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Coca-Cola Bottling Co., 24 Cal.2d 453, 150 P.2d 436 (1944) Important case in the development of the common law of product liability in the United States based on the concurring opinion of California Supreme Court justice Roger Traynor who stated "that a manufacturer incurs an absolute liability when an article that he has placed on the market ...
The case lasted seven years but resulted in no convictions, and all charges were dropped in 1990. By the case's end, it had become the longest and most expensive series of criminal trials in American history. [2] [3] The case was part of day-care sex-abuse hysteria, a moral panic over alleged Satanic ritual abuse in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Company (119 Cal.App.3d 757, 174 Cal.Rptr. 348) was a personal injury tort case decided in Orange County, California in February 1978 and affirmed by a California appellate court in May 1981.
Engblom v. Carey, 677 F.2d 957 (2d Cir. 1982), is a landmark decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit interpreting the Third Amendment to the United States Constitution for the first time.
The California Supreme Court and all lower California state courts use a different writing style and citation system from the federal courts and many other state courts. California citations have the year between the names of the parties and the reference to the case reporter, as opposed to the national standard (the Bluebook) of putting the ...
Court: Superior Court of the State of California for and in the County of Santa Clara: Full case name: The People of the State of California v. Brock Allen Turner : Indictment: January 28, 2015, on counts: rape of an intoxicated person, in violation of California Penal Code § 261(a)(3) rape of an unconscious person, in violation of PC § 261(a)(4)
first successful school desegregation court decision in U.S. history Powell v. Alabama: 1932 287 U.S. 45 access to counsel Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada: 1938 305 U.S. 337 states that provide a school to white students must provide in-state education to blacks Smith v. Allwright: 1944 321 U.S. 649
Berry [1] is a voluntary manslaughter case that is widely taught in American law schools for the appellate court ' s unusual interpretation of heat of passion doctrine. Although the defendant had time to "cool down" between his wife's verbal admission of infidelity and the killing, the California Supreme Court held that the provocation in this ...