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Nuisance in English law is an area of tort law broadly divided into two torts; private nuisance, where the actions of the defendant are "causing a substantial and unreasonable interference with a [claimant]'s land or his/her use or enjoyment of that land", [1] and public nuisance, where the defendant's actions "materially affects the reasonable comfort and convenience of life of a class of His ...
Nichols v. United States , 511 U.S. 738 (1994), was a United States Supreme Court case that ruled that an uncounseled misdemeanor conviction, which resulted in a punishment other than imprisonment, can be used to enhance a sentence for a subsequent offense.
Did not participate in the decision: Decisions that do not note an argument date were decided without oral argument. Decisions that do not note a Justice delivering the Court's opinion are per curiam. Multiple concurrences and dissents within a case are numbered, with joining votes numbered accordingly.
The first ruling issued by Judge Mark S. Norris on July 12 denied Bean's motion to dismiss three counts, citing the prosecution's failure to give "fair notice of [Bean's] charges." Bean's ...
The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Sunday issued a ruling siding with educators at Nichols Middle School in Middleborough who last year required Liam Morrison to remove the ...
Nichols v. United States , 578 U.S. ___ (2016), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) does not require an individual to update his registration after departing a state.
The valid-when-made doctrine is believed to have originated with Nichols v. Fearson, an 1833 case, which found that "a contract, which, in its inception, is unaffected by usury can never be invalidated by any subsequent usurious transaction." [2] The doctrine became a part of common law after the National Bank Act was passed in 1864. [3]
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard the appeal, publishing its lengthy decision on 12 October 1977. On the question of infringement, the court quoted Judge Learned Hand's "abstractions test" defined in Nichols v. Universal Pictures Corp.. In this the judge defined successive layers of abstraction from the words ...