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Cohen v. California. Cohen v. California, 403 U.S. 15 (1971), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court holding that the First Amendment prevented the conviction of Paul Robert Cohen for the crime of disturbing the peace by wearing a jacket displaying "Fuck the Draft " in the public corridors of a California courthouse.
Melville Nimmer. Melville Bernard Nimmer (June 6, 1923 – November 23, 1985) was an American lawyer and law professor, renowned as an expert in freedom of speech and United States copyright law. [1] Nimmer graduated from UCLA, UC Berkeley, and Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the California State Bar in January 1951. [2]
On October 18, 2013, California businessman Art Cohen filed a civil suit, Art Cohen v. Donald J. Trump , in the U.S. District Court for Southern California , as a class action on behalf of consumers throughout the United States who purchased services known as "Live Events" from Trump University after January 1, 2007.
Murphy, joined by unanimous. Laws applied. U.S. Constitution amend. I; NH P. L., c. 378, § 2 (1941) Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, 315 U.S. 568 (1942), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court in which the Court articulated the fighting words doctrine, a limitation of the First Amendment 's guarantee of freedom of speech.
California - William Cohen (in UCLA Law Review) Looking Back at Cohen v. California: A 40 Year Retrospective from Inside the Court - Thomas Krattenmaker (in William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal) [3]
Michael Thomas Sauer (December 13, 1937 – May 14, 2021) was an American judge on the Los Angeles County Superior Court. He is best known for sentencing socialite Paris Hilton to 45 days in jail for violating the terms of her probation. [1] He was previously a Deputy City Attorney for Los Angeles, California and unsuccessfully argued the ...
Aboriginal title in California refers to the aboriginal title land rights of the indigenous peoples of California. The state is unique in that no Native American tribe in California is the counterparty to a ratified federal treaty. Therefore, all the Indian reservations in the state were created by federal statute or executive order.
Smith v. California, 361 U.S. 147 (1959), was a U.S. Supreme Court case upholding the freedom of the press.The decision deemed unconstitutional a city ordinance that made one in possession of obscene books criminally liable because it did not require proof that one had knowledge of the book's content, and thus violated the freedom of the press guaranteed in the First Amendment. [1]