Landmark Legal Decisions Highlighted in American Law Yearbook

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Since 1998,American Law Yearbook曾作为伴侣体积扩展的值金宝搏彩票美国法律百科全书大风by gathering the top legal stories from the previous year and then discussing them in concise, insightful entries written by legal experts. This year, the need for a layperson’s comprehensive and understandable guide to terms, concepts, and historical developments in American law is more critical than ever, and美国法律年鉴2019is more than up to the task of fulfilling such a role.

这past year, there were cases that called into question the validity of voting rights, the veracity of antitrust laws, the intention and purpose of certain aspects of the census, as well as the continued occurrence of double jeopardy, as these excerpts from美国法律年鉴2019说明:

  • Rucho诉常见原因

“美国最高法院一直在努力确定当选民和其他可能挑战已导致从党派徇私投票的地图。在2019紧密划分法院裁定,这种类型的徇私的超出了联邦法院的范围。。。意味着双方希望挑战选区必须在州一级这样做”,而宪法不一定吧极端徇私的情况下,[它的决定。

  • 苹果公司诉辣椒

“In May 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that consumers suing iPhone creator Apple Inc. could go forward with their class-action claims against the electronics giant for alleged market monopolization.” When writing for the narrow majority of the decision, Justice Brett Kavanaugh concluded that “Apple exercises monopoly power in the retail market for the sale of apps and has unlawfully used its monopoly power to force iPhone owners to pay Apple higher-than-competitive prices for apps.”

  • Department of Commerce v. New York

美国最高法院“认为,商务部部长做notviolate the U.S. Constitution’s Enumeration Clause or the Census Act in his decision to reinstate the [citizenship question on the 2020 census form]. However, the Court upheld the federal district court’s remand to the federal agency because of an inconsistency between the evidence and the secretary’s stated rationale for his decision.”

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  • Gamble v. United States

Terance赌博“已经认罪收费违反关于拥有枪支的重刑犯阿拉巴马州的法律。但随后在联邦一级检察官指控他不仅因同一罪行,也藏有相同的事件/实例。他承认犯有联邦罪行,但呼吁双重危险的理由。Both district court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld his federal conviction, invoking the ‘dual sovereignty doctrine.’ Under this, two offenses are not the same offense ‘if prosecuted by different sovereigns.’” Later, “the Supreme Court agreed and affirmed.”

这种情况下,更多的人,进行了讨论和内页分析美国法律年鉴2019,这是目前在我们的平台上印刷和电子书格式提供,金宝搏彩票盖尔电子书



Meet the Author


An award-winning independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, Mike Tyrkus has spent much of the last two decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema. He is a standing member of the底特律影评人协会, as well as the group’s webmaster and current president. His contributions to the world of film criticism can be found in such places as the电影和电影人的国际英语词典,Magill’s Cinema Annual, and theSt. James Film Directors Encyclopedia(on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). Mike is also the editor ofVideoHound’s Golden Movie Retriever.He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their two dogs. You can find Mike onTwitterFacebook的, or atCinemaNerdz.com

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