Case Name: Missouri v. Jenkins 491 U.S. 274 (1989) United States Supreme Court Facts: The attorneys and associates for plaintiff‚ Kansas City Missouri School District‚ had been litigating a school district segregation case since 1979 and NAACP had been litigating the case since 1982. Attorneys asked and received reasonable attorney fees under Civil Rights Attorney’s Fees Awards Act of 1976‚ 42 U.S.C. §1988. All fees were given at current market rates. A Court of Appeals affirmed this
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On June 29‚ 2009‚ the last day of the United States Supreme Court’s 2008–09 term‚ the Court rendered the much anticipated decision in Ricci v. DeStefano‚ 129 S. Ct. 2658‚ 174 L. Ed. 2d 490 (2009). Ricci was quickly dubbed the “white firefighter’s case” by many‚ however‚ the case involved much more than the firefighters’ asserted right to a promotion. Ricci involved a promotional examination administered by New Haven‚ Connecticut to members of the New Haven Fire Department to identify those applicants
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violated the First Amendment. In trying to keep minors away from inappropriate material the Act reduced "the freedom of speech" by restricting what adults could send over the internet. # 2) Legal Precedent: a. Sable Communications of California v. FCC (1989) was in response to a ban on indecent and obscene interstate commercial phone messages. Sable Communications was in the dial-a-porn business. The supreme court decision was that the ban on obscene speech was valid since the constitution does
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Janel Mitchell Ms. Winter Honors Civics & Economics B-1 Case name: DC V. Heller A controversial topic came about in the year of 2008. It was concerning whether or not DC’s gun law was following along the lines of the Second Amendment Rights. A man by the name of Dick Anthony Heller was a special police officer and had gone in to register for a handgun for his home. The true underlying issue was whether or not the rights were protected under the Second Amendments which states: The
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TENNESSEE v. Cleamtee GARNER‚ et al. 471 U.S. 1‚ 105 S. Ct 1694‚ 85 L.Ed.2d 1 Argued Oct. 30‚ 1984 Decided March 27‚ 1985 A case in which the court ruled that a Tennessee “fleeing felon” law was unconstitutional because it legalize the use of deadly force by police when a suspect poses no immediate threat to the police or others. The court ruled that the use of deadly force was a Fourth Amendment seizure issue subject to a finding of “ reasonableness.” Father‚ whose unarmed son was shot
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Criminal Justice 1 Case Review October 16‚ 2013 Terry Brice Horton v. California Argued February 21‚ 1990 496 U.S. 128‚ 110 S. Ct. 2301‚ 110 L. Ed. 2d 112 (1990) The defendant’s armed robbery conviction was upheld by the California Supreme Court‚ the defendant then petitioned the writ of certiorari‚ which is a decision by the Supreme Court to hear an appeal from a lower court. Justice Stevens then held that “Fourth Amendment does not prohibit warrantless seizure of evidence of crime
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HOUSE RULES 8 RULE 1 8 RULE 2 8 RULE 3 9 STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF EACH RULE 9 RULE 1: 9 Strength 9 Weakness 9 RULE 2: 9 Strength 9 Weakness 10 RULE 3: 10 Strength 10 Weakness 10 BIBLIOGRAPHY 11 Commercial Bank of Australia Ltd. V. Amadio [1983] HCA 14 Question 1- Ratio-Three Levels of Generality Broad level of Generality: Where a party enters into an agreement with another party and takes an unfair advantage of the situation by failing to disclose anything which has taken
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Henry and Prince Hal’s discussion on what makes a great king. Like a comet‚ the less is seen of the king‚ the more of a sovereign‚ enigmatic figure he becomes and the more respect he gains when he makes such seldom appearances.) Henry V (In the final act of Henry V‚ Henry approaches Princess Catherine of France to try and woo her. He makes it seem as if he is a lovestruck‚ simple man that isn’t very good with words (even though the reader know that this is certainly not the case). The reader knows
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S-curve describes how the performance or cost characteristics of a technology change with time and continued investments. While the horizontal axis shows the history (time and investment) of technical innovations‚ the vertical axis shows some problems of product performance or cost competitiveness. The pace of improvement slows when the established technology is improved and approaching its maturity. Many problems which a new technology has to face with are solved over time and with investment
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Interests‚ Ideas. London: Transaction Publication‚ 1997 "Primary Sources Guyana." Alternative Considerations of Jonestown. 1 Feb. 2007. 10 June 2008 (http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/PrimarySources/guyana.htm). Richardson‚ James. "People ’s Temple and Jonestown: a Corrective Comparison and Critique." Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 19 (1980): 239-255
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