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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...

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...

The Landmark Case of Roe v. Wade of More Than a Generation Ago

which to base her arguments in favor of abortion rights. The question on which the case rested was whether a woman had the...

Hugo Black

States had boundaries over which he was not permitted to cross. This, however, was not immediately evident when Truman "ordered s...

Bench Memorandum Example

A grade. However, after this grade was awarded there were complaints from parents to the school principle; Principle Skinner. Foll...

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...

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...

Declaration of Independence's Unfulfilled Promises

Thurgood Marshall, for example, minced no words about his feelings about the Declaration and the Constitution in his 1987 work, "A...

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...

Comparison Between the Nigeria Election of 1993 and the United States Election of 2000

the deadline mandated by federal law. "That date is upon us, and there is no recount procedure in place under the state Supreme Co...

Necessity of the US Bill of Rights According to William J. Brennan Jr.

Brennan, Jr. points out that it is only during the last forty or fifty years that the Bill of Rights has been enforced by the cour...

Assisted Suicide and Cruzan v. Harmon

Legal responsibility, government boundaries, and the Cruzan v. Harmon Supreme Court decision on legalizing physician assisted suic...

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...

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...

Reforming the British House of Lords

level of representation within the House have persisted as matters for debate and legislation for so long, it is helpful to consid...

Protocol of Public Schools and the US Constitution's 4th Amendment

The case is clearly poignant in a sea of cases concerning individual rights and freedoms. It is certainly apropos in todays climat...

Abortion and the Law

not be given to the judicial system via the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Autonomy is an essential American value and shou...

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....

Race and Emotional Distress in the Workplace

racial supremacy destroyed the theoretical underpinnings of American racism (20). This is a nice thought, but while things have ch...

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...

Criminal Profitability at the Victim's Expense

In eight pages victims rights and restricting a criminal from profiting off of crime and victimization is discussed in a considera...

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...

Alexander Hamilton and Judicial Review

alternative of force, in an organized society. It is the right, conservative of all other rights, and lies at the foundation of or...

Reform of the U.S. Supreme Court

In five pages this paper discusses reforming the U.S. Supreme Court in terms of habeas corpus. Two sources are cited in the bibli...

Restrictive Environment and Application of Social Impact Analysis III

In fifteen pages this continuation of two other papers includes the Cedar Rapids Community School District v. Garret F. U.S. Supre...

U.S. Supreme Court and the 2000 Presidential Election Between George W. Bush and Al Gore

In eight pages this paper discusses how the Supreme Court dealt with this controversial election of George W. Bush as President wi...

The Miranda v Arizona Case, Due Process, and Miranda Rights

with empirical studies. But interest in the subject quickly waned, and research in the last couple of decades has been virtually n...

Free Speech Issues Delegated by the Warren, Burger, and Rehnquist Courts

This paper examines First Amendment cases seen by The Supreme Court under different Chief Justices. This five page paper has one ...