Court reporter - Court reporter A court reporter or stenographic reporter is a person whose occupation is to transcribe spoken or recorded speech into written form, typically using a stenotype or stenographic machine to produce official transcripts of court hearings, depositions and other official proceedings. Court reporters use a shorthand system in order to keep up with the flow of speech so that they do not miss any words. The court reporter is often also a notary public who is authorized to administer oaths to witnesses, and who certifies that her or his transcript of the proceedings is a verbatim account of what was said. Court reporters are also employed by television producers and stations in order to provide closed captioning of programs for the hearing-impaired. Court reporters often.
Court Citation - Court Citation Sometimes someone will mention the name of a court case and you might notice some funny numbers after it, like this: Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) Brown v. Board of Education 344 U.S. 1 (1952) Miranda v. Arizona 384 U.S. 436 (1966) Griswold v. Connecticut 381 U.S. 479, 85 S.Ct. 1678, 14 L.Ed.2d 510 (1965) These numbers are used to find a particular case if, for example, you wanted to look up a case (in the particular book it was printed in) at a law library. There is an important reason for having the citation number. There are many instances in which there is more than one case with the exact same name. For example, if you wanted to look up the.
Supreme Court of the United States - Supreme Court of the United States The Supreme Court of the United States, located in Washington, D.C, is the highest court (see supreme court) in the United States; that is, it has ultimate judicial authority within the United States to interpret and decide questions of federal law. It is head of the judicial branch of the United States Government. The other two branches of the United States Government are the executive branch and the legislative branch. The Supreme Court is sometimes known by the acronym SCOTUS. The Supreme Court is the only court required by the United States Constitution. All other federal courts are created by Congress. The justices (currently nine) are appointed for life by the President of the United States and confirmed by majority vote.
List of Supreme Court of Canada cases - List of Supreme Court of Canada cases This is a chronological list of notable cases decided by the Supreme Court of Canada. For other important cases see List of Judicial Committees of the Privy Council & House of Lords cases, which were precedent in Canada or decisions of the court of last resort prior to the Supreme Court of Canada's complete jurisdiction as the court of last resort of Canada in 1949 Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Please see the legal disclaimer if you are looking for legal advice. 2 Issues in Canadian Federalism 3 Under Canada's Implied Bill of Rights 4 After the adoption of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms 1982 Please see the legal disclaimer if you are looking for legal advice. Issues in.
Janet Reno - advocate for strict gun control legislation. Reno ran for Governor of Florida in 2002, but lost in the Democratic primary to Bill McBride. Voting problems arose in the election, and she did not concede defeat until a week later. She was born on July 21, 1938 in Miami, Florida. Her father, Henry Reno, came to the United States from Denmark and for forty-three years was a police reporter for the Miami Herald. Jane Wood, Reno's mother, raised her children and then became an investigative reporter for the Miami News. Janet Reno has three younger siblings. Reno attended public school in Dade County, Florida, where she was a debating champion at Coral Gables High School. In 1956 Janet Reno enrolled at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where she majored in chemistry,.
January 2003 - 31, 2003 January 30, 2003 Would-be shoe-bomber Richard Reid is sentenced to life in prison for trying to down American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami. Reid had previously pleaded guilty. [1] January 29, 2003 A false rumor that Thai actress Suvanant Kongying had told a reporter that the temple ruins at Angkor really belong to Thailand led to a riot in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, causing the destruction of the Thai Embassy and dozens of Thai-owned businesses, hotels and factories. January 28, 2003 An election in the state of Oregon to pass an temporary three-year income tax failed with 54% of the votes voting against and 44% voting for. This forced the first layoffs in the Oregon State Police since its creation in 1934, and other actions including cutbacks in.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford - successor of Charles Taze Russell. Rutherford was born to a farm family in Morgan County, Missouri. After completing his education, he worked as a court reporter and was admitted to the bar at Boonville, Missouri. Still later he became a special - or substitute - judge in the same Fourteenth Judicial District of Missouri. Hence, he came to be known as "Judge" Rutherford. He became President of the Watch Tower Society in 1916, on Russell's death. In 1931 at a convention, Rutherford delivered a talk proposing the adoption of a new name for the organization, previously known as the "International Bible Students Association". Thus the group became known as Jehovah's Witnesses. J.F. Rutherford served as President of the Watch Tower Society until his death in 1942..
John F. Kennedy assassination - T. Hughes following the assassination of John F. Kennedy Back at Air Force One, Vice President Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as the next president of the United States. Against common procedure (the murder of the President was still a state crime, under Texas jurisdiction) Kennedy was removed from Parkland Hospital and put directly onto Air Force One, rather than undergoing an examination by the local coroner. Considerable effort was made to put his coffin into the seating area of the plane, rather than the cargo hold (as all involved concurred would be unthinkable); several seats were removed from the plane to make this possible. Late in the evening of November 22, Oswald was charged with single-handedly assassinating Kennedy. He denied shooting Kennedy to reporters, stating, "I didn't shoot anyone" and,.
July 9 - Cartland, romance novelist, step-grandmother of Princess Diana (+ 2000) 1908 - Paul Brown 1916 - Edward Heath, politician 1925 - Peter Ludwig, entrepreneur and art collector (+ 1996) 1927 - Susan Cabot, actress 1927 - Ed Ames, actor 1929 - King Hassan II of Morocco, (+ 1999) 1937 - David Hockney, artist (Pop art) 1938 - Brian Dennehy, actor 1942 - Richard Roundtree, actor 1946 - Bon Scott, singer: AC/DC (+ 1980) 1947 - O. J. Simpson, football player, actor 1952 - John Tesh, composer 1956 - Tom Hanks, actor 1956 - Marc Almond, singer 1958 - Jimmy Smits, actor 1965 - Frank Bello, bassist in the Anthrax rock band 1965 - Courtney Love, musician 1976 - Fred Savage, actor Deaths 1797 - Edmund Burke, British philosopher and statesman 1850 -.
June 2003 - the National Do Not Call Registry will be enforced, most telemarketers will be required to remove the numbers on the registry from their call lists. See http://donotcall.gov/ or call 1-888 382-1222 for registration. [1], [1] The Boston Red Sox establish a new Major League Baseball record by scoring 10 runs before recording their first out of the game against the Florida Marlins in Boston. Marlins pitcher Kevin Olsen was injured by a line-drive hit and taken to a local hospital, where he was admitted in good condition. The Red Sox beat the Marlins, 25-8. One day after its Lawrence v. Texas ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court remands the case of Matthew Limon to the Kansas Court of Appeals. Limon was sentenced to 17 years in prison for engaging in consensual oral.
July 2003 - Iraq, "four key figures" in the former Iraqi regime die in a large operation by US troops. The dead included Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay. class="external">[1 [1] A severe storm strikes Memphis, Tennessee, leaving several dead and as many as 300,000 without power, including extremely severe damage to the power grid in some areas. [1] [1] Geographers announce that, with respect to its relative size, Kansas is flatter than a pancake. [1] July 21, 2003 npr.org's All Things Considered program aired a humorous article on the Wiki phenomenon, and on Wikipedia.org. Jong-Wook Lee becomes the new Director-General of the World Health Organization. SCO v. IBM Linux lawsuit: SCO announces that it intends to sell binary-only licences to use the free Linux operating system which will remove the threat of litigation.
Hermione Granger - theft of the philosopher's stone. Her parents are both muggles, and in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets she is petrified by the basilisk while researching a hunch; this information later helps Harry and Ron to save Ron's sister, Ginny. In Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Hermione is again estranged from her friends, first when she is suspicious about Harry's Christmas gift, a Firebolt broom, and reports it to Professor McGonagall, who confiscates it; and again when Ron accuses her cat, Crookshanks, of killing his rat Scabbers. While estranged from her friends, she helps Hagrid to prepare for the court case against his hippogriff, Buckbeak, though these efforts are unsuccessful. She and Harry later help the hippogriff to escape. Hermione starts to relax in that book, and after.
Henry Wheaton - years’ study abroad, practiced law at Providence (1807-1812) and at New York City (1812-1827). He was a justice of the Marine Court of the city of New York from 1815 to 1819, and reporter of the United States Supreme Court from 1816 to 1827, aiding in 1825 in the revision of the laws of New York. His diplomatic career began in 1827, with an appointment to Denmark as chargé d'affaires, followed by that of minister to Prussia, 1837 to 1846. During this period he had published a Digest of the Law of Maritime Captures (1815); twelve volumes of Supreme Court Reports, and a Digest; a great number of historical articles, and some collected works; Elements of International Law (1836), his most important work, of which a 6th edition with memoir was.
Honoré Mirabeau - house of a friend he met Marie Thérèse de Monnier, his "Sophie", and the two fell in love. He escaped to Switzerland, where Sophie joined him; they then went to the United Provinces, where he lived by hack work for the booksellers; meanwhile Mirabeau had been condemned to death at Pontarlier for seduction and abduction, and in May 1777 he was seized by the French police, and imprisoned by a lettre de cachet in the castle of Vincennes. The early part of his confinement is marked by the indecent letters to Sophie (first published in 1793), and the obscene Erotica biblion and Ma conversion. In the dungeon of Vincennes he met the fellow prisoner Marquis de Sade who was also writing erotic works; the two disliked each other intensely. Later during.
Hong Kong Economic Journal - market faced its downturn. Today, it is still considered to be one of the most influential newspapers in the Chinese media world. The Hong Kong Economic Journal initially consisted of two pages. Nowaday, it has been extended to be seven or eight pages. The Journal has a circulation of 63,120 copies per day in January 2001, and the main reader groups are intellectuals and businessmen, who usually demand reliable sources of news. The staffs and the sections 7 journalists are working for Hong Kong Economic Journal, they are: Ms Yiu Hung, Georgina Chan, the Assistant Chief Editor, Mr Fai Kim Ho, the Reporter, Ms Chris Lam , the Reporter, Mr Reed Lo, the Reporter Ms Valentine Ma, the Reporter Ms Yin Kwan Ng, the Reporter Mr Fat Lee Wing, the Reporter..
Gary Locke - spending-reduction proposals were laying off thousands of state employees, reducing health coverage, freezing pay for most state employees, and cutting nursing homes and programs for the developmentally disabled. On the national stage, Democrats saw him as a rising star and a possible vice-presidential pick. He was chosen to give the Democratic response to George W. Bush's 2003 State of the Union address. However, at home, former Supreme Court Justice Phil Talmadge challenged Locke from the left in the 2004 primary. In a surprise move, in July 2003, Locke announced he would not seek a third term. "After much thought and careful deliberation with my family, I have decided not to seek a third term as governor of Washington State," he said. "Despite my deep love of our state, I want to.
George Seldes - interview with Paul von Hindenburg, the supreme commander of the German Army. but the article was suppressed and never appeared in the American press. In the interview, Hindenburg acknowledged the role that America played in defeating Germany. "The American infantry," said Hindenburg, "won the World War in battle in the Argonne." But American newspaper readers never read those words. Seldes and the others were accused of breaking the Armistice and were court martialed. They were also forbidden to write anything about the interview. Seldes himself believed that the suppression of the interview proved to be tragic. Instead of hearing straight from the mouth of Germany's supreme commander that they were beaten fair and square on the battlefield, another story took hold — the Dolchstoss (or "stab-in-the-back"), the myth that Germany did.
Ford v. Quebec (A.G.) - (A.G.) In the 1988 Ford v. Quebec (AG) decision, the Supreme Court of Canada invalidated sections of the Charter of the French Language, also known as Bill 101. One of the reasons it gave for invalidating the sections on commercial signs was that it was not a reasonable limitation under Section 9 of the 1975 Quebec Charter of Rights and Freedoms and under Article 1 of the 1982 Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The appeal, taken by the government of Quebec, was the consolidation of many cases begun by a Montreal businessman, Hyman Singer, in which merchants who had tried to exhibit English language or bilingual English and French signs had been fined and ordered to remove the signs by the Office québécois de la langue française. The Supreme Court.
USA PATRIOT Act - Revolutionary War. Critics also say the law was passed without serious review in a climate of fear, and that it represents a reactionary agenda that has little to do with the 9/11 attacks. They note that there were unsuccessful attempts to pass similar laws, such as the Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act of 2000, long before 9/11. Supporters of the law argue that terrorist acts may result in the loss of thousands or millions of lives, so waiting until after the fact to hunt the perpetrators down would be a deadly mistake. They admit that the law may result in some rights abuses, but point out that the most basic civil right is the right to live without perpetual fear. They further argue that, unless the Supreme Court rules otherwise, the law is.
Dred Scott v. Sandford - - also known as the Dred Scott Case, was a lawsuit decided in front of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1857, and considered by many to be a key cause of the American Civil War and the later ratification of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments leading to the abolition of slavery. The decision for the court was written by Chief Justice Roger Taney. This exists in the official Supreme Court records as Dred Scott v. John F.A. Sandford, due to a spelling error of a Supreme Court reporter; the actual name of the person being sued was simply "John F. Sandford". Dred Scott was a slave who was taken to free territory for an extended period of time and then back to the slave state of Missouri..
