Kiersten Foster AP Government & Politics December 8‚ 2013 Mr. Raveret Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission: First amendment rights or the government ’s cold shoulder to corporations? With the bitter wounds of British tyranny still stinging‚ the Founding Fathers thought up the first amendment. Democracy flourishes only when freedoms to express views‚ both political and those of other concerns‚ are guaranteed. What happens‚ however‚ when your own government
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M.C. Mehta v. Union of India and Others‚ 1987 SCR (1) 819 (OLEUM GAS LEAK CASE) M.C. Mehta v. Union of India is a famous tort law Indian case that brought in the concept of “Absolute Liability”. Every citizen has a right to fresh air and to live in a pollution free environment. This originated when Oleum gas leaked from Shriram Food and Fertilizers Industry in Delhi. This created a lot of panic among the people and laid down the principles of absolute liability. FACTS Shriram Food and Fertilizers
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When Your World Is Turned Upside-Down… Cory Watson Atttorneys stands ready to help when accidents‚ injuries or other unexpected tragedies upend your life. An injury caused by a prescription drug or a defective medial device ‚ an automobile wreck or any number of occurrences which are no fault of your own can change your world in an instant. We understand that a serious personal injury or the loss of a loved one can leave families struggling with pain‚ grief‚ and questions: How am I going to pay
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The Liebeck v. McDonald’s case was a product liability lawsuit filed by Stella Liebeck‚ a 79 year old woman who was burned by a scalding hot coffee. One Sunday afternoon in 1994‚ Stella Liebeck ordered a cup of coffee at a McDonald’s drive through in Albuquerque‚ New Mexico. As she sat alongside her grandson in a 1989 Ford Probe‚ Liebeck noticed that there were no cup holders on the passenger side. Acting quickly‚ Liebeck decided to put the coffee cup between her knees. When she removed the coffee
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Cristina Piccariello COMS 400-01 April 16th‚ 2013 COMS 400 Zurcher v. Stanford Daily 436 U.S. 547 (1978) Facts The Stanford Daily‚ the respondent sought to enjoin Zurcher‚ the petitioner for abridging the newspaper’s constitutional right of possessing photographs and a report on a demonstration at a hospital. A warrant was issued from Zurcher to search The Stanford Daily for the demonstration photos based on probably cause. The paper then filed a suit claiming the warrants were unconstitutional
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Emporia Unified School District (2001) is a case presented to argue that Ray Knight’s parents do not have grounds to pursue liability charges against school officials. In the case of Glaser v. Emporia Unified School District (2001) a seventh grade student was hit be a car and he was injured as he went off school grounds to a public street because he was being chased
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end goal to break down this case‚ it would be a smart thought to begin by defining the term law and contract law. A law can be stated as “ A rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state‚ commanding what is right‚ and prohibiting what is wrong” (blackstone). Contract law can be defined as the written agreement which binds two people with certain rules and regulations as decided by both the parties and mentioned in the contract. The facts of the case Amal is a close friend of bushra
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Barnhizer v. Paradise Valley Unified Sch. Dist.- A thirteen year old boy trespass onto the schools property climbing on a I-beam located on roof and fell to his death. The parents brought a wrongful death action against the school under the theory of attractive nuisance. The courts ruled in favor of the school because the attractive nuisance doctrine states "the children because of their youth do not discover the condition or realize the risk involved intermeddling with it or in coming within the
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CASE STUDY III-1 Consumer and Industrial Products. Inc. is a large manufacturer of a wide variety of products. The company is headquartered in the United States and has several plants all around the world. The large amount of operations requires the company to have updated IT systems. When dealing with a huge number of customers‚ the proper database and storage of information plays a crucial role. Back in 1993‚ the company’s Director‚ Ted Anderson‚ launched the
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Facts: Between 1985 and 1990 Beth Ann Faragher worked part time and during the summers as an ocean lifeguard for the Marine Safety Section of the Parks and Recreation Department of the City of Boca Raton‚ Florida. During this time‚ Faragher’s immediate supervisors were Bill Terry‚ David Silverman‚ and Robert Gordan. Two years after resigning as a lifeguard in 1990‚ Beth Ann Faragher brought an action against the City of Boca Raton‚ Terry and Silverman alleging the supervisors had created a sexually
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