A notorious murder scandal, the Overbury case, threw up two imperfect anagrams that were aided by typically loose spelling and were recorded by Simonds D ' Ewes: ' Francis Howard ' ( for Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, her maiden name spelled in a variant ) became Car findes a whore, with the letters E hardly counted, and the victim Thomas Overbury, as ' Thomas Overburie ', was written as O!

D. B. Cooper is perhaps the most famous hijacker of all time and also the case is the only unsolved hijacking in America's aviation history.

As a special case, the three naturally occurring isotopes of the element hydrogen are often specified as H for < sup > 1 </ sup > H ( protium ), D for < sup > 2 </ sup > H ( deuterium ), and T for < sup > 3 </ sup > H ( tritium ).

Nevertheless, the case for support of the contras continued to be made in Washington, D. C. by both the Reagan administration and the Heritage Foundation, which argued that support for the contras would counter Soviet influence in Nicaragua.

In case of an ideal mix, the particle diffusion equation holds true and the diffusion coefficient D the speed of diffusion in the particle diffusion equation is independent of particle concentration.

In this case, we might compute T = A *( B * D ) only once and simply blend T * C to produce F, a single operation.

After obtaining a doctorate successfully, Dutch doctors may bear either the title dr. ( lower case ) before, or the letter D ( rarely in practice ) behind their name, but not both simultaneously.

Nozick further claims this condition addresses a case of the sort described by D. M. Armstrong: A father believes his son innocent of committing a particular crime, both because of faith in his son and ( now ) because he has seen presented in the courtroom a conclusive demonstration of his son's innocence.

To distinguish the degenerate cases from the non-degenerate case, let ∆ be the determinant of the 3 × 3 matrix B / 2, D / 2 ; B / 2, C, E / 2 ; D / 2, E / 2, F: that is, ∆

D: Secondary detonating explosive substance or black powder or article containing a secondary detonating explosive substance, in each case without means of initiation and without a propelling charge, or article containing a primary explosive substance and containing two or more effective protective features.

Pearson v. Chung, the case of a Washington, D. C. judge, Roy Pearson, who sued a dry cleaning business for $ 67 million ( later lowered to $ 54 million ), has been cited as an example of frivolous litigation.

All this was simple compared to D. W. Griffith's Intolerance ( 1916 ), in which four parallel stories are intercut throughout the whole length of the film, though in this case the stories are more similar than contrasting in their nature.

#* We finally use the models in which the D < sub > n </ sub > hold ( in case all are not refutable ) in order to build a model in which φ holds.

D-channel backup allows for a second D channel in case the primary fails.

Similarly, Clark notes that Dr. Michael D. Swords has speculated that the Barker / Bender Men in Black case ( occurring shortly after the CIA-directed Robertson Panel issued its recommendations to spy on civilian UFO groups ) might have been a psychological warfare experiment.

The simplest case would be two electrons starting at A and B ending at C and D. The amplitude would be calculated as the " difference ",, where we would expect, from our everyday idea of probabilities, that it would be a sum.

Another case alluded to in the Torcaso v. Watkins footnote, and said by some to have established secular humanism as a religion under the law, is the 1957 tax case of Washington Ethical Society v. District of Columbia, 249 F. 2d 127 ( D. C. Cir.

* November 2 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the case of D. H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover.

** Approximately 500, 000 people march on Washington, D. C. in support of abortion rights in advance of oral arguments in the case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey.

** During a severe thunderstorm over Washington, a man calling himself D. B. Cooper parachutes from the Northwest Orient Airlines plane he hijacked, with US $ 200, 000 in ransom money, and is never seen again ( as of March 2008, this case remains the only unsolved skyjacking in history ).

Female live-in partners have economic rights under Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005 subject to following conditions as laid by Honourable Supreme Court of India in case of D. Velusamy v D. Patchaiammal:

The time traveler then wanders around the ruined city until he finds a museum, where preserved in a glass case is his time machine, which had been put there after it had appeared in A. D. 502, 101.

McCulloch v. Maryland was cited in the first substantial constitutional case presented before the High Court of Australia in D ' Emden v Pedder ( 1904 ), which dealt with similar issues in the Australian Federation.

The Court considered its earlier decision in D ’ Emden v Pedder which had been the foundation case for the original intergovernmental immunities doctrine.

A later case ( Attorney-General for Queensland v Attorney-General for the Commonwealth ( 1915 ) 20 CLR 148 ) that applied D ’ Emden was attacked as resting on opinions “ as to hopes and expectations respecting vague external conditions ”.

Part of Title I was found unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court as it pertains to states in the case of Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama v. Garrett as violating the sovereign immunity rights of the several states as specified by the Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Access Now v. Southwest Airlines was a case where the District Court decided that the website of Southwest Airlines was not in violation of the Americans with Disability Act because the ADA is concerned with things with a physical existence and thus cannot be applied to cyberspace.

In the Georgacarakos v. Watts case Peter N. Georgacarakos filed a pro se civil-rights complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado against 19 prison officials for " interference with the free exercise of his Ásatrú religion " and " discrimination on the basis of his being Ásatrú ".

The Alford guilty plea originated in the United States Supreme Court case of North Carolina v. Alford ( 1970 ).

In the 1995 case State of Idaho v. Howry before the Idaho Court of Appeals, the Court commented on the impact of the Alford guilty plea on later sentencing.

" In the 1999 South Carolina Supreme Court case State v. Gaines, the Court held that Alford guilty pleas were to be held valid in the absence of a specific on-the-record ruling that the pleas were voluntary – provided that the sentencing judge acted appropriately in accordance with the rules for acceptance of a plea made voluntarily by the defendant.

In the 2006 case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Ballard v. Burton, Judge Carl E. Stewart writing for the Court held that an Alford guilty plea is a " variation of an ordinary guilty plea ".

* 1818 – The case of Ashford v Thornton ends, with Abraham Thornton allowed to go free rather than face a retrial for murder, after his demand for trial by battle is upheld.

A court case allowing the União do Vegetal to import and use the tea for religious purposes in the United States, Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, was heard by the U. S. Supreme Court on November 1, 2005 ; the decision, released February 21, 2006, allows the UDV to use the tea in its ceremonies pursuant to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

* 2010 – California's Proposition 8, the ballot initiative prohibiting same-sex marriage passed by the state's voters in 2008, is overturned by Judge Vaughn Walker in the case Perry v. Schwarzenegger.

According to the special theory of relativity, the aberration looks as a transform of the celestial sphere due to different frames of reference and is virtually a special case of velocity addition, namely one of the light beam and frames ' relative velocity v. The formula from relativistic aberration can be simplified to

The phrase " black-letter law " was used in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court case Naglee v. Ingersoll, 7 Pa. 185 ( 1847 ), almost 50 years before the first publication of Black's.

There is also a U. S. Supreme Court case that predates the dictionary, Jackson ex dem Bradford v. Huntington, that uses the phrase " black letter " in the same sense as black letter law: " It is seldom that a case in our time savors so much of the black letter, but the course of decisions in New York renders it unavailable.

The Lord's Day Act, which since 1906 had prohibited business transactions from taking place on Sundays, was struck down as unconstitutional in the 1985 case R. v. Big M Drug Mart Ltd. Calgary police officers witnessed several transactions at the Big M Drug Mart, all of which occurred on a Sunday.

The Supreme Court of the United States held in its landmark case, McGowan v. Maryland ( 1961 ), that Maryland's blue laws violated neither the Free Exercise Clause nor the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Theodore went on to successfully represent presidential candidate George W. Bush in the Supreme Court case of Bush v. Gore, and subsequently served as U. S. Solicitor General in the Bush administration.

The English case of R v. Coney in 1882 found that a bare-knuckle fight was an assault occasioning actual bodily harm, despite the consent of the participants.

The case was Estate of Orwell v. CBS, 00-c-5034 ( ND Ill ).

In New York, the topfreedom equality movement helped to bring a case, People v. Santorelli ( 1992 ), to the New York State Court of Appeals.

The field of modern biotechnology is thought to have largely begun on June 16, 1980, when the United States Supreme Court ruled that a genetically modified microorganism could be patented in the case of Diamond v. Chakrabarty.

The case was heard on October 12, 1982, and on May 24, 1983, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled against Bob Jones University in Bob Jones University v. United States ( 461 U. S. 574 ).

In an 1842 English case, Winterbottom v. Wright, the postal service had contracted with Wright to maintain its coaches.

A first exception to this rule arose in an 1852 case by New York's highest court, Thomas v. Winchester, which held that mislabeling a poison as an innocuous herb, and then selling the mislabeled poison through a dealer who would be expected to resell it, put " human life in imminent danger.

Finally, in the famous case of MacPherson v. Buick Motor Co., in 1916, Judge Benjamin Cardozo for New York's highest court pulled a broader principle out of these predecessor cases.