SCOTT V. CARPANZANO United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 556 Fed. Appx 288 (2014) FACTS: Rick Scott deposited $2 million in an escrow account into Salvatore Carpanzano’s company. Because of his violation of the escrow agreement, his funds were withdrawn. Scott was not able to recover his money so filed a suit Salvatore Carpanzano, which included his daughter Carmela Carpanzano. Scott did not make any allegations on Carmela’s part.…
Case name: Rankin v. McPherson, 483 U.S. 378 (1987) Facts: Ardith McPherson was appointed a deputy in the Constable’s office of Harris County, Texas, on January 12, 1981. Her duties were only clerical. On March 30, 1981, McPherson discussed with her boyfriend, and fellow employee, a report about an attempt to assassinate the President of the United States. She made the remark “If they go for him again, I hope they get him”. Her remark was reported to Constable Rankin, who fired McPherson, even though she told him she did not mean anything by it.…
In the case of the United States v. Gordon, Tremain R. Gordon and Emily Jones, his girlfriend coconspired in robbing a bank in which Ms. Jones was employed with. Gordon enlisted the help of friends, Eric Carter and Ramon Mitchell in being part of the robbery because Mrs. Jones’ employees knew her boyfriend Mr. Gordon. During the robbery, Mitchell handed a note demanding money to the teller, Ms. Jones and she went along with the plan. Eventually, Ms. Jones informed Aubrie Miller, a coworker at the bank of the robbery and Aubrie Miller then relayed the message of staying calm and giving the assailants whatever they demanded. After their plan had been discovered by law enforcement, the assailants were indicted in which Jones, Carter and Mitchell…
. The court ruled that the warrantless search of the dormitory room by the campus police violated the defendant's constitutional rights and that all evidence obtained as a result of the search should be suppressed in the case Commonwealth v. Eric W. Neilson, 423 Mass 75 (1996). College officials searched the room because they had reason to believe that there was an animal inside the room, which is against school policies. When they got in the room they proceeded to look in the closet; there they found a marijuana plant. The college officials immediately called the police and when they arrived they took pictures of the plant for evidence, and then with the help of the college officials, removed it from the room.…
MILLERSBURG —Following a series of actions crafted to mimic the original intent of the court, a former Millersburg man on Tuesday was sentenced to time served, and released from prison, for admittedly making and possessing meth in the vicinity of a school and juveniles in 2010. For the second time in a month, Delane A. Goodwin, 43, who has been serving his sentence at Richland Correctional Institution, sat in Common Pleas Court Judge Robert Rinfret’s courtroom. First returned to the court in May for a judicial release hearing, Goodwin on Tuesday withdrew his initial guilty plea to felony charges of illegal assembly of chemicals to manufacture methamphetamine and child endangering. He immediately pleaded guilty to felony counts of assembly and possession of meth, as well as a reduced count of child endangering, and Rinfret adopted a joint…
The Judge then handed the floor to the plaintiff attorney Richard Whitley introduced himself and his client which was named Michelle Moore. The defendant name was Joshua Muniz. He stated that the case was a motor vehicle accident and had already been trialed at a criminal court, which Defendant Muniz had plead guilty and was on probation and has severed community service for committing the crime. Moore was now suing for Punitive damages and mental anguish for damages that were occurred during the accident.…
In January of 1983 Nancy Beth Cruzan lost control of her car on a icy Missouri road. This accident left Nancy brain damaged and was left in a “permanent vegetative state”. She could breath on her own but other than that there was nothing she could do on her own and she showed no signs of thinking capabilities. The doctors put a feeding tube into her stomach about month after the accident.…
Briggs v. R.W Elliott - South Carolina: In 1951, in Clarendon County, South Carolina, twenty courageous African-American parents filed a lawsuit against school officials, for their own children received unequal education services compared to the all-white schools. In South Carolina, young African-American children had to walk far distances to attend schools. Some students even had to walk an eight-mile distance to school. They were not allowed to travel on school-provided transportation such as normal school buses!…
Student protestors of Gallaudet University presented the Gallaudet University Board of Trustees with four demands: 1. The resignation of the newly appointed university president Elizabeth Zinser, a hearing person, and the selection of a Deaf person as the universities president. 2. The immediate resignation of Jane Basset Spilman, who was chair of the Board of Trustees. 3.…
Robert versus Boston- Robert v. Boston challenged the separation of schools based on the color of their skin (nps.com). In 1848, a year old girl named Sarah Roberts was stopped from going to that school because she was black. Her dad Benjamin pressed charges against the city. The lawsuit was a effort by the black community to end segregated schools.…
After just two years at Williams College, he studied law in Worthington and Bridgewater in Massachusetts, and he was admitted to the bar in 1815. He then began practicing law in nearby Plainfield, walking the seven miles from Cummington every…
Throughout the mid-18th century, the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision became a key contributing factor in the separation between the Union and Confederacy going into the American Civil War. With the conflict of proslavery and antislavery groups fighting for new states, this choice became a debated topic within the detached United States for the effect it had in the slavery legal and economic system. Riots transpired and differences between political leaders and Court justices arose as the decision was made. Historical documents, like the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the U.S. Constitution, were used within this court case by Chief Justice Roger Taney to lead towards the defeat of Scott.…
Chester Arthur, the 21st U.S. president, took office after the demise of President James Garfield. As president from 1881 to 1885, Arthur upheld for common administration change. A Vermont local, he wound up plainly dynamic in Republican legislative issues in the 1850s as a New York City attorney. In 1871, a period of political machines and support, Arthur was named to the effective position of traditions authority for the Port of New York. He later was expelled from the activity by President Rutherford Hayes trying to change the corruption.…
Analysis of Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education (2005) Level of Court: United States Supreme Court Facts: Roderick Jackson was hired in 1993 by the Birmingham Board of Education to teach physical education and coach girl’s basketball. During Jackson’s employment he felt that school policy provided unequal accommodations and unequal funding for the girls teams. His complaint fell under Title IX. Title IX is part of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits discrimination based on sex in any educational program. The law specifically states, “ No person… shall, on the basis of sex, be … subjected to discrimination under any education program…receiving Federal financial assistance.”…
After participating in and reviewing the Q.B trial R v. Perry & Manitoba in regards to the role of the investigator, and the physical evidence that was implemented in the trial, four individual pieces of physical evidence were introduced to the court by the investigator (cite). These four pieces of evidence consist of, a black wallet that was found on Matlock Manitoba, a time X watch found on Mason Perry, and a knife and a replica firearm found in a dumpster, in the back ally where Mason Perry and Matlock Manitoba were arrested. In relation to the introduction of evidence, the wallet, and Time X watch that supposedly belonged to Monty Hall was first introduced into court by the Crown during the testimony of Monty Hall, stating that his black wallet and Time X watch was stolen from him during the robbery. Additionally, they were shown to Hall asking how both compared to the ones that were stolen, then entered them into court as exhibit one and two. The physical evidence was then brought up once again when Constable York started his testimony, adding that Manitoba was in possession of the wallet and Perry of the Time X watch when found hiding in a bush within the back ally.…