Rita is now suing for her injuries.| d.|The district attorney is bringing Ali to court for violating the city's keg ordinance.| B. ESSAY (eight points each) 1. Explain the origins of equity and its place in contemporary American law. In the old times, in England, the judge sometimes refuses to hear the case, judging that there was no legal basis for the state. The offended party might then take the case to the Chancellor, whose position in the king’s council gave him unique, stiff powers.
The Courts of Appeals which was vacated and the case were remanded for further proceedings. The justifications that the Supreme Court gave for its decision where as follows: That Raich’s physician could not provide evidence that Raich “cannot be without marijuana as medicine” because without it she would suffer quickly or she may even deteriorate and could very well die. The Supreme Court also stated “in Gonzales v. Raich that Congress acted within the bounds of its Commerce Clause authority when it criminalized that the purely intrastate manufacture, distribution, or possession of marijuana in the Controlled Substances Act I feel that it was because the caregivers where the ones growing it because Ms. Raich could not do it herself because was confined to a wheelchair. That there is no Tenth Amendment violation in this case where Ms. Raich stated that her rights of the Tenth and Ninth among other Amendments were violated. The Supreme Court also stated “that even
Title VII is the basis for discrimination law and judicial decisions….its basic purpose is to prohibit discrimination in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin (Jennings, 2006). After the relationship was over Paula asked for a transfer since Sam continually sexually harassed her. Sam refused the transfer stating the chemicals could harm an early fetus. Paula is not pregnant which is sexual discrimination. The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1974, which defined “sex” discrimination to include discrimination on the basis of pregnancy and child birth (Jennings, 2006).
The next step to banning drugs was the Heroin Tax Act. The tax said that In order to be an opiate, a person who uses Opium or drugs derived from Opium, you had to be a patient and in order to sell the drug you had to be a medical doctor with a license that they had to pay a tax on. Up to 200,000 people were criminalized for using the drugs. With various drug enforcement agencies, all underground clinics were shut down and within the next couple of years over 10,000 doctors were
During testimony, he called her a mere "collection of organs" and an "artifact of technological medicine." Nancy's parents petitioned a lower court to order the Missouri Rehabilitation Center at Mount Vernon to starve their daughter. The court granted the petition, but the Missouri Supreme Court overturned the lower court decision, ruling that a decision to withhold or refuse treatment must be an "informed" one, and, most importantly, that the State's interest in human life does not depend on the quality of that life. On appeal, the Cruzan v. Director of Missouri Department of Health case became the first to directly address the question of euthanasia at the United States Supreme Court level. The Court essentially held that the states do not have to yield to family member's demands when a patient's wishes cannot be concretely determined.
Speers quickly concluded, or so he said, that Medina was unreliable and, therefore, that he had no obligation to inform Brandley’s lawyers. The private attorney she had consulted thought otherwise, however, and brought her to the attention of the defense. Despite the accumulation of new evidence, Judge Coker recommended that Brandley be denied a new trial a recommendation perfunctorily accepted by the Court of Criminal Appeals on December 22, 1986. But by now civil rights activists had coalesced and raised $80,000 to help finance further efforts on Brandley’s behalf. James McCloskey, of Centurion Ministries in Princeton, New Jersey, took on the
Goldring was dismissed from the case, and the trial proceeded against just Medlantic. The jury found Medlantic liable for breach of confidential relationship and awarded damages in the amount of $250,000 (Doe, 2003). The jury found against Doe on the invasion of privacy claim because Goldring’s disclosure was not within the scope of Goldring’s employment with Washington Health Center (Doe, 2003). The jury also found that the lawsuit was filed within the one-year limitation periods. This verdict was then reversed by the trial court in favor of Medlantic.
In August 1943, Karl Koch was arrested by the Gestapo at the request of SS judge Josias Prince of Waldeck-Pyrmont. Karl Otto was charged with the unauthorized murder of three prisoners, while Ilse was accused of the embezzlement of more than 700,000RM. Though Ilse was acquitted, Karl Otto was convicted and shot in April 1945. At the end of the war, Koch was arrested and charged with "participating in a common criminal plan for encouraging, aiding, abetting and participating in the atrocities at Buchenwald." In 1947, an American military tribunal found Koch found guilty and sentenced her to life-imprisonment.
He was committed to Central State and stayed there until 1968, when he was found fit to stand trial. He was charged with first degree murder, but his lawyer put in the defense of insanity again and was found to be insane again. He returned to Central State. On November 7, 1968, Bernice Worden’s murder trial began. A jury found Gein guilty of first degree murder but criminally insane at the time of the murder, the trial lasted only a week and he was sentenced to life in a mental institution.
Terika White Andrew Zboralski ENG 122 February 10, 2013 “Pro-Life Without Choice” In the New York Times article titled “Three Rulings Against Women's Rights” published July 31, 2012 an unnamed author in The Opinion Pages argues that in three separate cases the rights of women were erroneously disregarded. On three different occasions District and Supreme Court judges thought it would be a better idea for women to be withheld their rights just because of their belief of pro-choice, whether in the form of abortion or contraceptives. Although, this has been an ongoing argument since the beginning of time, to date these rights are still protected by the Constitution. Judges are meant to protect this and not make up their own rules along the