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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 ...
Argument: Oral argument: Case history; Prior: On writ of certiorari to the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit. Holding; The Federal Tort Claims Act’s exception to waiver of sovereign immunity for claims “arising in a foreign country,” bars claims based on any injury suffered in a foreign country, regardless of where the tortious act or omission occurred.
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.
The New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the judge's decision, prompting Medical Marijuana's appeal to the Supreme Court. The justices are expected to rule in the case by the ...
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 ...