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Solve this Law based Assignment - (#339A) |
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anand_sankhe |
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$150.00 |
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Below is a Law based assignment that needs to be solved.
Instructions: Answer this question as concisely as possible, and in no more than three
single-spaced typed pages. Organization and precise writing will be valued highly.
Wasted verbiage will be looked upon poorly. This is due on March 21st noon
The state of Watchyourmouth has enacted the following laws:
The Watch Your Mouth Act, 1995
No incorporated entity in the state of Watchyourmouth may make public
statements that are false, misleading, and in bad taste, in the course of its
activities. Any company shown to do so is subject to an action in tort by the
injured plaintiff.
The Public Accommodations Act, 1994
No membership organization with more than 10 members may exclude
anyone on the basis of race, political opinion, gender, ethnicity, or sexuality.
Recently, LCFR, the well known Watchyourmouth based human rights organization,
issued a report critiquing the clothing company, SoCool. In that report, LCFR stated that
SoCool had used contractors that employed children under the age of 14 in a particular
hot and sweaty developing country. LCFR noted that such conduct violates the
International Labor Organization’s conventions on child labor that ban child labor under
the age of 14. Human rights groups consider the ILO conventions to be binding
customary international law.
In response to the report, SoCool conducted its own investigation, hiring a third party
monitor called Coveryourbutt, a well known for-profit firm that works with corporations
to improve their public images. The Coveryourbutt study suggested that there were in fact
no children under 14 working in these factories, and that the LCFR report deliberately
misled its readers. Coveryourbutt surmised that this was because LCFR has an anti2
corporate agenda, noting that three of its board members are former members of the
Communist Party, and three more are notorious hippies that have advocated for a
complete ban on the sale of clothing. The executive director of the organization, Nicholas
Poseur, has responded that SoCool is “full of excrement”, and that it is merely trying to
cover up its misdeeds at the expense of children in the hot and sweaty country, as well as
consumers in the state of Watchyourmouth.
Peter P., a cool kid and all around fashionable dude, is a member of the anti-child labor
coalition, Free the Kiddies. Peter has been following this debate in the press, as have
many activists. He has been particularly disturbed by the accusations of the reported use
of child labor by SoCool. Indeed, last year he purchased a sweatband by SoCool and
prominently wore it around town and to his Free the Kiddies meetings. Now, Peter P. is
outraged and hurt. Beyond the psychological damage that he claims to have suffered from
the betrayal (shame, low self esteem, and nightmares), there has been a serious decline in
the number of dates he has been able to procure with the activist women who attend the
Free the Kiddies gatherings and other social activist meetings that he frequents.
To make matters worse, Free the Kiddies has informed Peter P. that it is in the process of
kicking him out of its organization for having worn the wristband at some of the pre-
LCFR report meetings because it is a violation of section 2(a) of its bylaws forbidding
any action by any member that might embarrass the organization. Peter P. is enraged at
this, and believes that this expulsion action is motivated in part by his professed, and
frequently exercised, commitment to heterosexuality as a lifestyle choice. Free the
Kiddies in its bylaws states that all members must accept, albeit not necessarily practice,
the legitimacy of homo and bisexuality as a condition of membership in the organization
(of course not practiced with children).
Peter P. in the course of fuming over the injustices he feels, states to anyone that will
listen to him that Free the Kiddies is the most idiotic organization that he has ever
encountered, and that it is staffed by corporate stooges who are committed to an antiheterosexual cultural agenda instead of economic and social justice for kids who toil
away in factories. What’s more, he states that he believes that Free the Kiddies does
nothing for children at all, and damages the cause of eliminating child labor by its
commitment and attention to non-child labor focused areas. In addition to his verbal
statements, he publishes a letter to the editor in the newspaper, the “Watchyourmouth
Times,” stating the above, plus that the executive director, Felicia B. Good, is a moron,
and that she collects child pornography on her work computer.
QUESTION:
State all the causes of action in law that you think could be raised by and against any
relevant party, and evaluate their merits based on the law that we have studied in class.
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2006-04-03 09:13:18 Started:
2006-03-20 09:13:18
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