Preliminary injunction

Are civil gang injunctions an effective deterrent? Gangs have been in existence as long as Law has been, dating as far back as the 1500’s, when Shakespeare wrote about "gangs" of sailors. Then in the 1600 's- 1900 's with the Chinese triads, the Italian mafia, and the KKK. . (Gangs before thrasher) the glorification of Jesse James, and Capone kind of set the stage for the gangs of today. Poverty, lack of parental involvement, and the "need" to feel important, combined with the promises of…

Discovery Introduction Discovery is the pretrial process in a lawsuit whereby each party is given the opportunity to employ civil procedure in order to obtain evidence that it deems pertinent to its arguments in the case. Litigation is meant to be a fair process in which every party that is before the court is given the best possible chance to defend their arguments by the use of evidence. In civil law, discovery is employed to help even the ground during trial and to ensure that as much as…

Community Meeting Review For the community meeting review I decided to sit in on court proceedings. I chose the court proceedings because I know they go through a lot of cases every day, therefore I thought it would give me more opportunities to understand how things work. I spent close to four hours in the Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino, Victorville District. More specifically I sat in department V10, which is a criminal court. I am not sure if the courthouse is busy…

give us a false sense of what an actual courtroom setup looks like. Unlike these shows, there are various steps that must be taken before the defendant is prosecuted. There is the arrest, initial appearance, bail is set, either a grand jury or preliminary hearing is conducted, arraignment occurs, along with all pre-trial motions being heard before trial, a trial is then started, a sentence is given, and sometimes the defendant appeals the charge. In contrast, assembly line justice cases end at…

“that the critical question is whether the injunction is content-neutral or content-based. The court answered the question by observing that while that the injunction prohibited speech by its content, the governmental purpose behind prohibiting speech was entirely unrelated to its content, thus determining that the restriction on Bunner’s speech was incidental to the governments primary purpose of protecting trade secrets., therefore as long as the injunction serves important government purposes…

On September 21, 2007, the court case Palmer v. Waxahachie I.S.D. took place because a student by the name of Palmer wore a t-shirt with the words “San Diego” on it to school. The administrators at school informed the student that he was in violation of the school dress code, which states that t-shirts with printed messages were not allowed. As a result, the student called his parents to bring him a different shirt. When they arrived, they had another t-shirt, but this time the message…

Before the preliminary injunction, Defendant S filed a motion to strike, with the base assertion that the representative of Plaintiff A did not have sufficient personal knowledge to testify about submitted numerical evidences (advertising expenditures and sales figures) for…

On June 25, 2014, the US Supreme Court issued their decision in the case of American Broadcasting Cos., Inc. v. Aereo. This case dealt with the copyright of the form that provided broadcast television programming to consumers. Aereo allows the subscriber to chose the program through their website. Aero creates a personal copy for each subscriber by converting the broadcast signal into internet-transmittable data and storing it under specific folders for each subscriber. Aereo emphasizes that the…

Remember breached terms of their agreement. A Day to Remember intends to self-release their newest album titled Common Courtesy on Tuesday, October 8, 2013. Victory Records objects to A Day to Remember’s intentions and asks the court to issue a preliminary injunction to keep the band from releasing…

Gottwald countered with a lawsuit claiming defamation and breach of contract- which has to be handled in New York due to a contractual “forum clause.” On February 19, New York Supreme Court Justice Shirley Kornreich denied Kesha’s request for a preliminary injunction. Kesha broke down…