Also known as: sufficiently · sufficiency · sufficiencies · sufficiency of the evidence
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A threshold or quantity that satisfies the minimum requirements imposed by a legal rule or standard.
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Sofia Stern discovered her spouse in an affair and immediately killed the spouse. The court examined whether the discovery constituted provocation of a kind that would cause an ordinary person to experience a sudden and intense passion sufficient to overwhelm self-control. Because the facts met that threshold, the killing was reduced from murder to voluntary manslaughter.
Sebastian Santos testified that he saw a car accident from his office window. The proponent introduced evidence that Santos was present at the scene and observed the collision directly. The court ruled the testimony admissible because the evidence was sufficient to support a finding that Santos had personal knowledge of the matter.
Selena Singh signed a memo identifying the land and stating the price and closing date for a sale to Sierra Solutions. The memo was sufficient to indicate that a contract with respect to the land had been made between the parties. The court therefore enforced the agreement despite the absence of a formal deed.
Santiago Sanchez locked the only exit after promising to release Sabrina Shah from a storage room. Sanchez's refusal to unlock the door with the intention of keeping Shah inside was a sufficient act of confinement. Shah therefore stated a claim for false imprisonment.
Synergy Systems sold components to a distributor knowing they might reach the forum state. The court held that mere placement into the stream of commerce was not alone a clearly sufficient basis for personal jurisdiction over the foreign manufacturer. The suit was dismissed for lack of minimum contacts.
Skyline Construction maintained contacts in one judicial district of the state. Those contacts were sufficient to subject the corporation to personal jurisdiction if that district were treated as a separate state. The court therefore deemed the corporation to reside in that district for venue purposes.
The provocation must be of a kind that would cause an ordinary person to experience a sudden and intense passion sufficient to overwhelm self-control. The defendant must also have actually experienced that passion, and there must not have been sufficient time for a reasonable person's passion to cool.
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…which concern the public. The first writ of mandamus commands the officer to do the thing or show cause why not; if the cause be sufficient there is an end, if not a peremptory mandamus is awarded. The discretion of a court is a legal discretion, not arbitrary; if the applicant makes out a proper case the court are bound to…
…maintaining medical standards, and in protecting potential life. At some point in pregnancy, these respective interests become sufficiently compelling to sustain regulation of the factors that govern the abortion decision. The privacy right involved, therefore, cannot be said to be absolute. In fact, it is not clear to us that…
…in failing to require any finding of actual malice for an award of general damages makes it unnecessary for us to consider the sufficiency under the federal standard of the instructions regarding actual malice that were given as to punitive damages. [^maj-26]: Accord, Coleman v. MacLennan, supra , 78 Kan., at 741, 98 P., at…
…protection claims has used a means-ends methodology in which judges ask whether the classification the government is using is sufficiently related to the goals it is pursuing.” G. Stone, L. Seidman, C. Sunstein, M. Tushnet, & P. Karlan, Constitutional Law 453 (7th ed. 2013). The majority’s approach today is different:…
…whether, in the absence of federal statutory direction, federal courts would be compelled to follow state decisions. There was sufficient doubt about the matter in 1789 to induce the first Congress to legislate. No former opinions of this Court have passed upon it. Mr. Justice Holmes evidently saw nothing “unconstitutional”…
Evidence must be introduced sufficient to support a finding that the witness has personal knowledge of the matter. The witness's own testimony may supply that evidence.
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The writing must be signed by the party to be charged and sufficient to indicate that a contract has been made between the parties. It must also reasonably identify the subject matter and state the essential terms with reasonable certainty.
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If the actor is under a duty to release the other or to aid in release, a refusal to do so with the intention of confining the other is a sufficient act of confinement to create liability.
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Mere placement of a product into the stream of commerce, even with awareness it may reach the forum state, is not alone a clearly sufficient basis for personal jurisdiction.
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A corporation is deemed to reside in any district where its contacts would be sufficient to subject it to personal jurisdiction if that district were a separate state.
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