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Quebec and Secession from Canada

if in fact a majority of Quebec residents wanted to secede, the prime minister and premiers were obligated to negotiate Quebecs in...

School Environment and Sexual Harassment

terminology likely is not. The difficulty in defining the term is further complicated with the settings in which it can occur. ...

78 in The Federalist Papers and Alexander Hamilton

This paper analyzes no. 78 in seven pages in regards to Hamilton's contention that the Supreme Court needs a permanent appointment...

Supreme Court Case of Stenberg v. Carhart and Partial Birth Abortion

In eight pages this paper examines privacy issues with regards to partial birth abortion as addressed by this April 2000 Supreme C...

Supreme Court Rulings' Interpretation on Equal Protection and Affirmative Action

In this paper consisting of seven pages various Supreme Court rulings as they relate to affirmative action are discussed within th...

Precedents of the U.S. Supreme Court and Free Speech

In five pages this paper examines how the 14th Amendment's free speech provisions affects symbolic acts in case considerations of ...

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...

Effectiveness/Judges and Justices

are the prominent and well-known judges in the criminal justice system of the United States, they are not precisely typical, as fe...

24th AMENDMENT

very Amendment. As such, the Court unanimously agreed people were not to be penalized for opting in favor of what was already the...

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 ...

Biographical Profile of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan

of their respective families to go to college (Kagan, Elena, 2011). The only daughter sandwiched between two boys - both of whom ...

Outcomes/Pressy v. Ferguson

On June 7, 1892, Homer Plessy was arrested for challenging Louisianas Separate Car Act in a deliberate act of civil disobedience a...

Supreme Court Structure and Function

The Supreme Court is highest ranking court in the nation. It was established in order to oversee the...

Twenty First Century Policing

Policing today shares many similarities with policing of any particular era. At the same time...

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...

Institutions of Higher Learning and the Supreme Court

or activity receiving federal financial assistance" (Kaplin & Lee, 2007). In particular, the case examines how this relates to gen...

In the Utah Supreme Court: A Brief

Yoder, 406 U.S. 205, 92 S. Ct. 1526, 32 L. Ed. 2d 15 (1972) Statutes Religious Freedom Restoration Act, 42 U.S.C. 2000bb-1 Utah Co...

Case Briefs: Six Supreme Court Cases

"separate but equal" clause violate the rights of black indivudals under the Constitutions 13th and 14th Amendments? In light of ...

The Supreme Court Justice Nominee Review Process

It is not unusual for prospective candidates for Supreme Court Justice to be subjected to considerable criticism during the screen...

Herring v. U.S. and the Exclusionary Rule

proceedings provides a means whereby any evidence that was obtained by law enforcement officers by violating the Fourth Amendment ...

Analyzing the Fourth Amendment

persons or things to be seized." This is very specific as to what can be done, what is needed to get permission to conduct a searc...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Black Rights

whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction...

SUPREME COURT OF CANADA AND EXTRINSIC EVIDENCE

resort for all litigants" (Supreme Court of Canada). The jurisdiction involves the civil law of Quebec and common law of Canadas o...

Analysis: Alabama v. White

"indica of reliability" under Adams v. Williams, 407 U. S. 143, 407 U. S. 147, and also for totality of the evidence under Illinoi...

Should Juveniles be Sentenced to Death?

The death penalty has consequently been in and...

Drug Testing Pregnant Women Without Their Permission

University of South Carolina (MUSC), in cooperation with the city of Charleston, established a policy that enabled the city to pro...

The Supreme Court, Its Importance and Powers

is often called the "court of last resort," since it is the highest court in the nation. This paper considers how the court is str...

Our Freedoms and the First Amendment

The First Amendment to the US Constitution has played a...

Private Commerce and Criminal Justice Productivity Measures

notes, do not abide by this same economic equation; in fact, their productivity versus ever-growing taxpayer-funded resources more...

Gun Control Laws in Washington DC

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