Facts: On March 20, 1982, plaintiff Marybeth Atkins sustained serious injuries while skiing at Jimmy Peak Ski Resort. On December 5, 1984 plaintiff Marybeth Atkins sued defendant Jimmy Peak. Plaintiff alleged that her injuries were caused by defective ski equipment she had rented from the rental facility on the premises. She further alleged that the defendant failed to inspect ski equipment and the failure amounted to negligence and breach of contract. An amended complaint was filed on February 14, 1986, the plaintiff added counts that the defendant had breached warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The defendant moved for summary judgment which was granted by a judge of the Superior Court on the ground that the plaintiff’s action was barred by the statute of limitations. The case was transferred to Massachusetts’s Supreme Court by its own motion.…
In July of 2000 Curtis Williams was indicted by a grand jury in Williamson County, Texas for aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury. While under indictment, Williams traveled to Louisiana from Texas on a Greyhound bus. The bus Williams was traveling on was scheduled to make a stop at the Shreveport Greyhound Bus terminal on September 12,…
SUBJECTIVE Mr. Hamilton was readmitted to MCCRC on 03/02 and seen on 03/05/2018. Mr. Hamilton had been here after a motor vehicle accident, leaving here with fractured ribs, pneumonitis, fractured sternal, and a complicated right acetabular hip fracture. He recuperated and was able to return home on analgesics. He was on amiodarone, Lasix, metformin, and glimepiride for his diabetes. He did not check his blood sugar, although I had advised him to do so.…
Lester Cooper and Julie Smith were engaged, Lester gave various gifts to both Julie & Janet Smith while living in Janet’s house. Later they had a disagreement causing the engagement to break off and Cooper desired his gifts given back. Julie gave back only the engagement ring. Cooper subsequently sued the Smith’s.…
R/s on 01/26/2017, Mr. Robinson was released from the Light House in Conway, SC and Crystal brought him to ER on 01/30/17 because Mr. Robinson was noncompliance with taking his medication. R/s LE was called and they are heading to Ms. Robinson’s home.…
In Morrison v. Olsen, the issue of the Independent Counsel Provision in the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 was challenged and the court decided that it was not unconstitutional because it did not violate the separation of powers by taking power from the Executive and giving more to the Judicial or Legislative branches. Alexia Morrison had been appointed as the independent counsel to investigate Morrison to see if he had violated federal law; he sued her arguing that the Independent Counsel had taken away powers from the executive. The majority held that Morrison was an “inferior officer” due to the ability of the Attorney General to remove her for “good cause”, she can only perform certain limited duties, she is limited in jurisdiction, and…
Facts: William E. Story had promised his nephew, William E. Story II, $5,000 if his nephew would abstain from drinking alcohol, using tobacco, swearing, and playing cards or billiards for money until the nephew reached 21 years of age. The uncle responded to his nephew in a letter dated February 6, 1875 in which he told his nephew that he would fulfill his promise. The uncle died a couple years later without sending the money to the nephew.…
What was it that triggered Johnson’s necessity for a lawyer in addition to his representation by his insurance carrier’s lawyer (Thomas)? In other words, why did Johnson have to hire Comfort?…
It can be seen that adding another investment vehicle, i.e. Real Estate here to his portfolio reduces his dependance on the performance of his stock which is currently comprised of 95% of his overall portfolio vis-a-vis 48% after the investment.…
Albert H. Hanemann, Jr., Lemle & Kelleher, John D. Fitzmorris, Jr., Legal Dept. New Orleans, La., for Texaco.…
As the demonstrators marched through the streets, chanting their message, a fellow protestor handed Johnson an American flag that had been taken from a flag pole at one of their protest locations. Upon reaching the Dallas City Hall, Johnson doused the flag with kerosene and set it on fire. In addition, Johnson and his fellow demonstrators circled the burning flag and shouted “America, the red, white, and blue, we spit on you.” No one was hurt or threatened with injury by the act, but many who witnessed it were deeply offended. Therefore, Johnson was arrested, charged and convicted under Texas “desecration of a venerated…
In Dred Scott v. Sandford the case started in 1856 and ended in 1857. “The Supreme Court decided that Americans of African descent, whether free or slave, were not American citizens and could not sue in federal court. The Court also ruled that Congress lacked power to ban slavery in the U.S. territories. Finally, the Court declared that the rights of slaveowners were constitutionally protected by the Fifth Amendment because slaves were categorized as property.” - Alex McBride (McBride 2006, 411). The verdict was unlawful and absurd.…
The case began with Warren McCleskey, an African-American man who was sentenced to death in 1978 for killing a white police officer during the robbery of a Georgia furniture store. McCleskey appealed his conviction and sentence, relying on the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment and the Fourteenth Amendment’s guarantee of Equal Protection to argue that the death penalty in Georgia was administered in a racially discriminatory -- and therefore unconstitutional--manner.…
Does the first amendment overrule the Texas law that forbids the desecration of a venerated object under these circumstances?…
December 28th 2013 at 7:30 on a Saturday morning, Andrew Anderson was shot and killed. The suspect behind the gun was Amanda jo Lucero. These two just so happen to be my cousins. Amanda jo and Andrew grew up together, they were practically brother and sister. My aunty beck raised the two and treatee Amanda like her own. You can imagine how hard it was for my aunty beck to hear her son was gone but hurt her even more to hear Amanda was responsible for Andrews death.…