ROBERT C. BROWNING V. ARTHUR JOHNSON Project Type: Re writing of judgement Submitted to: Prof . Surabhi Rajapal Faculty‚ Contract law Submitted by: Shubhank Singh Semester II Year I Roll no. 2015- 110 NALSAR University of Law‚ Hyderabad FACTS OF THE CASE: Browning and Johnson went into an agreement of offer whereby Browning was to offer his practice and hardware to Johnson. Both sides and their lawyers trusted the agreement made to be totally legitimate and enforceable. Prior to the agreement’s
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Holmes v. South Carolina United States Supreme Court 547 U.S. 319 (2006) : Facts: Holmes was charged with first degree murder‚ first degree burglary and robbery in connection with an incident involving an 86 year old woman‚ Mary Stewart. Holmes was also charged for the rape and murder of Stewart. At the trial court‚ Holmes was convicted by the South Carolina Supreme Court. The United States Supreme Court denied certiorari. The petitioner had appealed and the court granted a new trail. During
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Dred Scott v. Sanford came to trial in 1854. Let it be known that Dred Scott was the only case that reached the Supreme Court brought on by a slave against his master (Vandervelde 5). Scott presented the courts with the same arguments and three main questions were brought before the court: 1) As a black man‚ was Scott a citizen with a right to sue in federal courts? 2) Had prolonged residence (two years in each place) in a free state and territory made Scott free? 3) Was Fort Snelling actually free
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The Supreme Court case of Sessions v. Morales-Santana deals with the issue of whether or not a distinction based on gender in establishing derivative citizenship for immigrants violates the 5th amendment’s guarantee of equal protection. The questions presented by this case are: (1) Whether Congress’s decision to require different physical presence requirements for unwed citizen mothers than unwed citizen fathers in order to pass citizenship to a foreign- born child violates the 5th amendment’s guarantee
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invitation to treat is not an offer‚ but a statement or expression made by a person to invite offers for consideration. With reference to Gibson v Manchester City Council [1979]‚ the Council was running policies of selling council houses to the occupants‚ saying that they may be prepared to sell the house and require the occupants to
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The officers were within their scope of duties to initially stop Dickerson in this case due to his suspicious and evasive behavior as he exited the apartment building and saw the officer. To pursue and check him for weapons because of potential criminal involvement was not outside the scope of their duties due to the criminal history
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successfully sued a member of the paparazzi for the tort of intrusion upon seclusion after he broke into her hospital room‚ Oklahoma has recognized this tort. Scuito v. National Tattler‚ Inc.‚ 246 P.2d 357‚ 358. Intrusion upon seclusion is an intentional tort that requires an unauthorized and unreasonable intrusion into another party’s privacy. McGee v. Gemcity Publishers‚ Inc.‚ 2010
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DEP’s existing structure was fashioned more as a divisionalized structure divided by its functional areas – Waste Cleanup‚ Waste Prevention and Resource Protection. Under the Bureau of Waste Prevention were included the various mediums – air‚ water‚ hazardous waste which worked independently of each other; conducting independent inspections‚ maintaining separate files‚ with no coordination between departments. Each of these sections also had a high degree of specialization of skills and standardized
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At 6:25 PM‚ S/O Tom Kollar had notified Security Supervisor Steven Gibbs that he had received a report about a vehicle on fire in the B building parking lot‚ as well as notifications from Safety Representative Jolynn Heller in regards to the issue. The Fire department was called by Supervisor Gibbs at 6:26 pm‚ who in turn notified him that they were sending a unit immediately to the site and called LPS Jeffrey Matweecha in regards on escalation for the incident. He advised coordinate with Safety
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Case Write Up: Manila Water Company Water is quickly becoming a new form of currency throughout the world. At the rate of consumption relating to the rapidly increasing population‚ the world’s water supply is quickly being diminished. In the film “Blue Gold”‚ filmmaker Sam Bozzo‚ depicts the concerns of the world’s water supply. The areas most affected with the water crisis tend to be the poor in 3rd world countries. Many of the poor spend a majority of their time acquiring clean drinking
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