Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Realm of Missouri, and Michael Cuffley, Appellants, v. Curators of the University of Missouri No. 99-1168 UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT 203 F.3d 1085 February 17, 2000, Filed Before McMILLIAN, MURPHY, and TUNHEIM, n1 Circuit Judges. n1 The Honorable John R. Tunheim, United States District Judge for the District of Minnesota, sitting by designation. McMILLIAN, Circuit Judge. The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Realm of Missouri
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Daubert Test’s CJ305-01: Legal Foundations of Criminal Evidence Sigrid Hess June 3, 2013 Expert Witness Requirements This article will briefly review the applicable standards of the admission and exclusion of expert testimony in the Federal Court. The guidelines discussed in this article, principally pertain to the subject of the reliability of the methodology supporting the submitting of evidence. In addition, the qualifications of the proposed experts in the pertinent field of expertise,
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Iowa Tax Case Could Cost Nation’s Franchises September 2010 Franchising World Franchisors should also expect the impact of the decision in KFC Corp. to extend beyond Iowa. The Iowa Supreme Court in late May heard oral arguments in KFC Corp. vs. Iowa Department of Revenue, a case that could have a substantial financial impact on franchisors across the nation. Iowa asserted that KFC is subject to the state’s corporate income tax based solely on the fact that it received royalties from franchisees
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Case Analysis #1 Sport Law Nick Wisner njwisner@eiu.edu Marucci Sports, L.L.C., Plaintiff, v. National Collegiate Athletic Association; National Federation of State High School Associations, Defendants. No. 13-30568 United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit May 6, 2014. Introduction Marucci Sports, LLC brought action against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and National Federation
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The first legal issue is whether Jason can go back on his promise of paying the extra $5,000.00 to Damien. The additional fees are due to the increase in the cost of the raw materials needed for building the swimming pool at Jason’s house. The second legal issue is whether Damian by accepting the $20,000 from Jason in full settlement is legally binding due to the default in payment of the amount of $35,000 as initially agreed by both parties. Under the general principle of law pertaining to this
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Discrimination Victim Her Day in Court Kelsey M. Taylor I. Introduction In Gilstrap v. United Air Lines, Inc., the Ninth Circuit saved a discrimination victim’s suit from dismissal when it held that state-law tort claims against an air carrier were not preempted by federal law. The panel did agree with the lower court that an airline terminal is not a “place of public accommodation” governed by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Nevertheless, the court concluded that the plaintiff
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the District Court of Bernalillo County. The District Court reversed the commission’s decision and ordered the benefits to be reinstated. Issue: The issue is whether Mrs. Mitchell’s actions constituted misconduct under § 59-9-5(b), N.M.S.A. 1953 Rule: The term “misconduct” is not defined in the Unemployment Compensation Law. The Wisconsin Supreme Court found that in a prior case no statutory definition of misconduct existed, and they formulate a definition for such. The Supreme Court of New Mexico
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Civil Rights and Liberties Supreme Court Case 2 Douglas Ganim Thursday, November 5, 2015 VOTE: 5-4 in favor of Sally Spyalot, Director of National Security Agency JUSTICE ALITO delivered the opinion of the court Shortly after September 11, 2001, at the request of the National Security Agency, several of the major phone companies were asked to provide phone records for all calls made within the United States, and all calls made to the United States from other countries. The data the NSA
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/1356-3289.htm CCIJ 13,4 When an icon stumbles: the Ribena issue mismanaged Tony Jaques RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Abstract Purpose – When two 14-year-old New Zealand schoolgirls challenged the advertising claims of Ribena blackcurrant drink – owned by global giant GlaxoSmithKline – they triggered a sequence of events which led to prosecution, public opprobrium and international damage
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to cohabitation or intermarriage between racial groups. Regulated by state law, miscegenation was illegal in many states for decades. However, interracial marriage in the United States has been fully legal in all U.S. states since the 1967 Supreme Court decision, Loving v. Virginia, that decreed all state antimiscegenation laws unconstitutional. Many states, of course, had chosen to legalize interracial marriage much earlier. According to a May 14, 2012, Huffington Post article entitled “Interracial
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