Madeline Bahr LA 349 9/23/2014 Fair Housing Council of San Fernando Valley‚ The Fair Housing Council of San Diego‚ individually and on behalf of the General Public v Roommates.com‚ LLC I. Facts The defendant Roommate.com‚ LLC operates as a website designed to match people renting out spare rooms with people looking for a place to live. The website allows member to get notifications‚ messaging‚ and create a personal profile. Fair Housing Council of San Fernando Valley and of San Diego filled
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Sullivan v. State: Is Proportionality Really in the Eighth Amendment? TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………………………………3 General Background and Procedural Information……………………4 Origins of the 8th Amendment and History of Proportionality……………………………………………………………………………………………………4 Capital Crimes and Proportionality: Furman‚ Gregg‚ Coker………………………………………………………………………………………7 The Proportionality See-Saw: Rummel to Harmelin………………9
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1) Citation Palsgraf v. Long Island R. Co 248 N.Y. 339‚ 162 N.E. 99 (1928) Court of Appeals of New York 2) Key facts a. The plaintiff‚ Helen Palsgraf‚ was waiting for a train on a station platform. b. A man carrying a package was rushing to catch a train that was moving away from a platform across the tracks from Palsgraf. c. As the man attempted to jump aboard the moving train‚ he seemed unsteady and about to fall. d. A railroad guard on the car reached forward to grab him and another guard
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NIRMA UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF LAW CASE ANALYSIS Mallella Shyamsunder V. State Andhra Pradesh Course Name: Evidence Law B.A.‚ LL.B. (Hons) SEMESTER-VII Under the Guidance of: Mr. U. Vardharajan Assistant Professor Submitted By: Manushi Yadav (11BAL127) Introduction This appeal is directed against the judgment and order passed by the High Court of Andhra Pradesh‚ whereby the High Court dismissed the appeal filed by the appellants herein and confirmed the order dated 30.03.2005
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In “The Petitioner’s Brief in Sweatt v. Painter‚ 1950”‚ the document explained the NAACP arguments as they were before the Supreme Court. Essentially‚ it explored three arguments that the NAACP would later employ in future cases regarding segregation. Reprinted within Waldo E. Martin Jr.’s‚ “Brown v. Board of Education: A Brief History with Documents”‚ it offers key insight into the arguments the NAACP used in the Supreme Court. The first argument relates to whether schools established for Blacks
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Citation: Harvestons Securities‚ Inc. v. Narnia Investments‚ Ltd.‚ 218 S.W.3d 126 (2007) Plaintiff and Defendant: The plaintiff/appellant is Harvestons Securities‚ Inc. The defendant/appellee is Narnia Investments‚ Ltd. Facts: In year 2000‚ Narnia Investments‚ Ltd. sued Harvestons Securities‚ Inc. and several defendants in trial court of Texas. The trial court then granted a default judgment against Harvestons and in favor of Narnia that Harvestons has to pay $365‚000‚ plus attorney’s fees‚ prejudgment
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The plaintiff of this case is Harvest States Cooperatives and the defendant is Anderson. Harvest States Cooperatives sued Anderson for breach of contract‚ after Anderson failed to deliver 5‚000 bushels of corn. Anderson had spoken to a representative of the coop over the phone to inquire the price of corn which he had available for sale. Harvest States Cooperatives asked Anderson if he would like to see a contract and Anderson said yes. Following through‚ Harvest States Cooperatives sent Anderson
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Attila Nagy 9/18/2017 ENC3465 Legal Brief 3 State of New York v. Robert Strong Facts Robert Strong belongs to the Sudan Muslim religious faith‚ which later named him one of the leaders. As part of a well-known ceremony‚ he performed a religious exercise on the victim by plunging three knives into his chest to stop his heartbeat and breathing without any health repercussion thereafter. Even though this has occurred for over forty years without any fatality‚ the victim did not survive this exercise
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Political Science Name: rsonam Donohue Briefs #2 Tuesday‚ March 5 Schenck v. United States 1919 Criminal Case Federal Petitioner: Schenck Respondent: United States Events: During World War I in 1917‚ Congress had passed a law called the Espionage Act which states that during wartime obstructing the draft and trying to make soldiers disloyal or disobedient were crimes. Schenck going against the war‚ mailed thousands
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felony. In 2002‚ alleging that the evidence that the Arlington Police Department obtained from both his home and work computers was inadmissible claiming an unlawful search and seizure in violation of the First and Fourth Amendments to the United States Constitution and article I of the Texas Constitution‚ Voyles filed a motion to suppress. The Fourth Amendment and Article I of the Texas Constitution provides that a defendant has standing to challenge the admission
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