Women's Studies 2270A/B Chapter Notes -Henry Morgentaler
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1)Sarbanes-Oxley limits personal loans from a company to its executives to one loan of no more than $10,000, amortized over five years, at a time. true or false
2)
Under the 1933 Act, proof of intentional violation is usually required to impose:
A. | criminal sanctions only. | |
B. | criminal or civil sanctions. | |
C. | criminal and pragmatic sanctions. | |
D. | criminal, civil, and equitable (injunctive) sanctions. | |
E. | pragmatic sanctions. |
3)
The damages of a defrauded purchaser of securities:
A. | are measured at the time of purchase. | ||||||||||||||||
B. | include a punitive amount to discourage further fraud. | ||||||||||||||||
C. | are measured at the time the fraud is discovered. | ||||||||||||||||
D. | are considered a "sunk cost" and are not recoverable. | ||||||||||||||||
E. | include speculative damages. 4) The Securities Enforcement Remedies Act:
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5)
The regulation of securities began as a program to:
A. | prohibit an individual's service as an officer or director. | |
B. | recover triple damages in civil actions against a user of nonpublic information. | |
C. | help the United States overcome the Great Depression of the 1930s. | |
D. | eliminate liabilities for short-swing profits made by insiders. | |
E. | help potential investors to make investment decisions based on less certain criteria. |
In Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) Clarence Gideon couldnot afford - and was denied - legal representation in his casebased on the Florida statute that only afforded criminal suspectscourt appointed attorneys in capital cases. The SCOTUS ruled thatunder the 6th Amendment
A. | the U.S. Constitution does not distinguish between capital andnon-capital crimes under the 6th Amendment's protection for theindividual to "have the assistance of counsel" | |
B. | citizens have a right to privacy and Gideon's right to privacywas violated by the police | |
C. | Gideon's individual rights are subordinate to the principle ofprotecting the public for the greater good and it is thereforejustified to violate the individual liberties of citizens undercircumstances where the greater good for society is well served | |
D. | Gideon had a right to an abortion, to read Huslter magazine andsmoke marijuana | |
E. | Gideon was guilty even with legal representation |