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3 Supreme Court Cases on Affirmative Action and Equal Protection According to the US Constitution's 14th Amendment

the founding fathers wrote have done so in an attempt at fairness. They have gone with what appeared to be the mainstream thinkin...

Supreme Court Rulings' Interpretation on Equal Protection and Affirmative Action

In this paper consisting of seven pages various Supreme Court rulings as they relate to affirmative action are discussed within th...

Institutions of Higher Learning and the Supreme Court

or activity receiving federal financial assistance" (Kaplin & Lee, 2007). In particular, the case examines how this relates to gen...

US Supreme Court Case of Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer

The Court issued a divided opinion, striking down the seizure order. The decision was 6-3, but 3 of the 6 justices wrote concurri...

Equal Protection Clause Application and Different Approaches

according to this position. At the same time, homosexuals argue that they should receive protection because their lifestyle is dif...

The ADA, Two Supreme Court Cases

This research paper pertains to 2 Supreme Court cases involved the provisions of the the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of ...

Morse et. al. v Frederick: An Analysis

not been violated but the Ninth Circuit Court reversed that decision. Although that reversal accepted the argument that the event...

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...

Goss v. Lopez, 419 U.S. 565 Brief

In two pages this Supreme Court case involving a case brought against a school board in Southern Ohio by students that were suspen...

llegality of Assisted Suicide in Regards to the 14th Amendment

This 5 page paper provides an overview of a case where physicians were sued for assisting terminal patients with suicide and were ...

Hendrick Hudson v. Rowley (1982)

the States must fulfill in order to receive federal funds under the Education of the Handicapped Act (subsequently referred as "th...

Habeas Corpus

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

Reflections on the First Amendment

burned an American flag, so although he did not literally speak, his act is still a form of protest. The facts are these: during t...

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...

'Right to Die' Case of Nancy Cruzan and the U.S. Government

In a report consisting of five pages former Attorney General and Edwin Meese and late U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan a...

The Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin

This essay describes three Supreme Court cases, Bowers v. Hardwick, Lawrence v. Texas, and Bush v. Gore, which are described by To...

Supreme Court Case of the State of Florida v. J.L.

In one page this Supreme Court case is examined in terms of the 14th Amendment and state sovereign rights regarding citizen protec...

Supreme Court and Commercial Speech Issues

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

Legal Business Meaning of Copyright

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

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 ...

Anthony Lewis's Gideon's Trumpet

how a previously made poor decision reached by the Supreme Court was ultimately corrected with the Gideon case. Contents : Chapt...

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...

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...

Legal Cases and Appeals of Mike Tyson

Alan Dershowitz, filed an appeal immediately following sentencing. After the conviction, Tyson was denied an appeal for a new tria...

'The Case for H.R. 1534: Equal Access to the Courts' Critiqued

In five pages the Private Property Rights Implementation Act of 1997 is examined in terms of implications....

The Supreme Court's Role

That is why certain issues become controversial like capital punishment, abortion, freedom of speech and the right to bear arms. T...

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. ...

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...

Re-Assessing Miranda Rights

This paper examines the US Supreme Court case of United States v Dickerson, as marking a return of Miranda issues to the highest c...

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...