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north-east Prussia should be ceded to the USSR; other territories east of the Oder-Neisse Line should be placed under Polish admin...

creator to profit from his creation for 28 years, but after that become the property of the public. "That way we would never end ...

as the accused, and also how due process is factored into the complex equation. Sexual harassment is regarded as a violation of t...

caused within the United States poor communities speak to the ongoing issue of racial divide, with one of the most striking exampl...

racial supremacy destroyed the theoretical underpinnings of American racism (20). This is a nice thought, but while things have ch...

The result is that laws can be interpreted in a variety of ways, depending on circumstances and depending on our place in history....

his Masters from Harvard in 1950 (Barrett, 1995). Returning to Stanford for his law degree, Rehnquist graduated first in his clas...

regardless of any opposition from Agnes (the little girls mother), the connections that exist between the grandparents and child a...

that she was much more responsive and seemed to be improving. Still not fully conscious, at times she would be able to "communica...

term traditionally begins the first Monday in October, and so final opinions are issued in late June (Mears, 2002). Justices divid...

to the equal protection claus of the fourteenth amendment. The case interpreted the amendment to be universal so that it should al...

or liberal justice can change the odds of Roe v. Wade being overturned, for example. While many presidents have had to make the im...

members completely and accept without challenge - has indeed proven to be one of the most powerful standards of our culture and th...

right to work doctrine is not necessarily the rule of employment. For instance, in Texas, an employee challenged her employers man...

schools were deemed unconstitutional (1990). The ruling was followed in 1955 with a court order that mandated desegregation of th...

Thurgood Marshall, for example, minced no words about his feelings about the Declaration and the Constitution in his 1987 work, "A...

Because winning the state of Florida at that point of the game would determine who the next president would be, it was clearly a t...

exposure to various legal liabilities. They help in documenting, the fair and equal treatment required by federal laws while prese...

that the Framers of the Constitution did not intend for the Bill of Rights to do so. Roughly 150 years later, Chief Justice Rehnqu...

Constitutional, and whether or not employers and school superintendents will be barred from implementing drug testing remains to b...

consider how the separation of the powers may be seen as developing in Canada as the system under which the Supreme court operates...

which to base her arguments in favor of abortion rights. The question on which the case rested was whether a woman had the...

"right to remain silent unless he chooses to speak in the unfettered exercise of his own will" (384 U.S. 437). Miranda,...

concept refers to the rights of businesses to advertise in any manner that is not in opposition to laws requiring truth in adverti...

States had boundaries over which he was not permitted to cross. This, however, was not immediately evident when Truman "ordered s...

A grade. However, after this grade was awarded there were complaints from parents to the school principle; Principle Skinner. Foll...

Marx would say that the world is reduced to work for hire with no creativity. Durkheim would say that the world was reduced to not...

initiated a process of change that cannot be abandoned. In the Short-Term Dougherty (2002) explains that the case was based on t...

has President Clinton. When something like this happens, usually a lawsuit is started. For example, if a high level executive has ...

building, the dome itself may have drawn its inspiration from the Romans. The statue that stands on the pinnacle is surrou...