Hammontree v. Jenner Court of appeal of California 1971 20 Cal.App.3d 528 97 Cal. Rptr. 739 Parties: Plaintiff= Maxine Hammontree Owner of the store with husband Plaintiff= Husband Defendant= Jenner Has epileptic serious and was placed on probation by DMV Procedural History: Hammontree filed a suit against Jenner for negligence and strict liability. During the course of the trial, Hammontree dropped the negligence claim and pursued strict liability. The Court did not grant Summary
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Analysis of Connick v. Myers, 461 U.S. 138 (1983), Level or Type of Court: United States Supreme Court. Facts: An employee of the New Orleans District Attorney office was fired for insubordination and refusing to accept a transfer. Sheila Myers was employed for five and a half years and had a satisfactory performance. She was informed by her boss, Harry Connick that she would be transferred to another division to try cases. Mrs. Myers was unhappy about this decision. She expressed her opinion
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In the latest court session in Pickens Superior Court, only one trial went to a jury last week, where a man was found not-guilty of DUI with injuries for an accident that occurred between two off-roaders on private property. A second trial for child molestation ended as it was set to start with a plea deal, sentencing Dale Robert Kalak, 48, of Jasper to 30 years for attempt to commit aggravated sexual battery and also 20 years with six to be served in prison for child molestation. Kalak will have
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1. What are the legal issues in this case? What did the appeals court decide? The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) stated that Target had disobeyed Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when they did not properly store employee records pertinent to the ruling of illegal employment actions were being, or ever were, happening. The EEOC also went on to state that Target was indeed participating in unlawful discrimination of applicants that were African American, for higher managerial
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Birger v. Tuner The court case Birger v. Tuner was based off the loaning of money from Birger to Tuner. The Birger family claimed that the Tuner family owed them a remaining amount of $, 6,800 (of $ 8,500 Rubles). The courts view contracts as illegal if they were signed in another country. In this court case, the contract was made in the Soviet Union. The Turners had to borrow money because their daughter had to repay losses made at work and would face consequences if she did not repay. In the agreement
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This case is discussing a health care administrator and his defilement of the Hatch Act. Thomas Micozzie had been found to infringe the Hatch Act during an election for the council in the township in which he had been a member for more than twenty years. The violation was not revealed until a complaint was filed apparently after the election had taken place. The Office of Special Counsel did find Micozzie guilty of the violation but came to the consensus that the violation was not done knowingly
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The Court of Appeals and The State of Oregon V. Kipland Philip Kinkel On July 31, 2002, an appeal was submitted on the behalf of Kipland Philip Kinkel. Judge Haselton is assigned to the appellants case. Kipland “was convicted of four counts of murder and 26 counts of attempted murder.” (Haselton, 2002, para.1) Kipland was only 15 years old at the time of the incident. The defendant was also a freshman at Thurston High School. During the school year of 1998 in Springfield, Oregon Kipland was first
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INTRODUCTION Our client, Erin Smith, believes that her Aunt, Julie Cook, gifted her a boat. Cook recently died, and the executor of her estate told Smith there was no mention of the boat in the will. The boat passed by law to Cook’s daughter Marisa. Smith would like us to determine her legal right to the boat through an inter-vivos gift under Maryland law. As explained below, Smith cannot prove complete delivery due to insufficient evidence satisfying this element of an inter-vivos gift. Because
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It is unlikely that Coach Crump’s unpleasant language towards Shelley is outrageous and extreme on its own, in spite of knowledge of susceptibility. Georgia courts recognize extreme and outrageous conduct when someone of that civilized community would exclaim “outrageous!” Extreme and outrageous conduct does not arise when someone’s feelings are hurt. However, Georgia also takes a critical count of the defendant’s knowledge that the plaintiff was sensitive to injury, where language or conduct is
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Who has the stronger argument, Susan or Jason’s children? Why? In this case Jason’s children have the stronger argument. According with the book Business Law by LeRoy and Hollowell on the page 522 under the title “Wills”, it’s stated that “A will is the final declaration of how a person desires to have his or her property disposed of after dead”. In this case when Jason did his will after sending the letter to Susan he had to stipulate that the violins will belong to his niece after Jason’s death
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