Jordan retired in 1993 but came back to the league in 1995, no contract was made between Knafel and Jordan after his first retirement. It was not until his second announcement that came in 1998 that Knafel contacted him. She reminded him about their agreement to pay her the 5 million dollars. After Jordan retired he failed to pay Knafel alleging that she was trying to extort 5 million dollars from him. Procedure Jordan filed for a declaratory judgement alleging that Knafel was attemting to extort 5 million dollars from him and even if there was an agreement made it was undenforcable because of fraud and mutual mistake.
Gilberto Hernandez and Ruth Elizondo v Schering Corporation, Schering-Plough Corporation and Victoria McGill decision by Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, First Division FACTS: Gilberto Hernandez and his wife, Ruth Elizondo, filed a complaint against Schering Corporation, Schering-Plough Corporation and Victoria McGill, R.N. The plaintiffs are seeking damages for bodily injuries because of loss of eye sight from use of a drug sold by Schering. The court granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment as to six of the counts of the complaint but denied summary judgment on the remaining counts. Appeal was filed by the plaintiffs. December 2001, Mr. Hernandez, plaintiff, tested positive for Hepatitis C (HVC) AND exposure to Hepatitis A and B.
Lawsuit Analysis Anderson In May 1982 a group of six Woburn families, all of whom had a child who had died of leukemia or who was being treated for the illness, filed a lawsuit against two municipal corporations in U.S. District Court in Boston. Families charged that W.R Grace & Company, of New York, and Beatrice Foods Company, of Chicago, had contaminated two municipal wells in East Woburn. The whole case was based out of defendants’ alleged pollution of the ground water in certain areas in Woburn, Massachusetts, with chemicals. Plaintiffs, who were six Woburn families, alleged that the two Woburn water wells H and G, had contaminated water before they were closed in 1979 and that exposure to this polluted water caused them to suffer severe injuries. The plaintiffs alleged that ingestion of toxic chemicals (trichloroethylene and tetrachloroethylene) used in this industries, which were tested in water samples from municipal wells, were responsible for the severe health effects.
The courts state that, “a Caterpillar grader operated by an employee of Houdaille Industries struck and ran over, with its left tandem wheel, Gwendolyn West, who died of massive internal injuries after six days in the hospital. As a result, the deceased’s husband, Leon West, individually, and as administrator of the estate of his deceased wife, claimed a right to damages against the Houdaille Industries and Caterpillar Tractor Company, Inc., the
Opinion(s) of the Court Delivered Joseph E. Spruill, Jr., Judge Accordingly, we will affirm the judgment of the trial court that Marrill was not eligible for an elective share of Dorothy’s augmented estate. 3. Facts Dorothy and Marrill were married in July 1988. Dorothy experienced a multiple amount of illnesses throughout her marriage. Dorothy also experience different types of abuse from her husband.
First, was there a standard of liability under the ADEA. Second, was there a standard for willfulness under the ADEA. Third, whether a union can be monetarily liable under the ADEA. Let’s begin with the facts of the case. Two airline captains working at the time for Trans World Airline brought suit against their former employer and the union, The Air Line Pilots Association, charging age discrimination for adopting a set of rules for pilots applying for the position of flight engineer and a denying these rules to pilots over 60.
On March 10, 2006, the church protested at the funeral of Marine Lance Corporal Matthew A. Snyder in Westminister, Maryland, 30 minutes prior to the funeral. On June 5, 2006, the Snyder family sued WBC for “defamation, invasion of privacy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.” In his instructions to the jury, U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett stated that the protection of free speech by the First Amendment has limits, and that the jury must decide "whether the defendant's actions would be highly offensive to a reasonable person, whether they were extreme and
English II 11 January 2009 Twelve Angry Men 1994 was the year with severable notable moments. However there was one event in particular that made every American question the effectiveness and authenticity of the American legal system, the case of OJ Simpson. This case brings new meaning to the word justice. There are always two sides to every story. OJ claimed his innocence, while the mourning family of Nicole Brown Simpson fought for justice in the memory of their deceased loved one.
Annotated Bibliography Name: Khairul Ikmal Abd Razak ID number:1614065 Article topic: The Causes and Consequences of accident of United Airlines Boeing 747 Hawaii (1989) Source 1 Rodney Stich 2010, ‘History of U.S. Aviation Disasters: 1950 to 9/11’, Hawaiian Nightmare, pp. 204-206. [Online] , viewed 29 April 2012, . This article tell me a brief story on what was actually happen before, on the scene and after the accident of United Airlines Boeing 747 Hawaii(1989) and also some causes to this tragedy. Rodney Stitch tell me in his writing the causes of this accident and the others were the long delayed correction of safety problems, maintenance oversight problems and also the lack of adequate fuselage strength at the cargo door.
Loving v. Virginia 388 U.S. 1 (1967) Facts: In June of 1958, Mildred Jeter, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, got married in Washington, D.C. They returned back to their home state of Virginia only to be convicted of violating Virginia’s anti-miscegenation law that prohibited interracial marriage. They both pleaded guilty and were sentenced to one year in jail. The judge suspended those sentences on condition that the Lovings leave Virginia and not return for twenty-five years. Mildred and Richard moved to Washington D.C. and with the help of the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) they filled to have the sentence set aside on the ground that it violated their rights under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.