Court : US Supreme Court
Decided on : May-03-2010
..... was not unreasonable, we reverse. i on august 29, 1996, an argument broke out in a detroit liquor store. the antagonists included adesoji latona, a taxi driver; charles jones, a passenger who claimed he had been wrongfully ejected from latona s cab; and reginald lett, a friend of jones s. after the argument began, lett left the liquor store, retrieved a .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : International Court of Justice ICJ
Decided on : Apr-20-2010
1. On 4 May 2006, the Argentine Republic (hereinafter œArgentina?) filed in the Registry of the Court an Application instituting proceedings against the Eastern Republic of Uruguay (hereinafter œUruguay?) in respect of a dispute concerning the breach, allegedly committed by Uruguay, of obligations under the Statute of the River Uruguay (United Nations, Treaty Series (UNTS), Vol. 1295, No. I-21425, p. 340), a treaty signed by Argentina and Uruguay at Salto (Uruguay) on 26 February 1975 and having entered into force on 18 September 1976 (hereinafter the œ1975 Statute?); in the Application, Argentina stated that this breach arose out of œthe authorization, construction and future commissioning of two pulp mills on the River Uruguay?, with reference in particular to œthe effects of such activities on the quality of the waters of the River Uruguay and on the areas affected by the river?. In its Application, Argentina, referring to Article 36, paragraph 1, of th...
Tag this Judgment!Court : US Supreme Court
Decided on : Mar-31-2010
United States v. Stevens - 08-769 (2010) SYLLABUS OCTOBER TERM, 2009 UNITED STATES V. STEVENS SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES UNITED STATES v . STEVENS certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the third circuit No. 08769.Argued October 6, 2009Decided April 20, 2010 Congress enacted 18 U. S.C. 48 to criminalize the commercial creation, sale, or possession of certain depictions of animal cruelty. The statute addresses only portrayals of harmful acts, not the underlying conduct. It applies to any visual or auditory depiction in which a living animal is intentionally maimed, mutilated, tortured, wounded, or killed, if that conduct violates federal or state law where the creation, sale, or possession takes place, 48(c)(1). Another clause exempts depictions with serious religious, political, scientific, educational, journalistic, historical, or artistic value. 48(b). The legislative background of 48 focused primarily on crush videos, which feature the torture and ...
Tag this Judgment!Court : Chennai
Decided on : Aug-06-2010
..... management witnesses, who were examined in the domestic enquiry were not eyewitness to the incident. further, the defacto complainant one jabar ali, who is stated to be a passenger in other bus, was also not examined in the domestic enquiry. therefore, the labour court rightly concluded that the finding of guilt against the workmen alone is not sustainable ..... on account of the negligent driving of the workmen, which resulted in collision of two buses belonging to the management, loss of eight lives and injuries to passengers, and damage to the buses of the management and such misconduct warrants the punishment of termination; that the bus was driven at very high speed in a ..... the opposite direction and after the impact the bus went on its right side, crossed the road and dashed on a tree. due to the accident eight passengers died and nineteen persons sustained serious injury and four persons sustained simple injury. a case was registered against the workmen in crime no.383 of 1995 on the .....
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