Versus.
The plaintiff (or complainant) was the Cherokee Nation; the defendant (actually the respondent) was the State of Georgia.Case Citation:Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 30 U.S. 1 (1831)
Miranda v. Arizona, 384 US 436 (1966)Ernesto Miranda was the plaintiff; the state of Arizona was the defendant. In a court case, the plaintiff/petitioner's name is always listed first, and the defendant/respondent's name is listed last.
In the US Supreme Court case, Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), the respondent (like a defendant) in the case was the State of Ohio. John W. Terry was the petitioner or appellant (like a plaintiff).Terry was appealing his criminal conviction in People v. John W. Terry, 95 Ohio L. Abs. 321 (Court of Common Pleas of Cuyahoga County 1964), in which Terry had been the defendant and the State of Ohio had been the plaintiff.
the plaintiff was Texas.
"P" stands for plaintiff, the party who initiates a lawsuit. "V" stands for versus, meaning against, and is used to indicate the parties involved in a legal case. For example, "Smith v. Jones" means that Smith is the plaintiff and Jones is the defendant.
In the legal case Hermesmann v. Seyer, the outcome was that the court ruled in favor of the plaintiff, Hermesmann, and awarded damages for the injuries sustained in a car accident caused by the defendant, Seyer.
To MLA cite a Supreme Court case in a research paper, follow this format: Last name of the first-listed plaintiff/defendant v. Last name of the first-listed plaintiff/defendant. Volume number Reporter page number (Year). For example: Brown v. Board of Education. 347 U.S. 483 (1954).
The plaintiff's complaint was that she wanted an abortion.
Yes, for example in the Lumley v Gye case, the plaintiff's claim that the defendant had caused a third party to breach a contract with the defendant was rejected on the grounds that the plaintiff had acted in good faith. Meaning the defendant did not intend for any contract to be broken.
The plaintiff in Roe v. Wade, (1973) was identified as "Jane Roe," a common proxy for the name of someone who wishes to remain anonymous. The real plaintiff in the case was Norma McCorvey.McCorvey never had an abortion. She gave birth to a baby girl who was immediately placed for adoption. McCorvey renounced her pro-choice stance in recent years and has become a Right to Life activist.
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