Legal Brief: Pennsylvania State Police v. Suders Facts: • Pennsylvania State Police hired Nancy Drew Suders as a police communications operator. • Suder’s supervisors were Sergeant Eric D. Easton‚ Patrol Corporal William D. Baker‚ and Corporal Eric B. Prendergast. • Suders was subject to sexual harassment from all three of her supervisors during the term of her employment. • Easton would mention the subject of people having sex with animals each time Suders entered the office. • Easton told
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The first amendment in the Bill of Rights states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion‚ or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech‚ or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble‚ and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” In the case Irene Ryan v. United States‚ understanding the first amendment‚ specifically what has been considered protected speech by the supreme court under this amendment‚ is
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Michael Doody Period: C/ December 19 Primary Source Analysis Reynolds v. United States Reynolds v. United States‚ a landmark court case in 1878‚ upheld anti-polygamy laws previously established. The issue was whether or not the federal anti-bigamy statute violated the First Amendment ’s free exercise clause because plural marriage was part of religious practice? Chief Justice Morrison R. Waite stated that the law can penalize criminal activity without regard to religious belief. The First Amendment
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In Schenck v. United States‚ the Supreme Court keyed the famous “clear and present danger” test to determine when a state could constitutionally limit an individual’s free speech‚ under the first amendment. In finalizing the conviction of a man accused with disturbing the peace by handing out provocative flyers to draftees of the war‚ the Supreme Court came to the conclusion that in certain ways‚ words can create a “clear and present danger” in a way that Congress may constitutionally disallow. While
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LUCKNOW (2013-2014) CRIMINAL LAW-I FINAL DRAFT OF CASE STUDY ON LALLAN RAI v. STATE OF BIHAR SUBMITTED BY PAAVAN AWASTHI Roll no.-85 SUBMITTED TO Dr. K.A. Pandey ASST. PROFFESOR of LAW Sec-B‚ Semester-3 RMLNLU 2ND Year. PAAVAN AWASTHI‚ Roll No. 85‚ 3rd SEM‚ B.A. LL.B. (HONS)‚ RMLNLU 1|Page CRIMINAL LAW-I CASE ANALYSIS TITLE LALLAN RAI AND OTHERS……………………………………………..….APPELLANTS Versus STATE OF BIHAR………………………………………………....................RESPONDENT CITATION (2003)
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convictions merged. Petitioner challenged the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain his robbery conviction. The COA addresses the following question: Did the Court of Special Appeals incorrectly interpret and apply this Court’s decision in Coles v. State‚ 374 Md. 114‚ 821 A.2d 389 (2003) and effectively eliminate the distinction between theft and robbery‚ when it held that the mere utterance‚ ‘don’t say nothing‚’ could satisfy the constructive force element of robbery where there was testimonial
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Directors who happen to work for more than forty hours in a week as demanded by law are entitled to compensation. This has to cover the amount of time and effort they have used to serve the organization or state agency to the best of their knowledge. Despite such directors being under the excluded job category‚ they still have to be paid for their services for having worked for extra hours. These directors‚ just like other categories of excluded employees are entitled to pay for having exceeded the
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The United States Constitution is one of the most significant documents in modern world history. Its official date of adoption was on the seventeenth of September in 1897. The Constitution itself represents the advent of democracy‚ justice and freedom in a once-was colony which thereafter gained its independence. It established three branches of government; the legislative branch‚ the judicial branch and the executive branch. Additionally‚ the Constitution outlined the relationship between the country’s
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Mystique Ortiz Ortiz 1 Ms. Freitas Pre-AP Sophomore English Period 3 26 February 2013 Mock Trial Opening Statement-Prosecution Your honor and people of the jury‚ this is an indictment of attempted premeditated murder. The indictment sets forth that ‘Mr. Gene Forrester‚ one summer night‚ on the limb of a tree located at Devon School‚ purposely jostled the tree branch
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In recent years‚ we have seen more and more suicides related to cyber bullying then ever before. An example of this can be seen in the case of the United States v. Lori Drew. Lori was an older woman who pretended to be a teenaged boy and began to talk and soon after started an online relationship with a 14-year-old girl. The girl eventually began to fall for the fake 16-year-old boy that Lori Drew created
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