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Stephen Arnold Douglas Puter (January 6, 1857 [1] – May 10, 1931) was a criminal and author from the U.S. state of Oregon. [2] After being convicted of land fraud, he lived as a fugitive for several months before capture, wrote a book after conviction, received a Presidential pardon, and later was convicted of mail fraud.
United States General Land Office, 1885-88 Annual Report of the Commissioner. All are readily available online via Google Books. Millard, Bailey, May 1905. The West Coast Land Grafters, Everybody's Magazine, vol 12 no 5. Davis, Oscar King, The Beginning of the End for the Land Fraud Thieves, New York Times, September 8, 1907. Puter, Stephen A ...
Section 15 of the Judiciary Act of 1789 provided: [A]ll the said courts of the United States, shall have power in the trial of actions at law, on motion and due notice thereof being given, to require the parties to produce books or writings in their possession or power, which contain evidence pertinent to the issue, in cases and under circumstances where they might be compelled to produce the ...
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 ...
A Miami judge overseeing a lawsuit against hotel developer Rodrigo Azpurua has ruled in favor of the Venezuelan-American businessman, saying that the two dozen investors who filed the claim ...
In 1870, the Oregon and United States governments granted the Oregon and California Railroad 3.7 million acres (15,000 km 2) of land to build a line, from Portland south to California. The land, which was granted in a checkerboard pattern along both sides of the railroad's right of way, was then sold to settlers in parcels of 160 acres (64.7 ha ...
Civil rights cases concluded in U.S. district courts, by disposition, 1990–2006 [1]. Discovery, in the law of common law jurisdictions, is a phase of pretrial procedure in a lawsuit in which each party, through the law of civil procedure, can obtain evidence from other parties.
“No because it’s so rude that I can’t order off the kids’ menu sometimes. Like I’m broke and I’m not gonna finish the big one, I want the smaller portion,” one commenter wrote.