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Fourth Amendment Rights

This paper summarizes Fourth Amendment rights and focuses on the Supreme Court case of Payton v. New York. Four pages in length, f...

A Landmark Event, Brown vs. Board of Education

This paper recounts the details associated with the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education and discusses why thi...

Lying by a Police Officer

This research paper/essay describes a scenario in which a police officer is shown to have lied. The writer hypothetically takes th...

The US Supreme Court: An Overview of Powers

document of the United States of America and outlines the various rights and privileges that are guaranteed to citizens of the cou...

A Case Involving the Pregnant Discrimination Act

Discrimination Act (PDA) of 1978 amends Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in order to "prohibit sex discrimination on the ...

Ricci v. Stefano and Diversity

of individual who passed the examination and qualified for promotions" (Mereau, 2009). Epstein (2009) points out that the city o...

Higher Education in the Supreme Court

question, as well as the basic rights of student athletes who are often governed under the auspices not just of schools but of ind...

History of Minimum Wage, Supreme Court to Rule on ACA

in the current minimum wage of $7.25, which became effective on July 24, 2009 (WHD, 2011). This history is also characterized by t...

Evaluating the EEOC v. Steamship Clerks Union Case

court confused racial discrimination with nepotism (2004). Still, the court ordered the organization to change its admissions pol...

How Cases Get to the United States Supreme Court

(i.e., if this court upholds the original ruling), then the party has still another option: requesting that the case go to the Su...

Procedure and Criminal Law IV

do not always perfectly align, however. Though the police had the right to arrest Frank and they needed to respond to the worried...

Oregon's Death with Dignity Act and the American Government

request, but may not require, the patient to notify their next-of-kin of the prescription request. A patient can rescind a request...

Supreme Court Case Adarand v. Pena

from the other direction. Some critics contend that affirmative action has had a crippling effect upon minority groups because of...

John Kerry v. George W. Bush's Views on the Supreme Court Contrasted

of Bush and Kerry are intimately aware, of course, that the judicial branch can override both the President and Congress. They ar...

Freedom of Speech and The United States v. Eichmann

because that is what provides the very essence of who we are as Americans. The United States v. Eichmann...

Supreme Court of Montana - State v. Kuntz

Sheriffs deputies arrived at the scene, Becker was dead, having sustained a single stab wound to the chest (State v. Kuntz, 2000)....

New York Times Co. v. United States

free press, and that dissent is a vital, healthy and necessary part of citizenship-even during wartime. Introduction We have...

Questions from "Gideon's Trumpet"

counsel. In fact "The United States Supreme Court had not said he was entitled to counsel; in Betts v. Brady and succeeding...

Equal Protection Clause Application and Different Approaches

according to this position. At the same time, homosexuals argue that they should receive protection because their lifestyle is dif...

Legality of Searching Public Schools at Random

in-hand information. The second level addresses the reasonableness of the search itself and the methods used to conduct the search...

Korematsu v. United States and an Assessment of the Patriot Act

them to the most rigid scrutiny. Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of such restrictions; racial antago...

Summary of the Case of Employment Division v. Smith

and two only ("Employment Division, Ore. Dept.," 1990). They did not concur with the judgment and Blackmum as a result filed a dis...

A Judiciary Overview

as well. Today, the Supreme Court consists of the following judges; their names and years or appointment are listed as follows: St...

Stop, Frisk, and Exigent Circumstances

to burglarize it. One man went back and forth to the subject stores window and peered in an estimated twenty times, each time ret...

Law and Crime Scene Investigation

blood to Clyde Stevens. On the basis of this and associated evidence from the Stevens and Ellis residences, an arrest warrant is i...

Pennoyer v. Neff/Attachment of Land

Neff does not appear in court (Shecket). Having won his suit, Mitchell knows that Neff will be getting some land because he file...

Argument against School Prayer and Religion in Public Schools

passing laws that say all students WILL pray in class that they run afoul of the Supreme Court. There are many solid reasons why ...

Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education

equal access of students to educational benefits and opportunities, for "student-on-student" harassment?" (The Oyez Project, 2008)...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Stevens' Philosophy

in a firm that specialized in antitrust lawsuits ("John Paul Stevens," 2006). In 1970, Stevens was appointed by President Nixon to...

Gathering Evidence, Ethics, and US Supreme Court Guidelines

common citizen. Homes warned of certain demise if this was not the case and observed the value of our government as a teacher, a ...