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  2. Used and Useful Principle - Wikipedia

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    With the case Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co., 320 U.S. 591 (1944) rate base formulation moved from being based on fair value to using the measure of prudent investment . [ 4 ] This changed the focus for review to be on the "end result" instead of looking at specific property value or a formula for rate base.

  3. James Dinwiddie (surgeon) - Wikipedia

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    After his observations of the unexplained impact of angels glow, Dinwiddie's erroneous conclusion was that mortification (now called gangrene or necrosis) was caused by "dark humors" or "bad air" (miasma theory) that had contacted his surgical instruments, clothing and bedding, and moreover, these dark humors could be eradicated by heat and noise.

  4. Smyth v. Ames - Wikipedia

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    Smyth v. Ames , 171 U.S. 361 (1898), also called The Maximum Freight Case , was an 1898 United States Supreme Court case . [ 1 ] The Supreme Court voided a Nebraska railroad tariff law, declaring that it violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in that it takes property without the due process of law. [ 2 ]

  5. US Supreme Court to decide if white, straight workers face ...

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    Ames was in charge of ensuring the agency's compliance with a federal law designed to deter sexual assaults in prisons. She has said that despite receiving positive feedback for her job ...

  6. Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services - Wikipedia

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    The case was brought by Marlean Ames, a straight woman who alleged that the Ohio Department of Youth Services discriminated against her on the basis of sexual orientation in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. [3] She had worked in the department since 2004. In 2017, Ames was reassigned to a new supervisor, who was a lesbian ...

  7. Champion v. Ames - Wikipedia

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    Champion v. Ames , 188 U.S. 321 (1903), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court which held that trafficking lottery tickets constituted interstate commerce that could be regulated by the U.S. Congress under the Commerce Clause .

  8. Battle of Dinwiddie Court House - Wikipedia

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    The V Corps rallied and regained their position on the Boydton Plank Road, cutting direct communication over the White Oak Road between the Confederate defensive line and Major General George Pickett's task force about 4 miles (6.4 km) west at Five Forks, during the afternoon of March 31 at the Battle of White Oak Road. At the end of the day ...

  9. Adelbert Ames - Wikipedia

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    Ames's widow compiled a collection of her correspondence with Ames, Chronicles from the Nineteenth Century, published posthumously in 1957. About 1900, Ames joined the Massachusetts Society of Colonial Wars. Ames died in 1933 at 97, at his winter home in Ormond Beach, Florida. At the time of his death, Ames was the last surviving full-rank ...