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In the United States, an individual who has committed a Federal offense will be tried in a Federal court. Federal cases generally involve specified crimes, including cybercrimes, intrastate kidnapping, counterfeiting, and embezzlement. The location at which an offense occurred and the people involved the crime may also give the Federal court jurisdiction over a case. ..

  American Insurance Association v. Garamendi   The Holocaust killed over 6 million Jews in Europe, as well as a number of other ethnic and religious minorities and people considered disabled or “defective” physically or mentally by the Nazi regime.  However, after the Holocaust transpired, many insurance companies refused to make good on..

Judge BackgroundIn the United States justice system, a judge is an individual who presides over cases within his/her specified jurisdiction. Court judges can be employed in local, state, or federal courts, where they oversee court proceedings. The process of becoming a judge will vary, depending upon the jurisdiction in which an individual wishes to operate. Judicial Title..

  Anthony Baez Anthony Baez was a 29-year-old resident of the Bronx whose death during a 1994 arrest by the New York Police Department led to two trials and controversy over police brutality. The incident in question took place on December 22, 1994, when Anthony Baez was playing catch with his two brothers in the early hours of the morning. When their football a..

  Arizona v. Johnson The 2009 Supreme Court case of Arizona v. Johnson had its origins in a traffic stop. Lemon Johnson was a passenger in the backseat of a car which was stopped by police officers in Sugar Hill, Arizona when the license plate was observed to be on a list of cars which must be stopped because they were on a list of vehicles which had received a ..

  Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona   The decisions made by the United States Supreme Court about the cases it hears are sometimes more about procedural issues than they are about the substantive issues in the case itself.  Arizonans for Official English v. Arizona is a case that went in a drastically different direction from its original i..

  Associated Press v. United States Associated Press v. United States is an important 1945 Supreme Court case which helped redefine the application of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The point of this legislation was to prevent businesses from engaging in anti-competitive practices. The case began in federal district court. At the same time, the membership of the..

  Astrue v. Capato Background Information: The case of Astrue v. Capato concerned the right of twin children to procure children’s social security survivor benefits. The children in question were born to Karen Capato in September of 2003. Approximately four years before their birth, Karen married Robert Capato. Following their marriage, Robert was diagnose..

  Atlantic Sounding Co. v. Townsend   Maritime law is an area of the law that is controlled, unlike most types of tort law in the United States, completely at the federal level.  In Atlantic Sounding Co. v. Townsend, the Supreme Court looked at damages under maritime law.  Could punitive damages be assessed against a company that blatantly ref..

  Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce   One of the biggest controversial political topics of the 21st century so far is campaign finance reform.  The controversial Citizens United ruling made it possible for corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on U.S. elections.  However, it wasn't always this way.  In Austin v. Michig..

  Bates v. City of Little Rock: The Background The case of Bates v. City of Little Rock was a Supreme Court Case that held the First Amendment to the United States Constitution outlawed state governments to compel the disclosure of an entity’s membership lists via a tax-regulatory scheme. The issue surrounding Bates v. City of Little Rock was whether t..

  Berghuis v. Thompkins   Anyone who's ever been arrested—or watched a television show with an arrest in it—is familiar with the words.  “You have the right to remain silent.  Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.”  In 2010, the Supreme Court of the United States made a major deci..

Bernie Banton Mesothelioma Case:Who is Bernie Banton?Born October 13th in 1946, Bernie Banton was an Australian social justice campaigner. Banton was a widely-recognized face of the political and legal campaign to achieve compensation for sufferers of asbestos-related conditions, which they contracted following a long career with the company James Hardie. James Hardie Indu..

  What is Blackhawk International Airways? The company was responsible for aircraft charters and flew between Florida and the Bahamas.  The Blackhawk International Airways Corporation is no longer active, and the company has faced several lawsuits and fines in the past.    The company has received fines from the FAA for violations that ran..

  BMW of North America Inc. v. Gore   Punitive damages are an old tradition in the common law system used by both the United Kingdom and the United States today.  However, at times, courts have ruled punitive damages to be excessive relative to the severity of the tort committed.  In the case of BMW of North America Inc. v. Gore, a punitive da..