King v. Burwell and Judicial Decision-Making Process The Supreme Court decision in King v. Burwell surrounded the challenge of provision to the Affordable Care Act. The key question the case focused on was whether Obamacare authorized federal tax subsidies for individuals purchasing health insurance through a state exchange. The challenger‚ King‚ argued the way the law was written can’t allow for states to subsidized insurance through a federal-run exchange. They argued that insurance subsides
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tiny light at the end of the tunnel. Among the three cases‚ I find King v. Burwell case interesting‚ in a sense‚ for the reason that the arguments raised in the case were about the subsidies for The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the likelihood that it could undermine the healthcare law by holding up federal subsidies that assist the low-income strata with the payment of their health insurance. The debate raised by King and three other Virginia residents’
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whether the contract is unconscionable‚ which includes the following: bargaining power of both parties‚ whether the consumer understood the terms in the contract‚ and whether undue influence or pressure was applied. In Commercial Bank of Australia v Amadio
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Case Name: Kentucky v. King‚ 563 U.S. (2011) Facts: In Lexington‚ Kentucky‚ police officers followed a suspected drug dealer to an apartment building where he went. When they arrived outside of the door to the apartment where the suspect was they reportedly could smell marajuana. The police then knocked and shouted they they were there and in return they could hear what sounded like people destroying the evidence and running around. The police then knocked down the door and saw the respondent
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Marburg Colloquy The year was 1529; and the Catholic forces of King Charles V (1500-1558) were nearing the end of their escapades in the south against the Muslim forces of Suleiman the Magnificent (1520-1566). In the North in the town of Marburg‚ Germany‚ the Swiss and German Protestants planned a meeting to form alliances and unite against the Catholic regime under the Pope and Charles V. For four days (October 1-4) the Protestant leaders of the day met at Marburg Castle by order of Landgrave
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In this recent Ninth Circuit case the issues centered on compatibility between video games. Accolade copied a Sega video game to obtain compatibility with the Sega Genesis game system. Accolade decompiled the machine readable object code from a Sega game in order to achieve compatibility with the Sega system for games that it wished to independently create and market. Accolade then created a manual containing only the functional specifications of this decompiled code and not any of Sega’s actual
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Zeno Ltd [1964] 30 MLJ 314. Initially‚ Zeno Ltd‚ the respondent company entered into an agreement with a contractor named Ahmad‚ who had also secured contracts from the Petaling Jaya Authority for the construction of culverts. Under the contract‚ Zeno Ltd was the supplier of construction materials to Ahmad. They bought the materials and delivered to the construction site. Afterward‚ Ahmad’s contracts with Petaling Jaya Authority were cancelled due to the conflicts between them. Zeno Ltd informed
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King Naram-Sin v. King Narmer In this essay we’ll discuss the similarities and differences between two pieces of art from different civilizations. One difference that we’ll take note of beforehand is that the Stele of Naram-Sin is an Akkadian piece while the Palette of King Narmer is Egyptian. Now just because they’re from different cultures‚ you’d be surprised what they have in common. And thus‚ we start with the similarities of both pieces. Both the Stele and Palette were narrative relief sculptures
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U.S Monetary Policy in 1995 When Alan Greenspan presented the Federal Reserve’s semi-annual report on monetary policy to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy‚ the Committee on Banking and Financial Services‚ and the U.S. House of Representatives on February‚ Dr. Greenspan touted a cautionary yet favorable view of the U.S. economy. He states that "With inflationary pressures apparently receding‚ the previous degree of restraint in monetary policy was no longer deemed
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COURT OF APPEAL Slater v Clay Cross Co Ltd [1956] 2 QB 264 Full text 17 May 1956 DENNING LJ: In Derbyshire there has been for well over a hundred years a railway line owned by the defendants. We were told that George Stephenson himself made it. The defendants use it so as to carry limestone from their quarries at Crich down to Ambergate. It is a small gauge line‚ only three feet‚ three inches wide‚ and is 2 1/2 miles long. On that small line there are two tunnels. One of them‚ with which we
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