Due to today’s technology, we have advanced into an era where information, computing, and interaction can all be done with a click of a button. A plethora of tasks can now be completed within a matter of seconds. Though this thought may sound great at first, there can also be many negatives associated with it. …
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Posted by Isabelle Roddy. Two brothers, Thomas and John Buckner, founded a defense contractor in Pittsburgh, PA, known as Ibis Tek LLC, specializing in the expansion and improvement of transparent armor and miscellaneous gadgets for warfare vehicles. Specifically, Ibis Tek supplies and provides the United States Department of Defense with transparent armor, advanced lighting, and …
Posted by Nicholas Cizin. Artificial intelligence has the power to transform the business world like no other invention. It is the ability for computers to think and learn for themselves, quite often better than humans. A great example of this is IBM’s Watson. Watson is famous for its time on Jeopardy, thinking, generating, and then …
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Posted by Bader Alotaibi. Murray R. Spies was found guilty of attempting to dodge income tax. The case turned on the determination of the exact sum of tax and how to collect and manage accounts and revenues. “Petitioner admitted at the opening of the trial that he had sufficient income during the year in question …
A veteran did the brave thing by taking a truck to drive victims of the Las Vegas shooting to the hospital. In the article, the author loosely uses the word “steal,” in reference to the truck, but in fact the defense of necessity would negate any charge of theft. The veteran stated “he looked for …
Introduction Tax evasion is the practice of deliberately failing in an individual, corporate or trust’s obligations to remit their correct and due tax liability. The same can culminate into a criminal offense whose elements may require proof of omission or misinterpretation in the remittance or declaration of the correct tax position of the persons indicated …
Posted by Milan Rana. Finally, SEC’s one of the biggest insider trading case reached a settlement on May 18, 2017. This case is no different than other wall street insider trading cases. However, the important thing to note here is unlike other hedge fund managers, Mr. Cooperman did not plead guilty to the charges against …
Posted by Marissa Aniolowski. These two articles both address the same issue that occur in two different companies. This issue is sexual discrimination. In the first article, a woman accuses AutoNation of promoting a male over her solely because she is a female. The second article, addresses the issue of gender pay in the company …
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Posted by August Pimentel. President Donald Trump recently had a libel case against him dismissed in the Supreme Court of New York on the basis that his tweets were spreading opinion rather than fact, and therefore could not be held accountable for libel. The conflict began in February 2016, when Cheryl Jacobus, a Republican strategist who …
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Posted by Anna Fajnorova. On March 26, a gate agent decided to deny two teenage girls from a flight because they were wearing leggings. The girls were traveling on a company travel pass and their leggings were a violation of the airline’s dress code. United Airlines defended the gate agent’s decision and it led to …
