They’ve been there for months now! You get to work early and as you begin to sit down into your horrible smelling non-lumbar supporting office chair‚ Fate comes on giving you‚ and the rest of London‚ the daily news. In Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s comic‚ V for Vendetta‚ the reader is quickly lured into fascist dictatorship London‚ where cameras are on every corner “for [their] protection”. The CCTV cameras‚ and
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Opinion on the Moseley v. V Secret Catalogue Case As the opinion delivered by Justice Stevens‚ the U.S. Supreme Court intended to answer the significant question in Moseley v. V Secret Catalogue‚ Inc. (Mosley case) that “whether objective proof of actual injury to the economic value of a famous mark is a requisite for relief under the 1996 Federal Trademark Dilution Act (FTDA)”. 1 Contrary to lower courts’ holdings‚ the Supreme Court stated in a unanimous decision that it is not enough to claim
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when is the right time to observe one’s faith. Most notably this debate extended to the public schools. One of the most prominent cases was that of Engel v. Vitale. The court case of Engel v. Vitale became known as the School Prayer decision and was the first of its kind in the American judicial system. The New York Board of Regents penned the following prayer to be spoken in New York public schools: “Almighty God‚ we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee‚ and we beg Thy blessings upon us‚ our
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Brown v. Louisiana During the 1960’s‚ many African-Americans believed that civil rights should become a national priority. Young civil rights activists brought their cause to the national stage and demanded the federal government assist them and help resolve the issues that plagued them. Many of them challenged segregation in the South by protesting at stores and schools that practiced segregation. Despite the efforts of these groups and Supreme Court rulings that ordered the desegregation
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VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMAN : A STUDY OF THE DISTRICT OF BALASORE. Dhirendra Kumar Jena (Research Scholar) Fakir Mohan University ‚ Balasore ‚ Odisha (ABSTRACT:-Human rights are very much essential for the development of the personality of both men and women. But in the district of Balasore human rights of women of late are being violated at an increasing rate. The objective in this article has been to highlight statistically this increasing rate of crime against women. Different crimes
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U On May 15‚ 2000‚ the United States Supreme Court held that a portion of the federal Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was an unconstitutional exercise of congressional power. The holding of this case and the unconstitutionality eventually resulted in the “freedom” of Antonio J. Morrison‚ who evaded charges under the act that would provide a victim‚ Christy Brzonkala‚ of gender-motivated violence a cause of action against the perpetrator for the recovery of compensatory and punitive damages. This
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involved in establishing medical standards of care based on facts of a single case rather than on the standards of the profession (King‚ p.1236-37). In a sense‚ the issue is approached from a semantic and factual rather than medical standpoint. Helling v. Carey is a good example of such a case which excited considerable comment in the medical and legal fields. In the final analysis the case is considered unique and controversial mainly because the court dismissed the standards of medical profession and
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Tinker v. Des Moines School District Warren Court‚ 393 U.S. 503 (1969) FACTS John Tinker was 15 years old who grew up with his sister Mary Beth Tinker‚ 13 years old‚ and brother Christopher Echardt‚ 16. They decided to follow their parents who were protesting the Vietnam War by wearing black armbands to their Des Moines schools during the holiday season of Christmas and New Years. Once the word was out about the protests‚ the principals of the Des Moines school district decided that all students
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Milosz v. Pienkowski Paper “These damn Jews! They’re rotten and don’t belong here! We need to remove them all from Poland and send them to concentration camps!” “Whoah. You are misinformed about the history of your own country. Firstly‚ the Jews definitely belong here. For centuries Poland has had the largest and most prominent Jewish population in the world. Although religious tolerance did end with the partitioning of Poland by the Russian empire‚ Judaism is still extremely prevalent
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NOTES OF CASES THECASEOF THE SLIPPERY EQUITY IN Re Vandervell’s Trusts (No. 2)‚’ Lord Denning M.R. said: “ (‘ Hard cases make bad law ’) is a maxim which is quite misleading. It should be deleted from our vocabulary. It comes to this: ‘Unjust decisions make good law’: whereas they do nothing of the kind. Every unjust decision is a reproach to the law or to the judge who administers it.”a Now that it has been decided that there is to be no appeal from the decision of the Court of Appeal‚ it is worth
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