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R v Smith (Thomas Joseph) [1959] 2 QB 35 is an English criminal law case, dealing with causation and homicide.The court ruled that neither negligence of medical staff, nor being dropped on the way from a stretcher twice, constituted breaks in the chain of causation in murder cases.
"The Case for Reparations" was a journalistic breakthrough for the author; it gained a large audience after first published as the cover story of the June 2014 issue of The Atlantic. Coates' article has been a part of a greater dialogue on reparations and the United States' response to the legacy of slavery.
R v Smith, [1987] 1 S.C.R. 1045 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision. The Court struck down a mandatory seven-year sentence requirement for the importation of drugs as a violation of the right against cruel and unusual punishment contrary to section 12 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms .
The Smith case teaches an enduring lesson: the community has the power to organize to fight injustice "We, as a community, do still have voices that can be heard, and I think it's a good lesson ...
An internationally known case Smith became infamous in 1994 when she said her car was stolen late at night near Union, South Carolina. She said an African-American man took her car with her two ...
R v Smith, [1992] 2 SCR 915 is a leading decision on hearsay by the Supreme Court of Canada.This decision, along with R v Khan (1990), began what is called the "hearsay revolution", supplementing the traditional categorical approach to hearsay exceptions with a new "principled approach" based on reliability and necessity of testimony.
King v. Smith, 392 U.S. 309 (1968), was a unanimous decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) could not be withheld because of the presence of a "substitute father" who visited a family on weekends. The issue before the US Supreme Court involved how the states could ...
Smith v. United States; Smith v. United States; Smith v. United States, 431 U.S. 291 (1977), a case about federal obscenity prosecutions; Smith v. United States, 508 U.S. 223 (1993), a case about exchanging guns for drugs; Smith v. United States, 568 U.S. 106 (2013), a case about members leaving a drug conspiracy group; Smith v.