Task Semester 2‚ 2012 DUE DATE: Week 5 (week commencing Monday 13 August 2012) To be handed to your tutor in your week 5 tutorial class Word limit: maximum 1000 words This is assignment is worth 15 marks TASKS: 1. FIND the following case: Novakovic v Stekovic [20120] NSWCA 54 Area of Law: Tort Law (Duty of Care/Negligence) 2. (a) Please provide a response for each of the following. Case reference: (1 mark) • What is the full case citation? (b) The parties: (1 mark) • • • (c) What are the names
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Callie Gordon March 17‚ 2013 A.N. Pritzker 301 GAUTREAUX: THE LAWSUITS THAT CHANGED CHICAGO HISTORY What The Gautreaux lawsuits were the first major public housing desegregation lawsuits. They helped end racial discrimination in public housing in Chicago‚ which resulted with better job options for adults and improved lives for children who moved out of black ghettos. They influenced public housing desegregation throughout the United States. The Problem
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THE LITTLE ROCK NINE The Separate but Equal was a doctrine that stated that services‚facilities‚and public places could be separated by race as long as other accommodations were equal. This doctrine soon became very controversial; many did not believe in the Separate but equal doctrine because it was not as equal as it portrayed itself to be‚ especially when it came to wanting to receive a quality education. Many fought to have schools desegregated so that African-Americans could attend school
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In the 1950’s and 1960’s‚ the Civil Rights movement caused many good changes for black Americans including desegregation in schools and public area. Elizabeth Exford was happy to go to her first day of school at Central High School‚ in Little Rock‚ Arkansas‚ for the year 1957-1958. As she got there‚ a mad mob of people and the Arkansas National Guard blocked her path‚ making her walk away. President Eisenhower helped her and eight other negro students attend high school and were escorted by soldiers
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The Supreme Court’s first African American justice was‚ Thurgood Marshall. Thurgood Marshall made a huge impact on segregation by ending racial segregation in public schools‚ fighting for justice‚ and being appointed several times. Thurgood Marshall attended a segregated school when he was young. When he became a Supreme Court Justice he ended school segregation. According to‚ CBN‚ Marshall in 1954‚ led the legal that challenged public school segregation in the courts. The case advanced to the Supreme
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Separate but equal was a legal doctrine in the United States constitutional law according to which racial segregation did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment . The United States Constitution‚ adopted the legal doctrine in 1868‚ which guaranteed "equal protection" under the law to all citizens. ( “Separate but Equal - Separate Is Not Equal.” ) However‚ the law seemed it could serve “equal protection” adopting laws of separatism. Statements made by people of the Jim Crow era have said‚ “public schools
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In 1954 U.S. Supreme court ruled that segregation in public schools was illegal but‚ there was widespread resistance to the ruling. In 1957 nine African American students enrolled in an all white school in Little Rock Arkansas called Central High School. On the first day of classes they arrived and were getting abused and spat on by the white students‚ also the governor Orval Faubus called the national guard to block the black students from entering the school so the president Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Segregation has been a very controversial topic in American history‚ particularly in education. Many people overlook segregation in schools‚ but they need to stop. School segregation is a very important topic. In some schools‚ white people don’t want to be educated along with black people. This makes the black children have to go to poorer underdeveloped schools. Nikole Hannah–Jones wrote the article‚ School Segregation‚ the Continuing Tragedy of Ferguson. In this article she talks about desegregating
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Do you think segregation is okay or is it wrong? People are separating black and whites from each other just because of the color of their skin. Segregation is wrong because it separates everyone away from each depending on the color of people’s skin. ~-.-~ Segregation is wrong because it separates people by their race and doesn’t follow the laws of the constitution’s fourteenth amendment. "Life‚ liberty or property‚ without due process of law" or to "deny to any person within its jurisdiction
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This was based on the segregation in the schools. The people were fighting how they had the blacks and whites in different schools. It became a huge issue between the races and took it into the court to fight‚ they had different lawsuits seeking for the courts to withdraw their electoral districts‚ they were tired of having their kids going to different schools and the Warren court was the one that ended that. The Warren court had a big impact towards using the fourteenth amendment‚ Some states
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