Essays 151 - 180
tended to avoid controversy in the early days. That is, until Chief John Marshall became the chief justice of the Supreme Court. I...
Rehnquist. Reasoning of the Court: The court claims that a conspiracy had been discovered between Bourjaily and Lonardo and this p...
interests, property in interests, security interests, public safety and morals, and even countervailing speech interests" (Carter,...
The result is that laws can be interpreted in a variety of ways, depending on circumstances and depending on our place in history....
Ginsburg has a certain way of drawing out the agitated masses when she has ruled in a particularly unpopular direction. Case in p...
door bell ring at an early hour, that she looked outside and saw a naked man with an erect penis (2003). She was frightened. This...
B, however, would prove enduring and she would return to continue her education at the age of 13. In her childhood memoir, OConno...
Campaign Reform Act of 2002, n.d.). The sponsors of the bill were John McCain (R-AZ), Russell Feingold (D-WS), Christopher Shays...
and useful information about the Supreme Court, and how it is both dealing with and using the Internet. Recent Court Cases ...
in his 1859 examination of the case points out that the US Supreme Court in hearing this case was also concerned with issues of co...
civil and criminal courts, all lawsuits were treated as civil suits (Long). The victim prosecuted the case rather than any legal r...
threatening the life of the mother. After much deliberation and extreme media frenzy, Roe won her suit of right to privacy stati...
talks of having a bobcat and javelinas as pets (Marie, 1985). She rode horseback and even learned to drive a car by the age of se...
from the other direction. Some critics contend that affirmative action has had a crippling effect upon minority groups because of...
schools were deemed unconstitutional (1990). The ruling was followed in 1955 with a court order that mandated desegregation of th...
as the accused, and also how due process is factored into the complex equation. Sexual harassment is regarded as a violation of t...
caused within the United States poor communities speak to the ongoing issue of racial divide, with one of the most striking exampl...
creator to profit from his creation for 28 years, but after that become the property of the public. "That way we would never end ...
racial supremacy destroyed the theoretical underpinnings of American racism (20). This is a nice thought, but while things have ch...
his Masters from Harvard in 1950 (Barrett, 1995). Returning to Stanford for his law degree, Rehnquist graduated first in his clas...
regardless of any opposition from Agnes (the little girls mother), the connections that exist between the grandparents and child a...
that she was much more responsive and seemed to be improving. Still not fully conscious, at times she would be able to "communica...
term traditionally begins the first Monday in October, and so final opinions are issued in late June (Mears, 2002). Justices divid...
members completely and accept without challenge - has indeed proven to be one of the most powerful standards of our culture and th...
to the equal protection claus of the fourteenth amendment. The case interpreted the amendment to be universal so that it should al...
Constitutional, and whether or not employers and school superintendents will be barred from implementing drug testing remains to b...
or liberal justice can change the odds of Roe v. Wade being overturned, for example. While many presidents have had to make the im...
right to work doctrine is not necessarily the rule of employment. For instance, in Texas, an employee challenged her employers man...
north-east Prussia should be ceded to the USSR; other territories east of the Oder-Neisse Line should be placed under Polish admin...
which to base her arguments in favor of abortion rights. The question on which the case rested was whether a woman had the...