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Essays 301 - 330

Supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action in the Area of Higher Education

continue acting as though they are contributing to a more racially diversified academic community, when in reality they are really...

Pledge of Allegiance and the U.S. Supreme Court

lawsuit was filed in 2000, but failed to draw any media attention until a Ninth Circuit Court panel handed down a 2-1 ruling in Ju...

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...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

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...

Civil Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Administrations of Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon

which Brown was grounded rested "solely on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution" (1977, p. 306). Warren also points out t...

The Hearsay Rule

Rehnquist. Reasoning of the Court: The court claims that a conspiracy had been discovered between Bourjaily and Lonardo and this p...

An Examination of The Fourth Amendment

restroom ("New Jersey," 2004). When one of the girls was told by administrators to empty her purse, she complied, but marijuana w...

John Marshall, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

also very supportive of business and the emerging American market economy 8. Marshall was outspoken against those who believed in...

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...

Social Change and the U.S. Supreme Court

specific aspect from being overlooked. However, all the people do not adopt this perspective, inasmuch as Ginsburg has a certain ...

Proper and Improper Methods of Interrogation by Law Enforcement

the police, he or she is often under the hot seat, and the problem is that without rules, police can and do try anything to get in...

Weber's Law Function and Roe v. Wade

she wants with her own body. Further, the law is based on religious notions, or notions that go to personal belief. Essentially, ...

Brown v. Board of Education and Societal Prejudice in the Law and in Cartoons

Hundreds of cartoons were generated in response to Brown v. Board of Education. Many of them have made their way to the World Wid...

A Court Divided by Tushnet

does suggest that, like a game of chess, the future of he state is to some extent contingent on who is president. Depending upon t...

Abortion Position of the US Supreme Court from 1965 to 1992

to privacy within the Constitution (Supreme Court Cases 1965-1990, 2005). As such the court "inferred the existence of a zone of ...

Justice and Ethics

Long-term solutions carry "higher personal risks and an intangible measure of worth" (Schafer, 2002; p. 14). 2. Utilitarianism A....

Child Spanking and Canadian Law

found. First Reason The first reason for objecting to spanking is that the line between it and child abuse can become blurred. ...

2004 Unborn Victims of Violence Act and its Impact

legal status to the embryo, fetus or fertilized egg, and it may be enforced even in the case when the woman did not know of the pr...

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...

Thomas Joe Miller El v. Janie Cockrell Supreme Court Opinion

DeMoss, Circuit Judge, 261 F.3d 445, should have been granted, based on the assertion that the petitioner showed adequate evidence...

Widmar v. Vincent

This case involves the rights of a registered student religious group to use the facilities of the University of Missouri, facilit...

Supreme Court Decision Making and the U.S. Constitution

did not take the same stance as Olsen, commenting that the First Amendments free exercise of religion guarantee "does not require ...

Educational Law, Cases, and Issues

school district and some question as to whether the deletion of information resulted in a violation of student rights. The United...

John Roberts' U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Battle

on the bench, he needs a majority vote in the Senate. Therefore, his views are very important. Based on past decisions and stateme...

Legal Brief and Summary of Gideon v. Wainwright

forma pauperis, which means that the usual fees for filing such a petition were waived. Issue The question before the Court in G...

1914 Supreme Court Case of Weeks v. US

of Missouri and of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Pertinent to this petition, the cou...

Court Administration Issues

family reasons (United States: Rehnquists legacy, 2005). If either of these justices retire, the country, President George W. Bush...

Legal Brief on United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians

should be awarded the equivalent of funds equal to the obligation from 1877 through the present plus interest. That is exactly wha...

Widmar v. Vincent and Free Speech

an issue that directly impacted on Cornerstone, but could equally impact on any religious group wanting to use any public grounds,...

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...