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Problems in Case Management and Scheduling

and judges are able to conclude the cases more quickly when there are fewer continuances. Though a case may be continued for othe...

Hickman v. Taylor: Facts, Issue, Reasoning And Decision

through Hickman v. Taylor focuses its application upon defending discovery of tangible components whereby the lawyer has prepared ...

Limiting Liability in Effective Employee Handbooks

exposure to various legal liabilities. They help in documenting, the fair and equal treatment required by federal laws while prese...

Miranda v Arizona, Implications for Law Enforcement

system of checks and balances in the national government the framers divided the duties of the government into three sections. Th...

New York Times Co. v. United States

free press, and that dissent is a vital, healthy and necessary part of citizenship-even during wartime. Introduction We have...

Internet Education

In relationship to the pros and the cons one author notes that the student can take classes from anywhere, can take classes on sub...

Questions from "Gideon's Trumpet"

counsel. In fact "The United States Supreme Court had not said he was entitled to counsel; in Betts v. Brady and succeeding...

Law and Crime Scene Investigation

blood to Clyde Stevens. On the basis of this and associated evidence from the Stevens and Ellis residences, an arrest warrant is i...

Stop, Frisk, and Exigent Circumstances

to burglarize it. One man went back and forth to the subject stores window and peered in an estimated twenty times, each time ret...

Summary of the Case of Employment Division v. Smith

and two only ("Employment Division, Ore. Dept.," 1990). They did not concur with the judgment and Blackmum as a result filed a dis...

Legality of Searching Public Schools at Random

in-hand information. The second level addresses the reasonableness of the search itself and the methods used to conduct the search...

Korematsu v. United States and an Assessment of the Patriot Act

them to the most rigid scrutiny. Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of such restrictions; racial antago...

Brown v. Board of Education Summarized

In another case, heard twelve years later, the Supreme Court it approved a Mississippi statue that had required segregation on int...

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...

Pennoyer v. Neff/Attachment of Land

Neff does not appear in court (Shecket). Having won his suit, Mitchell knows that Neff will be getting some land because he file...

Search Consent

Mr. Randolphs absence, after the police arrived Mrs. Randolph told the police "that her husband was a cocaine user whose habit had...

Summary and Review of Lynne Curry’s The DeShaney Case: Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Dilemma of State Intervention

After putting a name and a face on the social issue of child abuse, and considering the dilemma of the social worker who seeks to ...

Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education

equal access of students to educational benefits and opportunities, for "student-on-student" harassment?" (The Oyez Project, 2008)...

Supreme Court Decision Making and the U.S. Constitution

did not take the same stance as Olsen, commenting that the First Amendments free exercise of religion guarantee "does not require ...

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...

Widmar v. Vincent and Free Speech

an issue that directly impacted on Cornerstone, but could equally impact on any religious group wanting to use any public grounds,...

Legal Brief and Summary of Gideon v. Wainwright

forma pauperis, which means that the usual fees for filing such a petition were waived. Issue The question before the Court in G...

Educational Law, Cases, and Issues

school district and some question as to whether the deletion of information resulted in a violation of student rights. The United...

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...

Social Belief Systems and the Impact of Roe v. Wade

disingenuous. Yet, that is a valid view. Some people believe that abortion is not good. It is not healthy and impinges on some rel...

Workplace Obscene Language, Name Calling, and its Negative Impact

invite more personal discussions and verbal altercations are somewhat acceptable. Interestingly, on that show, a woman came on boa...

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...

GIDEON V. WAINWRIGHT

irritable (Wilson, 2003). Hes a not very likeable individual in Lewis book, but the point stands that according to the Constitutio...

Weber's Law Function and Roe v. Wade

she wants with her own body. Further, the law is based on religious notions, or notions that go to personal belief. Essentially, ...

Proper and Improper Methods of Interrogation by Law Enforcement

the police, he or she is often under the hot seat, and the problem is that without rules, police can and do try anything to get in...