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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...

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 ...

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,...

2000 Presidential Election and the Case of Bush v. Gore

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...

Declaration of Independence's Unfulfilled Promises

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

Brown v. Board of Education and its Importance

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

Comparison Between the Nigeria Election of 1993 and the United States Election of 2000

the deadline mandated by federal law. "That date is upon us, and there is no recount procedure in place under the state Supreme Co...

Biographical Profile of U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens

and 1955, Stevens became a member of the Attorney Generals National Committee to Study the Antitrust Laws (Court TV Library, 1999;...

Necessity of the US Bill of Rights According to William J. Brennan Jr.

Brennan, Jr. points out that it is only during the last forty or fifty years that the Bill of Rights has been enforced by the cour...

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 ...

US Supreme Court Case

In a paper of three pages, the author relates the specific details of the case of Salinas v. Texas, a US Supreme Court case. Ther...

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...

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...

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 ...

The US Supreme Court: An Overview of Powers

document of the United States of America and outlines the various rights and privileges that are guaranteed to citizens of the cou...

Business Issues in sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-Saharan Africa has some of the poorest countries in the world. They also have some of the most corrupt politicians and busines...

A Landmark Event, Brown vs. Board of Education

This paper recounts the details associated with the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education and discusses why thi...

Violent Video Games: Who Takes Responsibility

This 4 page paper gives an answer to the question of who is responsible for violent video games. This paper includes the Supreme C...

Supreme Court Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States

Many of the constitutional protections enjoyed by American citizens today could not have been envisioned by the drafters of the or...

Wrongful Courtroom Decisions

In five pages this paper examines what happens when courts make the wrong decisions with the Supreme Court also considered. Three...

Making a Reparations Case

things are different. Africans were seized from their homes in Africa and brought to the United States for profit. The motive was ...

Prayer at High School Football Games

In six pages the Supreme Court's decision to prohibit high school students leading public prayer prior to football games is examin...

Supreme Court Ruling on Cedar Rapids Community School District v. Garret F.

In five pages the case in which the Supreme Court ruled that a school provided nurse should attend to a student dependent upon a v...

Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren

In twelve pages Earl Warren's life and role as Supreme Court Justice are discussed with a consideration of whether the President c...

Ohio's Policy on Public Education

years ago that could benefit children in those districts that had adopted alternative approaches, and has been challenged in varyi...

John Kerry v. George W. Bush's Views on the Supreme Court Contrasted

of Bush and Kerry are intimately aware, of course, that the judicial branch can override both the President and Congress. They ar...

A Judiciary Overview

as well. Today, the Supreme Court consists of the following judges; their names and years or appointment are listed as follows: St...

Procedure and Criminal Law IV

do not always perfectly align, however. Though the police had the right to arrest Frank and they needed to respond to the worried...

Workplace Sexual Harassment Court Decision Process

to the harassment, at least as it was defined in terms of the instances of sexual intercourse that had occurred on bank property. ...

Kelo v. New London

before the New London Superior Court, asserting that the "taking of their properties would violate the public use restriction in t...