Although students do not lose their rights as they walk through the school gates‚ their rights are restricted for the safety of others. The court case of Tinker v. Des Moines argues the same issue of the rights of students while on school grounds. “Because the appearance of the armbands distracted students from their work‚ they detracted from the ability of the school officials to perform their duties
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Introduction There have been many Supreme Court cases that dealed with many concepts of the law‚ like obscenity for example. As a matter of fact‚ obscenity is a concept that Miller v. California deals with. To be more specific‚ this case deals with what is considered obscene‚ and if the specific obscenity mentioned in this case is protected by the first amendment‚ the freedom of speech. I will now explain this case in more depth. What brought this case about? In 1973‚ Marvin Miller‚ operator
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invitation to treat is not an offer‚ but a statement or expression made by a person to invite offers for consideration. With reference to Gibson v Manchester City Council [1979]‚ the Council was running policies of selling council houses to the occupants‚ saying that they may be prepared to sell the house and require the occupants to
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Dred Scott v. Sanford came to trial in 1854. Let it be known that Dred Scott was the only case that reached the Supreme Court brought on by a slave against his master (Vandervelde 5). Scott presented the courts with the same arguments and three main questions were brought before the court: 1) As a black man‚ was Scott a citizen with a right to sue in federal courts? 2) Had prolonged residence (two years in each place) in a free state and territory made Scott free? 3) Was Fort Snelling actually free
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Lana Phan Case: Dred Scott v. Sandford Facts: This lawsuit involves Dred Scott‚ an African American slave and his owner due to the passing of his previous owner Dr. Emerson‚ John F. A. Sanford. John F.A Sanford is the brother to the wife of Dr. Emerson. Dred Scott sued for his freedom in the Missouri Circuit Court for the City of St. Louis on April 6‚ 1846 . Dred Scott’s legal suit is for assault and false imprisonment: “A slave could be punished and kept as property‚ but a free person could not
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The Supreme Court case of Sessions v. Morales-Santana deals with the issue of whether or not a distinction based on gender in establishing derivative citizenship for immigrants violates the 5th amendment’s guarantee of equal protection. The questions presented by this case are: (1) Whether Congress’s decision to require different physical presence requirements for unwed citizen mothers than unwed citizen fathers in order to pass citizenship to a foreign- born child violates the 5th amendment’s guarantee
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The officers were within their scope of duties to initially stop Dickerson in this case due to his suspicious and evasive behavior as he exited the apartment building and saw the officer. To pursue and check him for weapons because of potential criminal involvement was not outside the scope of their duties due to the criminal history
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applies to any weakness or predisposition of the plaintiff to a particular injury or illness regardless of the defendant’s knowledge. An illustration of this rule can be found in the following case which are; Smith v Leech Brain & Co Ltd (1962) and Robinson v Post office (1974) 1 WLR 1176. The case of Smith v Leech Brain is about a galvanizer who is the plaintiff’s husband and work at the defendant’s company. His job is to lift articles into a tank of a molten metal via a crane. The plaintiff’s husband
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517 20 August 2013 Leonard v. Pepsi Cola The Assigned case that I am to discuss is Leonard v. Pepsi Cola. In this paper I will discuss the facts of the case‚ the history‚ issues the court had to decide‚ the holding or the answer to the questions‚ the reasoning the court used to justify the decision‚ and finally the results and the judgment. The Facts is the Leonard sued Pepsi Co for refusing a formal demand to honor its offer. The history of this case is; Pepsi Co ran a promotional
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In the case of Riggs v. Palmer‚ the issue at hand is whether or not Elmer Palmer‚ a man who purposely poisoned his grandfather‚ should be allowed to collect his inheritance. It is the responsibility of Mr. Palmer’s lawyer to give sound legal advice so that he may make a decision‚ on his own‚ as to whether or not he wishes to fight for his inheritance. In order for our legal system to be upheld‚ and as immoral as it may seem‚ Mr. Palmer must receive the money. By virtue‚ laws are intended to be a
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