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Fraud in the Court

Inspector generals investigate and audit departments or agencies to detect and prevent fraud, waste, abuse, and corruption. This p...

David O'Brien's Storm Center The Supreme Court in American Politics

written and deserves accolades for its insights and attention to detail. At the same time, OBrien sometimes misses the major point...

Judicial Activism and U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist

has identified himself "with a jurisprudence of original intent" and adds that he shares the same opinion with Rehnquist that "onl...

Character Evidence in American Courts

is largely responsible for the direction that evidence law reform has taken over the last one hundred years. To Thayer and his co...

The Supreme Court, Amicus Curiae, and Abortion

U.S. 173 (1991)), the ACLU filed a brief of amici curiae in conjunction with the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists,...

Case Law and Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court

Although the right to public trial is protected under the due process clause, however, that protection is not absolute in that rea...

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...

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)....

In Court Identification and Eyewitness Testimony

"fallible sensory perception and memory and from suggestive influences" To illustrate this problem it is...

School Uniforms and the Courts

authors found a strong relationship between the attitude of students peers towards preparedness, proschool attitudes and good beha...

Overview of the 1857 Dred Scott U.S. Supreme Court Decision

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...

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...

Military Courts and Justice

people do not commit more crime but rather they are perhaps caught more often when they do. In other words, a white man is less li...

Internet and the US Supreme Court

and useful information about the Supreme Court, and how it is both dealing with and using the Internet. Recent Court Cases ...

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...

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...

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...

Should Federal Courts Review State Death Penalty Cases?

was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly establish [sic] federal law as determined by the Supreme Cour...

Samuel Nelson's Contributions to the US Supreme Court

In six pages this paper presents a biographical profile of Samuel Nelson, a nineteenth century US Supreme Court Justice and also c...

Institution, Policy Outcomes, and the European Court of Justice

In six pages this paper examines the ECJ in a consideration of its structures, development, the Maastricht Treaty, changes, and ho...

Supreme Court and U.S. Government's Separation of Powers

In eight pages this paper discusses the presidency of Bill Clinton, the U.S. separation of powers, and decisions made by the Supre...

Retroactive Child Support Payments: Canadian Supreme Court

they separated, the father had custody for a time, but "the parties subsequently entered into an informal shared custody arrangeme...

An Evaluation of the Open Court Reading Program

accelerate reading skills among elementary students. This goal has been necessitated by the prevalence of students who were passi...

Should Supreme Court Decisions Be Considered Groundbreaking 'Landmarks?'

In four pages the argument is presented that Supreme Court decisions are not in effect as groundbreaking as they are portrayed and...

Supreme Court Case of North Carolina v. Alford

In fifteen pages this paper examines the criminal justice importance of this Supreme Court case and offers an appellate process ov...

U.S. Supreme Court Decision Gitlow vs. New York

In eleven pages this 1925 case is examined in a presentation of each argument with dissenting view appearing more reasonable from ...

Supreme Court Development and the Role of Justice John Marshall

In five pages this paper discusses Marbury v. Madison and the role played by Justice John Marshall in this consideration of how th...

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall

In ten pages this research paper discusses Justice Marshall's Supreme Court achievements with the emphasis upon single opinion, ju...

President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Appointment of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren

Supreme Court" (Trimble 8J). When it appeared that a seat had come available due to the death of Chief Justice Fred Vinson, Eisen...

Buck v. Bell 1927 U.S. Supreme Court Case

In ten pages this 1927 case is analyzed in terms of its legal aspects, issues, and the impact on incarcerated and individuals with...