RENO v. AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION US Supreme Court‚ 1997 1. Claim: Attorney General Janet Reno‚ the appellant appealed directly to the Supreme Court as provided for by the Act’s special review provisions against the appellee‚ ACLU. 2. Facts: The 1996 Federal Communications Decency Act sought to protect minors from “indecent” and offensive Internet materials. The Act made it a crime to transmit obscene or indecent messages over the Internet. Immediately after the CDA became law‚ twenty
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of hot water V. amygdalina leaves extract (500 mg/kg) reduced blood glucose concentration of both normoglycaemic and hyperglycaemic rats induced by alloxan (Osinubi‚ 2007). 2.4.2.3 Antioxidant activity Several studies have shown that V. amygdalina possess antioxidant activity (Yeap et al.‚ 2010). Ethanol and aqueous extracts showed good antioxidant activity using different models (Ayoola et al.‚ 2008; Owolabi et al.‚ 2008). Igile et al. (1994) characterizes flavonoids occurring in V. amygdalina leaves
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CASE BRIEF FOR THE WINDSOR V. STATE OF ALABAMA WINDSOR V. STATE OF ALABAMA 683 So. 2d 1021 (1994) Judicial History: Harvey Lee Windsor was convicted of capital murder under § 13-A-5-40 (a)(2)‚ Code of Alabama 1975. The jury unanimously recommended the death penalty and the trial court accepted the jury’s recommendation and sentenced the appellant to death by electrocution. Windsor then appealed the conviction and sentence to the Court of Criminal Appeals. Facts: Harvey Lee Windsor and Lavon Gunthrie
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Case Name: National Legal Services Authority (Petitioner) v Union of India & Ors. (Respondent). Court Name: Supreme Court of India. Bench: J.‚ K.S. Radhakrishnan & J.‚ A.K. Sikri. Date of Decision: April 15‚ 2014. Citation: AIR 2014 SC 1863. Statement of Facts: 1. The National Legal Services Authority filed a writ petition no. 400 of 2012 seeking relief that Hijras/ Eunuchs/ Transgenders (herein after refer as TG) be given legal status as ‘third gender’ with legal and constitutional provision.
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INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT V/S RURAL ECONOMY Infrastructure is of great importance for an economy and without developing of proper infrastructure no country can ensure its economic growth. The development of infrastructure in any economy is directly related to the economic welfare
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A Tribute to John Nash It sounds like a Sport’s man dream. A Person got a one million dollar prize for their skill at analysing games. They are not television Pundits or armchair critics of Manchester United or Chelsea‚ but an Economists who won the Nobel Prize for economics for his studies of game theory. John Nash‚ In Pop culture he remembered as the man behind “A Beautiful Mind” and for the economists or specialists he’ll be remembered as a brilliant mathematician who won Nobel Prize in Economic
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In the Greynolds v. Kurman case‚ I agree with the court’s decision. “There was sufficient evidence to support a finding of lack of informed consent” (Pozgar & Santucci‚ 2015‚ p. 339). When I read the case it seemed like the physicians did not put any effort in explaining the complete picture‚ including the Greynolds options‚ and letting them decide what they wanted. By law‚ “when there is doubt as to a patient’s capacity to consent‚ the consent of the legal guardian or next of kin should be obtained”
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COURT CASES: Goldberg v. Kelly and Mathews v. Eldridge In this case of Goldberg v. Kelly we have an issue that discusses the termination of welfare to a recipient. Now what seems to be the issue here is that there used to be no federal or state law on how to regulate this and enforce this but only a procedure that the New York State ’s general Home Relief program adopted to use and follow. The sole issue of the problem is accepting the fact that a person with life depending needs could lose their
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The case Miller v. California (1973) was determined by the Supreme Court‚ which redefined the meaning of obscenity. The word obscene is hard to define and could be seen as “You will know it when you see it.” The Miller case determined if something was obscene‚ the average person‚ applying the standards must find the entire work‚ as obscene‚ the work depicts offensive sexual conduct defined by state law‚ and that the work as a whole lacks literary‚ artistic‚ political‚ or scientific value. Marvin
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The March for Life Protest In 1973‚ Jane Roe filed a court case against Henry Wade in which she accused Wade of impregnating her by sexual assault (Glazer n. pag). During the case‚ the U.S. Supreme Court first argued that the Fourteenth Amendment does not mention abortion‚ but rather it guarantees a privilege to individual freedom under due process (“Supreme Court Rules on Roe V. Wade‚ The” par. 5). The state of Texas argued that it had convincing motivations to protect the life of an unborn child
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