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Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information quickly and with minimal misunderstanding to staff while preventing stress and panic among visitors to the hospital.
United States. 23-825. Whether a crime that requires proof of bodily injury or death, but can be committed by failing to take action, has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force. June 3, 2024. (November 12, 2024) Dewberry Group, Inc. v. Dewberry Engineers, Inc. 23-900.
Congressional power to regulate interstate commerce. Osborn v. Bank of the United States. 22 U.S. 738 (1824) scope of Article III jurisdiction; interpretation of the 11th Amendment. The Antelope. 23 U.S. 66 (1825) The Supreme Court's initial consideration of the legitimacy of the international slave trade. Ogden v.
Lists of landmark court decisions. Landmark court decisions, in present-day common law legal systems, establish precedents that determine a significant new legal principle or concept, or otherwise substantially affect the interpretation of existing law. " Leading case " is commonly used in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth jurisdictions ...
412 U.S. 669 (1973) Standing to sue. Miller v. California. 413 U.S. 15 (1973) Freedom of speech, Miller test for obscenity. United States v. 12 200-ft. Reels of Film. 413 U.S. 123 (1973) Ban on importing obscene material stands but material to be reevaluated under Miller test.
Court historians and other legal scholars consider each chief justice who presides over the Supreme Court of the United States to be the head of an era of the Court. These lists are sorted chronologically by chief justice and include most major cases decided by the court.
The following landmark court decisions in the United States contains landmark court decisions which changed the interpretation of existing law in the United States. Such a decision may settle the law in more than one way: establishing a test or a measurable standard that can be applied by courts in future decisions.
This is a partial chronological list of cases decided by the United States Supreme Court during the Warren Court, the tenure of Chief Justice Earl Warren, from October 5, 1953, through June 23, 1969. Toolson v. New York Yankees, Inc. Wilko v. Swan.