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    As you know, this office represents Josefina Toledo (Toledo) for damages she suffered as a direct result of disability discrimination and wrongful termination conducted by Custom Apple Packers as perpetrated by its agents. The purpose of this letter is to see if an amicable settlement of this matter can be reached without the necessity of filing a lawsuit. The following is a brief summary of the facts which will be presented in the event this matter proceeds to litigation. BACKGROUND…

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    The racial segregation of Latinos in the public school system is discussed in the film, Lemon Grove Incident, where it examines the 1930’s trial of Roberto Alvarez vs. the Board of Trustees of the Lemon Grove School District that ended school segregation of Mexican children in the district of Lemon Grove, California. The trial is known for it’s success to stop the segregation of Mexican children in the public school system. Although, the case allowed for Mexican integration, it only applied to…

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    Meretta and Suspect Winter. Meretta had a California Driver’s license in her possession. I cited and released Meretta in the field for H&S 11364(a)- Possession of Drug Paraphernalia (Citation #C423952). Meretta is scheduled to appear at the Pasadena Court on 08-07-17 at 0830 hours. Winter did not have identification in his possession. Winter was arrested for H&S 11377(a)-Possession of a controlled substance. I filled out a PPD Field Interview Card on Ray Andrew Ramirez (PPD FI#171430).…

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    Character of Action: Robert Harrison Keeler petition the Superior Court of Amador County for a review of the case on a “writ of prohibition’ (SCOCAL) Facts: On September 27, 1968, the petitioner and his wife of 16 years received an interlocutory decree of divorce. This decree granted the petitioner custody of their two daughters, ages 12 and 13 years and allowed visitations with Mrs. Keeler on alternative weekends. At the time of the decree Mrs. Keeler was pregnant with Ernest Vogt’s child,…

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    In Ronald Dworkin’s Law’s Empire, the myth of the grand judge Hercules is ‘encapsulated by the metaphor of an ideal judge, Hercules is immensely wise and with full knowledge of legal sources. Acting on the premise that the law is a seamless web, Hercules is required to construct the theory that best fits and justifies the law as a whole in order to decide any particular case. Hercules, Dworkin argues, would always come to the one right answer.’(Dworkin) In contrary to the Greek demigod, the…

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    Section A: Patrick Free was a suspect in the murder case of Adam Suopys in New Jersey. He was taken into custody at 5:18 p.m on 1/8/98 where he received relentless interrogation for seventeen hours straight. He was kept in a small room and was not offered any food or water throughout the duration of the interrogation which lasted over the entire night. He was questioned by up to four interrogators at the same time. He continually denied the charge for the first eleven hours. Detective…

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    This week’s current event that I have read is about Boston based Gillette suing Edgewell in federal court, alleging Edgewell's Hydro Connect 5 and Hydro Connect 5 Sensitive razor refill blades infringe on a Gillette patent for its Fusion razor. Gillette, which is owned by Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble, filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, where Edgewell's Schick Manufacturing is based.Ofcourse you might be saying who is Gillette or even then Edgewell;…

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    laws or debating highly technical legal cases. Landmark cases such as abortion policy are in the small minority of cases decided. The courts are not acting as a ‘counterpower’ to democracy by creating policy outside the democratic sphere of influence but merely…

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    The FISA court does hand out warrants to the government to spy without going to congress, there is a period of up to 14 days where surveillance can go on without there being a warrant given to the government and this is something that should be alarming. If the FISA court did not agree with what the government was spying on then there is billions of records that have already been collected…

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    2015). The standard for competency was set by the supreme court case Dusky v United States. Dusky v. United States was a supreme court case in which the defendant, Dusky, challenged the ruling in his original case that he was competent to stand trial despite an expert testifying he was not competent. The court overturned his conviction stating that the "record in this case does not sufficiently support the findings of competency to stand trial". The court then ordered a new evaluation, as well…

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