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La pobreza, los patrones de migración, los niveles más bajos de estudios y las barreras del idioma pueden hacer más difícil que los hispanos o latinos se hagan las pruebas de detección del VIH y busquen atención médica.

Dispositivo, soporte, aparato ortopédico are all possible terms for ….. 

Complete the following sentence by forming the verb in parenthesis in the present subjunctive.  TYPE ONLY THE VERB. Do NOT type the whole sentence because Moodle will mark it wrong.  á é í ó ú ñ  Me preocupo que los campos no (producir) suficiente maíz este año.

La cuarentena es…

Este síndrome cultural es causado por una acumulación del estrés, típicamente por la familia o condiciones económicas y tiende a afectar más a mujeres que a hombres.

Read the following invasion of privacy scenario and answer the questions. This question is worth 10 points. Be thorough. Show you understand the invasion of privacy torts. Write about 200-250 words. Al Modem has generated his own website that focuses on alternative music in the Austin, Texas, area. The stylish site lists upcoming concerts and new record releases, provides information about upcoming dances, has music reviews, and features articles about new clubs, local performers and DJs. The site also carries real-time audio feeds from local musical events and permits users of the site to chat with one another periodically. Club owners and concert promoters help Al operate the site by paying a monthly fee to Al for inclusion of promotional pages on the site. A new club, the Chameleon, opened recently and Al got pictures of the opening from a local photographer. He scanned the photos onto the site and used them with a review of the new venue. One of the pictures showed film actor Christian Slater going into the club. The owners of the Chameleon loved the story about the club and the picture of Slater. Without getting Al’s permission, they made a copy of the photo and included it in their promotional page for the club. Remember, they pay Al each month to include this page on the site. The caption under the photo says: “The many-colored Chameleon club, a favorite nightspot for Hollywood’s Christian Slater.” Slater’s sister lives in Austin, learns about the use of the photo on the website, and informs her brother, who sues Al Modem and the owners of the Chameleon club. He argues that the use of his photo in Al’s story about the club amounts to giving publicity to private facts and that the use of his photo and name on the Chameleon’s promotion page is appropriation, a violation of his right to publicity. Answer the following questions: A. Was there intrusion when a photographer took photographs of actor Christian Slater inside a private club? Explain.  B. Was the use of the photo in Al Modem’s story a case of giving publicity to private facts? Explain. C. Was the use of the photo on the promotional page an appropriation? Explain. D. Would there be a case for false light if Slater has religious beliefs that prohibit drinking and he was pictured in a private club that serves alchol?  

A traducir…las encías

Author Tim O’Brien who wrote in a book that former President Donald Trump did not have a net worth of $3 billion to $5 billion won that lawsuit because Trump was a public figure (at the time) and had to therefore prove actual malice. 

Read the following libel scenario and answer the questions. This question is worth 10 points. Be thorough. Show you understand defamation law by citing cases and other specifics. Write about 200-250 words for full credit. There has been another school shooting, this one in the Salt Marsh High School near Great Bend, Kansas. Three students were killed by a 13-year-old fellow student, Trevor Wild, who entered the chemistry lab and fired randomly at class members with a shotgun. The press descended on Great Bend and interviewed numerous students and the parents of the dead students. All condemned the shooting; most said the easy access young people in the area have to guns was part of the problem. But Matt Stover, the father of one of the dead students disagreed when he was interviewed in mid-March by TV reporters outside his home the day of the shootings. Stover said guns had nothing to do with the killings, and that if Trevor Wild had not had a shotgun he would probably killed his son, Michael Stover, with a knife or a club or even a rock. The problem was Trevor Wild, not his armament. In May, gun control advocates began to put pressure on the Kansas Legislature to adopt stricter gun laws. The National Rifle Association sought to block this legislation by scheduling a series of rallies at gun clubs in various communities in Kansas. Several Second Amendment advocates spoke at the rallies. Matt Stover was recruited and spoke at several of the gatherings, repeating his views that guns were not the problem and had not caused the death of his boy. Only Trevor Wild was to blame. The debate between the two sides quickly became acrimonious. An editorial was published in the Kansas Monthly, a state magazine that sharply attacked the NRA and the rallies it was holding. The editorial said the gun advocates were raising bogus issues. It then went on to say this about Matt Stover: “In the immediate wake of the Salt Marsh gun shootings, Matt Stover told television viewers that the easy access had nothing to do with his son’s death. That was a stupid remark, but we wrote it off to the confusion any grieving parent would be suffering in similar circumstances. But now Stover has become the poster child for the state’s gun nuts and the big bucks express of the NRA. How can Stover continue to argue the fact that a 13-year-old boy — yes, boy — can take a shotgun to school and kill three people has nothing to do with the murder of these three kids is irrational. No, it’s insane. Yet every day we see another insipid remark from Stover quoted in the press and given a special credibility because he is the father of one of the slain students. Any other jerk who said this would be properly ignored. It’s time for the newspaper, TV stations, and the rest of us to ignore Matt Stover. He no longer deserves to be heard.” Stover sued the magazine for libel. A. What five elements must Stover prove to sustain his libel action? Discuss whether Stover can prove EACH of these five elements.   B. The Kansas Monthly claims that Stover is a public person. Stover argues that he is not, that he simply responded to press inquiries about the death of his son, and that he has been bootstrapped into the spotlight. Which argument is correct? C. The Kansas Monthly argues that its editorial is protected opinion. It argues that an opinion cannot be libelous; it is protected by the First Amendment. How will the court evaluate the material?  

A commercial parody of a celebrity is generally not considered an illegal appropriation.