POWELL v ALABAMA United States Supreme Court 287 U.S. 45 (1932) FACTS: Nine young black boys riding in an open train car were involved in a fight. When the fight ceased‚ two white women claimed the black boys raped them. Once the boys got off the train in Scottsboro‚ Alabama‚ police picked them up and placed them in jail. The men appeared in court‚ frightened‚ and unrepresented. The defendants were charged with a capital offence and therefore had the right for counsel to be appointed to them
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McKeiver v. Pennsylvania Facts of the Case The case involved Joseph McKeiver‚ and Edward Terry‚ from two different charges. McKeiver was charged with robbery‚ larceny‚ and receiving stolen goods as acts of juvenile delinquency. Terry was charged with assault and battery on a police officer. The officer was breaking up a fight when Terry began hitting him with his fists and a stick. The next week‚ he was then charged and committed with assault on a teacher. Both juveniles were denied a jury trial
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| |Legal Memo Format Date: 3/13/2013 Re: A.16 (pg1223): Cafazzo v. Central Medical Health Services‚ Inc 542 Pa. 526‚ 668 A.2d 521‚1995 (Pennsylvania Supreme Court) Facts Cafazzo (Plaintiff) sued Central Medical Health Services and Physician that did the surgery (Defendants) for product liability for an implanted medical device that failed six years after his surgery in 1986. Cafazzo had surgery for the implantation of a mandibular
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ACC 510 Summer 1 2012 Robert Morris University An Analysis of Facebook’s Acquisition of Instagram In a world where we have over 200 major active social networking websites (excluding dating forums) its makes perfect sense why so many are doing any and everything they can to maintain‚ and increase‚ their share of the market. It also makes perfect sense why Facebook recently paid double the market value for its acquisition of Instagram‚ an upstart photo-sharing social network. In April
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Brief Fact Summary. Police officers sought a bombing suspect and evidence of the bombing at the petitioner‚ Miss Mapp’s (the “petitioner”) house. After failing to gain entry on an initial visit‚ the officers returned with what purported to be a search warrant‚ forcibly entered the residence‚ and conducted a search in which obscene materials were discovered. The petitioner was tried and convicted for these materials. Rule of Law. All evidence discovered as a result of a search and seizure conducted
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Notes on Ceballos v Garcetti Richard Ceballos had been employed since 1989 as a deputy district attorney for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office‚ which at the time was headed by Gil Garcetti. After the defense attorney in a pending criminal case contacted Ceballos about his motion to challenge a critical search warrant based on inaccuracies in the supporting affidavit‚ Ceballos conducted his own investigation and determined that the affidavit contained serious misrepresentations. Ceballos
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for mental harm on two grounds. The first is that he did not owe Ryan Philcox a duty of care and the second that as Ryan Philcox was not present at the scene of the accident when the accident occurred‚ he did not satisfy the condition imposed by s 53(1)(a) of the Civil Liability Act (SA) upon recovery of damages for mental harm by someone other than a parent‚ spouse or child of a person killed‚ injured or endangered in an accident. The issues that arise for the purposes of this appeal are that if Mr
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Marcela Levayova Social Psychology February 09‚ 2015 Heuristics In a video called Attitudes and Attitude Change‚ professor Mahzarin Banaji talks about implicit attitudes and how it is an unconscious decision maker that works for us when we make decisions. Implicit attitudes rest in our minds‚ they are our likes and preferences just like any other attitude. It is not conscious and we might not be aware of it therefore it can’t be controlled either. Heuristics are believed to be also unconsciously
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7-Felthouse v Bindley (1862) 11 CBNS 869 (CCP) Summary: • “For a contract to come into existence‚ the offeree had to communicate his acceptance of the relevant offer to the offeror.” • This means that for a contract to come into play it has to be a bilateral agreement. One party cannot decide to enter someone else in a contract. Also‚ the case implies that changes in a contract nullify prior acceptances- if the contract changes‚ you need to agree the terms again. The Case: • F[elthouse]
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American Government Ms. Evans Period 6 October 1‚ 2013 In analyzing the views of the Marbury vs. Madison case one can tell that after analyzing the documents that the case resulted in puzzlement of Article III Section 2 of the Constitution. In the year of 1803 the Marbury vs. Madison case raised the question of if the Supreme Court should have the authority to overturn unconstitutional federal laws. Yes‚ the Supreme Court should have the authority to overturn unconstitutional federal laws
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