Torts

You sound like the type of person that disects problems to the inth degree, but, also you are curious enough to get to the bottom of it and hopefully try to help this person.

PHYSICAL could mean that this person is either beaten or is sexually abused and may have been since they were a child. Usually people that are abused when younger seek out partners that abuse (it's the only way of life they know and they have been brain-washed and had their confidence and dignity stripped from them.) I volunteer at an Abused Women's Center and I've seen everything from missing teeth, blackened eyes, broken bones, bruises and have seen on more than one occasion women who have had a botched job of their throats being cut. It's not a pretty sight. These women have scars all over their bodies and try their best to cover them up. They feel ashamed inside as if they should be doing more and fighting back harder, but the truth of the matter is, a man in most cases is simply stronger than a woman and it's been a man's world for far too long, so many laws will back him and not her.

MENTAL ABUSE can be almost as damaging as being sexually abused and it leaves just as many scars in an individual. When someone is mentally abusive the abuser berates their victim in front of others so they are sure their victim looks lesser in the eyes of others and they will constantly put them down in the privacy of their own homes often telling them they are pretty much rotten at everything they do (not true of course.) Abusers are controlling and their victim is often a prisoner of the very home they should feel safe in. The victim may not be allowed to see family or friends or even go out to a movie with friends. The abuser always has to be there. In some cases the abuser will ALLOW the victim to work, but will actually go so far as to figure out the distance from home to where she works and clock her! If she should be late because of something as simple as a traffic jam the fight is on and the abuser is in a "need to know" mode.

I would also like to add that abused women will often entice abusers to abuse her rather than the children. In other words take the focus point off the children and let the abuser go after her. Now that takes guts!

MONETARY abuse is when the abuser takes total control of the finances in the family and you can be sure the women and their children will see less of the money and the abuser will have all the comforts he wants (as far as their money will take them of course.) Usually if they own a home the abuser only has it in his name and in many cases the abuser doesn't want his victim to have a car. He will dole out every cent and probably check the grocery bill when she gets home from shopping (if he allows her to do that simple chore.)

It takes great courage for a victim of an abuser to leave her abuser and seek help, but there is help out there. There are the "Abused Women's Centers" that will take abused women in and send them off to a "safe house" where they will be protected, given counseling, and also in some cases legal counsel. Also women of abuse that have children have had the fight driven out of them, so they'd rather stay in the abusive situation then chance losing their children. These women are drained! Women of abuse are actually survivors and courageous and not weak at all. They do what they have to do to stay alive, and, if lucky, more and more are getting away from their abusers. The laws in the past have never protected women who were raped or abused in any other way, but those laws are changing quickly and especially in Canada. Groups of women such as myself and many others I know are making sure these laws are being changed and if it takes years of red tape so be it. One does not want to mess with a baby boomers or older women .... we're usually smarter, wiser and will fight to the finish.

Marcy

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There are several foods and soft drinks that can trigger a positive. A poppy seeded roll may turn up as an opiate. Mountain Dew soda can also produce a false positive. Secondhand smoke from marijuana users has a very small chance of producing a false positive.

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From a legal perspective, in order to prevail on a negligence claim against the manufacturer of the dip stick, you would have to show that the manufacturer improperly designed the dip stick, and/or failed to warn of the chance of false positives and what causes such false positives, and/or marketed the dip sticks as a comprehensive drug test when they were not, and/or another theory of negligence. I anticipate that the manufacturer would claim, in response to your lawsuit, that the dip sticks were not marketed to be 100% accurate and/or the dip sticks were not used according to the directions that they were supplied with.

Supposing that you could prove negligence, you must also prove damages. Did you lose your job because of the false positive? Were you denied pay because of this? Has your character been tarnished? You may very well have a loss with no injury, which would preclude you receiving any money in damages (Prohias v. Pfizer, Inc., 485 F. Supp.2d 1329 (S.D. Fla. Apr. 24, 2007).

If you believe you have a legitimate case against the manufacturer of the dip sticks, you should contact a personal injury attorney with experience in product liability cases. Some attorneys only do product liability cases. A listing of these attorneys can be found in your phone book or through your state's bar association.

They are:

Alabama

Alabama Power Co. v. Schotz, 215 So.2d 447 (Ala. 1968).

District of Columbia

Wingfield v. People's Drug Store, 379 A.2d 685 (D.C. 1994).

Maryland

Board of County Comm'r of Garrett County v Bell Atlantic, 695 A.2d 171 (Md. 1997).

North Carolina

N.C.G.S.A § 99B-4(3).

Virginia

Baskett v. Banks, 45 S.E.2d 173 (Va. 1947).

Indiana also has this rule for MALPRACTICE cases only.

That's the problem with paying people to speak for God. They get to make the rules and do pretty much whatever they want once you give them your money.

Next time give the money directly to the charity of your preference. However, remember that many charities and agencies that claim to be collecting money for charities are just a front for more fraud.

The same as any other criminal.

The Bible clearly says many times that there would be false teachers.Matthew 7:15 says "Be on your guard against false prophets. they come to you looking like sheep on the outside, but on the inside they are really like wild wolves. You will know them by what they do." All of the numerous money seeking preachers should not alarm any Bible believer. This is to be expected as Jesus foretold. They are the sad creatures that will come to Jesus at the end and he will say depart from me, I never knew you. The known fact of false preachers in the churches and media should all the more turn a nonbeliever to God, because HE said to expect it. It is written. It is truth!

It's called blaspheme,they are using the lords name in vain,just read the letters to the churches in revelation,God warned them to turn from their sins.There is only one that has the gift of revelation,one one who can reveal the secrets to the teachings of Jesus and the word of God.Jesus promised he would send him to you in the name of Christ to reveal all the truth,to remind you and make you remember all that Jesus said.just like God sent Jesus in the name of Chritst to die for you and teach the word of God,God sent a second Spirit back to earth from heaven to be your Helper,revealer and last day prophet.The Spirit Jesus is telling you he will send as another Helper is a person ,god has filled with his Holy Spirit.God tells you everything from the beginning to the end.God even told you the name of the Spirit he chose to be your reveal-God said,"The revelation to John." Oh yee of little faith,God knows everything,and he told you his last day revealers name,so when the time came you would not be fooled by the churches! Are you fooled?Listen to God,he does not lie!