Articles about Legal Matters
The Conflict with Diamonds
Back in the year 2000, the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution on the role of diamonds in fuelling conflict. In taking up this agenda item, the General Assembly formally...
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Accounting Community Supports KPMG
With the US government’s case against KPMG settled, the battered firm can refocus its efforts on its core businesses. Enabling this refocusing is a series of internal mandates that have rippled acro...
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Space Debris: The Sky is Falling
Imagine yourself taking an early morning walk in Tulsa, Oklahoma only to see a “big bright light, like a fire” in the sky. The object continues to get bigger as it approaches overhead. A few minutes ...
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Living Wills Decide Who Will Make Decisions When You Can't
Many people are wondering what they need in the way of legal documents to make certain that, in the event of incapacity, their wishes are known and followed regarding potential end-of-life decisions....
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Living Will Is An Answer To A Problem
For many people, Terri Schiavo was the face of an emotional struggle over the right to live and the right to die. It sparked a heated global debate and inspired even the most apolitical citizens to t...
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Your Little Gourmet: Baby's Fifth Month Guide
Baby smiled her real smiles at you and you were so charmed, you decided nothing could be better. But baby has more in store for you in her fifth month. Endless entertainment coupled with increasing i...
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Last Will And Testament Considerations
Interest in a Last Will and Testament and other end of life planning documents skyrocketed during the coverage of Terri Schiavo's case, but interest didn't always lead to action. It isn't that people...
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Mesothelioma Lawyer – Upholding The Rights Of People If Not Life.
Had it not been for the Mesothelioma lawyers the reign of terror unleashed by the widespread use of asbestos would have left the American society scarred just as asbestos leaves scarring marks in the...
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DUI: What You Need To Know Now!
DUI. Driving Under Influence. You've been told a thousand and one times that you shouldn't drive and drink. Or take drugs for that matter. But when you do get into that sticky DUI situation, here ar...
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How To Go Through Divorce Unscathed
Divorce can be hard. Perhaps, no one knows that better than the two parties involved in the legal coil of separation. Though a divorce is a mutual decision, it is not impossible that one or both part...
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Roe v. Wade
Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), is one of Supreme Court's most popular and controversial rulings. This article provides a summary of this decision. Facts: The great state of Texas had a law which...
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Insurance Claims
When you are involved in an accident insurance claims may not be the first thoughts on your mind. However, there are some procedures you should follow in order to preserve your right to file an insur...
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MP3 Players Under Fire In US and European Courtrooms
ALEXANDRIA, Va. & TURIN, Italy - Oct., 2005 - Audio MPEG, Inc. and Sisvel, S.p.A. announced that Thomson S.A. and a number of its subsidiaries have been sued in the United States and Europe for infr...
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Basic Ethics For Lawyer Advertising
Lawyers have several sets of rules to consider when creating advertisements. The FTC regulates all advertising in every state; each state may have its own regulations governing advertising; and the a...
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Extradition of Nazi war criminals
The following paper was used as a term paper for a sophomore level Political Science class centering on international relations. The class was taken at a popular university in the state of Massachusetts. The paper deals with the legal issues surrounding the act of extradition of Nazi war criminals. Two international law cases are dealt with in the paper and footnotes and sources used can be found in the files, "footnotes.txt", and "sources.txt." I suggest that you import the files into your favorite word processor and adjust them accordingly. The paper got an "A" from a fairly difficult grading professor, and once the paper is double spaced it should work out to be about 14 or 15 pages.
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