Charter Case Analysis: Vriend v. Alberta 1. Delwin Vriend filed a complaint with the Alberta Human Rights Commission because he believes that he was discriminated against by his employer after being fired when his employer became aware that Mr. Vriend was a homosexual. 2. The Alberta Human Rights Commission said that Vriend could not make a complaint under the IRPA because sexual orientation was not covered under the protected grounds of the IRPA. 3. Mr. Vriend claims that the IRPA violated
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No. 07-0268 __________________________________________________________ IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES _____________ ANDREA “ANDY” SOMMERVILLE‚ Petitioners-Appellants v. WLLIAM DENOLF Respondent-Appellee ------------------------------------------------- On Writ of Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventeenth Circuit _____________ BRIEF FOR RESPONDENT _____________ QUESTIONS PRESENTED FOR REVIEW 1) Whether the Gun Free School Zone
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Case: M.Caratan V. Commissioner (71-1 USTC ¶9353) ISSUE: whether the employee-taxpayers were entitled to exclude from their gross incomes the value of lodging furnished to them by their employer‚ M. Caratan‚ Inc.‚ under section 119 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. FACTS: The company‚ M. Caratan‚ Inc‚had a policy‚ established by the taxpayers in their capacity as corporate officers and directors‚ that required supervisory and management personnel to reside on the farm. Company-owned lodging
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Even though the Convention on the European Convention on Human Rights separates from other human rights treaties because it has its own judicial body‚ looking at their case law for guidance can still be useful. In the Belilos v. Switzerland case‚ the Court decided that a interpretative declaration was to be treated like a reservation. Further‚ because of article 64 § 1 of the Convenetion‚ that requires "precision and clarity" ‚ the reservation in question
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of the Fourteenth Amendment. The court decided to put the case on trial; it related back to the Betts v. Brady case of 1942. Unlike Betts v. Brady’s 6-3 ruling in which Betts had lost‚ Gideon won the case with an astounding 9-0 majority. The main issue of the case centers on proper representation of the defendant. In order for the reader to fully understand the scope of the case‚ he or she needs to consider Betts v. Brady. 1Gideon’s case originally started in the lower courts. 2He went to the 13th
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U.S. Supreme Court TEXAS v. JOHNSON‚ 491 U.S. 397 (1989) 491 U.S. 397 Citation: Johnson was convicted of desecration of a venerated object in violation of a Texas statute. Date Decided: June 21‚ 1989 Facts of case: At the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas‚ Texas‚ Johnson decided to burn an American flag in protest of some policies made by the Reagan administration and some Dallas corporations that he did not agree with. Noone sustained physical injury or was even
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Title of Case: Florida v. Michael A. Riley Legal Citation: 488 U.S. 445‚ 109 S.Ct. 693‚ 102 L.Ed.2d. 835 (1989) Procedural History: The respondent‚ Michael A. Riley‚ was charged with possession of marijuana under Florida law. The trail court granted his motion to suppress; the Court of Appeals reversed but certified the case to the Florida Supreme Court‚ which rejected the decision of the Court of Appeals and reinstated the trail court’s suppression order. The Supreme Court granted a writ of certiorari
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LAW 3112 CASE REVIEW CASE: PAYNE v. CAVE 1789 SUBMITTED TO: Dr. Siti Salwani Razali SUBMITTED BY Abdullah Md Mohabbat 1112221 Abdul Wasey Faheem 1119949 (Section : 3) FACTS OF THE CASE The defendant had made the highest bid in an auction. The defendant had withdrawn his offer before the auctioneer had knocked his hammer. The plaintiff’s counsel opened the case with as: the goods were put up in one lot at an auction. There were several bidders of which the defendant
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Week:2 Ishmael Section 1 (pgs. 1-63 assignment questions) 1.) After reading the ad for the teacher seeking a student‚ we get some insight about why the narrator had his reasons for saving the world. He explains that during the 60s and 70s an era known as a time of "peace and love" he "expected to see that the new era had begun‚ that the sky was a brighter blue and the grass a brighter green. I expected to heat laughter in the air and to see people dancing in the streets‚ and not just kids-everyone
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controversial five to four decision in Ricci v. DeStefano. The case of Ricci vs DeStefano raises the uncomfortable but common question of how far will employers go to favor one race over another? In other words‚ discrimination was at play in the case‚ in a scenario that will be unexpected to readers. The case of Frank Ricci vs. John DeStefano was established through an invalid act in the case of firefighters‚ promoting firefighters to be precise. The case began in the city of New Haven‚ Connecticut
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