Declaratory judgment

429 U.S. 190 (1976) Facts: An Oklahoma state statue prohibited males under the age of 21 from purchasing “non-intoxicating” 3.2 percent beer. Craig, a male between the age of 18 and 21 years, and Whitener, a licensed vendor sought injunctive and declaratory relief against the Oklahoma statute. They argued the gender differential between males and women was unconstitutional because it created resentful discrimination against males 18-20 years of age. Whitener brought suit against state official…

Shelby County v. Holder case The Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. constitution extends citizenship and legal rights to all people. This amendment is what guarantees and protects people’s rights to due process of the law. The Fifteenth Amendment gives all citizens the right to vote and be protected against discrimination from the United States or any state, based on a person’s race, color, or if they were a former slave. Until 1965, there were steps put in place such as literacy tests that…

A case study that I found in this article is on is on Aurora Espinal-Cruz. She is a six-month-old baby that was found by her sister with bruises on her arm. Then, they called the Oklahoma Department of Human Services because they suspected it to be child abuse. The children were then taken from their biological mom and placed with Deanza Jones, a foster parent. After seventeen days in Jones’ care, on January 27, 2002, Aurora was found dead in her crib and suffered a great deal. She was left to…

Voting Rights Act (Critical Thinking Assignment) As passed in 1865, the first element in the formula was whether the state or a political subdivision of the state maintained a "test or device" restricting the opportunity to register and vote, by “test or device” they mean literacy tests, good moral, or another registered voter vouch. The second element of the formula would be satisfied if the Director of the Census determined that less than 50 percent of persons of voting age were registered to…

sidewalks outside of the terminal buildings. Id. A religious corporation, whose members solicit funds in public places to support their movement, brought suit seeking declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging that the regulation deprived its members of their First Amendment rights. Id. at 676. The district court granted summary judgment for the corporation, concluding that the terminals were public fora, and that the regulation banning solicitation within the terminals failed because it was…

important at the ICJ given how difficult it is to seize its jurisdiction.” The International Court of Justice (ICJ) cautious enforcement of justice and promotion of peaceful settlement in the Marshall Islands and United Kingdom’s dispute led to a judgment that could not have been ruled differently. 1. Elements of the ICJ: This section will examine the ICJ’s elements and why it ruled…

Haoyu Zhao PUP432 10.15.2015 Case Brief Contractors And Builders Association Of Pinellas County V. City Of Dunedin Background Context Until the 20th century, the general law in Florida stipulated that local governments could only obtain funds from public revenues as they had no authority to taxes. The local government made the realization that these funds were insufficient for running the everyday affairs of the growing county. For this reason, the county turned to private sources…

this was against the marital privacy already established to be protected by the Ninth Amendment, the District court ruled in her favor, and the case went to the Supreme Court. Justice Harry Blackmun ruled “with respect to the requests for a declaratory judgment, abstention was not warranted. On the merits, the District Court held that the fundamental right of single women and married persons to choose whether to have children is protected by the Ninth Amendment, through the Fourteenth Amendment,…

VenetianGoldCasino.net, and a few others which were almost similar like these ones. Also, the bad faith intent of the registrants to profit was indicated by the lack of any trademarks of the domain names. At the end the result was that the owner’s motion for the judgment was decided, and the domain names’ cross- motion was denied because no reasonable jury could find that Defendant domain names do not violate the…

The Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) is a law under the Lanham Act which is created to protect the domain names from trademark violation. The ACPA has certain elements which must be proven to institute cybersquatting under the Anti-Cybersquatting Protection Act. One of the requirements in this Act is that the plaintiff needs to show that the defendant registers, trafficked in, or used a domain name. So in the Moon Microsystem v Zucchini trial, John Zucchini who is a coffee shop…