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Brandon Teena. Brandon Teena[note 1] (December 12, 1972 – December 31, 1993) was an American transgender man who was raped and later, along with Phillip DeVine and Lisa Lambert, murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska, by John Lotter and Tom Nissen. [2][3] His life and death were the subject of the films The Brandon Teena Story and Boys Don't Cry.
John D.R. Leonard v. Pepsico, Inc. Leonard v. Pepsico, Inc., 88 F. Supp. 2d 116, (S.D.N.Y. 1999), aff'd 210 F.3d 88 (2d Cir. 2000), more widely known as the Pepsi Points case, is an American contract law case regarding offer and acceptance. The case was brought in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in 1999 ...
John K. Trotter Jr. (born February 25, 1934) is an American jurist who served for 5 years as the Presiding Justice of the California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District, Third Division. [1] After 1987, he was a major contributor to the advancement of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) [2][3] as one of the founding members of JAMS.
Lottery paradox. The lottery paradox[1] arises from Henry E. Kyburg Jr. considering a fair 1,000-ticket lottery that has exactly one winning ticket. If that much is known about the execution of the lottery, it is then rational to accept that some ticket will win. Suppose that an event is considered "very likely" only if the probability of it ...
John Lott. John Richard Lott Jr. (born May 8, 1958) is an American economist, political commentator, and gun rights advocate. Lott was formerly employed at various academic institutions and at the American Enterprise Institute conservative think tank. He is the former president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, a nonprofit he founded in ...
John Quincy Adams (1848–1922) was an American newspaper editor and publisher, educator, civil rights activist, and politician. [1] [2] [3] He served from 1887 to 1922 as the newspaper editor and later the owner of The Appeal of St. Paul, Minnesota. [1] He served as an officer in the National Afro-American Council. [4]
Lana M. Tisdel (born May 28, 1975) [2] is an American woman whose early life and involvement with the December 1993 murders of Brandon Teena, Lisa Lambert, and Phillip DeVine at the hands of John Lotter and Tom Nissen is chronicled in the 1998 documentary The Brandon Teena Story and the 1999 film Boys Don't Cry (which left out DeVine). [3]
John Ritter. Johnathan Southworth Ritter[1][2] (September 17, 1948 – September 11, 2003) was an American actor. He was a son of the singing cowboy star Tex Ritter and the father of actors Jason and Tyler Ritter.