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Provide Examples of How Judges May Use Nonlegal Reasons in Their

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Provide examples of how judges may use nonlegal reasons in their judicial decisions. Do you feel that these examples are fair or not? Explain your answer.


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Forced Labor

Work or service that is performed involuntarily and under the threat of penalty or harm.

Child Labor

The employment of children in any work that deprives them of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend regular school, and is mentally, physically, socially, or morally harmful.

Employment-At-Will Doctrine

A legal principle that allows employers to terminate employees at any time without reason, just as employees can leave at any time without reason, absent a contractual or statutory exception.

Retaliatory Discharge

The act of an employer firing an employee as a form of punishment for engaging in legally protected activities.

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