This report discusses the reluctance by the Supreme Court to take cases involving the Second Amendment. Commentators have observed that the Court appears to have become "gun shy" regarding this issue, given that it has not taken up a Second Amendment case since its landmark rulings in District...
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Regarding the agreement in the equity valuation adjustment agreement that the investor has the right to request the major shareholder or actual controller to repurchase the equity, according to the contract interpretation rules established in Article 142, paragraph 1 of the Civil Code, in addition to...
(1959), in which Lloyd Barenblatt refused to answer five questions of the House Un-American Activities Committee, regarding Communist infiltration of educational institutions. Barenblatt was convicted of contempt then appealed to the Supreme Court, arguing that the questions violated his First ...
Justia Opinion Summary: The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit decided a case regarding the regulation of two tracts of land in Livingston Parish, Louisiana. The landowners, Garry L. Lewis and G. Lewis-Louisiana, L.L.C.… USA v. Coleman Date: December 18, 2023 Docket...
Justia Opinion Summary:The appellant, a federal prisoner serving a twenty-two-year sentence, has a history of filing numerous lawsuits regarding his prison conditions. In this case, he sought to proceed in forma pauperis (IFP) under the Prison… ...
It is important for team members to understand that their reports regarding the incident may end up being entered into evidence at trial. For this reason, such documentation should be kept in a special notebook with numbered pages, and the notebook should not contain any personal information, ...
and 3) the referee's office address did not appear on the form. Our order granting review specified the issue as whether orders made by a juvenile court referee are valid where the record does not show strict compliance with the court rule regarding stipulations for temporary judges. Counsel ...
Regarding the reasonable expansion of the scope of arbitration cases. We agree with the suggestion that intellectual property, sports, and anti-monopoly disputes be included in the scope of arbitration, but it depends on the type [of dispute], and only civil and commercial disputes should be sub...