Memorandum From: Law Student To: Supervising Attorney, Family Court Legal Program Re: Possible Motion to Dismiss the Family Offense Petition filed by our client’s ex-husband [ISSUE] The issue presented here is whether a Family Offense has been committed if our client called her ex-husband derogatory names. On March 1, 2010, Mr. M. filed a Family Offense Petition against Ms. M. claiming that Ms. M. had committed the family offense of “harassment in the second degree” under Penal Law § 240.26(3)
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any protection by the UCMJ therefore denying these requests. Hamdan, being charged with conspiracy in the United States District Court in the Western District of Washington, argued against the procedural safeguards he was guaranteed under UCMJ and the Geneva Conventions. Hamdan filed for a writ of habeas corpus and was granted so by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. As proceedings before military commission commenced, the Combatant Status Review Tribunal, held Hamdan
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Vincent Joseph Spano, Petitioner v. People Of The State Of New York 22, 1957, the petitioner Vincent Joseph Spano, a U.S. citizen of It descent, was dri ing in a bar when the victim, a former boxer, took some of Mr. Sp o's money a fight icks to his e was from the bar. Mr. Spano followed the victim out of the bar to get his money back. Wh ensued, during w ich the victim knocked Mr. Spano to the ground and placed several head causing hi to vomit. After the altercation, Mr. Spano returned to the
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be adjusted to the judicial branch because the judicial branch is extremely powerful and dangerous. With the power of the judicial branch, they are able to go in and make adjustments to laws and how they are perceived. With that idea in mind the Supreme Justices are appointed by the president of the United States, which mean that the president is able to elect the person that they want in that position, hopefully they are picking the justice
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Louis D. Brandeis was a United State Supreme Court Justice that fought against monopolies and big business and was a tireless advocate for free speech. Brandeis was best known for publishing his famous article in the Harvard Law Journal, for publishing his book about the banking industry, for upholding laws that protect the publics’ privacy and the freedom of expression and as the first Jewish Supreme Court Justice. Louis Brandeis was born in Kentucky on November 13, 1856 to Adolph Brandeis and
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Facts The incumbent president Federalist John Adams was defeat in the presidential election by Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson. The day before leaving office, President John Adams named forty-two justices of the peace and sixteen new circuit court justices for the District of Columbia. This was an attempt by the Federalists to take control of the federal judiciary before Thomas Jefferson took office. The commissions were signed by President Adams and sealed by acting Secretary of State John
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1824 United States Supreme Court,22 U.S. 1, 9 Wheat. 1 1 (1824) Facts Robert R. Livingston and Robert Fulton was given the right to navigate steamboats on New York State waters. Robert R. Livingston assigned Ogden the right to navigate the waters between New York City and various ports in New Jersey. Ogden brought upon this lawsuit to keep Gibbons from operating steamboats on the waters of New York due to his exclusive privileges. Ogden was granted the injunction by the court and Gibbons appealed
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Equal Employment Opportunity and Employee Rights Luis Carrasco, Jade Hadfield, Jo Hemenway, Stafford McClendon, Emily Sementilli, Misty Wightman November 4, 2012 HRM/300 Timothy Turcotte Equal Employment Opportunity and Employee Right Over the course of history in the United States there have been many laws put in place to protect employees
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simple terms, the views on them have been challenged on many occasions throughout U.S. history. Cases have been fought over the definition and limitation of the first amendment and if a case is deemed controversial enough it may appear before the Supreme Court, as the verdict may have a substantial effect on the country and future views of the first amendment. The views of a case may be for some deemed for the better, while others for the worse. Taking a look at the two cases of NAACP v Alabama and
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cable company was concerned that violence would occur and that viewers would cancel their subscriptions. Reverend Cleaver did not think that the show was an exercise as free speech; instead he saw it as a terrorist organization. According to the Supreme Court, the struggle between the fear of violence as a result of speech and the promise of the first amendment has produced probably the most famous one in all of the constitutional law: the “clear and present danger” test is the concept that the government
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