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Donating House to Burn Eliminates Its Stand Alone Value
A Wisconsin couple bought a sprawling 3 acre lake front property with a more modest house that they wanted to demolish in order to build a new house, more befitting to the area. Rather than hiring someone to do so, they “donated” the house to the [...]
Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966)
Miranda v. Arizona, is perhaps the most notorious Criminal Procedure case ever. You cannot watch an episode of the show Cops without hearing it read at least once.
The decision stemmed from defendant Miranda signing a confession, just two hours after interrogation [...]
Gideon v. Wainright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963)
Gideon v. Wainright, was a case involving a criminal defendant who was convicted on very little evidence due if not entirely because of the fact that he could not afford an attorney to represent him. Although at the time he was tried, there [...]
Landmark Supreme Court Cases: Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co., 272 U.S. 265 (1926) Euclid v. Ambler, was a landmark decision in the area of zoning. It dealt with the city of Euclid, which enacted various zoning regulations, in order to keep certain areas of the city within [...]
Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), Supreme Court Rules on Interracial Marriage
Loving v. Virginia, involved a “non-white” woman and a “white” man, who fled to D.C. to be married, in order to avoid an anti-miscegenation law in Virginia, which prohibited the marrying of “whites” to “non-whites.” The [...]
