Case Summary: Who's To Blame?

By the time John Orr was convicted of four counts of murder for the South Pasadena hardware store fire, he had already served six years in prison. Orr was convicted of three counts of arson. At the end, Orr was convicted using his very own signature homemade incendiary device. Fellow firefighters began suspecting that the arsonist was one of their own after conference of arson investigators. During the conference period, an oddly large amount of fire broke out. During that time fires broke out in fabric shops, drugstores, and craft shops. At a craft shop in Bakersfield, California a fire broke out in a display of dried flowers. At the scene, investigators found charred remnants of what appeared a simple incendiary device — a filter-tipped cigarette and matches, held together with a rubber band. One of the devices was partially wrapped in yellow paper (Bovsun, 2014). Though many of the investigator believe this was the work of an expert attending the arson conference, it could not be proven.

The Dred Scott case came at a very turbulent time in American history. It came

This case is about Dave Armstrong, a 29 year old second year MBA student of Harvard Business School. Immediately after his graduation from a small liberal arts college in Texas, he started working for Thorne Enterprises as a computer Programmer. After eighteen months in the job, he quit to go into life insurance business in Amarillo. He applied to Harvard Business school but hadn’t considered what he would do, once accepted, he decided to go there as he and his wife wouldn’t have to compromise on their lifestyle as he would still be receiving renewal income from his old policy holders.

In the case of “Whose Pain is it Anyway?” Mr. T is admitted to the orthopedic unit after an open reduction of a fractured ankle. After receiving acetaminophen, he continues to complain of severe pain. Nurse V notifies his surgeon, who had not ordered narcotics because of Mr. T’s prior history of addiction, that the pain was not controlled. Despite the patient

The main idea of the article, “Ending the Blame Game”, is about how people have to take responsibility for their own happiness and how they must stop blaming other people if they aren’t happy with their own life. The author begins by stating that one person does not know how another person feels or what they need. She says that only the person themselves has the chance to take specific steps to make changes for themselves if they are unhappy. The author says that it is important to take an active approach instead of a reactive approach to other people’s behaviour. She suggests that one example of how people can take an active approach is to ask themselves what they need, want and are willing to do. The author also points out that other people

Facts: A fire was evolved on September 23, 1981 in a log cabin due to a hot plate. The hot plate was left on with an accelerant and kerosene near by. The owner of the cabin, Henry Xavier Kennedy was convicted of Arson as he obtained an insurance policy for $40K on the cabin five days prior to this fire and police found evidence that the construction business owned by Mr. Kennedy was losing money, and Mr. Kennedy's alibi was insufficient to eliminate him as a suspect.

Whose fault is it? Every day children are sucked into marketing ads and techniques created by multi-million dollar companies. Is it right for companies to target children who cannot think for themselves? Or should parents and guardians be at fault for their child’s engagement with certain foods or product. Multi-million dollar companies have the power to change the world with their advertising of certain products, however, responsible parents also have the power to change their child’s life.

Cameron Todd Willingham – In 1992, Willingham was convicted of arson murder in Corsicana, Texas. He was believed to have purposely set a fire that killed his three kids. In 2004, he was put to death. The Texas Forensics Science Commission didn’t find out UNTIL AFTER his execution the evidence was misinterpreted, and they concluded that none of the evidence used against Willingham was valid. The fire was accidental. Maybe if they would have looked harder into it they would have found out that fires are started accidentally all the time! Fires are started by cooking, the heater, washing machines and dryers, air conditioners and fans, candles, electrical equipment, if its fourth of July your fireworks can start a fire, Christmas trees, sometimes your cigarettes are not all the way out like you think they are and they can start the fire (most things in the world can). Look at your facts and look over the crime scene

In response to this incredible tragedy, surviving family members John & Michelle Lewis, Mark Dupin, and Brian Cunningham filed a lawsuit. According to the Fire Chief who had responded to the scene, on the night of the fire there were no working smoke detectors within the home. In the lawsuit, it was claimed that the landlord had an obligation to ensure that smoke detectors were not only installed in the home, but also were installed in the appropriate areas of the home. It also claimed a responsibility of the landlord to have installed these smoke detectors in the appropriate areas, coinciding with the time at which the property's lease was signed. Specifically, the

On August 30, 1979 there was a fire that killed two children and one adult at their residence. Investigators concluded that the fire was an arson. They concluded this because of the heavy alligator charring on the floor that was misinterpreted as arson. The investigators felt this was due to a pool of Stoddard solvent, a liquid flammable substance, used to start the fire. In reality these markings were due to radiation effect from the fire, not arson. On March 26, 1980 Louis DiNicola was charged with arson and three counts of murder. Louis spent four years in prison before being on bail while awaiting retrial. He was granted a new trial from his appeal of this conviction. The basis for the retrial was that evidence from the original

The book The Things They Carried tells different stories of a terrible war that many young men were forced into. One such man was the author, Tim O’Brien. He served in Vietnam for two years and is still haunted from the things that happened there. O’Brien was deployed as a foot soldier in the 3rd Platoon, A Co., 5th Batt. 46th Infantry from 1969 to 1970 (O’Brien, 2010). He had many friends who were killed violently. In The Things They Carried there is a young Native American man who was kind and peaceful and he died horribly.

Between 1861 and 1865, the United States was in a dark period. Americans were fighting Americans, making it the deadliest war in US history. For many years before this war, tensions between the North and the South were elevating because no one wanted to compromise. Three main causes are the Dred Scott case, the Fugitive Slave Law, and the election of 1860, which divided America. As a result of the Civil War, the Congressional Reconstruction, 15th Amendment and postwar life reconstruction in the South occurred.

For the mock trial I was assigned to be one of the prosecuting attorneys. After being presented with case materials which included facts of the case, statements from both prosecuting and defense witnesses, penal code for the alleged charges, and map of the crime scene, we as a group decided to create one Google Drive document. There we would upload our parts of the case and help other group members with their assignments.

In this report is a fully reasoned quantification of, our client, Mr. Steven Pearson’s personal injury claim against Mr. Fred Prendergast.

The scenario is a horrendous string of coincidences that resulted in a tragedy. However, every party carries some responsibility for the eventual double amputation. This paper examines each of the parties, their possible liability and how that is covered by negligence law.