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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...

Brown v. Board of Education and its Importance

schools were deemed unconstitutional (1990). The ruling was followed in 1955 with a court order that mandated desegregation of th...

Constitution of the United States and its Structure

signers of the Constitution that everyone becomes involved with the political process; otherwise, to say that it was truly a democ...

Workplace, Sexual Harassment, Legal Issues, and the U.S. Supreme Court

as the accused, and also how due process is factored into the complex equation. Sexual harassment is regarded as a violation of t...

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 ...

Drug Testing and the Constitution

right to work doctrine is not necessarily the rule of employment. For instance, in Texas, an employee challenged her employers man...

General Motors v. Romein Analysis

Marx would say that the world is reduced to work for hire with no creativity. Durkheim would say that the world was reduced to not...

Discussion of Brown v. Board of Education

initiated a process of change that cannot be abandoned. In the Short-Term Dougherty (2002) explains that the case was based on t...

Outcomes/Pressy v. Ferguson

On June 7, 1892, Homer Plessy was arrested for challenging Louisianas Separate Car Act in a deliberate act of civil disobedience a...

History of Minimum Wage, Supreme Court to Rule on ACA

in the current minimum wage of $7.25, which became effective on July 24, 2009 (WHD, 2011). This history is also characterized by t...

U.S. Supreme Court Case of Troxel v. Granville

regardless of any opposition from Agnes (the little girls mother), the connections that exist between the grandparents and child a...

Victoria Supreme Court Case of Parish v Smyrnos

door bell ring at an early hour, that she looked outside and saw a naked man with an erect penis (2003). She was frightened. This...

Tennessee Eviction Proceedings

end of November. In January 2003, they gave to the landlords agent (another tenant on the same property) a check for $700, which ...

The Lasting Implications of Miranda v Arizona

caused within the United States poor communities speak to the ongoing issue of racial divide, with one of the most striking exampl...

Ohio's Policy on Public Education

years ago that could benefit children in those districts that had adopted alternative approaches, and has been challenged in varyi...

Freedom of Speech and The United States v. Eichmann

because that is what provides the very essence of who we are as Americans. The United States v. Eichmann...

Marbury v. Madison and the US Supreme Court's Jurisdiction Justification

tended to avoid controversy in the early days. That is, until Chief John Marshall became the chief justice of the Supreme Court. I...

Overview of the 1857 Dred Scott U.S. Supreme Court Decision

in his 1859 examination of the case points out that the US Supreme Court in hearing this case was also concerned with issues of co...

Defining Judicial Review Throughout History

civil and criminal courts, all lawsuits were treated as civil suits (Long). The victim prosecuted the case rather than any legal r...

Supreme Court Case Adarand v. Pena

from the other direction. Some critics contend that affirmative action has had a crippling effect upon minority groups because of...

Lying by a Police Officer

This research paper/essay describes a scenario in which a police officer is shown to have lied. The writer hypothetically takes th...

The Right to Bear Arms

The U.S. Constitution has an amendment that addresses this issue. Numerous Supreme Court cases have been filed regarding the Secon...

A Landmark Event, Brown vs. Board of Education

This paper recounts the details associated with the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education and discusses why thi...

Higher Education in the Supreme Court

question, as well as the basic rights of student athletes who are often governed under the auspices not just of schools but of ind...

Capital Punishment and Donald P. Roper v. Christopher Simmons

death (2004). While evidentiary rules are not pertinent here in terms of the guilt of the defendant, evidence is pertinent in resp...

US Supreme Court and its Power

the government to an extent. They must abide by local and national laws. Yet, sometimes these laws are deemed unconstitutional by ...

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...

Evaluating the EEOC v. Steamship Clerks Union Case

court confused racial discrimination with nepotism (2004). Still, the court ordered the organization to change its admissions pol...