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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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Child Spanking and Canadian Law

found. First Reason The first reason for objecting to spanking is that the line between it and child abuse can become blurred. ...

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...

Court Administration Issues

family reasons (United States: Rehnquists legacy, 2005). If either of these justices retire, the country, President George W. Bush...

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...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

The Supreme Court, Amicus Curiae, and Abortion

U.S. 173 (1991)), the ACLU filed a brief of amici curiae in conjunction with the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists,...

Representation and US Voting Rights

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

Gathering Evidence, Ethics, and US Supreme Court Guidelines

common citizen. Homes warned of certain demise if this was not the case and observed the value of our government as a teacher, a ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Stevens' Philosophy

in a firm that specialized in antitrust lawsuits ("John Paul Stevens," 2006). In 1970, Stevens was appointed by President Nixon to...

'Arbitrary' Capital Punishment?

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

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 ...

Book Report on Jeffrey Toobin’s The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court

in which the Supreme Court justices typically align themselves - usually in either liberal or conservative extremes, which Antonin...

3 Law Questions

and arbitrary. His critics notwithstanding, Jefferson set out and ultimately accomplished what no political leader had considered...

Issues Facing the Police Administrator in Community Policing

"right to remain silent unless he chooses to speak in the unfettered exercise of his own will" (384 U.S. 437). Miranda,...

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...

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...

Political Questions

U.S. Constitution makes the President, a civilian leader, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Navy and Militia. While the Presiden...

Retroactive Child Support Payments: Canadian Supreme Court

they separated, the father had custody for a time, but "the parties subsequently entered into an informal shared custody arrangeme...