Common decency

Decency and Rigidity over Hypersurfaces

We study two properties of modules over an equicharacteristic or unramified local hypersurface R: decency and rigidity. We show that the vanishing of Hochster’s function θ(M,N), known to imply decent intersection, also implies rigidity. We investigate the vanishing of θ(M,N) to obtain new results about decency and rigidity over hypersurfaces. We employ a mixture of techniques from Commutative A...

Common Sense about Common Decency: Promoting a New Standard for Guard-on-inmate Sexual Abuse under the Eighth Amendment

Although Washington alleges that he was subjected to an offensive and unwanted touching [by a male guard who snuck up behind him and groped his genitals, kissed him on the mouth despite resistance, and threatened oral sex], he alleges only momentary pain, “psychological injury,” embarrassment, humiliation, and fear. These de minimis injuries do not rise to the level of constitutional harms, and...

Justice among Peoples and Decency of Iranian People

In his book The Law of Peoples, John Rawls described an international society inwhich there are enemies and friends seeking their goals by deferent means.Rawls introduced us principles as the fundamental rights of every people. Thepeople who reserve these rights can sustain in the world. Although this theoryis supposed to be part of liberal foreign policy, the peoples Rawls talks aboutare not n...

Decency Means More than “Always Low Prices”: A Comparison of Costco to Wal-Mart’s Sam’s Club

Executive Overview Wal-Mart’s emphasis on “Always low prices. Always” has made it the largest retail operation in history. However, this unrelenting mission has also created a way of doing business that draws substantial criticism regarding the company’s employment practices, relationships with suppliers, and the company’s impact on local economies. This paper focuses on a company that delivers...

Would a "right of reply" f ix Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act?