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Essay Instructions: Prepare a short two page paper on the Civil Law System. Try to identify countries which are based, primarily, on your assigned criminal justice system (civil law). Explain the key characteristics of the system (civil law). Try to refer to the criminal code and criminal procedure of at least one country as an example (please use the United States).

Essay Instructions: Private law involves one party against another party claiming injury or failure to carry out legal obligations. Civil law as public law is referred to, is broken into six categories:

Tort Law
Property Law
Contract and Business Law
Corporation Law
Inheritance Law
Family Law
describe how private security can fall under each of these six categories of civil law. What type of interaction with the legal system might a private security officer have when examining each of these six types of civil law?

Essay Instructions: Under civil law, one party (individual or group) can file a lawsuit against another party for causing him or her harm. For instance, John Smith throws his baseball into the street and Sara Andrews drives by at that very moment and the ball hits her windshield, causing her to swerve and hit a tree. Sara decides to file a lawsuit against John for the damages to her car, as well as physical problems she has had since the accident.
Answer the following questions based on your knowledge of civil law and the above scenario. The answer for each question should be at least one well-developed paragraph.
1. How does the right to file a lawsuit protect people?
2. How might this right be abused?
3. There is now a great controversy over the amount of monetary awards that are granted
to plaintiffs in malpractice lawsuits brought against doctors and other medical personnel
by patients. For instance, James Nelson dies of cancer and his widow feels that he did
not receive proper medical treatment. If he had, he would have survived. She files a lawsuit against the hospital and doctors. The jury awards her $40,000,000 in damages.
Do you feel such awards are excessive? Why or why not?
Should there be a limit on the amount that can be awarded for medical malpractice suits? Why or why not?
Be sure to provide logical reasons that support your opinion.
4. After answering question three, ask three adults the same questions and record their
answers. Then write a summary of the reasons they give to support their opinions and
explain whether or not you agree with their arguments.
Student answers question #1 from assignment in at least one well-developed paragraph and provides at least two logical reasons that support his answer.
Student answers question #2 from assignment in at least one well-developed paragraph and provides at least two ways that the right to file a lawsuit can be abused
Student answers question #3 regarding excessive awards and limits to awards and provides at least two reasons to support his opinion on these issues. Answer should be at least one well-developed paragraph.
Student asks three adults the same questions from part 3 of the assignment and records their answers. He then provides a summary of the reasons they give to support their opinions and explains whether or not he agrees with their arguments

Essay Instructions: I will need a (2) two-page essay on the topic below for my AMERICAN GOVERNMENT course.

Please follow exact descriptions, answering each part thoroughly.
There is also a scoring rubric on how this research paper will be graded.

ESSAY DESCRIPTION:

Under civil law, one party (individual or group) can file a lawsuit against another party for causing him or her harm. For instance, John Smith throws his baseball into the street and Sara Andrews drives by at that very moment and the ball hits her windshield, causing her to swerve and hit a tree. Sara decides to file a lawsuit against John for the damages to her car, as well as physical problems she has had since the accident.

Answer the following questions based on your knowledge of civil law and the above scenario. The answer for each question should be at least one well-developed paragraph.

1. How does the right to file a lawsuit protect people?

2. How might this right be abused?

3. There is now a great controversy over the amount of monetary awards that are granted to plaintiffs in malpractice lawsuits brought against doctors and other medical personnel by patients. For instance, James Nelson dies of cancer and his widow feels that he did not receive proper medical treatment. If he had, he would have survived. She files a lawsuit against the hospital and doctors. The jury awards her $40,000,000 in damages.

Do you feel such awards are excessive? Why or why not?
Should there be a limit on the amount that can be awarded for medical malpractice suits? Why or why not?
Be sure to provide logical reasons that support your opinion.

4. After answering question three, ask three adults the same questions and record their
answers. Then write a summary of the reasons they give to support their opinions and
explain whether or not you agree with their arguments.


How your Essay will be evaluated:

RUBRIC POINTS
Student answers question #1 from assignment in at least one well-developed paragraph and provides at least two logical reasons that support his answer. 20
Student answers question #2 from assignment in at least one well-developed paragraph and provides at least two ways that the right to file a lawsuit can be abused. 20
Student answers question #3 regarding excessive awards and limits to awards and provides at least two reasons to support his opinion on these issues. Answer should be at least one well-developed paragraph. 20
Student asks three adults the same questions from part 3 of the assignment and records their answers. He then provides a summary of the reasons they give to support their opinions and explains whether or not he agrees with their arguments. 20
Logical progression of ideas 10
Spelling 3
Sentence construction 3
Essay construction 4
Opening/closing sentence
Paragraphs well organized
TOTAL 100