Allen v. Dalk CITATION: Supreme Court of Florida No. SC01-2 (2002) PARTIES: Allen (Niece) v. Dalk (Half-sister) FACTS: Ms. Dalk‚ disputed the validity of a will claimed to be that of her half-sister‚ the decedent‚ McPeak. Decedent signed four originals of a living will‚ three originals of durable power of attorney‚ but failed to sign her will. PRIOR PROCEEDINGS: The lower courts determined that the will was invalid. ISSUE: Whether the will of the decedent McPeak was properly executed
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Prohibits agreements and collective action that unreasonably restrain trade. [section1] * Prohibits monopolization and attempted monopolization [section 2] * Purpose is to preserve a competitive marketplace and protect consumer welfare. NCAA v. Board of Regents of University of Oklahoma * S.C. established an analytical framework for applying antitrust law to the sports industry. * The “competition itself” is the product that sports offers to customers. * Restraints on competition
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Maryland v. Shatzer‚ 559 U.S. 98 (2010) FACTS: In August of 2003 Detective Shane Blankenship‚ a social worker‚ was assigned to investigate and interview Michael Shatzer about claims that Shatzer had sexually abused his three year old son. At the time of the investigation Shatzer was incarcerated at Maryland Correctional Institution-Hagerstown for an unrelated child-sexual abuse offense. Before asking Shatzer any questions‚ Detective Blankenship informed Shatzer of his rights‚ Shatzer then obtained
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The Private Movie Co.‚ Inc. v. Pamela Lee Anderson et al. 1. What are the facts? The Private Movie Company (Efraim) sued Pamela Lee Anderson for $4.6 million for walking away from oral and written contracts. The defendant (Anderson) claims to have agreed to the contracts on the stipulation that the script would be revised concerning nudity and simulated sex scenes‚ and upon reading the final script and seeing simulated sex scenes still included‚ walked out. 2. What is the legal issue? The
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The pelican brief. „The pelican brief” is the 3rd novel written by John Grisham in 1992. Most of his novels are about lawyers and so is this one. I could say that this book is definitely the one with most action in it‚ because the storyline is based on major government cover-up. One aspect of this book is its theme. The main theme of this novel is large-scale conspiracies in America. The author shows us the dark side of political and economical impact and its importance in the same time
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Case Name: Maryland v. King (October 2012) Facts: Maryland police arrested a man named Alonzo Jay King‚ in 2009 for first and second degree assault charges and booked into the Wicomico County‚ Maryland‚ facility‚ where booking personnel took a cheek swab (“buccal swab”) to take a DNA sample pursuant to the Maryland DNA collection Act. The swab was matched up to an unsolved 2003 rape case. The police had collected the 2003 DNA sample from the rape victim who underwent a sexual assault forensic exam
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PROJECT BRIEF FORM ------------------------------------------------- 1. Your details: Full Name: Fardzalilla Binti ZailiStudent ID: CVB 090514792E-mail @coventry.ac.uk: iela_maniac@yahoo.com.Course of study: 301 KM (PROJECT)Project Supervisor: Miss Nur Hazwani Binti DzulkeflySecond Assessor : Madam Zarila Binti Zahari | 2. Project title (provisional) [Meaningful‚ relevant and concise] Abandoned child among school teenagers and how to overcome | 3. Intended user or group of users
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The appellant admits that the threshold for reviewing a jury’s award is set very high‚ requiring that the verdict is so inordinately high that it must be a wholly erroneous estimate of damages. Relying on the cases of Howes v. Crosby [1984] O.J. No.3127 (C.A.) and Snushall v. Fulsang [2005] O.J. No. 4069(C.A.)‚ the appellants defined “inordinate “as too high or too low by 50%. Legal issue: Was the jury’s award for damages of $40‚000 patently excessive and out of proportion
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sources‚ these have been properly acknowledged in the assignment. I have read and understood the college policy regarding the submission of assignments and plagiarism. Signed: …………………………………………….. Date ………………………… Assignment Brief Part 1 - Understand the function of computer systems You are an IT Teacher who has been asked to prepare an introductory lesson on Computer Systems to First Year Undergraduates. The lesson must cover the following points: 1.1 explain
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The Pelican Brief starts with the assassination of two different Supreme Court Justices. Liberal Justice Rosenberg is killed at home‚ while the conservative Justice Jenson is killed inside an explicit theater. The circumstances surrounding their deaths and the deaths themselves shock politically split nation. Darby Shaw‚ a law student‚ decides to investigate the two justices’ records and pending cases. She writes a report guessing Victor Mattiece‚ an oil tycoon wanting to drill for oil on Louisiana
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