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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...

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...

Death Penalty Court Cases

This 4 page paper gives an overview of come court cases. This paper includes court cases concerning the death penalty. Bibliograph...

Gibson v. Mayor Legal Brief

judgment (HR Complys Newsletter, 2004). There is more to the case, however. In writing the judgment Judge Becker reported that Gi...

The Supreme Court and Abortion

privacy within the Constitution (Supreme Court Cases 1965-1990, 2005). As such the court primarily inferred that the Constitution...

eBay, Inc. v Bidder's Edge, Inc. and Personal Property Trespassing

a time. Though thousands of individuals may be trying to access eBays system at the same time, they still operate at a speed much...

U.S. Two Court System

have, at their lowest level, the inferior courts (which might include magistrate court, municipal court, justice of the peace, pol...

Comparison of Juvenile and Adult Courts

In 1899, the first juvenile court case was heard in Chicago as authorized by the Illinois Juvenile Court Act (Penn, 2001). The ju...

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...

US Supreme Court and its Power

the government to an extent. They must abide by local and national laws. Yet, sometimes these laws are deemed unconstitutional by ...

Oregon's Death with Dignity Act and the American Government

request, but may not require, the patient to notify their next-of-kin of the prescription request. A patient can rescind a request...

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...

U.S. Supreme Court, William N. Eskridge, and Lochner v. New York

(Findlaw, 2005). The employee worked as a baker, and baking at that time was a dangerous occupation: bakers inhaled quantities o...

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...

Trying Juveniles In Adult Courts

has existed for more than a decade (Associated Content, Inc., 2006; Young and Gainsborough, 2000). In fact, the juvenile system ha...

Percy Wants Darby's Gazebo

Darby likely has a right to simply change his mind. If Percy paid Darby in advance, then whether he owes Percy a gazebo or not, D...

Percy Wants Darby's Gazebo

the meantime, Percy merely wants Darby to uphold his part of the agreement made between the two men. Percy understands that Darby...

Darby's Gazebo

case will result in Darby being required to disassemble, relocate and reassemble the gazebo on Percys property. Though spec...

U.S. Supreme Court Decision of Miranda v. Arizona

right to remain silent until he had secured legal counsel (Skene, 1991). Citing the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, whi...

Habeas Corpus

to a hearing by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal. At such hearings, evidence is presented that the detainee should be considered...

The Irish Labour Court and Labour Relations Commission (LRC)

the world outside of Ireland where the negative impact of the industrial relations was deterring foreign direct investment, a Comm...

Trying Juveniles

Crime is an ever present problem in our society. Unfortunately, juveniles...

Sovereignty & An International Court

inadmissible if a case is already being handled by a state with jurisdiction, unless it is deemed that the state in question is "g...

"Oregon v. Smith, et al"

Oregon for a determination of whether or not the use of peyote in church sacraments "is proscribed by the States controlled substa...

History of Minimum Wage, Supreme Court to Rule on ACA

in the current minimum wage of $7.25, which became effective on July 24, 2009 (WHD, 2011). This history is also characterized by t...

The Rights of Women Seen in the Decisions of the Supreme Court

Second World War, the ongoing reluctance was seen, in the case of Tileston v Ullman 318 US 44 (1943) a doctor brought a case on be...

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...

ADMINISTRATIVE AGENCIES AND THEIR FUNCTIONS

law-making bodies to do everything the government might, from helping to manage crises to help deal with matters of governmental c...

Lawsuits Have Changed How Schools are Funded

money because they do not have it. These schools and districts are severely limited in what they can do to provide a quality educa...

Overview of America's Juvenile Court System

serves to protect juveniles, while enforcing the law at the same time. In other words, it treats these young criminal with kid glo...