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Pledge of Allegiance and the U.S. Supreme Court

lawsuit was filed in 2000, but failed to draw any media attention until a Ninth Circuit Court panel handed down a 2-1 ruling in Ju...

Military Courts and Justice

people do not commit more crime but rather they are perhaps caught more often when they do. In other words, a white man is less li...

David O'Brien's Storm Center The Supreme Court in American Politics

written and deserves accolades for its insights and attention to detail. At the same time, OBrien sometimes misses the major point...

U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment

In five pages this paper discusses how the 14th Amendment has been interpreted by the Supreme Court. Five sources are cited in th...

Biographical Profile of U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens

and 1955, Stevens became a member of the Attorney Generals National Committee to Study the Antitrust Laws (Court TV Library, 1999;...

Judicial Activism and U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist

has identified himself "with a jurisprudence of original intent" and adds that he shares the same opinion with Rehnquist that "onl...

Character Evidence in American Courts

is largely responsible for the direction that evidence law reform has taken over the last one hundred years. To Thayer and his co...

The Court of King Hrothgar in Beowulf

The writer uses a close reading of the Old English epic poem Beowulf, and in particular the events at King Hrothgar's court, to ex...

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...

Dynamic v. Constrained Court Debate

he was not willing to create an entirely separate distinction for the law books. Instead, he opted to have each of the fifty stat...

Court Cases Faced by Philip Morris Tobacco Company

the tobacco companies negotiated a settlement with 46 states that had filed suits against them (Noonan, 2000). The amount was for ...

Life and Times of Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger

Warren Burger's life and career are the focus of this biography consisting of eight pages. Five sources are cited in the bibliogr...

Active Political Actor of the Canadian Supreme Court

consider how the separation of the powers may be seen as developing in Canada as the system under which the Supreme court operates...

Recommendations of Lord Justice Auld on Oral Evidence in Court

in a trial. These have all received a high level of coverage in the press. However, one of the lesser considered areas has been th...

Overview of the International Court System

means that they have agreed to abide by the findings of the ICC and will not work against the treaty. Originally the United States...

Court Relations and Legislative Agenda of U.S. President Gerald R. Ford

case but maintaining an uneasy relationship between President Ford and certain areas of the Courts. President Fords only ap...

Overview of Mental Health Courts

is not an issue in Missouris Boone County, however. There, the local Mental Health Board of Trustees has the power to bypass the ...

Mark Twain's Use of Satire in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

of the Knights of the Round Table and the legend of King Arthur is achieved by Twain in that he juxtaposes the times and belief sy...

Court Appointments as a Means of Altering Policy

The result is that laws can be interpreted in a variety of ways, depending on circumstances and depending on our place in history....

The Jury Disorder in the Courts by Stephen J. Adler

reasons, of course, often based on stereotypes of race, gender, age or income that lead them to believe a particular candidate wil...

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...

2 US Supreme Court Cases on 'Life and Liberty'

terminated, or were about to terminate, such aid without prior notice and hearing, thereby denying them due process of law" (Goldb...

William H. Rehnquist, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice

his Masters from Harvard in 1950 (Barrett, 1995). Returning to Stanford for his law degree, Rehnquist graduated first in his clas...

Courts and Communications

deceptive pricing, comparative superiority and safety-related claims (FDA Consumer, 1993). Media Access to the Courts The ...

Supreme Court Questions

that the Framers of the Constitution did not intend for the Bill of Rights to do so. Roughly 150 years later, Chief Justice Rehnqu...

Court System of Germany

the division of labor "allows the federation to ensure that laws are enforced equally throughout the country, whereas the central ...

European Court of Justice

Community law is independent of the domestic laws of the individual member states and supersedes...

Courts and Ethics

technical crime. It is worth noting that ethics is not what values are actually held by the courts or the individuals, but of th...

The Court Administrator's Function

growing caseloads, diverse populations, technological advances, and the need to conduct community outreach, education, and coordin...

Supreme Court Structure and Function

The Supreme Court is highest ranking court in the nation. It was established in order to oversee the...