Essays on Civil Liability

Individual Project

Abstract This paper evaluates the ethical aspects of the workings of the police and the moral issues surrounding the police accepting freebies in the course of performing their duties. In particular, this paper looks at the legal aspects regarding the acceptance of gratuities by the police on-duty and off-duty. Accordingly, he paper will be considering the pros and cons relating to the law enforcement officers accepting and not accepting free meals from a local restaurant. Further, the paper considers the conduct among the law enforcement officers as well as whether a higher standard of conduct should apply to them. ...

1. What is the definition of a tort? Tort is “a wrongful act, not including a breach of contract or trust, that results in injury to another's person, property, reputation, or the like, and for which the injured party is entitled to compensation.” (Merriam-Webster) 2. What are 2 types of damages you may receive if you are successful in a torts cause of action? “Legal damages can encompass economic losses, such as lost profits, as well as punitive damages, which are awarded to plaintiffs as a way of punishing malicious wrongdoers. “ (Wrongful or Tortious Interference with Contracts.) 3. Name ...

The research context:

History of tort law Tort law originated a century ago when Oliver Wendell Junior examined the history of negligence in the legal system, which later resulted in the theory of tort. He concluded in his study that the duty to exercise care in England was faulty. He noted that most plaintiffs suffered overwhelmingly when another party or entity caused a significant level of damage to them. Similarly, Morton J. Horwitz reexamines the history of negligence and found out that many jurisdictions did not understand negligence as carelessness or fault (Kaczorowski). Since its discovery, many nations such as the USA, ...

The law evolves and as such it has been the case that he who can define will always win (Philips, 1998). Federally protected rights had not had a remedy in the case that there was a violation of the same, instigated by governments and its employees. It was not until the landmark ruling in the Monroe V. Pape case that shaped the development to what is commonly referred to as “section 1983”. This points out to the glaring fact that not only do the police, who are state and local government employees have to only deal with criminal issues, ...

Police corruption occurs when an officer uses his or her status as a police officer to obtain a wrongful gain or a benefit. It may include something as simple as accepting a free meal to something as deviant as extortion. As a police department, it is important to maintain honesty among our force and stay clear from corruption. In order to better understand this issue, I have drafted this memo to address issues of corruption including free meals, standards and civil liability.

FREE MEALS

The International Association of Chiefs of Police Law Enforcement Code of Ethics states that law enforcement officers ...

While the common idea of a police-suspect encounter is that the suspect has done something wrong, there are a number of circumstance where it is the officer who will be found to have acted improperly or without appropriate legal authorization. Civil liability, is one of the two forms of legal redress that police officers may face when they fail to perform their assigned duties, act negligently, or abuse their authority (Kaci, 1998). Civil liability, as opposed to criminal liability, refers to the power of an injured party to sued a defendant for compensatory (monetary), equitable, and declaratory relief. In ...

Abstract

This paper discusses one of the prevalent ethical issues in our present criminal justice system which is police planting evidence on the suspect. The planting of evidence on a suspect or profiling of innocent people is considered police misconduct. The driving force for the police to commit such crime is due to corruption. During police investigations, the police abuse their power by fabricating or planting of evidence to obtain false conviction by taking money in exchange for favors. Police resort to corruption, engage in other illegal means to earn income and break departmental policies due ...

Should Punitive Damages Be Introduced in International Law?

Introduction Different countries often have different legal policy in both their criminal and civil law systems. These differences often arise from differing social, economic, and political climates that lead to fundamental policy differences. In the area of civil the law differences in legal systems of different countries often reflect the individual countries’ beliefs as to the types of claims that should be recognized. Furthermore, legal systems across the globe often differ about the types of damages they are willing to recognize. One area in which there is a significant difference in the type of damages one can be awarded ...

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Please type your Institution name here Air Wisconsin v. Hoeper Case Facts of the case The respondent of this case was the pilot Hoeper and the petitioner was Air Wisconsin Airlines Corp. When Air Wisconsin ended its operations from Hoeper’s home base, Denver, on an aircraft that he was qualified to fly, he was supposed to get another certification to fly a different type of aircraft, if he needs to continue in his job. After Hoeper was unsuccessful in clearing the certification process in his first three efforts, the company agreed to offer him yet another ...

Legal issue

Social media sites have become part of people’s lives today, and they feed all their personal information to this media site. However, what people do not know is that putting personal information on the social media sites is becoming risky and dangerous every day because employers are using this site to profile a personal behavior and conduct before they agree to hire them into their companies (Brunty, Helenek & Miller, 2013). Social media has become unavoidable as people are using these sites to search for work and employment. However, employers have started asking job applicants for passwords of their social ...

Introduction:

The term ‘fore’ meaning “look ahead” in golf game is shouted as a warning when it appears possible that the golf ball can hit spectators or other players. The mention of this term in 1881 British Golf Museum shows that the term was used at least as early as this period. The term is believed to have come from the military “beware before”, and it was shouted when the battery was fired behind a friendly troop. Another possible origin include it derived from the term “fore-caddy” a caddy which is waiting down range from a golfer in finding where the ball lands. This ...