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  2. List of landmark court decisions in the United States

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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 ...

  3. People v. Collins - Wikipedia

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    Full case name: The People, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. Malcolm Ricardo Collins, Defendant and Appellant. Citation(s) 68 Cal. 2d 319: Holding; A defendant's guilt must be determined by facts of the case; they cannot be determined by mathematical means, such as statistical probability. Judgement reversed. Court membership; Chief Justice: Roger ...

  4. People v. Berry - Wikipedia

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    The case has also been discussed or mentioned in more than forty separate academic journal articles relating to murder, female victims of domestic violence, and rape. [2] More than 160 court decisions in California have cited, mentioned, or discussed this opinion. [3]

  5. Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California - Wikipedia

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    Regents of the University of California, 17 Cal. 3d 425, 551 P.2d 334, 131 Cal. Rptr. 14 (Cal. 1976), was a case in which the Supreme Court of California held that mental health professionals have a duty to protect individuals who are being threatened with bodily harm by a patient. The original 1974 decision mandated warning the threatened ...

  6. Ewing v. California - Wikipedia

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    Defendant convicted in Los Angeles County Superior Court; conviction affirmed by California Court of Appeal; California Supreme Court declined review, and the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari, 535 U.S. 969 (2002). Holding; California's three strikes law does not violate the Eighth Amendment prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.

  7. List of tort cases - Wikipedia

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    Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California, 551 P.2d 334 (Cal. 1976): A case in which a patient told his psychiatrist that he had thoughts of killing a girl. Later he did kill the girl. A leading case in defining the standard of the duty of care, and the duty to warn. Trimarco v. Klein, Ct. of App. of N.Y., 56 N.Y.2d 98, 436 N.E.2d 502 ...

  8. Lockyer v. Andrade - Wikipedia

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    Lockyer v. Andrade, 538 U.S. 63 (2003), [1] decided the same day as Ewing v. California (a case with a similar subject matter), [2] held that there would be no relief by means of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus from a sentence imposed under California's three strikes law as a violation of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishments.

  9. Whitney v. California - Wikipedia

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    Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927), was a United States Supreme Court decision upholding the conviction of an individual who had engaged in speech that raised a clear and present danger to society. [1]

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