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A Case Involving the Pregnant Discrimination Act

Discrimination Act (PDA) of 1978 amends Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in order to "prohibit sex discrimination on the ...

Ricci v. Stefano and Diversity

of individual who passed the examination and qualified for promotions" (Mereau, 2009). Epstein (2009) points out that the city o...

Our Freedoms and the First Amendment

The First Amendment to the US Constitution has played a...

Gun Control Laws in Washington DC

Visit www.paperwriters.com/aftersale.htm In two separate blog postings (Jul 14 and Jul...

Effectiveness/Judges and Justices

are the prominent and well-known judges in the criminal justice system of the United States, they are not precisely typical, as fe...

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...

Is Conflict Necessary for Endogenous Social Change

The writer looks at the concepts of exogenous and endogenous social change. Focusing in the latter the writer considers whether so...

Supreme Court Structure and Function

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

Communnication, Technology, and Social Changes

and the society. The Planned Parenthood Federation could produce a short documentary that reports the services they provide that a...

The Supreme Court Justice Nominee Review Process

It is not unusual for prospective candidates for Supreme Court Justice to be subjected to considerable criticism during the screen...

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...

The Culture and Operation of the Special Court in Sierra Leone

The Sierra Leone Special Court is an Ad Hoc court set up to hear the cases of those most responsible the atrocities in the Sierra ...

U.S. Supreme Court Decision of Miranda v. Arizona

right to remain silent until he had secured legal counsel (Skene, 1991). Citing the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, whi...

Amazon.com and Internet Jurisdiction

have been forced to cease operations. Today Amazon maintains sites in Austria, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, the United ...

The Origins of Racist Attitudes in Modern Times

of security" (Fuentes, 2004). Journalist Dale Maharidge, in his latest book Homeland, "answers that question and raises many mo...

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 ...

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,...

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...

1914 Supreme Court Case of Weeks v. US

of Missouri and of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Pertinent to this petition, the cou...

Core Concepts of Juvenile Delinquency

is trying to help and the psychologist. Social learning theories : The social learning approach to explaining juvenile delinque...

The Brethren Inside the Supreme Court by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong Summary and Analysis

public has never seen before or since. The major issues the Court wrestled with are considered in great detail, and include abort...

Conservative and Liberal U.S. Supreme Court Cases

Chicago vs. Jesus Morales; Palmer vs City of Euclid, Ohio and Connecticut Department of Public Safety vs. Doe. All three of these ...

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...

Supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action in the Area of Higher Education

continue acting as though they are contributing to a more racially diversified academic community, when in reality they are really...

Civil Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Administrations of Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon

which Brown was grounded rested "solely on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution" (1977, p. 306). Warren also points out t...

Supreme Court Cases, Pre-Miranda

This paper pertains to 2 pre-Miranda cases that address the issue of self-indiscriminaton. Three pages in length, two sources are ...

United States v. Eichmann Supreme Court Case

Texas statute criminalizing desecration of the flag and had provided the flag protection language for the Flag Protection Act of 1...

John Marshall, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

also very supportive of business and the emerging American market economy 8. Marshall was outspoken against those who believed in...

Case Law and Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court

Although the right to public trial is protected under the due process clause, however, that protection is not absolute in that rea...

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...