Reasonable doubt

In 1968, the United States Supreme Court case Terry v. Ohio decided that police may stop a person for questioning and frisk, without probable cause, if they have reasonable suspicion that the person has committed or is about to commit a crime. The New York City Liberty Union website provides a total number of how many people were stopped from the year 2002 to 2016, while also providing a racial breakdown of how many of that total were blacks, whites, and Latinos. According to this website, in…

The legal definition of the term criminal negligence is “the failure to use reasonable care to avoid consequences that threaten or harm the safety of the public and that are the foreseeable outcome of acting in a particular manner” (Legal Dictionary) and in at least the Ford case, the company was aware of the dangers surrounding their…

the race. Mitchie may argue that Blizzard didn’t stop the next group of racers coming down the hill, but perhaps because they did not know Mitchie was injured on the hill. Blizzard Resorts Inc. did not fall below the standard of care as they took reasonable precaution at the top of the hill to prevent people who deem not capable to participate. As the result of the collision, Mitchie sustained a broken nose, lacerations to his face and also a broken leg after hit by the next group of racers…

for damages occurred such compensation. Negligence is the unintentional commission or omission of an act that a reasonably prudent person would or would not do. It is a form of conduct which is caused by the carelessness of the standard of care on reasonable members of the society; In the medical field it is consider malpractice. The person who shows negligence does not use their best judgment against possible risk. For example, in the case Dr. Haskins did not examine Kelly nor review his chart.…

described as an act of carelessness dictated by the law for the protection of other people against foreseeable risk of harm that may occur from the act. A person can be held responsible for negligence when they have acted carelessly outside of a reasonable man conduct. This assignment is designed with aims to explain the circumstances and elements of how a negligent may be established, the consequences of decisions using relevant cases to highlight the importance of the negligent and its…

goods, the customer falls ill, misses five weeks of work (economic loss) and develops sickness that impact her life. All these damages can be avoidable if Aqua Clean provides safety defect of the products. These damages were reasonable foreseeable result of breach to a reasonable…

sufficient that plaintiff can state that one person other than himself is informed about this published material of his defamation. The third and the major one is the material must be false and must be discrediting to the plaintiff in the purview of any reasonable individual. This statement and context above also helps us understand the relevance of the case being made in the Berkoff vs. Burchill judgment. In the law of torts, first of the two conditions are true, but the third remains untrue as…

If she looked at the muffin before she bit into it, it’s reasonable to suggest that without squeezing or biting into the muffin, inspection alone would not detect anything out of the ordinary. Based on those facts, it does not suggest that Bob’s could have failed to live up to the standard owed. Therefore, Bob did…

seems to be very reasonable. For the unconscious of plaintiff, it largely because of Jim was hitting the ground with his upper part of body. The upper part of body is very weak and easy to get injured, especially the back. The probability is pretty high when a human’s upper back heavily crushed on the floor and ending up with an unconscious. In conclusion, the defendant needs to be punished financially, because defendant did cause the harm. The result of defendant’s action is reasonable and…

Damnum sine injuria and Injuria sine damnum are two maxims in the law of tort relating to the concept of legal damage. These two maxims define what and what not a legal damage is. The maxims are, thus, central to our understanding of what constitutes a legal damage. As we know, only in case of a legal damage, there is a legal remedy to repair the said damage primarily by way of compensation, which is called damages. Such damages are awarded by a court of competent jurisdiction to the victim and…