Salvatore Carpanzano failed to cooperate with discovery and make appearance in court. Carmela denied that she was involved with her father’s business or Scott’s transaction. However, the court found that the defendants intentionally failed to respond to the litigation and issued judgement for more than $6…
Case Name and Citation NUNN vs. MASSACHUSETTS CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY 743 F.3d 365 (2014) Court of Appeals Second Circuit Summary of the Key Facts in the Case Ronald Nunn and Donald Vaden are former National Basketball Association referees. In September 1996, both plaintiffs were taking part in a referee training camp that was located in New Jersey and attended a union meeting that was hosted by the National Basketball Referees Association.…
This is the case from North Carolina State. Maynor Javier Vasquez driving with a broken brake light on April 29, 2010 and Sergeant Darisse of the Surry County Sheriff's Department stopped the vehicle. As the officer approached the vehicle, he noticed that there was someone lay down on the back seat and he found out that the guy name is Nicholas Heien. The two men told him different stries and the officer asked permission to check on the vehicle. Heien agreed, and the officer found a bag containing 54.2 grams of cocaine in the car.…
Marshall is the purchasing agent for the DigitoolArt Corporation. His duties require him to negotiate and execute contracts to purchase office supplies and equipment for the corporation. Assume that Bronson, a computer salesperson, pays Marshall a $20,000 kickback to purchase from him computers needed by the DigitoolArt Corporation. What breach of the duty of loyalty has Marshall committed here? A) competing with the corporation B) making a secret profit C) self-dealing D) usurping a corporate opportunity 4.…
1. Case Name: Burnham v. Superior Court Case Citation: 495 U.S. 604 (1990) Issue: If a person is in another state on business unrelated to a legal matter before a court, does that state have jurisdiction over that person? Rule of Law: If a person is physically in a state, then that State has jurisdiction over that person regardless of the reason they are in the state. Rationale: Due process is possible for each person within the state that has jurisdiction over the person.…
The record in their case also establishes that neither attorney challenged several police seizures or money confiscated from October 1996, October 1997, September 1999, October 2001, January 2001, March 16, 2004, or 2005 traffic stops. What happened to the collections? None of the attorneys deposed the alleged drivers, the police officers or other witnesses involved in these alleged traffic stops to question their role in the stops, their communications with the alleged drivers of vehicles or whether the dollar amounts in question are accurate collections. The indictment fails to establish the Johnson brothers individually or in concert engaged in a continuing criminal enterprise.…
The case being addressed in this essay is: Winnipeg Child and Family Services (Northwest Area) v. D.F.G. The topics being addressed in this essay will be provided through a summary and an analysis, explaining the case through legal liberalism and feminist legal theory in relation to the majority decision and the dissenting decision. I personally, agree with the reasoning of the majority decision and will prove why. Summary…
The facts of Miller v. Alabama include a fourteen-year old named Evan Miller who beat and robbed his next-door neighbor, Cole Cannon. The date of the incident, Miller and his co-defendant, Colby Smith, went to Cannon’s home in search of drugs. When they found no drugs, they stole baseball cards and returned to Miller’s home. A few hours later, both Miller and Smith returned to Cannon’s home. Cannon was unconscious due to drinking and smoking, at which point Miller took $300.00 and Cannon’s driver’s license from Cannons wallet.…
In the Morgan V Virginia case Irene Morgan, a negro woman got aboard led a motor common carrier from Gloucester County in the state of Virginia headed for Baltimore, Maryland. When she was asked to give up her seat to a white person and move to the back of the bus and a law in Virginia ordered. However, she refused to give away her seat stating that the bus she boarded was an interstate bus and that the Virginia law that demanded she give up her seat did not apply here. Upon refusal to give up her seat, Irene Morgan was arrested and charged, under a state law that imposed the segregation of passengers in public facilities and public transportations based on their race. In 1946, Irene was tried and convicted of being in violation of a Virginia segregation law on interstate buses and, was also fined $10.…
As a Supreme Court justice who aided in the decision of the Dred Scott v. Sanford case, I was in favor of Dred Scott. My decision was based mainly on the fact that Dr. John Emerson moved Dred Scott to the state of Illinois and later to the state of Wisconsin. Slavery was prohibited in both Illinois and Wisconsin, which was indeed a fair argument for Dred Scott, being that he has lived in both states for a long period of time, even married his wife, Harriet Robinson in the free state of Wisconsin. After the death of Dr. Emerson, Scott and his family should have been considered.…
March 6, 1875 a court verdict that will preside in infamy, the verdict of the Dred Scott versus John Sandford Supreme Court case. Dred Scott, a once enslaved African-American man who then moved with his wife to Illinois, a free state or one in which slavery is illegal. By virtue of not being allowed to purchase land undeterred by the fact that under state legislation he was a free man, Dred Scott attempted to sue in a federal court. The chief justice in this case was Chief Justice Roger B Taney, a Federalist white man. He was also born and raised in a slaveholding household, obviously one that was against the freedom of negroes in America.…
The US is known for being the land of the free, and for the longest time people left their home countries to experience the American dream. America was looked at to be almost a utopia, where everyone had equal opportunities, and everyone was happy. Without laws this would never happen, and thanks to the constitution, there were certain rules set in place. The judicial review is in short, the power for the court to decide is a law or decision the government made is constitutional, or decent. To start, the Dred Scott vs. Sandford was historical for using this method.…
In the founding of America, the founding fathers formed much of the structure that America is based on today. In the world today we still follow the same Federal System that the Americans did in the 1800’s. There have been many Supreme Court cases that have left an impact on our country, but none have left the impact that the Dred Scott versus Sanford decision left. In order to understand the Dred Scott versus Sanford case one must know: the function of the Supreme Courts , who Dred Scott was, and the impact that the case left on future presidents choosing their Supreme Court Justices. The Supreme Court was founded in 1789 because of the Judiciary Act of 1789.…
Xander Kanalos Coach Blount 4th Period 14 March 2018 Dred Scott v. Sandford,1857 The Dred Scott v. Sandford case was the most impactful in the supreme court and in general to everything that is constitutional. The case called for a man who was a slave that sued for freedom in their state which was Missouri(slave state). This case was important to African Americans and the United States because of the laws that were put in place after this case.…
36. a) Yes, because even though Peterman only provided Fogelman with a contract of agency that allowed him to sell the home, it can be inferred that he is also allowed to sell the piano that was still in the home. It does not have to be explicitly stated in the contract of agency. b)…