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The punitive damages were later significantly reduced by a judge on appeal, though this fact is not as widely known as the jury's initial decision. Martin v. Herzog: statutory violations and duty of care. Palsgraf v. Long Island Rail Road Co.: Landmark case for discussion of proximate cause and its relationship with duty. Court of Appeals of ...
This decision initiates a nationwide de facto moratorium on executions that lasts until the Supreme Court's decision in Gregg v. Georgia (1976). Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (1976) Georgia's new death penalty statute is constitutional because it adequately narrows the class of defendants eligible for the death penalty. This case and the next ...
Katko v. Briney, 183 N.W.2d 657 (Iowa 1971), is a court case decided by the Iowa Supreme Court, in which homeowners Edward and Bertha Briney were held liable for battery for injuries caused to trespasser Marvin Katko, who set off a spring gun set as a mantrap in an uninhabited house on their property. [1]
Mar. 12—For me, the most important judicial decision in U.S. history is easy to pinpoint. Brown v. Topeka Board of Education was the great equalizer, a ruling that ever so slowly lessened the ...
Court historians and other legal scholars consider each chief justice who presides over the Supreme Court of the United States to be the head of an era of the Court. [1] These lists are sorted chronologically by chief justice and include most major cases decided by the court.
state court decisions and the application of the Rooker-Feldman doctrine: Dura Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Broudo: 544 U.S. 336 (2005) standard for pleading loss causation in a securities fraud claim Small v. United States: 544 U.S. 385 (2005) resolution of split appeals court decisions on inclusion of foreign courts in the term "any court ...
The U.S. Supreme Court tackled a case on Tuesday involving a New York state man who was fired from his job as a commercial truck driver for failing a drug test after taking cannabidiol, or CBD ...
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review that decision. ... But the Atlanta-based 11 th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the Federal Tort Claims Act doesn’t apply if the disputed action by ...