there is a right of appeal to a higher court from a decision of a lower court. There are a number of different courts operating in New Zealand with some
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The Black Money Bill-During the Budget Session, Parliament passed the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Bill, 2015 -30% tax on undisclosed income or the value of an undisclosed asset held abroad by a resident assessee, starting from assessment year 2016–17 (tax year 2015–16) -tough penalties and jail terms on Indian residents’ unaccounted incomes and wealth holding in foreign locations that have avoided the taxman’s scrutiny - it applies only to illegal
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for the due management of the regional and the inter-governmental issues (Loiacono, 2010). The three suggested reforms are the reforms in the Supreme Courts, the reforms in the senate, the reforms in the House of Commons Supreme Court The need for the reform is elevated by considering the fact that is it logical to consider Supreme Court as a general court of appeal and are their any specialized needs of constitutional tribunals. The scope of judicial proceedings and judgments needs to be institutionalized
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PAR 115 Legal Analysis Assignment #2 September 26, 2011 1. The parties to the case cited as 224 P.3d 254 are The People of the State of Colorado as the Petitioner and James Brian Disher as the Respondent. 2. The case may be properly cited as 224 P.3d 254 (Colo. 2010). In other words, the case is located in volume 224 of the Pacific Reporter, Third Series on page 254. The Colorado Supreme Court decided the case in 2010. 3. The Colorado Supreme Court determined that an intimate relationship
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consist of three courts. Those courts are the Supreme courts, courts of appeal, and district courts. They all play a major role in the federal systems. However, the federal systems are different from our state courts structure. The courts of Wisconsin’s court system are the municipal, circuit, court of appeals, and the supreme courts. They both differentiate in various amounts of areas. In this assignment, the roles and functions of the law will be discussed and explained. Federal Courts Structure vs
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Court’s website I realized it was surprisingly a little hard to understand for the information I needed to provide for this assignment. One might assume that because our president is from the state of Illinois that their state court website would be a little easier laid out and better to understand, but I found it quite the opposite. Therefore, I chose to do this assignment on the state of Ohio. I look at Iowa, Indiana, and Ohio and just liked how Ohio’s website was laid out. In every government
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Week 1: Assignment 1. This story is about the Supreme Court’s decision. What process did this case have to go through to get to the Supreme Court? a. The Supreme Court concluded that there was no fixed policy that described some kind of discrimination against woman. The judge also pointed out that the plaintiff did not have a strong proof or standing of what they proposed to be employee discrimination. 2. In the story, two justices wrote differing opinions about the issue. Discuss
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