Jacobsen vs Nike

Driving under the influence of alcohol has been a major issue in America, spanning all the way back to more than 50 years ago (Raymond). Many accidents are caused from drinking and driving yearly, resulting in thousands of deaths and injuries involving innocent people. When alcohol is mixed with driving a motor vehicle, there are no limits to who may be at risk. This means that drunk driving has been harming, hurting and killing many innocent people in America. Over the years I have witnessed many aftermaths of drunk driving accidents and have heard of multiple accidents resulting from alcohol use involving people I know, and people I do not know. Sometimes, in accidents like these, all parties involved may walk away from the accident with

1. What responsibility does Nike have for conditions of work at foreign factories making its products?

First off, in regards to the car accident occurring, it is obvious that Mr. Drinkwater was driving while intoxicated. This factor is proven in the amount of alcohol that he had consumed in the short period. The fact also leads to a breach of duty by the bar tender. Part of a bartender's job is to know when people have had too much to drink, and/or cut them off after serving them a high amount of alcohol. There is no evidence that the bartender even checked on either on the Drinkwater’s, even when, Mr. Drinkwater fell and the bartender asked if he was injured, which he replied he wasn’t injured. It was clear and obvious that he was intoxicated to the bar tender, enough that he shouldn’t have let him get behind the wheel, especially with passengers who are minors.

I reviewed all case evidence provided by the Applicant and the Respondent. In the Applicant driver’s recorded statement he states that he did not have time to take any evasive action. The photos of the Applicant vehicle show damages that do not indicate excessive speed. The photos of the Respondent vehicle show the point of impact to be to the rear passenger door and the quarter panel. The point of impact to the Respondent vehicle shows that if the Applicant driver had taken evasive action it is possible that the accident could have been avoided. The strongest piece of evidence is the proof of the existence of a stop sign for the Respondent

Being in an accident, any accident, is a frightening experience. The situation quickly escalates though when the other driver was under the influence of drugs or alcohol. In most accidents involving a drunk driver, the injured party is not the one who took the wheel after having a few too many cocktails. Our approach to every personal injury case is to recover fully and fairly all that you deserve, and in the case of intoxicated drivers we also seek to send a message that this behavior is unacceptable. This includes holding not only the driver accountable, but looking to all sources of liability when making a claim for compensation for your damages. One of the other parties that we often look to is the bar or other establishment that provided

For the case to be successful, Jim will need to look for a solicitor, especially an employment lawyer, who should be friendly, professional and empathetic. The employment lawyer should understand that employment is all about the employees and their duties to the place of work, as well as the rights and responsibilities of the employers (Stone, 2000). According to the law, an employee should not be engaged in any dangerous act in the place of work, whether willing or forced. Again, an employer should carry on the duties that are written down by the companies Act, rather than creating their own laws that may be detrimental not only to the employees but also to the society. Ruth’s act of carelessly packing was a result of a request from the employee, who was a supervisor in Flowers Inc. Company, and therefore, the whole scenario resulted from the Company itself. In the court of law, the lawyer should explain how the employer violated the law of the company that led to Jim’s injury; hence the company should compensate Jim and pay his medical bills if

Law and economics is an interdisciplinary field that applies economic theory to examine the formation and the impact of tort law and the tort damages. It focuses mainly on deterrence, paying little attention to justice, fairness, or distribution. It is a tool to assess the costs and benefits that UCC was looking as an outcome of setting up a plant in India - Union Carbide India Ltd (UCIL) - a subsidiary of the Union Carbide Corporation (UCC). We need to determine who bears the burden of the injury and if this injury caused by UCC are compensable to what extent. Two important forms of tort law, which can be used to analyze, are Positivistic Economics and the Normative Economics. Positive economics describes how legal rules influence

It is apparent that Steven was not paying enough attention when crossing the road on the night of the accident. Thus, Steven was, to a degree, also negligent as he did not adequately check that the road was clear. When deciding the degree of contributory negligence the courts must look at what reduction of damages pay-out is "just and equitable having regard 's to the claimant 's share in the responsibility for the damage". In order to reach a percentage of blameworthiness for each side, a broad comparison must be made of both the individual contributions from the pursuer and the defender, looking at both the causation of damage and the blameworthiness.

Nike could have observed the ethical and social guidelines of how an organisation should be managed. They should not have hired minors under 16 to work. And instead of purchasing two shoe-manufacturing facilities in the United States, Nike could have just purchased one plant and see how their operations went before thinking about purchasing another plant. When the firm finally saw success in 1980, eight years after the company was founded, and became the largest athletic shoe company in the world, they could have finally purchased the shoe-manufacturing plants in the United States and it would probably have been a success, without having the need to subcontract factories and

Nike was facing problems caused by pictures taken of children working in Asian countries producing Nike equipment’s ( soccer balls) and the image of the company was damaged and also the value for costumers was deeply compromised.

In this cases, Nike took able to correct the problem by making sure that the companies they contract pay at least the minimum pay and introduced rules and regulations to be followed to avoid child labour and also unhealthy working conditions in the factories contracted by Nike. Inspections of the factories to ascertain that the guidelines are being followed were

Nike`s phenomenal growth across continents, however, eventually developed serious concerns and issues to do with ethics in the manner in which they did business. Initially, what was a smart business acumen strategy of outsourcing labor in cheaper markets as a goal in itself shortly in the 1990`s became the Achilles heel of the giant sporting goods company. The company run into problems as it came to light that some of the places they deemed cheaper markets actually contravened labor and international human rights regulations such as child labor, poor remuneration and undesirable working environments and conditions. Organizations such as ILO, UNICEF and other movements unearthed these contraventions and infringements of regulations and rights which resulted in serious reputational damage to Nike and its brand. These organizations discovered ill treatment of workers e.g in Korean factories, child labor in Pakistan factories and much to reputational detriment was the discovery of health and safety concerns in Vietnam were work was done without

Nike Sports (China) Co Ltd accused Adidas AG and Zheng of harming its interests. Nike

Nike has been accused of the unfair labor practice of sweatshop labor. A sweatshop is a place with hazardous working environments, extreme temperatures and abusive employers, hence the term sweat shop. Sweatshop workers work long days exceeding 14 hours and earn less than the living wage (Britanica, n.d.). While these conditions may be shocking to Americans and Modern Western Nations the notion of abusive working conditions is more attractive to Asians and South Americans who are faced with the stark choice of terrible working conditions or unemployment and possible death by starvation. The accusation then is that Nike is using these labor condition inequalities to take unethical

In this report I will be throwing light on all or most of the unethical practices followed by Nike in the past. Nike has manufacturing units all across the globe with major stake in the Asian countries and it has more than seventy thousand employees across the global. Just like any other company the unethical practices of Nike did not take a long time to grab its share of limelight in the global economy for all the wrong