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... Smith ultimately pinned Arnold against a window, grasping her shoulder with one hand and her neck with the other hand. Godding pulled Smith away from Arnold ... between them, but Arnold then picked up several objects from a desk and hurled them at Smith. Finally, Smith left the room. The entire incident lasted ... terminated for physical altercations. The court, however, rejected comparison to all of them because there were not "similarly situated" to the Plaintiff. What does that mean? Most were not ...

... I, the Guidelines assumed that you were similarly situated to other 14s and Is. But in this case -- and perhaps many others -- that is a false assumption. Similarly situated with respect to the Guideline categories does not ... been a first offender, with a criminal history I, not because he had been crime-free all of his life but because he did not "do" street drug deals and thus rarely encountered government agents. And the reverse, an offender with a high criminal history score, could have been ...

In holding that the plaintiff and another applicant were not "similarly-situated in all material respects," the 9th Circuit relied, in part, on the fact that the other applicant was a friend of the decisionmaker: Dove also failed to establish a prima facie <case because he could not show that similarly situated individuals not in his protected class [...]

... considerations. But it looks like a considerable improvement on direct regulation. A very similar alternative is currently being discussed under the label of "cap and trade." The government sets the total amount of effluent that may be emitted- ... can sell their excess permits to other firms for whom reduction is more difficult. Indeed, the regulated industry as whole may end up richer as a result of the regulation. Depending on the details of the situation, the increased income from the higher ...

... ; Eberz, P.C. filed a class action complaint in federal court in Massachusetts on behalf of Deloris Gordon and all others similarly situated (the "Class") alleging that Adaptive Marketing, LLC ("Adaptive") and its parent company Vertrue, Inc. ("Vertrue"), along with VistaPrint USA, Inc. ("VistaPrint") and its parent company VistaPrint Limited (collectively "Defendants"), are perpetrating; specifically, the practice of imposing unauthorized charges upon unsuspecting consumers ...

... No. EDCV08-0334 MRP (JCRx) (C.D. Cal. Aug. 5, 2008) and its companion cases, the Central District of California addressed the express preemption clause of Section 379r ... . Here, the parents of children younger than age 6 filed a complaint against manufacturers alleging that the OTC cough and cold medicines "d[id] not work" ... to various state consumer fraud statutes, and each case sought to certify a class on behalf of all others similarly situated. The court granted the defendants' motion to dismiss ...

... bringing an end to impunity, Middle Eastern nations and all other states that have not yet ratified the Rome Statute must embrace the ICC. To date, the Arab ... few. Furthermore, the ICC could protect the region's states from external threats similar to the Persian Gulf War in 1990 or the 2003 American invasion of Iraq. By becoming a State ... (539 B.C.), considered to be the first charter of human rights in recorded history, and the Treaty of Kadesh (1274 B.C.), the world's first international peace ...

... was not a retailer, but a company whose products were sold by retailers] and others similarly situated to pay 30 percent more for an advertisement informing the public where certain ... sold in the secondary market that calculate monthly interest differently during the year of payoff from all other months." The brief also states that with respect to Wells Fargo's practice, ... outside the record." (Eisenberg et al., Cal. Practice Guide: Civil Appeals and Writs (The Rutter Group 2007) 9:210.1, p. 9-54. ...

... to the idea that theft and assault are crimes and need to be punished. If I myself engage in those crimes, I would hope that I would be treated as any other similarly situated offender: in fact, I should perhaps be punished more severely since ... assault -- are much farther removed from the everyday prosecutorial experience than intoxicated manslaughter. Intoxicated manslaughter, after all, is just a really unlucky drive halfway home from the prosecutorial watering hole. Would it be unfair for us ...

... right, although the wording would seem broad enough to cover the military and all other relevant persons too (unless the exceptions clause at the beginning of the relevant section ... sent to Syria for torture (Arar) and the similar case of a fellow named Khaled El-Masri would seem to fit the situation. These guys were finally, in practical ... country had better start looking to elect people who are honest, competent, smart and moral. Otherwise, we are just headed for ever more trouble. Frankly, the need ...