This semester, I attended an event called True Tales from County Hospitals at the Ray Stark Theater. I had the opportunity to watch a documentary called No Mas Bebés and met the director. No Mas Bebés is a documentary that follows Madrigal vs. Quilligan lawsuit filed against L.A County hospital for sterilizing women without informed consent. Here is the background story. During the 1960s, hospitals were taking actions to reduce human population growth.…
Case Analysis: Clackamas Gastroenterology Associates, P.C. v. Wells Christi Wall Regis University Case Analysis: Clackamas Gastroenterology Associates, P.C. v. Wells The 2003 discrimination dispute between Clackamas Gastroenterology Associates and Deborah Wells sparked an important debate surrounding the relationships between an employer and its employees. The case provides critical guidelines for businesses today regarding employment relationships and what constitutes an “employee”, as well as guidelines for legal obligations under federal antidiscrimination laws. STATEMENT OF FACTS Deborah Wells, a disabled bookkeeper, worked 11 years for Clackamas Gastroenterology Associates, P.C., an Oregon medical clinic with 14 employees and four physicians who owned the professional corporation and made up its board of directors (Crispin, 2003, p. 1). When the company terminated her, she filed suit under the claim that Clackamas Gastroenterology violated the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) (Crispin, 2003, p. 1).…
Case Citation: Bratton et. al. v. McDonough 91 A. 3d 1050 (2014) Background of Case: This is a civil case. It was tried by jury on July 16, 2012 in the State of Maine Superior Court of Somerset County. The jury found for the defendant.…
In the court case The People of the State of Colorado v. Sandra L. Jacobson, Jacobson is convicted of homicide. The homicide resulted from her truck colliding with a taxi cab while she was driving under the influence. There were two passengers in the taxi at the time of the collision and both were killed. Jacobson appealed the court’s decision on the basis that the trial court did not allow her attorneys to gauge whether or not the jury had become biased due to mid-trial publicity that included inadmissible information. On the fourth day of the trial, the Court was made aware of the fact that a local television network would be covering the incident that led to this trial on its evening news program.…
The Elbridge’s divorced in 2010 and Mrs. Gwen Eldridge was awarded custody of their two minor children. Mr. Eldridge was ordered to make child support payments of $700 per month. He lost his job as an electrician in January of 2011 and was unemployed from that date through October of 2011. Upon which Mr. Eldridge received a job in his field as an electrician. Unfortunately, Mr. Eldridge did not make child support payments for the 10 months that he was unemployed.…
Title and Citation: Fry V. Napoleon Community School District Topic: A school district denying the student the right to have a service dog attend school. Level or Type of Court: Supreme Court- Oct 2016 Facts of the Case: A student with cerebral palsy obtained a service dog with the doctor’s approval to help her live as independent as possible. The service dog was hypo-allergenic and was to stay out of the way when not needed.…
In Baker v Carr, the majority made up the basis for asserting jurisdiction because the Constitution, the supreme law of the land, did not give it the power to do so. The Constitution never mentioned anything regarding state election procedure, other than that it could not hinder any legal rights of its citizens as mentioned in the Constitution and that the number of representatives per state were to be determined by state population. Therefore, the Constitution never mentioned that federal courts had the jurisdiction to hear constitutional questions to regarding state elections; the majority simply made that up in order to hear the case. There is no branch of federal government that specializes in redistricting. Since representatives' political…
This court should find that Kathleen Bosko presented nondiscriminatory reasons that were pretext for intentional discrimination. Pretext can be proven by showing that the reasons proffered by the defendant did not actually motivate the defendant’s challenged conduct. Latowski v. Northwoods Nursing Ctr., 549 Fed. Appx. 478, 486 (6th Cir. 2013)(unpublished)…
CITATION: King ET Al v. Burwell, secretary of health and human services, ET AL. certiorari to the United States court of appeals, the court for the Fourth Circuit. No. 14–114.…
Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U.S 510 (1925) Historical Setting In 1922, tensions were elevated in the United States, and a wave of anti-immigrant and pro-American views swept across the nation in the aftermath to World War I. States began to use the power of education to implement a shared American culture. Oregonians passed an amendment to the Compulsory Education Act of Oregon Law, Section 5259, which required all students between ages eight and sixteen to attend public school. Before this initiative, students were given an exception to the public school requirement to attend private school. Case Summary…
Court Case Review Throughout the years the United States government has been faced with several discussions. Some of these have become very important throughout history and have left a significate impact on society. These cases range from birth control privacy rights to equality. Among these cases are Griswold V. Connecticut, Baze V. Rees, and Brown V. Board of Education.…
It was not wrong of him to be concerned, but it was wrong for the administration to follow the physician's advice of firing her. The physician might not have known the legalities, but the administration must have known that termination of an employee due to their disability is illegal. Janet's employer failed to protect Janet and make sure her work environment was safe, protected and…
It is difficult to decide where the rights of one citizen stop, and the rights of all other citizens begin. In the case of Mary Mallon, health care officials placed the greater good of the population above the rights of an individual, for the right reasons. However, officials at the New York City Health Department went about it in the wrong way. I do not think Mary should have been kept in isolation for the rest of her life. However, I do believe she was given a fair chance at a normal life when she was told to stop cooking.…
To first assess the demands of the question and thereby determine how James Madison and I would decide the case of Lee v. Weisman, it is imperative to outline Madison’s primary and germane arguments in his “Remonstrance” and also explore the two prevailing yet competing judicial interpretations of the First Amendment. A rebuttal of Patrick Henry’s “A bill establishing a provision for Teachers of the Christian Religion,” Madison’s “Remonstrance” lists fifteen arguments and refutations of Henry’s bill to the Virginia state legislature, three of which neatly apply to Lee: 1) Man must render God in a way that is acceptable to him, not the state, 2) religious laws may not trespass on the rights of the minority and 3) religious laws may not inflict…
The case of Andrea Yates is one of the most infamous cases in the last decade and the reason for that is because Andrea’s mental state leading up to the murders. Andrea Yates in 2001 drowned all five of her children in a bathtub in her Huston, Texas home. However, was she responsible for her actions? Andrea suffered from several mental illnesses including postpartum depression. She was constantly in and out of mental health institutions and was given medication to deal with her depression.…