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           Currently there are 19 states, including the District of Columbia, that have universal helmet laws enacted for motorcycle riders.   Only 3 states have no law, with the rest having varying degrees of obligation to wear one.   These helmet laws have a strong relation to seatbelt laws in the way that paternalism is the principle through which they were yielded. To argue whether or not states should be allowed to have laws requiring helmets for motorcyclists, it is necessary to analyze related laws and their precedents, as well as the principle about which these laws revolve.             With seatbelts, they are necessary for drivers and front-seat passengers in every state besides New Hampshire.   There is clearly a large consensus that enforcing safe choices onto those using our roads is accepted.   With helmet laws, it should follow the same line of thinking.   Th...

With the incredible growth seen in companies like Uber or Lyft, such peer-to-peer ridesharing business models are gaining a lot of attention.   Taxicab companies are the closest relative to these businesses, resulting in arguments about whether such similar services should share insurance and liability rules.   The distinction between an employee and an independent contractor is the key factor that leads relations with a worker to vary in its degree of leniency.   If taxicab and ridesharing drivers can be grouped into the same category, whether it be contractor or employee, then the insurance and liability rules should be identical to one another. When deciding a worker’s status, both the IRS and the Fair Labor Standards Act under the U.S. Department of Labor provide certain criteria used to make the distinction. Such legislation and federal organizations determine the standards companies must uphold for their employees, which leads to more rigid rules in certain case...