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4 Articles on Insanity Defense and Mental Disability

not prison. II. THEME OF THE FOUR ARTICLES The theme of these four articles -- Craziness and Criminal Responsibility, Introducti...

Government's Judicial Branch

In six pages this paper discusses how different courts within the government's judicial branch operate. Three sources are cited i...

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Her Life and Career

Court in August of 1993 by a Senate vote of ninety-seven to three (Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg). Indeed, it can e...

3 Supreme Court Cases on Affirmative Action and Equal Protection According to the US Constitution's 14th Amendment

the founding fathers wrote have done so in an attempt at fairness. They have gone with what appeared to be the mainstream thinkin...

Empathy as an Important Component in Family Reunification and Child Advocacy

comprise the future of this country, a more empathetic approach when dealing with these families must be implemented. Social work...

Cultural Climate of the Period and the Dred Scott Decision

even if the federal government could buy the slaves, the freed slaves could not be turned into citizens without an amendment to th...

Settling International Disputes Peacefully

the general principles of law recognized by civilized nations. If there is an international law, especially where it is based upon...

The Use of Deadly Force in Effecting Arrest

reversed the lower Courts ruling and found the Tennessee statute unconstitutional because it authorized the use of deadly force ev...

Anne Trapnel's Report and Plea and The First Examination of Anne Askew Compared

In a paper consisting of 5 pages these works are compared in terms of the similarities and differences in the ways these women app...

Technology in The Writings of Mark Twain

This paper examines Twain's perspectives on technology as seen in both his writing and his life. The author uses examples from th...

The 1966 Miranda v Arizona Case and Civil Rights

This paper analyzes this US Supreme Court case in terms of its lasting significance and impact upon criminal defendants' civil and...

US v Ray 502 US 164 (1991)

In five pages this US Supreme Court case is the focus of this overview that includes facts, procedure, issue, holding, and rationa...

2000 Santa Fe Independent School District v. DOE

This US Supreme Court case is the focus of this argument, findings, and final decision overview in five pages. There are no other...

The Miranda v Arizona Case, Due Process, and Miranda Rights

with empirical studies. But interest in the subject quickly waned, and research in the last couple of decades has been virtually n...

Overview of European Community Law

In ten pages State emanation is examined in terms of meaning and how it relates to the European Union and Europe's Court of Justic...

Early American History

In three pages US history from 1776 until the end of the Civil War in 1865 is examined in a consideration of events including the ...

Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad

of Appeals: Whether or not the defendant, the Long island Railroad, should held negligent as a proximate cause in regards to the p...

Pure Oil v. C.L. Dukes, Case Summary

business, servicing cars, as well as selling Pure Oils gas. Due to unspecified reasons, the oil company decided to close this stat...

Morgan’s Home v. Martucci, et al

this sales force sign this agreement, Morgan was protecting this valuable asset. This agreement explicitly stated that the employe...

Drawing Case Law/A Case Synthesis Exercise

prevents a substantial possibility of survival" (Moulton v. Ginocchio). In this case Samuel Ginocchio dismissed a patient complain...

Hayes v. Jackson (1893)

represents the fact of the sale, but Holmes argues that it is not the place of the court to consider this question. He bases this ...

“Benjamin v. Lindner Aviation, Inc.”

came forward to claim the money with the prescribed time (a year), and at that point, Benjamin filed "this declaratory judgment ag...

Hannah v. Peel

to Hannahs discovery of it, as he had purchased the house just two years prior to the discovery and never lived in it. Peel offere...

Hofmann v. American Dressler

and the plaintiff took it to Rea for production along with a final estimate of $785. Rea then told the defendant that, in this f...

Walker v. Brown, 1862

the jury will find for the defendant (Walker v. Brown). The court is asked to decide the issue of whether or not the plaintiff s...

Two Legal Questions

from terrorism, no rights should be accorded to suspects captured in the war on terror. Terrorism is not an activity endorsed by ...

Summary and Review of Lynne Curry’s The DeShaney Case: Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Dilemma of State Intervention

After putting a name and a face on the social issue of child abuse, and considering the dilemma of the social worker who seeks to ...

Theory Of Evolution And Intelligent Design: Main Points

Ultimately, the trials actual purpose "emerged through its interpretation as a conflict of social and intellectual values" rather ...

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)...

Colby/Deaths of Nancy Cruzan

that the legal struggle took on her family was immense. Her father never recovered emotionally and committed suicide (Colby, 2002)...