Specht v. Netscape Communication Corporation‚ 306 F.3d 17 (2nd Cir. 2002). I. FACTS Plaintiffs sued‚ Netscape‚ a software internet company who distributed the free software SmartDownload‚ for electronic eavesdropping. The Plaintiffs alleged Defendant violated two federal statutes‚ the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act‚ by capturing private information about files downloaded from the Internet . Plaintiffs filed suit against Defendant in District Court
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braud. Our topic was then narrowed down to‚ The Right of the 8th Amendment for the Mentally Retarded in Prison. We then discovered court cases over the rights of the mentally retarded in prison‚ and decided that the case that appealed the most was Penry v Lynaugh. Resulting our topic to be: The Right of the 8th Amendment for the Mentally Retarded in Prison: Penry v Lynaugh. After choosing our
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Gonzales v. Raich In the case of Gonzales v. Raich‚ the Supreme Court made a judgment that affected the California users of medical marijuana. Under a law the federal Controlled Substance Act‚ marijuana is a schedule one controlled substance‚ however under a 1996 state California law‚ marijuana is legalized for usage for people who have a prescription from a doctor for medical usage. When the federal Drug Enforcement Administration enforced the CSA by destroying one of the defendant’s marijuana
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Personal Property Case Study The case study “Parking Lot’s Liability” is an actual court case‚ Allright‚ Inc. v. Strauder. Plaintiff brought suit alleging that as a result of defendant’s negligence‚ his automobile was stolen from a parking lot operated by defendant. Signs were located throughout the parking lot which stated that the lot closed at 6 o’clock p.m. and that anyone returning after that time could pick up their keys at another parking lot operated by the defendant at a another
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Florida v. Bostick Citation # 501 U.S. 429 Supreme Court of the United States Argued February 26‚ 1991 Decided June 20‚ 1991 Florida v. Bostick was a felony drug trafficking case which set precedence to the legality of random police searches of passengers aboard public buses and trains pertaining to said passenger’s fourth amendment rights. Shortly after boarding a bus departing from Miami headed for Atlanta‚ Terrance Bostick was approached by members of the Broward County Sheriffs
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News of the decision in the legal case Brown v. Board of Education shook the country‚ the decision that ended segregation. However‚ many resented the decision‚ doing everything they could to prevent desegregation. Even with the negative reactions toward the Brown case‚ black people claimed it was a major victory for them. It took several years before most integration in schools took place. It wasn’t until many schools were threatened with the loss of their funding or had troops sent to their schools
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Mathews v. Eldridge James Schwerner FIRAC Facts: Title II of the Social Security Act provides cash benefits to disabled workers. A man by the name of Eldridge was awarded these benefits in June of 1968. Eldridge stayed on this benefit plan until March of 1972 when he received a questionnaire regarding the current state of his medical condition. Eldridge claims that he had filled out the questionnaire conveying the fact that he was still in need of the benefits that he was entitled to; however the
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Carhart case in 2007 was significant to the way abortions were to be performed. The case established the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act which banned D&E procedures and regulated abortions. The procedure was the dilatation of a woman’s cervix followed by the extraction of an unborn baby. (Kennedy 1)
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I have gone through all the assigned cases and I must admit it constituted one of the most challenging I have read thus far. Most of the legal jargons are notoriously difficult to comprehend. However‚ I braved the terms and what not coupled with patience and I did find a tiny light at the end of the tunnel. Among the three cases‚ I find King v. Burwell case interesting‚ in a sense‚ for the reason that the arguments raised in the case were about the subsidies for The Patient Protection and Affordable
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based on nonviolence. One of the most significant cases that sparked the civil rights movement to move in a progressive direction was the Brown v. Board of Education case. This case‚ although using the Brown name‚ included four other similar complaints regarding the segregated school system. With Brown being alphabetically at the top of the list‚ it is the name that appears on the court case itself. As many of the battles with civil
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