and Meritor Savings Bank. Vinson charged that she had constantly been subjected to sexual harassment by Taylor over her four years at the bank. She argued such harassment created a "hostile working environment" and was covered by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Vinson sought injunctive relief along with compensatory and punitive damages against Taylor and the bank. Taylor denied allegations of sexual activity and said the accusation were made over a business-related dispute.
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The assumption standard does not meet modern pleading standards because it allows plaintiffs to present a claim that is missing an essential element of due process. An initial question is what are modern pleading standards? Pleadings standard in the modern era have become stricter and require plaintiffs to show more than they might have in the past. In two cases‚ Ashcroft v. Iqbal and Bell Atlantic Corp. v. Twombly ‚ the Supreme Court expanded the scope of pleading requirements. The Supreme
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Brief # 1-Circuit City Stores‚ Inc(Defendant) V. Mantor(Plantiff) Procedural History A year after Circuit City‚ Inc terminated Mantor’s employment he brought a civil action in state court alleging twelve causes of action. Circuit City petitioned the district court to compel arbirtration‚ and the distict court granted circuit citys motion to compel arbitration. Mantor appealed‚ argueing that the arbitration process was unforecable because it was unconsiable Issue Was the arbitration contract
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Interview questions & Rule 4 defined Prof. Piquant Kaplan University School of Legal Studies By: Lawrence Pelkey 10 interview questions for the plaintiff 1. Tell me what happened on June 27th ‚ 2014 while driving your Dodge automobile in a northwardly direction on Lebanon road? 2. Did you see another vehicle in your lane on this road on June 27th? If so can you identify the vehicle and did you see the driver? 3. What happen after you spotted the
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ORDER VI PLEADINGS GENERALLY 1. Pleading "Pleading"‚ shall mean plaint or written statement. 1[2. Pleading to state material facts and not evidence (1) Every pleading shall contain‚ and contain only a statement in a concise form of the material facts on which the party pleading relies for his claim or defence as the case may be‚ but not the evidence by which they are to be proved. (2) Every pleading shall‚ when necessary‚ be divided into paragraphs‚ numbered consecutively‚ each allegation
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Facts International Shoe Co. (D‚ appellant) was a Delaware corporation with its principle place of business in St. Louis‚ Missouri. It had no offices in the state of Washington and made no contracts for sale there. International Shoe did not keep merchandise in Washington and did not make deliveries of goods in intrastate commerce originating from the state. International Shoe employed 11-13 salesmen for three years who resided in Washington. Their commissions each year totaled more than $31‚000
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1. Case 1 Country X purchased property in Chicago‚ USA‚ for its embassy. After country X has merged with country Y to form country Z‚ the property was turned over to the new formed State. Country Z was represented by a single ambassador to USA. Few years later‚ country Z was dissolved and Country X and Y again became separate independent sovereign states. Country X then sought to reclaim its embassy‚ but the property was being occupied at that time by a diplomat of country Y (who had been country
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BLAW 243 STUDY GUIDE Wednesday‚ January 11 2010 I. What is law? a. Rules rules come from who ever is in charge b. Golden Rule: those who have the gold make the rules c. We as people came upon 2 different ways of making rules i. The Romans: wrote everything down and gave us statutory law 1. Statute: laws that are written down. Passed by major legislature. 2. Ordinance: a statute local in nature. Have limited effect because they’re in a limited area. 3. US government creates statutes
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in another one of MY sections if you wish. PLEASE INDICATE THE NAMES OF YOUR GROUP MEMBERS CLEARLY ON THE TITLE PAGE OF THE ASSIGNMENT AND SECTION NUMBERS FOR EACH GROUP MEMBER. LATE ASSIGNMENTS ARE NOT ACCEPTED. Attend the trial of your choice (civil or criminal) at the B.C. Supreme Court at the Law Courts at 800 Smithe Street‚ Vancouver for at least one hour and then answer the following questions in approximately 1‚200 words. . DO NOT go to Chambers Hearings‚ Bail Hearings‚ Sentencing Hearings
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African Consolidated Resources Plc and Others Minister of Mines and Mining Development and Others (HC 6411/07) [2010] ZWHHC 86 (6 September 2010) Download original filesPDF format RTF format | | Bookmark/share this page | [Context] [Hide Context] HH 205-2010 HC 6411/07 IN THE HIGH COURT OF ZIMBABWE HELD AT HARARE In the matter between:- AFRICAN CONSOLIDATED RESOURCES Plc and DASHALOO INVESTMENTS (PVT) LTD and POSSESSION INVESTMENTS (PVT) LTD and HEAVY STUFF INVESTMENTS
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