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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Citation: Leverington v. City of Colorado Springs‚ 643.f.3d 719 Vote: 3-0 Author of Opinion: Justice Harris Hartz Facts of the Case: The Appellant Miriam Leverington‚ a nurse at Memorial Hospital (Appellee 1) in Colorado Springs‚ was pulled over in December of 2008 by Officer Duaine Peters (Appellee 2). During the course of the stop Leverington told the police officer that she hoped he was never her patient. Officer Peters replied‚ "I hope not too‚ because maybe I’ll call your supervisor
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Peacock Hotel‚ Inc. v. Shipman (appeal) This appeal was presented to the Florida court by Cordelia Shipman and her husband A. K. Shipman from Miami against the Peacock hotel represented by Coral Peacock and her daughter Cecil A. Peacock from Miami as well. The appeal was from a final decree of foreclosure of the purchase-money mortgage. The Shipmans made a contract with Ms. Peacock‚ an inexperienced in business widow‚ and her daughter‚ a minor‚ for the sale of the Hotel with the premises of the
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Nonesuch. This was the case‚ as they did not put an area on the application for him to note his sex at birth‚ meaning that technically‚ Dr. Nonesuch did not violate any rules. A case that could somewhat compare to this one would be Johnson v. Misericordia Community Hospital (1999). Not unlike when Sunshine Hospital failed to get information on Dr. Nonesuch’s
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Citation Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.‚ 550 U.S. 618 (2007) Facts 1. Lilly Ledbetter worked as a supervisor for Goodyear Tire & Rubber company in Gadsden‚ AL for 19 years. Being an employee at this plant required her pay and raises to be determined by performance reviews. She was being paid significantly less than her male coworkers. 2. In March of 1998‚ Ledbetter submitted a questionnaire to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleging sex discrimination against her
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Summit Distributors was in danger of violating loan covenants because of slow economic activity and forecasted losses and was faced with a choice. Changing the inventory valuation method from LIFO to FIFO would avoid default but would require higher future income taxes. Not changing could mean default on covenants‚ renegotiating loan terms at less favorable interest rates‚ or possible bankruptcy. Therefor even if we assumed no cash- flow consequences associated with the change‚ the answer would
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Offensive Words Keisha Knight November 5‚ 2012 Criminal Law and Courts Mrs. R. Dickens 10:30 1:00 Chaplinsky v New Hampshire Question: When do offensive words addressed by one person to another in a public place exceed the limits of free speech guarantee of the First Amendment to U.S. Constitution and incur criminal liability for one who speaks them? Words become offensive when it is addressed to a person by another person when other people feel offended as well as the person that
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