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An unreasonable restraint is severable, and the court enforced the amended agreement that Nordenfelt "for the next 25 years, would not make guns or ammunition anywhere in the world , and would not compete with Maxim in any way" thus permitting him to trade in those very items in direct competition with Maxim, illustrating the limited practical ...
United States v. Throckmorton (98 U.S. 61) is an 1878 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court on civil procedure, specifically res judicata, in cases heard at equity.A unanimous Court affirmed an appeal of a decision by the District Court for California upholding a Mexican-era land claim, holding that collateral estoppel bars untimely motions to set aside the verdict where the purportedly ...
Agreement with judgment Opinions filed Seniority Name President Date confirmed % # Total Chief Justice: John Roberts: George W. Bush: September 29, 2005 91.2% 62/68 7 2 0 2 11 Associate Justice: Clarence Thomas: George H. W. Bush: October 15, 1991 79.4% 54/68 7 11 0 6 24 Associate Justice: Stephen Breyer: Bill Clinton: August 3, 1994 75% 51/68 ...
(Hearing is reconvened at 9:38 a.m., and the following transpired in open court out of the hearing of the jury:) THE COURT: All right, we are waiting for the arrival of a few more jurors, so we are going to address some remaining issues involved with the jury instructions. I understand there is a new instruction that has been proposed, and also ...
R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes Inc. v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 590 U.S. ___ (2020), is a landmark [1] United States Supreme Court case which ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects transgender people from employment discrimination.
Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., 569 U.S. 108 (2013), was a United States Supreme Court decision in which the court found that the presumption against extraterritoriality applies to claims under the Alien Tort Claims Act.
AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion, 563 U.S. 333 (2011), is a legal dispute that was decided by the United States Supreme Court. [1] [2] On April 27, 2011, the Court ruled, by a 5–4 margin, that the Federal Arbitration Act of 1925 preempts state laws that prohibit contracts from disallowing class-wide arbitration, such as the law previously upheld by the California Supreme Court in the case of ...
22 It must be pointed out in that regard that, in its judgment of 25 May 1971 in Case 80/70 Defrenne v Belgium (1971) ECR 445, paragraphs 7 and 8, the Court stated that consideration in the nature of social security benefits is not in principle alien to the concept of pay.