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SUPREME COURT OF CANADA AND EXTRINSIC EVIDENCE

resort for all litigants" (Supreme Court of Canada). The jurisdiction involves the civil law of Quebec and common law of Canadas o...

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...

Antitrust Case of Microsoft and a Supreme Court Judge's Opinion

God-like, Bill Gates stands on the top of the highest monetary mountain. However, the Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Offi...

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...

Analysis: Alabama v. White

"indica of reliability" under Adams v. Williams, 407 U. S. 143, 407 U. S. 147, and also for totality of the evidence under Illinoi...

Should Juveniles be Sentenced to Death?

The death penalty has consequently been in and...

Drug Testing Pregnant Women Without Their Permission

University of South Carolina (MUSC), in cooperation with the city of Charleston, established a policy that enabled the city to pro...

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...

Our Freedoms and the First Amendment

The First Amendment to the US Constitution has played a...

Discussion of U.S. Supreme Court Cases with Controversial Issues

This single, historic decision brought forth a great many opportunities for each state to recognize the importance of allowing peo...

Salting as Defined and Practiced

treated as employees at the companies for which they had applied (Baskin PG). Other courts were split on the issue and so the Supr...

Comparison Between a Preliminary Case and One Decided by California's Supreme Court

In five pages this paper examines how a similar judgment in a preliminary case regarding liability in a shopping center parking lo...

Brook Thomas' Edited Text Plessy v Ferguson A Brief History with Documents

In three pages this paper provides a history and general overview of this landmark case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court as prese...

Reverse Discrimination and Regents of University of California v. Bakke

history of slavery alone but also that a whole people were marked as inferior by the law. And that mark has endured. The dream o...

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...

Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court Nomination

In ten pages this paper examines the controversy surrounding the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the US Supreme Court. Eight sou...

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...

Jim Crow's Emergence and Decline

The Jim Crow laws are examined in five pages in an overview of the 'separate but equal' 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court deci...

Nancy Cruzan Case

In five pages the right to die U.S. Supreme Court case involving Nancy Cruzan is examined. Five sources are cited in the bibliogr...

Buckley v. Valeo, the 1st Amendment, and Free Speech

the United States Senate has commented twenty-three years after the decision, "We believed that these restrictions were fundamenta...

1985 Robert Echols v. State of Florida State Supreme Court Case

wife unconscious. On their way to the airport, they discarded the gun, jewelry boxes, the victims wallet, and a bag taken from th...

Filling Court Dockets with Sexual Harassment Cases

other workers using email can constitute sexual harassment. As the cases fill the court rooms across the country and the dockets b...

Analysis of Brown v. Board of Education

This paper provides an analysis of this monumental decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in seven pages with its significance emphasi...

Developing the U.S. Constitution

The U.S. Constitution has grown and changed greatly since its ratification. This paper examines how amendment and reinterpretation...

Bill of Rights as Treated by the U.S. Supreme Court

In five pages this paper discusses how the Bill of Rights are treated by a supposedly liberal U.S. Supreme Court. Five sources ar...

Getting a Case to the U.S. Supreme Court

the Supreme Court when one of the two parties involved believes that the final verdict was not acceptable (McWhirter PG). In most...

Pros and Cons of Prayer in School

In ten pages this research paper assesses the historical pros and cons associated with school prayer in American public schools be...

Decision Making, Politics, and Public Policy

In seven pages this paper examines the roles of the Supreme Court, the president, and the significance of public interest groups i...

U.S. Supreme Court Decisions Involving Freedom of Religion

In eight pages this paper examines the 1st Amendment's free exercise clause as it has been interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court i...

78 in The Federalist Papers and Alexander Hamilton

This paper analyzes no. 78 in seven pages in regards to Hamilton's contention that the Supreme Court needs a permanent appointment...