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Agatha Welhouk

Agatha Welhouk (1637–1715) was the central figure of a court case in the Netherlands, where she and her father sued each other regarding whether a marriage should be considered legal if it had taken place without the consent of the parent.

Bench memorandum

A Bench Memorandum (pl. bench memoranda) (also known as a bench memo) is a short and neutral memo which summarizes the facts, issues, and arguments of a court case.


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Aaron Altaras

Altaras mother was forced to escape Croatia with his grandparents, Jakob and Thea Altaras, because his grandfather has been politically persecuted in a mounted court case by the League of Communists of Croatia.

Blackbuck

Its protected status has gained publicity through a widely reported court case, in which one of India's leading film stars, Salman Khan, was sentenced to five years imprisonment for killing two blackbucks and several endangered chinkaras.

Brian: Portrait of a Dog

During his parole hearing, he references the court case Plessy v. Ferguson, but unfortunately for him, the council believe that it's stupid to listen to a dog.

Cass Ballenger

In 2004, alongside several other Republican members of Congress, including Mark Souder and Katherine Harris, Ballenger submitted an amicus curiae brief in the Supreme Court case Gonzales v. Raich, defending the federal government's power to raid, arrest, prosecute and imprison patients who use medical marijuana even in states that have declared such use legally permitted.

Catalina Foothills High School

The Catalina Foothills School District was also involved in a 1993 Supreme Court case, Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District.

Closing statement

Closing argument, or "summation", the concluding statement of each party's counsel in a court case

Corby toxic waste case

The Corby toxic waste case was a court case decided by The Hon. Mr. Justice Akenhead at the High Court of Justice, London, on 29 July 2009 in the case of Corby Group Litigation v. Corby Borough Council 2009 EWHC 1944 (TCC).

Corfield v. Coryell

Corfield v. Coryell (6 Fed. Cas. 546, no. 3,230 C.C.E.D.Pa. 1823) was an 1823 federal circuit court case decided by Justice Bushrod Washington while riding circuit.

David Ulevitch

Ulevitch was also in part responsible for the creation and operations of the California Community Colocation Project, which provided free colocation services to over 130 non-profits and after merging with the Online Policy Group successfully sued Diebold Election Systems in the Federal Court case OPG v. Diebold.

Dickerson

Dickerson v. United States, a major U.S. Supreme Court case reaffirming the requirement of a Miranda warning

Economy of Uganda

Tullow Oil is being represented in the court case by Kampala Associated Advocates, whose founder is Elly Kurahanga, the President of Tullow Uganda.

Egon Kisch

Without him being named, his visit to Australia, the leap from the ship and the court case challenging the validity of the language test are mentioned in Kylie Tennant's Ride on Stranger (1943).

Flook

Parker v. Flook, 1978 United States Supreme Court case that ruled that a mathematical algorithm is not patentable if its application itself is not novel.

German language in the United States

After teaching German, even in private schools, was forbidden in Ohio, Iowa and Nebraska there was a 1923 Supreme Court case (Meyer v. Nebraska) which ruled those laws unconstitutional.

Grutter

Grutter v. Bollinger (Barbara Grutter) - 2003 United States Supreme Court case upholding the constitutionality of the University of Michigan Law School's affirmative action program.

Gurdwara Dukh Nivaran Sahib

Records of a court case in 1870 mention a Guru's garden and a Nihangs' well being in existence here.In 1920, during a survey for the proposed construction of Sirhind-Patiala-Jakhal railway line, it appeared that the banyan tree under which had sat Guru Tegh Bahadur would have to be removed.

Guy Goma

At the same time, Guy Kewney, a British technology expert, was in another reception area, known as Stage Door, preparing for a live television interview on the subject of Apple Computer's court case with The Beatles' record label, Apple Corps.

Holmes v. California National Guard

Andrew Holmes v. California National Guard, 124 F.3d 1126 (9th Cir. 1998) was a federal court case heard by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, that upheld the "don't ask, don't tell" policy that restricted service by gays and lesbians in the California National Guard of the United States.

Hotchkiss v. Greenwood

It was the first US Supreme Court case to introduce the concept of non-obviousness as patentability requirement in United States patent law.

Ian Lorimer

Formerly a freelance vision mixer, Lorimer is well known in the British television industry for winning a court case against the Inland Revenue over his tax status as a freelancer, which served as a precedent for many other media workers.

Isabelle Romée

She petitioned Pope Nicholas V to reopen the court case that had convicted Joan of heresy, and then, in her seventies, addressed the assembly delegation from the Holy See in Paris.

James Dale

Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, a Supreme Court case involving a New Jersey scoutmaster

John Sleightholme

In March 2009, Sleightholme gave evidence in the court case against Jeremy Keith, Murdo Mackay, Derby County's former finance director Andrew MacKenzie, accountant Mark Waters and solicitor David Lowe who were all charged in relation to a fraud allegation centred on a loan from a Panama-based company that effectively saved Derby County after their relegation from the Premiership.

Kassel v. Consolidated Freightways Corp.

Bibb v. Navajo Freight Lines, Inc.: 1959 U.S. Supreme Court case applying the Dormant Commerce Clause to interstate trucking safety regulations

Kerrigan

Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health, a Connecticut Supreme Court case concerning same-sex marriage

LizardTech

LizardTech, Inc. v. Earth Resource Mapping, Inc., a court case involving a patent licenced to LizardTech.

Maine Township High School District 207

The district was a defendant in a federal court case, Wiemerslage vs. Maine Township High School District 207, 29 F.3d 1149, which helped reaffirm the doctrine of In loco parentis, the rights of schools to act in the place of parents in certain situations.

Matthew Deady

In 1874, in a district court case, Deady ruled in favor of Marcus Neff in a lawsuit against Sylvester Pennoyer concerning unpaid legal fees to John H. Mitchell and a sheriff's auction of Neff's land to Pennoyer.

Michael Hendricks and René Leboeuf

Hendricks and Leboeuf were represented in the original Quebec Superior Court case by family lawyers Marie-Hélène Dubé and Anne-France Goldwater.

Network Automation

Network Automation, Inc. v. Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. was a California court case decided in favor of Network Automation on March 8, 2011.

NORAID

In May 1981, the U.S. Department of Justice won a court case forcing Noraid to register the Provisional Irish Republican Army as its "foreign principal", under the Foreign Agents Registration Act 1938.

Open-source movement

In the court case "Jacobsen v. Katzer", the plaintiff sued the defendant for failing to put the required attribution notices in his modified version of the software, thereby violating license.

Parliamentary privilege

This allows Members to raise questions or debate issues which could slander an individual, interfere with an ongoing court case or threaten to reveal state secrets, such as in the Zircon affair or several cases involving the Labour MP Tam Dalyell.

Pavlovich

Pavlovich v. Superior Court, a California Supreme Court case dealing with personal jurisdiction based on online activities

Perfect 10, Inc. v. CCBill LLC

Perfect 10, Inc. v. CCBill LLC, 488 F.3d 1102 (9th Cir. 2007), is a U.S. court case between a publisher of an adult entertainment magazine and the webhosting, connectivity, and payment service companies.

Postal Order

George Archer-Shee, whose alleged cashing of a Postal Order to a fellow naval cadet led to a long-running court case and inspired Terence Rattigan's play The Winslow Boy.

Ramkrishna Dalmia

In the court case that followed, where he was represented by the leading British attorney Sir Dingle Mackintosh Foot, he was sentenced to two years in Tihar Jail.

Remittitur

An example of the latter is the high-profile file-sharing court case Capitol v. Thomas.

Richard W. Bailey

In 2008, Bailey co-authored an amicus brief with colleagues Dennis Baron and Jeffrey Kaplan, for the District of Columbia v. Heller Supreme Court case, providing an interpretation of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution based on the grammars, dictionaries, and general usage common in the founders' day, and showing that those meanings are still common today.

Scott Bullock

He was also co-counsel in the Ohio Supreme Court case Norwood, Ohio v. Horney.

Segregation academies

Allen v. Wright, a 1984 U. S. Supreme Court case challenging public subsidy for private schools that are effectively segregated.

Seminole Tribe v. Butterworth

It allowed the Seminole Tribe of Florida to conduct a gaming enterprise in Florida, and was a major U.S. court case protecting Indian gaming, and helped pave the way for Indian gaming, although it brought up the issue of implicit divestiture a judicial issue concerning the rights of indigenous sovereignty within the United States federal trust.

Sherbert

Sherbert v. Verner, a United States Supreme Court case involving the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution

Teck Resources

After a long running court case filed by Washington state’s Native American Colville Confederated Tribes over environmental damage from smelter effluents, Teck Resources confessed to polluting the upper reaches of the Columbia River for nearly a century.

United Kingdom constituencies

The South West England constituency was expanded from the 2004 elections onwards to include Gibraltar, the only British overseas territory that is part of the European Union, following a court case.

United States v. Oregon

Gonzales v. Oregon, a 2006 United States Supreme Court case in which the United States Department of Justice challenged the Oregon Death with Dignity Act

Sohappy v. Smith (302 F.Supp. 899), a 1969 United States federal district court case concerning fishing rights of Native Americans combined with United States v. Oregon

William Talbot

Talbot v. Janson, the Supreme Court case involving an American named William Talbot

WWCR

WWCR is also notable for a December 1997 broadcast by Ted Gunderson which later became the subject of a court case.