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There is no official reporting of decisions of trial courts, but West's Jury Verdicts Georgia Reports publishes significant trial court decisions, and the Georgia Trial Reporter publishes a monthly summary of all available superior and state court civil jury trials in the Atlanta metropolitan area that result in a verdict. [5]
Exclusionary Rule Not Applicable when officer relied on statute subsequently ruled unconstitutional O'Connor v. Donaldson: 422 U.S. 563 (1975) Institutionalization of a non-dangerous mentally ill person Faretta v. California: 422 U.S. 806 (1975) Criminal defendants have the constitutional right to refuse counsel United States v. Brignoni-Ponce
As a territory, Guam does not receive electoral votes in the presidential election. However, beginning in 1980, the island has held a non-binding advisory primary. Seven candidates qualified for the ballot. [47] Kamala Harris and Tim Walz (Democratic) Donald Trump and JD Vance (Republican) Jill Stein and Butch Ware (Green)
Following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the George W. Bush administration decided to tighten entry requirements into the United States, as a result of which legislation was passed requiring foreign visitors entering under the Visa Waiver Program to present a machine-readable passport upon arrival starting from October 1, 2003, and a ...
[86] [non-primary source needed] By 1832, only South Carolina legislatively chose its electors, and it abandoned the method after 1860. [86] [non-primary source needed] Maryland was the only state using a district plan, and from 1836 district plans fell out of use until the 20th century, though Michigan used a district plan for 1892 only ...
[89] [90] Although the law was overturned by the Indiana Supreme Court in 1921, [91] in the 1927 case Buck v. Bell, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924, allowing for the compulsory sterilization of patients of state mental institutions. [92]
The Court ruled that the union was subject to an injunction and liable for the payment of triple damages. In 1915 Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, speaking for the Court, again decided in favor of Loewe, upholding a lower federal court ruling ordering the union to pay damages of $252,130. (The cost of lawyers had already exceeded $100,000, paid ...
Canadian lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer rights are some of the most extensive in the world. [5] [6] [7] Same-sex sexual activity, in private between consenting adults, was decriminalized in Canada on June 27, 1969, when the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1968–69 (also known as Bill C-150) was brought into force upon royal assent. [1]