... through residence in a shelter or through legal means (Hansen & Harway, 1993). Legal Intervention. In 1976, Pennsylvania passed a law to provide protection for people who are or were abused by family members. This law, the Protection from Abuse Act, allows battered women and other victims of domestic violence to file a civil action and obtain a court order against further abuse. However, not ... anyone who is abused by someone close to them is eligible for a protection order under this act. Only family or household members are eligible. According to the Act, family or household members ...

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... ensure that minorities were recruited to have real and equal opportunity to be hired and then eventually get a promotion. When this Civil Rights Act was passed, its spirit was not one of reverse discrimination but of getting employers to consider applicants objectively in filling jobs within their companies ... contract. As a result, a lawsuit was filed against the state of California alleging that this form of public contracting violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and should be seen as reverse discrimination against non-minorities (Ayres). The man who filed the lawsuit won, and the pol...

• Word Count: 2731
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... and still face active discrimination in some sectors. At this point in our nation's history, does affirmative action make things better or worse? The debate rages on. Affirmative-action protection for Hispanics and other immigrants -- legal or illegal -- is another matter. Whatever the merits of affirmative action for black Americans, it makes little sense to extend its benefits to ... conscience are far less cogent -- and who come here expecting no special help. Nevertheless, excluding Hispanics, or Asians, from affirmative action will not be easy. In the Voting Rights Act, and in federa...

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... either because the need for them would not have been discovered without quality data, or because public bodies would not be allowed to act. These include programs to prevent diabetes in Los Angeles, prevent teen suicides in San Diego, and increase health insurance rates in San Francisco ... CRECNO initiative would prevent efforts to hold public schools responsible for providing quality education to all children in the state. The Public Schools Accountability Act, "school performance evaluations take onto account data on race and ethnicity to determine how schools with similar demographic...

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... and age its negative effects outweigh its positive ones. By giving preferential treatment to people of a certain race, Affirmative Action contradicts and undermines the rights guaranteed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964: equality of opportunity for all individuals regardless of race. Affirmative Action has replaced discrimination against women and minorities with discrimination against white men--reverse discrimination. It forces colleges ... and businesses to adhere to quotas, discriminating against the best-qualified individuals, whomever they may be. Hubert Humphrey, the chief sponsor ...

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... resources, and our effect on the environment. She chairs the Subcommittee on Energy and Water, and has made changes to the fuel economy standards, is an advocate of California Desert Protection and CALFED, and believes in healthy forest preservation. She was also a part of the Lake Tahoe restoration, the San Francisco Bay Wetlands restoration and the Headwater's Forest agreement. These statutory ... accomplishments reveal some of her views on our environment. Her choices in legislature involve the continued preservation of our environment. Feinstein supports the fuel economy standards ...

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... species, the restoration process would increase rapidly. Not only is coastal wetland restoration important for the environment but also for the rapidly increasing coastal population as they creates storm protection, shore stability and pollution reservoirs. ______________________________________________________________________________ Keywords: Wetland, Southern California, Coastal, Endangered, Threatened, Salt Marsh Globally, the urban population is expected to rise 1.84% from ... and susceptibility to washing away during storms and erosive waves and currents would increase exponential...

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... to government, the press, or upper-management authorities that the employer is engaged in unsafe or illegal activities. The textbook, "Moral Issues in Business, stated whistleblowing as "an employee act of informing the public about the illegal or immoral behavior of an employer or organization. At times employees are reluctant to report their company or disclose information of unethical behavior ... MI5 officer went public about allegations of bad practice in the Secret Service including a plot to kill Colonel Ghadfi. Shaylor left the country to avoid prosecution under the Official Secr...

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... the basic constitutional rights. In their Constitution, Article I, Section 5, reads: "No persons shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, nor be denied the equal protection of the laws, not be denied the enjoyment of the person's civil rights or be discriminated against in the exercise thereof because of race, religion, sex or ancestry." Unfortunately without ... same-sex marriages, partners are denied rights that affect their lives in regard to matters that are essential. Gay men and women are citizens, entitled, like everyone else, to equal protectio...

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... medical school admissions program that set aside a specific number of places for "disadvantaged" minority students. Yet the court upheld under the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, consideration of race as a "plus" factor in admissions for the purpose of fostering educational benefits that flow from student body diversity. As Justice Lewis Powell stated, "[N]o..facial infirmity exists ... for the Fifth Circuit ruled against the University of Texas, deciding that its law school's policy of considering race in the admissions process was a violation of the Constit...

• Word Count: 1414
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... medical school admissions program that set aside a specific number of places for "disadvantaged" minority students. Yet the court upheld under the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, consideration of race as a "plus" factor in admissions for the purpose of fostering educational benefits that flow from student body diversity. As Justice Lewis Powell stated, "[N]o..facial infirmity exists ... for the Fifth Circuit ruled against the University of Texas, deciding that its law school's policy of considering race in the admissions process was a violation of the Constit...

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... with sweatshop techniques. It's just like the 1920s, except by electronic means" (Privacy in America, 1998). The laws that employers must follow are few. The Federal Wiretapping Act prohibits employers from deliberately eavesdropping on employee's personal telephone conversation. Video monitoring is illegal, however, can easily be justified as security monitoring at the workplace. Drug testing is legal ... a disparate impact upon a protected class. Legislation currently in effect was written without consideration to present technological advances. Present privacy laws have many avenues t...

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... out the juvenile justice process. Three consistent ways have been through pre-detention mediation (a chance to be held accountable for their actions by facing their victims), detention mediation (a chance to act out the setting and tone of their crime in all roles for help to understand what they did was wrong), and post-detention mediation (a.k.a. parent-child mediation that helps family ... . When police arrest fourteen and fifteen-year-olds who shrug off cold-blooded, unprovoked murder as a rite of passage, the rational public's response is fear and anger. They look for protection and...

• Word Count: 753
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