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| x Microsoft Corp v. Zamos | Microsoft | David Zamos | |||
| x Marbury v. Madison |
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Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137 (1803) is a landmark case in United States law and in the history of law worldwide. It formed the basis for the exercise of judicial review in the United States under Article III of the Constitution. It was...
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| x McLibel case |
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McDonald's Corporation v Steel & Morris [1997] EWHC QB 366, known as "the McLibel case" was an English lawsuit filed by McDonald's Corporation against environmental activists Helen Steel and David Morris (often referred to as "The McLibel Two") over...
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| x Brown v. Board of Education |
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. The decision...
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| x Roe v. Wade |
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Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion. Decided simultaneously with companion case Doe v. Bolton, the Court ruled that a right to privacy under the due process clause in...
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| x Loving v. Virginia |
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Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights case in which the United States Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, declared Virginia's anti-miscegenation statute, the "Racial Integrity Act of 1924", unconstitutional, thereby...
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| x Microsoft vs. Lindows | Trademark infringement | Microsoft | Digital Cornerstone | ||
| x Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization |
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Hague v. Committee for Industrial Organization, 307 U.S. 496 (1939), is a case decided by the United States Supreme Court. The case involved Jersey City, New Jersey Mayor Frank "Boss" Hague who had in 1937 used a city ordinance to prevent labor...
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| x Sankey v Whitlam |
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Sankey v Whitlam was an important court case decided in the High Court of Australia on 9 November 1978.
On 20 November 1975, in the middle of the election campaign which followed the dismissal of the Whitlam government, a Sydney solicitor, Danny...
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| x Mabo v Queensland |
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Mabo v Queensland (No 1) was a significant court case decided in the High Court of Australia on 8 December 1988. It found that the Queensland Coast Islands Declaratory Act, which attempted to retrospectively abolish native title rights, was not...
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| x Australian Capital Television Pty Ltd v Commonwealth |
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Australian Capital Television v Commonwealth (1992) 177 CLR 106 was a significant court case decided in the High Court of Australia on 30 September 1992. It concerned the constitutional validity of Part IIID of the Broadcasting Act 1942, which...
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| x United States ex rel. Gerald Mayo v. Satan and His Staff |
United States ex rel. Gerald Mayo v. Satan and His Staff, 54 F.R.D. 282 (W.D.Pa. 1971), was a court case in which a man filed a lawsuit against Satan and his servants in United States District Court. It was dismissed on a technicality.
Gerald Mayo...
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| x Clinton v. Jones |
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| x ACLU v. NSA |
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American Civil Liberties Union et al., v. National Security Agency / Central et al., 493 F.3d 644 (6th Cir. 2007), is a case decided July 6, 2007, in which the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that the plaintiffs in the case...
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| x United States v. Libby |
United States of America v. I. Lewis Libby, also known as "Scooter Libby" (Case No. 1:2005-cr-00394-RBW) is the federal trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, a former high-ranking official in the George W. Bush administration.
Libby served as Assistant...
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| x BP America Production Co. v. Burton | |||||
| x Office of Fair Trading v Abbey National and Others |
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Office of Fair Trading v Abbey National plc and Others [2009] UKSC 6, [2009] EWCA 116, [2008] EWHC 875 (Comm) is a case about bank charges in the United Kingdom, concerning the situation where a bank account holder goes into unauthorised overdraft....
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| x Linda R. Tripp v. Department of Defense | |||||
| x Shaya-Castro v. New York City Police Department |
"Shaya-Castro v. New York City Police Department" is a legal case where Carol Shaya-Castro sues the NYPD for US$10,000,000 for wrongful dismissal and gender discrimination
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| x Liza Marquez v. David S. Caruso |
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Liza Marquez sued her ex boyfriend, David Caruso of CSI miami, for more than 1.2 million claiming breach of contract, fraud and infliction of emotional distress.
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| x CRT Investments Ltd. v. J. Ezra Merkin | |||||
| x New York University v. Ariel Fund Ltd | |||||
| x New York Law School v. Ascot Partners, L.P. et al | |||||
| x The Calibre Fund, LLC v. J. Ezra Merkin | |||||
| x Savana Redding v. Safford Unified School District #1 |
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Savana Redding v. Safford Unified School District #1 concerns the strip-search of Savana Redding at Safford Middle School on October 8, 2003. The search was conducted with no notification to Ms. Redding's parents.
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| x Jones, Et Al v. Halliburton Company et al |
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Jamie Leigh Jones is a former KBR employee who claims that seven KBR employees drugged and gang-raped her on July 28, 2005 at Camp Hope, Baghdad, Iraq. She filed a civil lawsuit against the company et al in May 2007.
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| x Emma Silver Mine |
The Emma Silver Mine was a pocket lode situated at Alta near Cottonwood Canyon which was worked very briefly, but became a major fraud case involving British investors who had been misled by forged reports by respected minerologists of the unlimited...
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| x Data East USA, Inc. v. Epyx, Inc. |
Data East USA, Inc. v. Epyx, Inc. 862 F.2d 204, 9 U.S.P.Q.2d (BNA) 1322 (9th Cir. 1988) is a court case in which Data East, a video game manufacturer, contended that Epyx, a competing video game manufacturer, licensed and distributed a video game,...
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