Filing for bankruptcy is never an easy decision and the process can prove to be difficult and stressful, particularly when someone’s life’s work comes to an abrupt end and results in failure. It is therefore important to ensure that the process runs as smoothly as possible to avoid additional stress and anxiety which can easily [...]
One thing that many people have difficulties with these days is filling out forms. As our world gets more and more beurocratic, there are more and more forms to fill in, and for many people this is a really big difficulty. Ordinary forms are one thing, but when you have to fill out a legally [...]
Miscarriages of justice are generally defined as a person being wrongly convicted of a crime. If a person is convicted and imprisoned they can usually appeal their case. If after appeal their conviction is shown to be unsound, the judge hearing the appeal can set aside or ‘quash’ the conviction setting the person free. Under [...]
Immigration is the process in which an individual or a group travels to another country as immigrants or nonimmigrants. Immigration generally takes place due to number of reasons like work, visit, employment and family issues.Nowadays most of the people are showing interest to immigrate to United States, in order to immigrate to United States they [...]
Issue preclusion, which was formerly known as collateral estoppel, is a common law doctrine that prevents an individual or party to a lawsuit from relitigating an issue once it has been decided in a previous case. The idea behind issue preclusion is that once an issue has been decided, it is a waste of the [...]
Since music is so common and customary in our society and culture, we very often take it for granted. Just because you purchase a CD or buy and (legally) download an MP3 file does not give you permission to play the track absolutely anywhere. While you are certainly allowed to play the music for private [...]
Medical malpractice is serious regardless of how serious the victim’s anguish is. Whether the victim is maimed, unable to walk again, killed, or caused serious mental and/or financial anguish, a bigger crime is at hand. The doctor who was practicing medicine on the patient lost their competence, if only for a moment. This, in the [...]
Claim and issue preclusion, commonly called respectively res judicata and collateral estoppel, are two of the doctrines applied by defendants and plaintiffs alike to prevent the opposing party from re-litigating either a claim or an issue. The two can almost be thought of as a civil version of double jeopardy.Claim preclusion is the doctrine that [...]
As an Hispanic child growing up in Northern New Mexico in the 1940s I recall being surprised one day on hearing my Aunt Josefina say to my grandparents that, contrary to what they thought, we were “Americanos” too, just like the ‘gringos’ (Anglos, Germans) and ‘gabachos’ (Frenchmen) in and around our little village. “
We live in a fast-paced world. Everything seems to be happening against the clock, and keeping up with innovations is essential in many aspects of our lives. Computers and the Internet have already shaped our life style, and we have gotten so accustomed to making the most of them that we could hardly imagine a [...]
