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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Zippittelli v. J.C. Penney Co. IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA February 28‚ 2007 JOANNE ZIPPITTELLI‚ PLAINTIFF v. J.C. PENNEY COMPANY‚ INC.‚ J.C. PENNEY TELEMARKETING‚ INC.‚ AND JAMES JOHNSON‚ DEFENDANTS The opinion of the court was delivered by: Judge James M. Munley United States District Court MEMORANDUM Before the court is defendants’ motion for summary judgment (Doc. 18). Having been fully briefed and argued‚ the matter is ripe for disposition
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Kubasek‚ N.‚ K.‚ Brennan‚ B.A.‚ and Browne‚ M.N. (n.d.). The legal environment of business: A critical thinking approach (3rd Ed). In R. Hartigan (Ed.). Ethics and legal concepts for business. Upper Saddle River‚ NJ: Peason/Prentice Hall. Liebeck’s v. McDonald’s Rest.‚ P.T.S. Inc. and McDonald’s International‚Inc. No. CV-93-02419‚ 1995 WL 360309 (N.M. Dist.Ct. August 18‚ 1994). Press‚ A.‚ & Carroll‚ G. (1995‚ March 20). Are lawyers burning America? Newsweek‚ 125(12)‚ 32. Retrieved February 14‚
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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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Asia Pacific Business Review Vol. 14‚ No. 3‚ 285–291‚ July 2008 Innovation in Japan: An Introduction KEITH JACKSON* & PHILIPPE DEBROUX** *Centre for Financial & Management Studies (CeFiMS)‚ School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS)‚ University of London‚ London‚ **Faculty of Business Administration‚ Soka University‚ Tokyo‚ Japan ABSTRACT Because of the depth and scope of its innovation system‚ Japan is a reference country in terms of developments in the management of innovation. Japan
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dolescence is considered a difficult time of life and one in which a number of changes occur as the individual achieves a certain integration of different aspects of personality. One approach to the cognitive and emotional transitions made at different times of life is to consider how the changes in‚ say‚ adolescence are linked to a continuum of change beginning in childhood and continuing throughout life. Some theorists‚ such as Piaget‚ were interested primarily in the transitions of childhood
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Question 2 : The school considering a new system that will speed up the registration process. As a system analyst you are asked to develop a plan for fact-finding. (20marks) A) Fact-Finding Techniques To study any system the analyst needs to do collect facts and all relevant information. the facts when expressed in quantitative form are termed as data. The success of any project is depended upon the accuracy of available data. Accurate information can be collected with help of certain methods/
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Unit 1: Introduction to Electronic Communication Saurabh Khatri Lecturer Department of Computer Technology VIT‚ Pune Syllabus Unit 2 Unit 4 Unit 5 Unit 1 Unit 3 Books to refer “Communication Electronics- Principles and Applications”‚ by Frenzel‚ Tata McGraw Hill Publication‚ ISBN 0-07048398-1‚ Edition 3rd. ”Computer Networks”‚ by Andrew S. Tenenbaum ‚ Prentice Hall of India‚ ISBN 81-203-2175-8‚ 4th Edition. Assessment Total assessment = 100 15 – CT (7.5)
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