Bair 1 Marissa Bair Mr. Turcotte AP US History 6 December 2012 Hollingsworth v. Perry 1. In February of 2004 the mayor of San Francisco‚ Gavin Newsom and other city officials began distributing marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples in the city of San Francisco‚ California. In March of the same year‚ the County of San Francisco ordered the halt of marriages‚ pending court review. On March 29th‚ the San Francisco Superior Court declared San Francisco’s issuing of same-sex marriage licenses
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Dothard v. Rawlinson Facts: After her application for employment as a "correctional counselor" in Alabama was rejected because she failed to meet the minimum 120-pound weight requirement of an Alabama statute‚ which also establishes a height minimum of 5 feet 2 inches‚ Dianne Rawlinson filed a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and ultimately brought a class action against appellant corrections officials challenging the statutory height and weight requirements
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The case Brandy V Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission challenges the constitutional validity of the scheme for the enforcement of Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) determination under the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth). The High Court of Australia had decided that since HREOC was not constituted as a court according to Chapter III of the Constitution‚ and therefore was not able to exercise judicial power of commonwealth and enforce any subsequent decisions. The
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Gratz v. Bollinger 539 U.S. 244 (2003) Facts of the Case Jennifer Gratz‚ a student with a 3.8 GPA and ACT score of 25‚ applied to the University of Michigan’s College of Literature‚ Science and Arts (LSA) in 1995. Patrick Hamacher‚ a student with an adjusted GPA of 3.0 and an ACT score of 28‚ also applied to the School in 1997. They were both denied admission and had to study elsewhere (Oyez‚ 2003). The University of Michigan’s the LSA used a 150-point scale to rank applicants‚ with 100 points
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On January 22‚ 1973‚ a monumental ordeal for all of the United States had come about. Abortion was legalized. It was the Supreme Court case of Roe v. Wade that made us take a turn into this political issue. In this case Norma McCorvey who used the pseudonym ‘Jane Roe’‚ was an unmarried woman who wasn’t permitted to terminate her unborn child‚ for the Texas criminal abortion law made it impossible to perform an abortion unless it was putting the mother’s health in danger. Jane Roe was against
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Scott v. Illinois 440 U.S. 367 (1979) I. Aubrey Scott was convicted of shoplifting merchandise valued at less than $150. The maximum penalty for such an offense is a $500 fine or one year in jail‚ or both. Scott objected that the state was required to provide council for him. The trial court affirmed. The appellate court affirmed. The state supreme court granted certiorari. II. Does the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments require that the state provide the defendant counsel whenever imprisonment
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Thursday‚ 17 April‚ 2014 at 19:33 BST Client ID: Athens Content Type Westlaw UK Title : Thompson v Foy Delivery selection: Current Document Number of documents delivered: 1 Sweet & Maxwell is part of Thomson Reuters. © 2014 Thomson Reuters (Professional) UK Limited Page 1 Mrs Marion Mary Thompson v Mrs Julie Ann Foy The Mortgage Business v Mrs Julie Ann Foy‚ Mrs Marion Thompson Case Nos: 7BM305000‚ 7PC06111 High Court of Justice Chancery Division Birmingham
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affiliates. FOR EDUCATIONAL USE ONLY 1 Cranch 137‚ 5 U.S. 137‚ 1803 WL 893 (U.S.Dist.Col.)‚ 2 L.Ed. 60 (Cite as: 1 Cranch 137‚ 5 U.S. 137 (U.S.Dist.Col.)‚ 1803 WL 893 (U.S.Dist.Col.)) Page 1 Supreme Court of the United States William MARBURY v. James MADISON‚ Secretary of State of the United States. Feb. 1803. West Headnotes Action 13 2 250k3 Existence and Adequacy of Other Remedy in General 250k3(2) Remedy at Law 250k3(4) k. Acts and Proceedings of Public Officers and Boards and Municipalities
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Texas v Johson The first amendment grants the citizens of the United States the right to speak freely‚ without legal persecution. Over the past 200 years since this amendment was enacted there have been hundreds of judicial cases devoted to interpreting and refining this law. One such case‚ reviewed by the United States ’ supreme court in 1988‚ was Texas v Johnson. The case involved Johnson ’s conviction of desecrating a venerated object (a Texas Statute) by burning a U.S. flag (Texas V Johnson(1989))
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In Benic v New South Wales [2010] NSWSC 1039 the risk of harm was the plaintiff‚ a police officer‚ suffering psychiatric injury as a result of receiving a threat to his life in the course of his work. The alleged breach was the failure to provide prompt and appropriate psychological or psychiatric assistance. The court noted that whether the risk was not insignificant was to be analysed from the perspective of the defendant and was to be prospective: at [411]. The evidence was that the Commissioner
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