Hugh M. Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Company‚ Inc. 556 U.S.868 U.S. Supreme Court June 8‚ 2009 Facts: Hugh Caperton‚ C.E.O. of Harman mining (here on labeled as Caperton)‚ filed a lawsuit against A.T. Massey Coal Company (here on labeled as Massey) alleging that Massey fraudulently canceled a coal supply contract with Harman Mining‚ resulting in its going out of business. In August 2002‚ a Boone County‚West Virginia jury found in favor of Caperton and awarded $50 million in damages. Massey
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Supreme Court Case‚ MATHEWS v. ELDRIDGE‚ dealt with the issue of Eldridge’s disability payment being discontinued after review and findings that he was no longer eligible. The judgement of the Court of Appeals stated that this was a violation of Due process. 2. Does the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment require that prior to the disenrollment of Social Security disability benefit payments that the recipient has an opportunity to have an evidentiary hearing? 3. Eldridge’s case relied on the
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N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 20 Nov. 2015. . Lambert‚ Tim. "A BRIEF HISTORY OF VENEZUELA." A Brief History of Venezuela. N.p.‚ 2014. Web. 20 Nov. 2015. . Lieuwen‚ Edwin. "The People." Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica‚ n.d. Web. 20 Nov. 2015. . "Basic Facts on Venezuela." Venezuelanalysis. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 20 Nov. 2015. . Flannery‚ Nathaniel Parish. "How Does Venezuela Compare To The World’s Worst
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Berkeley Journal of Social Sciences Vol. 3‚ Issue 6‚ January 2013 Political and Administrative Structure of Local Bodies in Pakistan A Case Study of City District Government Faisalabad Saadia Saleem Mughees Ahmed Abstract Pakistan has a poor data of democracy as for more than half of its years of existence after independence. It has been governed by the military. While the Military governments always created faults with the politicians. It was the basic reason; the Military Government
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A Brief History of Braille Braille is a system of raised dots that allows blind people to read and write tactilely. Named for its inventor‚ Louis Jean-Philippe Braille (1809-1852)‚ the Braille code is the universally accepted method of reading and writing for the blind. It is the only system that allows blind people to read and write independently and to do both interactively. Because of its effectiveness‚ Braille has been adapted for almost every written language. Other Braille codes represent
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Citation Eisner v. Macomber‚3 AFTR 3020‚ 252 US 189‚1 USTC ¶32 (US‚ 1920) Issue (1) Under the 16th Amendment‚ does Congress have the power to tax stock dividends received by the Macomber? (2) Are stock dividends considered income? Facts Mrs. Macomber owned 2‚200 shares of Standard Oil Company. In January 1916‚ Standard Oil Company declared a 50% stock dividend. Mrs. Macomber received an additional 1‚100 shares of stock with a $19‚877 par value. The shares represented a surplus for Standard
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Amazon.com Real-Time Case 2 12/1/2009 Brief History of Amazon.com Jeff Bezos‚ an entrepreneur‚ created Amazon.com in 1994; the business was originally run out of his garage in Washington. With the additional investments from Nick Hanauer and Tom Alburg‚ Bezos was able to create the more user-friendly website that we are used to. As Amazon.com’s customer base began to grow Bezos realized that he was going to have to add variety to the products Amazon.com offered. Bezos hit on a successful
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1. Mapp v. Ohio‚ 170 Ohio St. 427‚ 166 N. E. 2d 387‚ reversed. 2. Dollree Mapp was convicted on one count in the Ohio State Court for the possession of obscene material. The possession of obscene material was illegal in Ohio and the time of the search. There was dispute of whether or not the search was permitted by search warrant. She was eventually found guilty of by the State of Ohio because the state said‚ “even if the search were made without authority‚ otherwise unreasonably‚ it is not prevented
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A Brief History of Finland When looking through the main events in Finnish history‚ broadly speaking‚ it can be divided into three chapters: the Swedish period prior to 1809‚ the Russian period from 1809 to 1917‚ and the independent period from 1917 to the present day. Finland was part of the Swedish Empire from 1150 to 1809. As we are focusing on the main events in Finnish history‚ we are going to begin from the 17th century. During the 17th century‚ while Finland was under Swedish Rule‚ it
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Facts: Bridget Fisher bought a house in 1989 by herself. She married Barry Jewell‚ and he helped her fix the house. They lived together on and off and then married in 1990. Later‚ they got divorced and Jewell moved into his friend’s apartment. When Jewell found out that Fisher was seeing another man‚ he told his friend that he wanted to beat her boyfriends head with a 2 by 4 and cut his dick off. At 4:00 AM on June 13‚ 1991 Jewell broke into Fisher’s house through the kitchen window after removing
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