Law & Ethics - December 2006

Ok, I am a Jr in high school, and I am 18 years old (not my fault 1 math credit didn't transfer when I moved). My school has summer reading. Basicly they give you a list of books and you pick one and read it over the summer, and then they test you on it and put it into your grade. My question is, can they legaly do this sense this is not part of the state mandated 180 school year? I go to a public school by the way. Does me being 18 mean I can opt-out of the summer reading thing, just like parents can choose for their kids not to do it and give them permission? I am NOT taking a AP or honors class (they do this for the WHOLE school). Its not the reading that I have a problem with, its the principle of the thing, its almost like, how the heck can they get away with this! I'm 18 and I am not a minor and its my business how I choose to spend my summer, not the school! Sorry for all this its just a rant!

2006-12-29 07:36:11 · 10 answers · asked by question 2

what can we do to bar a terminated employee from the pemesis? He was terminated and refuse to leave the building. He continues to harrass the members of the church and attempt to enter the building.

2006-12-29 07:29:17 · 10 answers · asked by Benita W 1

2006-12-29 07:28:54 · 14 answers · asked by Candi 1

What about all of these traffic violations that seem to be forgotten about? I really get tired of moving over to find some idiot speeding up to go around me on the right side. Often the left lane is open and they just choose the right side instead. Methinks I might start being really rude to these folks....maybe not.

2006-12-29 07:24:35 · 5 answers · asked by martiismyname 3

2006-12-29 07:22:40 · 8 answers · asked by masquedprincess 1

2006-12-29 07:22:00 · 13 answers · asked by Stephen S 1

Hi I am asking this question on behalf of another and wondered if any of yoos have experienced a similar situation? This father is in England and his English children are in Spain with their English mother, how does the Law stand?, is it English law for access or Spanish law when they live in another country with their mother?
SERIOUS, HELPFUL REPLIES ONLY PLEASE many thanks.

2006-12-29 07:21:14 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

The idea that Child Support is based on a percentage of a person's income is a mix of a fantasy story and a half truth. Check this out....

The amount that is ordered to pay is a FIXED amount, set by a hearing master (not an elected judge), based on what he THINKS you MIGHT be able to make, behind a closed door (no juries or anything to check him out). It doesn't end there. He can tack on other things too, such as payment of health care, education, and special needs.

So, if you WERE making a certain amount one day, and as a result, you are ordered to pay $1400 and then the contract for that job ends, what happens? If you think it is automatically reduced, or there is a system in place for that, you are talking in ignorance.

The now jobless chap now has to pay an attorney (as if he could now afford one), wait several months for a court date, and ask the judge to lower payments. There is about a 10% chance this will happen. In the mean time, payments add up and you owe thousands.

2006-12-29 07:19:43 · 7 answers · asked by government slave 2

2006-12-29 07:19:29 · 3 answers · asked by Linda 1

I mean i know they are just famous people bickering. but think about it. Rosie first most is a comedian who basically stated facts he did have a wife and a mistress divorce etc. he goes and says personal things like she is ugly and a loser etc. and then says he wants to sue her because she said he went bankrupt. which is another true fact is it not? I was just wondering could she sue? I dont care for either of them not like a pro Rosie anti Donald or anything just wondering.

2006-12-29 07:10:25 · 11 answers · asked by butterflyharmon 2

2006-12-29 07:08:41 · 4 answers · asked by tuffy 1

I feel that if this is fair then almost all presidents and former presidents must hang after serving their terms, since they directly or indirectly thru their decisions cause death of a lot of innocent people and commit a lot of criminal offenses some of which remain undercover. I feel Saddam was no longer a threat after dethroning - why not sentence him to life imprisonment rather? (Hanging should be done to people who are potentially dangerous to live – like unrepentant rapists or killers who always break way to do the same act again)

2006-12-29 07:06:05 · 8 answers · asked by imbabala_egxhakaza_ematsheni 2

And which country are you from??

2006-12-29 07:01:46 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-29 07:01:16 · 7 answers · asked by wcfiremen06 2

There are millions of these people here, and I understand that they want a better life, but shouldn't we really protect ourselves better against possible terrorists who could pretend to simply be illegal aliens? What a disaster if terrorists sneak in a nuclear bomb & kill a city with it. Besides, the alien workers don't really want to leave their homes, I suppose : they just want help. Why not help make jobs in their own countries, instead? If they have a safe place for tourists and the help to make resorts, etc., wouldn't lots of people from the US & Canada go there and make for many more jobs in their own homelands? I don't think they really want US citizenship or to be so far from their families, and lots of foreign immigrants seem so loyal to the countries they came from. This bothers me that my children may have their birthrights and the land in this country taken over by millions of foreigners who don't really love us or have any great feeling of loyalty to this nation.

2006-12-29 06:58:06 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-29 06:51:38 · 18 answers · asked by Kerilyn 7

I was married for 30 years, always worked. I am not sure if he is collecting on SS. I wish to use his SS as a bridge to my early retirement, since my SS amount will be more than half of his when I reach 66. Does anyone have any experience with this? What is the criteria/formula/guidelines followed to accomplish this plan?

2006-12-29 06:41:27 · 4 answers · asked by Sunny 1

I've read some info that indicates that the freedoms written about in old documents were simply freedom to choose between christian variances/denominations, not to be a different religion altogether. Is this really true? Is there any proof of it? If so, how did things go different : couldn't people have simply checked these documents? The way it is, what if no place is left for christians to go live at ? Muslims, buddhists, etc. all have their lands where they make it that religion. Shouldn't christians have a place to live where people who have the same values & beliefs can live in peace without all the things they regard as evil?

2006-12-29 06:31:59 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-29 06:30:55 · 7 answers · asked by Stephen B 1

Its the corner house with a rotten wood fence. Every few feet the color changes from red to white and then to red again.

2006-12-29 06:25:41 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

can I be sued for defamation if I believe what I said or wrote about someone's BEHAVIOUR (not character) is true? e.g. if I wrote that he is giving me undue pressure to do certain unethical things (which is my point of view, although the person concerned disagreed)

2006-12-29 06:20:36 · 5 answers · asked by nutz 1

2006-12-29 06:19:23 · 4 answers · asked by Kerilyn 7

I can sell my labor--that's called wages.
I can sell my learning-- that's called salary.

If I own both those, then why do governments prohibit me from selling my organs, a kidney here, or a lung, or a portion of my liver there, and make money?

Who owns me?

2006-12-29 06:14:25 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-12-29 06:11:00 · 2 answers · asked by ssgtcoffey 1

2006-12-29 06:10:13 · 12 answers · asked by paulrdietz 2

Here we go. My grandparents owned a home and had 3 children.
Child 1 passed away before they did. Child 2 passed away after they did. Child 3 is still alive. Each deceased child has 2 children (grandchildren)

The will has only now been found by child 3 after the passing of mom, dad, child 1 and child 2. The will states child 2 owed the parents 29,000 and that his portion of the estate would be lessened by that much. Since child 2 never received anything because he passed away before the estate was divided and the will was enforced.....how should 80.000 (the full estate) be divided?

2006-12-29 06:04:43 · 3 answers · asked by Shanysue 2

im not getting my payments

2006-12-29 05:53:04 · 4 answers · asked by omayra r 1

Do you feel that it is our duty to kill him? Do you think that Iraq will be better off?

I personally am against the hanging of anyone, even a tyrant; I do believe he should answer for what he has done as a human being to other human beings. I thing death by hanging is to easy, all that does is satisfy his need to become a Martyr

2006-12-29 05:52:49 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

Seriously, suppose you had indisputable evidence (video, uncoerced written confession, etc.) of someone victimizing you and/or your family. Would it really be all that wrong to just take them out back in the tool shed and kick the living crap out of them or sever some limbs? I work in corrections and prisons and jails are just places for these people to socialize. There is no deterent left in this country except for immediate, swift, harsh retribution.

2006-12-29 05:52:32 · 11 answers · asked by timboo28 2

In certain countries, persons who successfully commit suicide are handcuffed by the bobby.

Myth ?

The dead are handcuffed to symbolise taking their own lives as a state crime by denying the community of services that would have otherwise been rendered by a live active participant of society.

Rationale ?

The dead owes a debt to society insofar as resources used to bring the person into being from child birth to the current state before the act of suicide.

What and where does the rational behind this practice stem from ?

2006-12-29 05:51:22 · 6 answers · asked by pax veritas 4