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The Supreme Court and the Fourth Amendment

the arrestee might access the vehicle at the time of the search or that the vehicle contains evidence of the offense of arrest" (G...

24th AMENDMENT

very Amendment. As such, the Court unanimously agreed people were not to be penalized for opting in favor of what was already the...

Twenty First Century Policing

Policing today shares many similarities with policing of any particular era. At the same time...

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 ...

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...

Is It Ever Okay to Discriminate

society and especially, regions in the country where the consumers will make it impossible for certain people to succeed. These pe...

Chetum v Knarles

operate a facilities maintenance company that includes four other employees, one of whom is a licensed plumber. The company pays t...

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 ...

Title IX Violations Colleges

Sexual harassment is covered under Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972. The EEOC defines this as unwelcome sexual advan...

Brown v. Board of Education, History and Analysis

This research paper/essay draws on sources to discuss the history of the Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education. T...

Public Schools and the Separation of Church and State

many lawsuits and debates. In Widmar, the school obviously interpreted the clause to mean that religious activities should be ke...

Michael Parenti's Views on the U.S. Government

down the road to create a society that embraces both people of color, and women. Although many contend that the Framers were inter...

Arguing Against Nurses Participating in the Death of Patients and the Christine Busalacchi Case

Rural Nurses, represented by registered nurse and practicing attorney Jacqulyn Hall, filed an amici curiae (friends of the court) ...

The Implications and Impact of Eminent Domain

is expected to result in a greater benefit to the community as a whole, is not a violation of the Fifth Amendment of the Constitut...

'Arbitrary' Capital Punishment?

in todays society, the very foundation upon which it was originally created - to dissuade deviant social behavior - has continued ...

Comparison of Obscenity

Tin Drum, was a co-winner of the Cannes Film Festivals coveted prize, the Palme dOr, for Best Picture in 1979, and the next year, ...

School Uniforms and the Courts

authors found a strong relationship between the attitude of students peers towards preparedness, proschool attitudes and good beha...

Representation and US Voting Rights

the Florida recount), the Court ruled that the "individual citizen . . . has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors ...

Global Communications Benchmarking

This 3 page paper is based on a case study. Looking at issues faced in a case study on the fictitious company Global Communication...

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 ...

Lethal Injection: Cruel and Unusual Punishment?

by electric chair, hanging, and shooting squad seem quite morbid! Those, however, have been the primary means that have been used...

Legal Brief on United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians

should be awarded the equivalent of funds equal to the obligation from 1877 through the present plus interest. That is exactly wha...

Thomas Joe Miller El v. Janie Cockrell Supreme Court Opinion

DeMoss, Circuit Judge, 261 F.3d 445, should have been granted, based on the assertion that the petitioner showed adequate evidence...

Supreme Court Judicial Nominations and Traditional Values

law and serve as final interpreters of that law. Our concept of the United States, of course, is inextractibly tied with th...

John Roberts' U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Battle

on the bench, he needs a majority vote in the Senate. Therefore, his views are very important. Based on past decisions and stateme...

Chief Justice John Marshall's Supreme Court Influence

found in the Constitution are specific and straightforward as well; however, many are not ("Marbury," 1992). Much is up to the cou...

Brown v. Board of Education and Societal Prejudice in the Law and in Cartoons

Hundreds of cartoons were generated in response to Brown v. Board of Education. Many of them have made their way to the World Wid...

A Court Divided by Tushnet

does suggest that, like a game of chess, the future of he state is to some extent contingent on who is president. Depending upon t...

Abortion Position of the US Supreme Court from 1965 to 1992

to privacy within the Constitution (Supreme Court Cases 1965-1990, 2005). As such the court "inferred the existence of a zone of ...