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Wyeth Vs. Levine

Court : US Supreme Court

Wyeth v. Levine - 06-1249 (2009) SYLLABUS OCTOBER TERM, 2008 WYETH V. LEVINE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES WYETH v . LEVINE certiorari to the supreme court of vermont No. 061249.Argued November 3, 2008Decided March 4, 2009 Petitioner Wyeth manufactures the antinausea drug Phenergan. After a clinician injected respondent Levine with Phenergan by the IV-push method, whereby a drug is injected directly into a patients vein, the drug entered Levines artery, she developed gangrene, and doctors amputated her forearm. Levine brought a state-law damages action, alleging, inter alia, that Wyeth had failed to provide an adequate warning about the significant risks of administering Phenergan by the IV-push method. The Vermont jury determined that Levines injury would not have occurred if Phenergans label included an adequate warning, and it awarded damages for her pain and suffering, substantial medical expenses, and loss of her livelihood as a professional musician. Declining t...

Shikshan Prasarak Mandal, Through Its Chairman - Shri Raikumar B. Guja ...

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : 2009(6)BomCR1

Swatanter Kumar, C.J.1. The Petitioner Gramvikas Shikshan Prasarak Mandal is a Public Charitable Trust as well a Society duly registered under the Public Trusts Act, 1950, and the Societies Registration Act, 1860, respectively, which claims that it is running one Secondary School from 5th to 12th standard at Talegaon Dhamdhere. The Deputy Director of Education, Pune Region, Pune and the Director of Education are responsible for and have overall control over educational activities in the Pune region and State of Maharashtra, respectively. The school run by the Petitioner was established and started in the year 1959 and there are nearly 1300 to 1500 students studying in the said school. According to the petitioner, the school has been showing good results in the academic courses. There is another secondary school at Vithalwadi which is at a distance of 4 kms., run by Pandurang Shikshan Prasarak Mandal. In fact, there are two other schools, one at Sanaswadi run by Nareshwar Shikshan Prasa...

Mspl Limited, Rep by Its Executive Director. Vs. the State of Karnatak ...

Court : Karnataka

Reported in : 2009(1)KCCR5(SN)

(This writ petition is filed under articles 226 and 227 of the constitution of India praying to quash the communication dated 6-12-2004 issued by the first respondent vide annexure-k, in so far as it recommends the grant of mining lease to respondents 4 and 5, and etc.)Writ petition is by a limited company, which has filed an application on 16-4-2003 [copy at Annexure-C to the writ petition] seeking for lease of an extent of 298.5 ha. of land for mining operation for a period of 30 years to exploit iron ore from the said government land and in response to a government notification dated 15-3-2003 [copy at Annexure-B to the writ petition] informing the general public that the areas mentioned in the annexure to the notification are available for regrant under Rule 59 of the Mineral Concession Rules, 1960 [for short, the Rules]; that such an application will be considered in accordance with the provisions of the Mines and Minerals (Development & Regulation) Act, 1957 [for short, the Act] ...

Fomento Resorts and Hotels Ltd. and anr. Vs. Minguel Martins and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : 2009(57)BLJR711; 2009(4)BomCR348; JT2009(1)SC470; 2009(1)SCALE758; (2009)3SCC571; 2009(1)LC411(SC)

..... l. rev. 233, 256-57/; robie, some reflections on environmental considerations in water rights administration, 2 ecology l.q. 695, 710-711 (1972); comment, 33 hastings l.j. ..... report or reports of such surveys, and to perform such other functions as may be prescribed.52. chapter vii of the town and country planning act contains provisions relating to control of development and use of land. section 44 lays down tha ..... surroundings of the rock and foliage is maintained. exclusive cutting of rock is also likely to result in land-slides and may pose danger to the foundation of the hotel buildings and its residents. it is, therefore, necessary to construct the hotel building as near the beach as possible ..... the context of the provisions contained in part ii of the 1894 act. shri divan further submitted that in the absence of a specific stipulation to that effect in the notification published under section 4(1) of the 1894 act and agreement dated 26.10.1983, the high court was not justified in issuing ..... , learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioners did not press the grounds of challenge involving violation of crz regulation and construction of sewerage treatment plant without obtaining permission/consent from the competent authority. after taking note ..... 10.1983 and the construction has been made after obtaining permission from the competent authority. she also enclosed permission granted by the sarpanch of the gram panchayat for putting up temporary shed for washing machines.(xxvi .....

A.P. Civil Liberties Committee (Apclc) Rep. by Its President, Mr. S. S ...

Court : Andhra Pradesh

Reported in : 2009(1)ALT754

ORDERGoda Raghuram, J.Competing interpretations of recurrent-contemporaneous events:1. Since the inception of the naxalite movement in Andhra Pradesh in 1969, 551 police personnel were killed including one DIG, two S.Ps, five D.S.Ps; 16 Inspectors and 49 Sub-Inspectors. 2928 civilians were killed; public and private property worth hundred of crores of rupees was destroyed; the extremist groups indulged in mindless violence and committed brutal murders. The naxal violence increased since 1991. They deliberately ambush and attack police with sophisticated firearms and explosives. In order to create terror the Maoists are also targeting functionaries of ruling political parties and killing them brutally - (counter affidavit of the Director General of Police in W.P. No. 15419/06 including Annexures 2 and 7)2. The State Executive for the first time started extra-legal killing which is popularly known as Encounter since 1968 and as on today in the name of alleged encounter the State has snat...

Gurleen Kaur and ors. Vs. State of Punjab and ors.

Court : Punjab and Haryana

Reported in : AIR2009NOC2988(F.B)(P&H)

1. Hearing this petition, has been an experience of sorts. Sentiments and emotions were on a high. We were under an international scanner. Letters were addressed to the members of the bench individually, as well as, collectively. A lot of these letters came from overseas. Some of the communications were addressed to the Chief Justice of this Court, and were forwarded to us for our consideration. The media covered the hearings from day to day, and in doing so, reported the issues canvassed, as it perceived them. The issue under the scanner was an aspect of a religious belief i.e. whether maintaining hair unshorn is an essential/important tenet of the Sikh religion. Based on media projections, individual sentimentalities were aroused. Depending on what was reported, reaction of readers, who thronged the court, varied from day to day. Intellectuals, Sikh scholars, and preachers of the Sikh religion, attended court proceeding, to have a first hand account of what was going on. While not ag...

Horne Vs. Flores

Court : US Supreme Court

Horne v. Flores - 08-289 (2009) SYLLABUS OCTOBER TERM, 2008 HORNE V. FLORES SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES HORNE, SUPERINTENDENT, ARIZONA PUBLICINSTRUCTION v . FLORES etal. certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the ninth circuit No. 08289.Argued April 20, 2009Decided June 25, 2009 A group of English Language-Learner (ELL) students and their parents (plaintiffs) filed a class action, alleging that Arizona, its State Board of Education, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction (defendants) were providing inadequate ELL instruction in the Nogales Unified School District (Nogales), in violation of the Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974 (EEOA), which requires States to take appropriate action to overcome language barriers in schools, 20 U. S.C. 1703(f). In 2000, the Federal District Court entered a declaratory judgment, finding an EEOA violation in Nogales because the amount of funding the State allocated for the special needs of ELL students (ELL ...

Ysursa Vs. Pocatello Ed. Assn.

Court : US Supreme Court

Ysursa v. Pocatello Ed. Assn. - 07-869 (2009) SYLLABUS OCTOBER TERM, 2008 YSURSA V. POCATELLO ED. ASSN. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES YSURSA, SECRETARY OF STATE OF IDAHO, etal. v . POCATELLO EDUCATION ASSOCIATION etal. certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the ninth circuit No. 07869.Argued November 3, 2008Decided February 24, 2009 Idahos Right to Work Act permits public employees to authorize payroll deductions for general union dues, but prohibits such deductions for union political activities. Respondentsa group of Idaho public employee unionssued, alleging that the ban on payroll deductions for political activities violated the First and Fourteenth Amendments. The District Court upheld the ban at the state level, but struck it down as it applies to local governments. In affirming, the Ninth Circuit stated that, while Idaho has the ultimate control over local governmental units, it did not actually operate or control their payroll deduction systems. Th...

Ricci Vs. Destefano

Court : US Supreme Court

..... promotional examinations. see 2000e 2(h) ( [n]or shall it be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to give and to act upon the results of any professionally developed ability test provided that such test, its administration or action upon the results is not ..... 3-month study period. it gave candidates a list that identified the source material for the questions, including the specific chapters from which the questions were taken. ios developed the oral examinations as well. these concentrated on job skills and abilities. ..... equal opportunity employment laws have similarly recognized that, as measures of interpersonal relations or ability to function under danger ( e.g. , firefighters), [p]encil-and-paper tests generally are not close enough approximations of work behaviors ..... & trust , 487 u. s. 977 , 992 (1988) (plurality opinion)) a signal of something illicit, so a regulator might allow statistical disparities to play some role in the evidentiary process. cf. mcdonnell douglas corp. ..... respondents in this court. petitioners filed suit under rev. stat. 1979 and 1980, 42 u. s. c. 1983 and 1985, alleging that respondents, by arguing or voting against certifying the results, violated and conspired to violate the equal protection ..... was insincere, a mere pretext for discrimination against white firefighters. ante , at 2 3. in support of his assertion, justice alito recounts at length the alleged machinations of rev. boise kimber (a local political activist), mayor john destefano, and .....