In American and other Western-modeled courtrooms around the world, an increasing insurgence of testimony pertaining to the innocence or guilt of thousands of battered women abused by their intimate partners, who later lashed out and killed their violent spouses, is being examined from a psychological standpoint. Here, I will examine the positive benefits, negative consequences, […]
In 2006, U.S. interest groups spent $2.44 billion on reported lobbying expenses- approximately $5 million per Congressman.[1] A large portion of that expenditure came from multinational corporations (MNCs), the famed special interests who generate and control large amounts of money and are behind the sinister conspiracies in action thrillers. Notwithstanding fantastical story-telling, it is important
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In a period of multi-million dollar cases and class-action suits, the public’s attention is not entirely stolen by the drama of these high-profile exchanges. The media still gives thought to the problems of the common man against the common man, which legally manifests itself through an early 20th-century creation: the small-claims court. Small-claims, in most
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