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This case was the beginning of the plenary power legal doctrine that has been used in Indian case law to limit tribal sovereignty. Elk v. Wilkins, 112 U.S. 94 (1884) An Indian cannot make himself a citizen of the United States without the consent and the co-operation of the United States Federal government. United States v.
Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., 248 N.Y. 339, 162 N.E. 99 (1928), is a leading case in American tort law on the question of liability to an unforeseeable plaintiff.The case was heard by the New York Court of Appeals, the highest state court in New York; its opinion was written by Chief Judge Benjamin Cardozo, a leading figure in the development of American common law and later a United ...
Stambovsky v. Ackley, 169 A.D.2d 254 (N.Y. App. Div. 1991), commonly known as the Ghostbusters ruling, was a case in the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division.The court held that a house, which the owner had previously advertised as haunted by ghosts, was legally haunted for the purpose of an action for rescission brought by a subsequent purchaser of the house.
Landmark court decisions, in present-day common law legal systems, establish precedents that determine a significant new legal principle or concept, or otherwise substantially affect the interpretation of existing law. "Leading case" is commonly used in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth jurisdictions instead of "landmark case", as used ...
The case is one of a few criminal cases taught to all law students in England and Wales and in many, though not all, former British territories and has long been so. [citation needed] It is also a standard legal case taught to first-year American law students and is often the first criminal case read in American law schools. [citation needed]
See the law schools that trained influential attorneys. Many people apply to law school with the hope that their legal credentials will allow them to become powerful judges or politicians. Keep ...
Pierson v. Post is an early American legal case from the State of New York that later became a foundational case in the field of property law.. The case involved an incident that took place in 1802 at an uninhabited beach near Southampton, New York.
Madison School District v. Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission (1976) Mt. Healthy City School District Board of Education v. Doyle (1977) Givhan v. Western Line Consolidated School District (1979) Snepp v. United States (1980) Connick v. Myers (1983) Rankin v. McPherson (1987) Waters v. Churchill (1994) United States v. National Treasury ...