The Ordinance of Nullification declared the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 null and void within the borders of the U.S. state of South Carolina, beginning on February 1, 1833. It began the Nullification Crisis. Passed by a state convention on November 24, 1832, it led to President Andrew Jackson's proclamation against South Carolina, the Nullification Proclamation on December 10, 1832, which threatened to send government troops to enforce the tariffs. In the face of the military threat, and following a Congressional revision of the law which lowered the tariff, South Carolina repealed the ordinance.
A country club is a privately owned club, often with a membership quota and admittance by invitation or sponsorship, that generally offers both a variety of recreational sports and facilities for dining and entertaining. Typical athletic offerings are golf, tennis, and swimming. Where golf is the principal or sole sporting activity, and especially outside of the United States and Canada, it is common for a country club to be referred to simply as a golf club. Many country clubs offer other new activities such as pickle ball, and platform tennis.
A sourcebook is a collection of texts on a particular subject, used especially as an introduction to the subject presented, essentially a compilation of texts used as an introductory resource.
Nancy Kassop is a SUNY Distinguished Professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, and former chair of the Political Science Department at the school. Some of the courses she teaches are American Government and Politics and Constitutional Law.
KSR Int'l Co. v. Teleflex Inc., 550 U.S. 398 (2007), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States concerning the issue of obviousness as applied to patent claims.
Samuel Hollingsworth Young was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from Illinois.
The price return is the rate of return on an investment portfolio, where the return measure takes into account only the capital appreciation of the portfolio, while the income generated by the assets in the portfolio, in the form of interest and dividends, is ignored. This contrasts with the total return, which does take into account the income generated in the portfolio.
Kyu Ho Youm is a professor and the Jonathan Marshall First Amendment Chair at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication.
Frederick Lincoln Siddons was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.
Implicit divestiture is the ability of the Supreme Court of the United States to solely determine the extent of an Indian Nation's sovereignty, an approach, of recent decades, to federal Indian policy, which is contradictory to U.S. Constitutional protections of Native American sovereignty.
Digital inheritance is the passing down of digital assets to designated beneficiaries after a person’s death as part of the estate of the deceased. The process includes understanding what digital assets exist and navigating the rights for heirs to access and use those digital assets after a person has died.
Cheryl Bailey Preston is contract law scholar and "a nationally recognized expert in Internet regulation and a strong advocate for children in the fight against online pornography." She works with the CP80.org Foundation to fight internet child pornography, and is currently the Edwin M. Thomas endowed chair at the BYU J. Reuben Clark Law School.
Unconscious fraud is fraud committed by somebody who does not consciously realise that they are deceiving others. Examples could be a hypnotised person or perhaps a medium in a trance, neither of whom would consciously realise that they are engaging in acts which make others believe – such as that a 'spirit' has moved an object.
Jessica Levinson is an American law professor and political commentator. Levinson teaches at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, where she lectures in the areas of constitutional law, election law and privacy torts.
Cummins v Bond was a 1927 copyright legal case in England in which it was decided that if a spirit or ghost dictates a work to the living through a medium, then the medium owns the copyright, and not the spirit or a subsequent transcriber.
Robert L. Fischman is the George P. Smith, II Distinguished Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington, Indiana. He is also an adjunct professor at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs.
The Trenton Pickle Ordinance and Other Bonehead Legislation is a 116-page book published in 1976 and written by Dick Hyman (1904-1995), a newspaper and magazine columnist and feature writer from New York City. The book includes a posthumously published foreword by Bob Considine and publisher's note by Castle Freeman Jr. The book is a collection of humorous one-sentence summaries of six-hundred unusual ordinances and laws which the author reports he had gathered from across the United States over the preceding forty years before publication of the book. The book's name comes from one of the unusual ordinances: "A Trenton, New Jersey, ordinance states that it is unlawful to throw any tainted pickles in the streets."
The Revenue Act of 1937, Pub. L. No. 75-377, ch. 815, 50 Stat. 813 was entitled: “An act to provide revenue, equalize taxation, prevent tax evasion and avoidance, and for other purposes.”
Hermann Mosler was a German legal academic and judge. Mosler was a judge at the European Court of Human Rights from 1959 to 1980 and at the International Court of Justice from 1976 to 1985. Additionally, Mosler was the head of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg. He graduated with a doctorate in law from the University of Bonn in 1934.
