SORIANO VS. ABALOS Facts: The object of the dispute in this case is a parcel of land originally owned by Adriano Soriano who died intestate in 1947. Heirs of Adriano Soriano leased the property to spouses David de Vera and Consuelo Villasista on June 30‚ 1967‚ for a period of fifteen (15) years beginning July 1‚ 1967. On the contract of lease‚ paragraph 5‚ provided that Roman Soriano‚ one of the children of the late Adriano‚ will be the caretaker of the property during the period of the lease
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Media in court cases has many effects. One of which is the possibility that the Medias opinion may result in tainting the jury with unproven facts. As humans we make decisions based on how we perceive the world and the information we have on decision we are going to make. Pre-Trial Publicity “Due to extensive media coverage‚ jury selection in a high profile case can be extremely difficult. Jurors will likely have developed some biases about the case based on the media coverage to which they have
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The United States court always has issues thrown at them‚ but their biggest issue that has last ever since it was created is civil rights. Multiple cases relate with this topic. However‚ some rule against‚ but some also rule with it. The Supreme Court has made many decisions to protect the rights of other races in the United States: Dred Scott v. Sanford‚ Shelly v. Kraemer‚ and Loving v. Virginia The Dead Scott v’s Sanford are shows that no mater what race you are‚ if you were born in the United
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The facts of the case 18 States and the Justice Department brought suit against Microsoft to "eliminate Microsoft’s unlawful practices‚ to avoid recurrence of similar practices and to restore the competitive threat that middleware products posed prior to Microsoft’s unlawful conduct. The procedural history of the case Microsoft grew the government’s attention in 1991‚ because word was that it was abusing its monopoly in the PC operating system market. The government had the FTC conduct an inquiry
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proposed law or court case The court case that is being reviewed is Women’s Health Protection Act of 2017. The Intentions of this case is to "protect a women’s right and ability to determine whether and when to bear a child or end a pregnancy by limiting restrictions on the provision of abortion services." (Chu‚ J. 2017) Abortion is defined as "the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy‚ most often performed during the first 28 weeks or first trimester of pregnancy". the Supreme court ruled in
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are all kinds of school related violence and shootings today. If The Police are not full force in the schools they are not going to be able to quickly respond to something that happens unexpectedly. The first people to protect the students are the school staff themselves‚ Yet they do not have the resources to do so. Arming the teachers is the easiest way to do that. Indiana has passed a law that requires schools to have an armed Protection Officer on campus at all times during school hours (Chapter
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Roughly 10 years ago a court case was introduced to sue McDonald’s Corporation for knowingly selling defective products. The particulars of the case involved a woman spilling hot coffee on her-self and being injured very badly because of it. Public opinion was (and largely still is) strongly against the woman and her settlement. Her stepson wrote an article to argue that she was justified in receiving a settlement due to the defective nature of the product being sold. The claim being presented
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INTENDED ONLY FOR FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS AT DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW DO NOT CITE OR DISTRIBUTE This document includes five sample casenotes that the Duke Law Journal is making available to first-year students in the spring of 2008. All five received strong scores from DLJ in the 2007 casenote competition‚ although the authors may not have “written-on” to the Journal. These five casenotes represent a range of approaches to last year’s case. The Journal cannot speak to how these casenotes were scored
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Government Court Cases Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) 1. The Supreme Court had to decide if the state had power over the federal government in regulating commerce based on Article I Section 8. 2. Aaron Ogden was granted a license to run a steam-driven ferry monopoly in New York. Thomas Gibbons‚ his previous competitor‚ decided to continue running his ferries in defiance of the monopoly‚ so Ogden decided to sue Gibbons for trying to block his business and won in all the New York courts. 3. In this
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Criminal courts have two different functions‚ the adjudication and sanctioning in the courts. The first function of the criminal courts is adjudicating a criminal complaint. A criminal complaint Is giving a written document‚ an indictment. In this document‚ one citizen is accusing another citizen of violating the law. After this file has been approved by the court‚ the defendant answers the allegations of violating the law. After going to trial‚ the defendant most claim to be guilty or not guilty
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