Prior to the case of Gideon v. Wainwright, defendant Clarence Earl Gideon was charged with breaking and entering in the state of Florida. This crime is a felony according to Florida state law. Unable to pay for defense counsel, Gideon requested that the court grant him one for free. The court denied Gideon his request of being granted defense counsel. The court stated, “Under the laws of the State of Florida, the only time the Court can appoint Counsel to represent a Defendant is when that person charged with a capital offense.”
Case 41 Tenn. 290, 1860 WL (Tenn.) Tally’s Ex’rs v. Smith Year: 1860, September Court: Supreme Court of Tennessee Parties Appellant: HENRY SMITH Respondent: The executors of DUDLEY TALLY, deceased Facts On October 1854, Dudley Tally entered into a Bill of Sale (a contract of sale), selling his property of seven slaves to Henry Smith. Tally was, at the time of sale, deteriorating in physical and mental capacity due to chronic illness and old age. Tally died in December 1854, just two months after the Bill was signed.
Tarasoff v. Regents of University of California 1. Assertion made by the plaintiff. Tatiana Tarasoff’s parents (Plaintiffs) filed a suit against the Board of Regents and the employees at the University for failing to notify the intended victim. Tatiana’s parents asserted that the four psychiatrists at University of California, Cowell Memorial Hospital had a duty to warn Tatiana and her parents of the threats made by Poddar.
Its been fought over for many years that violent video games should not be given to minors, but teens and minors reply in a different way that of to adults and physiologists. But what does the Supreme Court have to say? One child psychologist claims to believe “violent video—games—which have become increasingly interactive and realistic—could lead minors to commit real-life acts of aggression, and that such games are psychologically damaging to them”(Yee 17). In order to understand the Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, one must know that a psychologist believed that violent video games for children lead to aggression later on in life, Each side presented its own view on the case, The impact on this case has changed Americas view on video game distribution to minors.
After a college student went missing, they found him alive and lying face down and bloody by some active train tracks. The investigators of criminal law are trying to understand what led up to the incident. James Hubert, 24, had been discovered without his shoes and a torn dress shirt. When they transported him to the Grady Hospital in Atlanta, the physicians started to treat him for broken ribs, facial bruising and brain hemorrhaging. He also had the potential for paralysis.
Business Law Case Study Essay: Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, 573 U.S (2014) Facts: The Green family runs and owns Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., a national arts and skills chain that has over 500 stores and they have over 13,000 employees. Other facts of the case are that the Green family has been able to organize the business around the values of the Christian faith and has explicitly expressed the desire to run the company as told by Biblical principles, one of which is the belief that the utilization of contraception is wicked. Also, the facts show that under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), occupation -founded group health care plans must offer certain sorts of preventative care, for example, FDA-accepted contraceptive approaches.
Step 1: Establish the facts and determine the issues Phoebe, my client, contracts with Fertility Specialists to donate her eggs. Although she does not get paid for the eggs because they are considered donation, she does receive a donor fee totaling $12,000. This fee covers the painful egg stimulation and extraction procedures. When donating eggs the procedure involves a lot of time, effort, inconvenience, pain and suffering. Her contract explicitly states, “The payments are for her pain and suffering and not for the sale of her eggs.”
Tommy McCartney is the high school student. He works forty hours per week and save $6000. He wishes to have a car and he decides to use his saving money to buy one. He finds the car that he like. It is the used yellow Camaro.
Dred Scott vs. Sanford case was the biggest mistake in U.S history, hands down. It is listed as the first case of the top ten worst Supreme Court decisions. Dred scotts case was the most significant because after his, no other case had ruined the reputation of the court quite as bad. This case was a huge deal, and is still an important subject to teach to students today. This case was said to be the case that started the civil war, although that may be an exaggeration.
In 1945, the High Court of Australia heard the case of Gratwick v Johnson and ultimately decided to dismiss the appeal in a unanimous decision by the Judges. While different reasoning was employed, all five judges drew the conclusion that the appeal should be dismissed as the statute the defendant was charged under was inconsistent with s.92 of the Australian Constitution. To provide some context for this case in 1944, Dulcie Johnson was charged with an offence against the National Security Act 1939-1943 in that she did contravene par.3 of the Restriction of Interstate Passenger Transport Order by travelling from South Australia to Western Australia by rail. In brief terms par.3 of the Restriction of Interstate Passenger Transport Order provided that no person shall, without a valid permit, travel from state to state or territory.
On Sunday, November 13, 1842 a double murder occurred at Smith Farm in Old Fields, Long Island. The victims, Alexander Smith and and Rebecca Smith, were a wealthy, well- respected married couple who ran Smith farm. George Weeks, the Smiths farmhand, was reporting for work the monday after the murder and heard the dog barking from the work-shed by the Smiths house. George Weeks then became suspicious since the dog was usually inside with Mr. Smith. George then looked in the house and saw that the east room window was broken and Mr. and Mrs. Smith were lying on the floor covered in blood.
1. To what extent do you think the U.S.-Canadian magazine dispute was motivated by genuine desires to protect Canadian culture? The US-Canadian Magazine Dispute was strongly motivated by genuine desire to protect the Canadian culture because Canadian government known the important of magazine production as one of the commercial direction to the country’s economy and they have strong cultural believe to preserve their national identity and the differences they share with US culture. Despite the fact that Canada is the second largest nation in the world, roughly about 90 percent of the Canadian population got many basic favors with American government across the borders.
To what extent do you think the U.S.-Canadian magazine dispute was motivated by genuine desires to protect Canadian culture? Through reading the passage on the U.S.-Canadian magazine dispute, I find it hard to believe that the conflict truly revolved around protecting Canadian culture. For a country that produced a mere eleven percent of the magazine market domestically, it is evident that the force behind this dispute was financially motivated. I would have been more inclined to side on the cultural integrity if the dispute was not created with the use of a split run edition. My understanding of the use of the split run edition was to allow tax breaks for Canadian companies who chose to advertise in this periodical.
1.The US-Canadian magazine dispute arose due to the strong desire to protect the Canadian culture. Throughout history, Canada showed a strong sense of its identity and how different it is. We can see that in its preservative attitudes towards foreign cultures, especially towards the US culture. Being a bordering country to the US and the fact that the two countries have a lot in common has made the Canadian government has been worrying about the infiltration of some aspects of the US culture through the importation and exportation of goods and products, especially cultural ones such as books, films, TV shows, etc. However, some argue that this dispute and movement of the Canadian government is not completely driven by the protection of the Canadian culture, they contend that it is also a matter of market competitiveness and that what has
To what extent do you think the U.S.-Canadian magazine dispute was motivated by genuine desires to protect Canadian culture? If we should stay to official documentation, we have to conclude that the U.S.-Canadian magazine dispute was motivated by genuine desires to protect Canadian culture. In fact, Canadian Government declared that the magazine industry is “an important touchstone of Canadian National Identity" and indicated it as the only Canadian national press (The LEVIN Institute, n.d., p. 17). Considerations about the diffusion and the popularity of Canadian magazines, or the preferences of Canadian people are inappropriate when the purpose is to preserve tradition and culture. Of course, people have the right to choose what to read,
