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Equitable defenses are usually affirmative defenses asking the court to excuse an act because the party bringing the cause of action has acted in some inequitable way. Traditionally equitable defenses were only available at the Court of Equity and not available at common law.
Ward v. Flood 48 Cal. 49–52 (1874) was the first school segregation case before the California Supreme Court, which established the principle of "separate but equal" schools in California law, [1] 22 years before the United States Supreme Court decided Plessy v.
The segregation of Mexican and Mexican American children was common throughout the Southwest in the early-to-mid 1900s. [2] [3] [4] While the California Education Code did not explicitly allow for the segregation of children of Mexican descent, approximately 80% of California school districts with substantial Mexican and Mexican American populations had separate classrooms or elementary ...
In an affirmative defense, the defendant may concede that they committed the alleged acts, but they prove other facts which, under the law, either justify or excuse their otherwise wrongful actions, or otherwise overcomes the plaintiff's claim. In criminal law, an affirmative defense is sometimes called a justification or excuse defense. [4]
Vergara v. California was a lawsuit in the California state courts which dealt with a child's right to education and to instruction by effective teachers.The suit was filed in May 2012 by lawyers on behalf of nine California public school student plaintiffs.
equitable compensation; appointment or removal of fiduciary; interpleader; equitable tracing as a remedy for unjust enrichment; The two main equitable remedies are injunctions and specific performance, and in casual legal parlance references to equitable remedies are often expressed as referring to those two remedies alone. Injunctions may be ...
San Joaquin County prep football is loaded with defensive talent. Check out which teams are the top seven in the 209.
In 1920, the California State Legislature's Special Legislative Committee on Education conducted a comprehensive investigation of California's educational system. The Committee's final report, drafted by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley, explained that the system's chaotic ad hoc development had resulted in the division of jurisdiction over education at the state level between 23 separate boards ...