The Kodak Camera was invented by George Eastman. At the age of twenty-four‚ George Eastman was on a trip to Santo Domingo‚ when he realized the cost of the camera. So‚ he decided to do his private research on how to make taking pictures cost efficient and weightless
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STYLE: Michael Smyth vs. Pillsbury Company. COURT: United States District Court of Pennsylvania. CITATION: 914 F. Supp. 97; 1996 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 776; 131 Lab. Cas. (CCH) P58‚ 104; 11 I.E.R. Cas. (BNA) 585. ISSUE: Can an employer be accused of violating public policy‚ tortuously invading privacy and subsequently be estopped from firing or discharging an at will employee‚ if for the purpose of company’s interest‚ it monitor an employee’s email communications over the company’s email system just
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Case study Chimel vs. California Citation 395 u.s.752 1969 Facts: There was a warrant for an offender who supposedly robbed a coin shop. Two officers decided to locate the offender’s house where they meet the offender’s wife. Having a conversation the two officers ask the offender wife can they come inside the house and which she agreed to? Waiting for the offender who committed the crime shows up minutes later. After the offender recognizes that they were two police officers at his home
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appear or answer. The court rendered decision in favor of the plaintiffs. On Aug. 26‚ 1924‚ Gabriela Andrea de Coster y Roxas‚ claimed that she had been residing in Paris‚ France from 1908 until April 30‚ 1924 and that she only found out about the case from the newspapers. She further claims that
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District of Columbia V. Heller District of Columbia V. Dick Anthony Heller Opinion of the Court- Justice Scalia Vote was 5-4 Dissenters : stevens ‚ breyer VIOLATION OF 2nd AMENDMENT -1976‚ district of columbia passed the most restrictive gun control ordinance. -banned the private possession of handguns. -shotguns and rifles could be owned but only if weapons were registered‚ kept unloaded and dissembled or restricted trigger locks. -this law allowed the chief of police to issue a one
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TENTH CIRCUIT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Plaintiff Appellant‚ v. No. 03-30576 CURTIS L. WILLIAMS‚ Defendant Appellee. APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA (D.C. NO. 03-30576) CASE SUMMARY 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
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Name of the Case: Town of Castle Rock v. Gonzales Citation: 545 U.S. 748 Date Decided: 2005 Facts: In June of 1999 Jessica Gonzalez had her husband served with a protective order during divorce proceedings. The protective order stated the husband must stay 100 feet from the estranged wife and 3 young female children. It allowed for preannounced visitations and predetermined weekend custody. On several occasions the husband picked the children up without notice returning them late in the evening.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on February 19th‚ 1942 (Alonso 30). Enter one of the Dark times in American History‚ the imprisonment of its own citizens because of racial backgrounds. The act was attacked in the Supreme Court case “Hirabayasi v. United States‚” though the Supreme Court upheld the order as “A means of National Security in war time” (Touro Law 2). In May of 1942 Fred Korematsu sued the United States. In a 6-to-3 vote the Supreme Court
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Honda Motor Company‚ Ltd. and Toyota Motor Corporation An Engineering 111 Case Study By James Barbour‚ Daniel Hui‚ Chaereena Sarabian‚ Melissa Shafer‚ Christopher Woo Introduction The automotive industry in the past couple of years has seen its fair share of problems. Following the recession of the economy and the bailout of the American car companies the future of the automotive industry looked pretty bleak. However throughout all the
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BELL ATLANTIC CORP. v. TWOMBLY Keani Aabel Copyright 2016 Keani Aabel Introduction Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly was a 2007 American antitrust case that proceeded all the way to the United States Supreme Court. This case began as a class-action lawsuit‚ which eventually was heard by the Supreme Court through a writ of certiorari from the United States Court of Appeals of the Second Circuit (Bell Atlantic v. Twombly‚ 1). The lawsuit issued by William Twombly and Lawrence Marcus claimed
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