Furlow, 04-CV-5887 Our File No. 5-987 Statement of Facts: John Brown sued his dentist, Dr. Thomas Furlow, claiming he was injured as a result of Dr. Furlow’s failure to extract an infected tooth on August 3. John Brown ignored Dr. Furlow’s recommendation to return because his tooth was infected. Mr. Brown then went on vacation and while on vacation he passed out due to infection, pain, and the infection spreading. Mr. Brown incurred medical expense and loss of wages. Furlow was served with a complaint on March 1.…
In the case of the State of New Hampshire v. Sondra Murray, Ms. Murray was charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and possession of marijuana. She was convicted of the disorderly conduct which violated N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 644:2, and possession of marijuana, which violated N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann.…
McCulloch vs. Maryland is the court case that brought attention to expansion of federal power to the United States of America. The two main questions on why this case was brought to the Supreme court were…Did Congress have the power to establish the Second Bank of the United States of America? Did Maryland have the power to tax the bank? This case confirmed that Congress did have the power to establish the Bank, and Maryland did not have the power to tax the Bank. The Supreme Court ruled Congress had the power to establish the Bank in Article One, Section Eight of the Constitution using the elastic clause, stating Congress has the power to “make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution.”…
Under Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18 of the United Sates Constitution, or the elastic clause, Congress does in fact possess the power and ability to establish a bank within the United States. 2. We further find that Maryland’s power of taxation violates the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article, within both Clause 18, and 1, in that Congress is specifically given the power to tax. Even more so, we found that Maryland’s power to tax is an interference of Congressional duty, and thus…
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.…
The Loving v. Virginia cases began when two residents of Virginia, Mildred Jeter who is a black African American woman and Richard Loving, a white man. They went to the District of Columbia and get married. When they returned to Virginia shortly after their marriage. The State found them guilty and they were charged with violating the state's law does not allow interracial marriages. Richard Loving and his wife were found guilty and even sentenced to a year in…
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.…
In Barron v. Baltimore a wharf owner John Barron sued the city of Baltimore for damages the construction of the city caused to his wharf. He claimed that under the fifth amendment which holds private property cannot be taken for public use, without just compensation. As the case began in local court, Barron asked for 20,000 in damages but the court ordered to pay Barron only 4,500. As the plaintiff was unhappy with the outcome he appealed the case to the Supreme Court. When the justices received the case, they questioned constitutionally if under what authority did the United States Supreme Court have jurisdiction to review this local matter that had already been decided by the state courts.…
One of the most intellectual forces of the Marshall Court was its importance on the Supreme Court's power in Marbury v. Madison. Preceding to the Marshall Court, organizers of the Constitution, For example, Alexander Hamilton inquired the Supreme Court part as the lowest part of the major branch of government. The Marshall Court changed this knowledge in Marbury v. Madison. The case's crucial issue was whether the court had the power to support a constitutional check on the case.…
A typical example was when Marshall used the Supreme Court to extend the power of the Federal government in McCulloch v. Maryland in 1819, Maryland enacted a law that requires all banks without a charter from the state to pay a tax and they are prohibited to print money without stamped paper from the state. The Chief Justice ruled that the Constitution allowed the national opportunity to establish a national bank. McCulloch v. Maryland was an important decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, which maintained the authority of Congress to create the Bank of the United States. In McCulloch case, Marshall simultaneously explained the jurisdiction of the court to interpret the constitution, the nature of the relationship the federal-state inherent in a federal system of government, and nature democratization of both the US government and its…
In the case of Miller vs California, Miller is charged because he began sending obscene material to a restaurant owner in which they were sensitive to the specific material that they received. To determine what obscene material really is, took two court cases to give a meaning what people or a community perceived some material as obscene. The biggest argument about portrayed obscene material is, what is covered by the First Amendment. The first amendment protects our right of free speech and representation of expression. Some people may view expression of sexually obscene material as right given to them by that First Amendment.…
District of Columbia v. Heller The Second Amendment is one of the most controversial amendments in the Constitution. There have been several cases where the Amendment has been challenged. As the world keeps growing and developing, the amendments have stayed the same since the creation in 1789. Therefore, as the years go by the original meaning of the text is getting lost in translation, which has caused the Supreme Court Justices to try to interpret the meaning the best way they can to ensure a fair trial.…
1. The court case Murray v. Maryland (1936) used precedent from the US Supreme Court Case Plessy v. Ferguson that ruled segregation was constitutional as long as it was separate but equal. Why could using this dogma be problematic in the journey for civil rights?…
Evan Miller has had a rough upbringing. He has had emotional abandonment from his alcoholic and drug abused mother, his abusive father and forced to be placed in multiple foster cares throughout his childhood. Miller is a prime example of an abandoned, troubled minor, whose true destiny has been destroyed due to these circumstances. The problems he has faced steered him to being depressed and unsatisfied, using drugs, alcohol and four suicide attempts to trying and fulfill the emptiness he has been feeling his entire life.…