Slaughterhouse Cases, Takings Clause PART I Slaughterhouse Cases 198 U.S. 45 Lochner v New York 1904 (Oyez, 2013) UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT Joseph Lochner The People of the State of New York TABLE OF AUTHORITIES FACTS -- Lochner was convicte Continue Reading...
Murphy v. Waterfront Commission, 378 U.S. 52 (1964) Title and Citation: Murphy v. Waterfront Commission, 378 U.S. 52 (1964) Type of Action: Review by the U.S. Supreme Court of a ruling made by the New Jersey State Supreme Court, which held that pe Continue Reading...
U.S. v. O'Hagan case Facts In the U.S. v. O'Hagan case, the defendant, James Herman O'Hagan, was a partner in a major Minneapolis firm, and was involved in a corporate acquisition as a representative of the acquiring corporation (Corley, et al., 20 Continue Reading...
Steiney Richards, Petitioner v. Wisconsin The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution prohibits police officers from conducting seizures and searches on a suspect's person or property, unless under the authorization of a judge. The case of Richards Continue Reading...
Case Brief: In this particular case, Mrs. Gregory, who is in this context the taxpayer, was keen on avoiding double taxation. As the owner of the stocks of United Mortgage Corp., an entity that held some stocks at Monitor Securities Corp, she desi Continue Reading...
Miranda v. Arizona. 384 U.S. 436 (1966) This case was first brought in district court against Ernest Miranda after a rape investigation led authorities to question him. Under questioning, Miranda admitted to raping a young girl and signed a written Continue Reading...
Appellate Brief Question Presented / Issue Statement Appellant Mary Smith seeks review of the decision of the United States District Court for the District of Anytown, which granted judgment in favor of appellees, the United States Postal Service ( Continue Reading...
Case Facts: On July 26, 1985, police officers were called to the residence of Dorothy Jackson whose daughter, Gail Fischer, showed signs of having been battered. She stated that she had been beaten earlier that day by Edward Rodriguez who was sleepin Continue Reading...
Memo for the JudgeMargaret McCarthy makes a number of arguments against gender as a social construct (i.e., gender identity aka gender ideology) that are more than Biblical or religious arguments. In reality, McCarthy\\\'s arguments stem from natural Continue Reading...
Criminal Law Case Study Summarize the following cases: Edwards v. South Carolina, 372 U.S. 229 (1963) This case involved a protest where 187 blacks filed a petition. They divided themselves into groups of fifteen people. They would protest in publ Continue Reading...
Chavez v. Martinez case is one of the major lawsuits in the history of the United States that addressed the potential civil liability for coercive interrogations. In this lawsuit, the U.S. Supreme Court more clearly recognized the constitutional issu Continue Reading...
Court Opening Argument It is humbly submitted to the Hon'ble Court that this respondent as per the issues and syllabus cited submit that the issues of the litigation pertain -- not only to the law of marriage, but also to the recognition if it must Continue Reading...
Legal Briefs Title and Citation: Suggs v. Norris. No. 364 S.E. 2nd 159. Court of Appeals North Carolina. 2 February 1988 Type of Action: Civil and Contractual Facts of the Case: Darlene Suggs cohabited with Norris, but remained unmarried. During t Continue Reading...
Traffic Stop Case Did Officer Smith have reasonable suspicion to make the initial stop of this vehicle? As we examine this case and more confrontational moments occur between the officer and the suspect, all events remain in question largely on the Continue Reading...
com" from an Internet host in Maryland to a host in New York. The New York host turned out to be merely an intermediary of a Canada-based company (Tucows). Tucows eventually turned over the domain name to the Alabama authorities upon their request. Continue Reading...
M. Lin's release from MCF has had the effect of rendering his lawsuit moot. In this case, M. Lin was incarcerated at the time the lawsuit was filed, but not at the time it is being decided. Thus, M. Lin's cause of action fails on the issue of mootne Continue Reading...
U.S. Courts Until Bob Woodward wrote his book, The Bretheren: Inside the Supreme Court (Woodward, 1996), the inner workings of the United States Supreme Court were considered off-limits. For nearly two hundred years no one had the courage to investi Continue Reading...
Legal Brief: Anthony Labriola v. Pollard Group Anthony Alan Labriola v. Pollard Group, Inc., WA Supreme Court, 2004, No. 74002-0 Whether a 2002 noncompete agreement negotiated after the employee had been hired and without independent consideration Continue Reading...
The policy required women to wear foundation, concealer, or powder, blush, mascara, and to make sure that they have lip color on at all times. Not only did women have to wear makeup, they were required to have a makeover by an image consultant. Once Continue Reading...
Constitutional Law The case of the 'Lawrence vs. Texas' of June 26, 2003, was in a nutshell about privacy rights and 'equal protection' under the law, and whether 'sodomy' can come under the protection of the U.S. Constitution. Who were the Petitio Continue Reading...
In New York City, where both of these cases started, public officials responded by spending more than $100 million in federal education funds provided by Title I to lease vans to park on the public streets in order to establish mobile classrooms. Th Continue Reading...
Snyder v. Phelps The First Amendment is part of the Bill of Rights, and prohibits the making of any law " impeding the free exercise of religion," infringing on the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the righ Continue Reading...
Oyez FCC v. FOX TELEVISION STATIONS Case Basics Docket No. Petitioner Federal Communications Commission, et al. Respondent Fox Television Stations, Inc., et al. Granted Monday, June 27, 2011 Term: 2010-20192011 Location: 40.714353, -74.0059 Continue Reading...
Virginity Origin of the Topic The most common origin of virginity is derived from Christianity. Christianity teaches that sex before marriage is wrong. Sex should only occur between a man and a woman who are married. Sex outside of marriage is co Continue Reading...
Marbury v. Madison legal case involved a divergence between William Marbury and James Madison on account of how the latter did not act in agreement with former (he finished his term before Madison was appointed Secretary of State) President John Ada Continue Reading...
The Argument- The theory of evolution was developed out of the work of 19th century botanist and explorer, Charles Darwin and his book On the Origin of Species. Essentially, it is a scientific theory that postulates that organisms change over time Continue Reading...
Can a student enforce the provisions of FERPA by suing a private university for damages under section 1983? A jury awarded plaintiff compensatory and punitive damages on the FERPA claim. The Washington Court of Appeals reversed in relevant part, co Continue Reading...
Lbs Homework Sheet Quinain v. Doe, 516140 App. Div., 3rd Dept (2013) Who is/are the plaintiff(s) (i.e. consumer, company, employee, government) and what type of legal relief is/are the plaintiff(s) seeking? The plaintiff are a group of people who Continue Reading...
Since Padilla had joined the terrorist organization al Qaeda and engaged in warlike actions against the armed forces of the United States in Afghanistan, the Judges said in concurrence with the Government, the President possessed an authority to des Continue Reading...
HP Case Study Hewlett-Packard Case Study Hewlett-Packard is a force to be reckoned with in the enterprise computing realm but they have certainly faced some challenges. These challenges have come from competitors, from clients and from within. Over Continue Reading...
The Fourteenth Amendment is specifically concerned with due process. Moreover, while due process may not be violated by allowing states to establish different guidelines for their criminal trials and procedures than those established in the federal Continue Reading...
Qualification and Selection In every case, both New Jersey's and Texas' courts strive to achieve one thing: justice. To achieve justice, our courts must be independent, open and impartial. To selection and qualification process must therefore be ver Continue Reading...
EEOC Discrimination Claim Discrimination Complaints: A Case Study John believes that he has been discriminated against by his employer, a private company. The nature of the alleged discrimination could be related to John's race, color, religion, se Continue Reading...
The situations therefore are not analogous. I believe the Supreme Court also erred in finding that the knowingly corrupt act needed to be within the context of a specific investigation. If a criminal act is being undertaken, there is a reasonable ch Continue Reading...
Gideon v Wainwright (1963) Citation of Case: 372 U.S. 335 S.Ct. 155 (1963) Facts: Gideon was charged in a Florida state court with a non-capital felony for breaking and entering a poolroom. He appeared in the court without funds and was unable to Continue Reading...
They must also determine what types of delinquent behavior and youth violence are causing the greatest concern in the community. (Medaris, 1996, para.# 5) As can be seen from the above statement of the first step in implementing the SHOCAP program Continue Reading...
Judge Broderick concluded that the Compulsory Process Clause of the Sixth Amendment does not give a defendant the right to require immunization of a witness, but that such a right is "probably" contained in the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendm Continue Reading...
