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The Patriot Act Violates the Fourth Amendment

laws and by increasing terms of punishment" (p.134). The legal response had been driven by the public fear about attacks in the fu...

THE PATRIOT ACT, AN OVERVIEW AND THE 14TH AMENDMENT

"wire, oral, and electronic communications relating to terrorism..." (Ball 51). Along with this, Title II also allows the seizing ...

The Patriot Act

vital to national security (Pike 1). The 9/11 Commission even pinpointed several failure of communication that occurred within th...

Church and State in the 1992 U.S. Supreme Court Case of Lee v. Weisman 505

In eight pages this paper discusses whether or not the First Amendment rights are being violated by a school function's religious ...

The Patriot Act

guilty. By using the Patriot act they were able to obtain information that could be shared in order to piece together what was g...

USA Patriot Act Advantages and Disadvantages

federal government to investigate suspected terrorists quickly and without going through time-consuming bureaucratic channels. Th...

Due Process and the Definition and Delineation of Individual Rights

Due process has had a definitive impact on the delineation and definition of the rights of American citizens. Interestingly, howe...

Changes to the Bank Secrecy Act

altered since the terrorist attacks. The BSA has many provision, mostly related to money laundering. To sum up the gist of the act...

October 2001 Patriot Act Passage

provision. The objections that required this were due to the impact that the powers would have in terms of freedom and libraries. ...

The Fourth Amendment and Airport Searches

Abstract This paper examines some of the impacts the Patriot Act has had on our rights as US citizens....

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...

A Summary of Five Acts

was the Great Depression and other conditions at the time that mandated the creation of social and economic programs. One has to r...

Safeguards and Penalties for Improper Use of Data and U.S. Law

to criminal issues were not sufficient to address computer fraud. To an extent, wire and mail fraud issues were addressed in the p...

The Truth In Lending Act

FRB amended Regulation Z to implement section 1204 of the Competitive Equality Banking Act of 1987 (Farm Credit Administration, 19...

The Patriot Act

knowledge or consent of the targeted individual". (Robinson, 2003). Wire taps on our phones, monitoring...

The Patriot Act

allow law officers to gather information" quickly when there is a known "imminent threat to life or limb" (Sanchez, 2004, p. 12). ...

1968 Case Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 88 S.Ct. 1868, 20 L.Ed.2d 889

In four pages this U.S. legal brief involves such issues as the Fourth Amendment and search and seizure with probable cause....

Students, Constitutional Rights, and Tinker v. Des Moines School District

In five pages this paper discusses students 1st Amendment rights to protest were violated in this consideration of this Supreme Co...

U.S. Supreme Court Case of Hoffa v. the United States

on appeal to the Sixth Circuit Court (349 F2d 20). The Supreme Court in this case ultimately had to make a...

Reactions to the Patriot Act's Primary Points

tax. Patriot II is slated to replace the Patriot Act, but it is not yet fully refined and defined in its scope (Drake, 2003). Li...

The Patriot Act Must be Changed

ironically, this law that is supposed to uphold what America stands for actually chips away at guaranteed rights for all citizens....

Privacy Impact of the USA Patriot Act

claim that the new rule violates the constitutional right to counsel (2002). Indeed, the act does change things and suggesting th...

DEFENSE ACTS TO PROTECT THE UNITED STATES

U.S. governments ability to examine terrorism financing and money laundering as well as allowing the government to closely examine...

Impacts to Law Enforcement

security. Others, however, condemn the Act because of its impact to American civil rights. Along with that condemnation has been...

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...

The Victims' Rights Amendment

federal and state courts. But that didnt sit well with senators who favored a statutory approach" ("Senate Affirms," 2004). The...

Precedents of the U.S. Supreme Court and Free Speech

In five pages this paper examines how the 14th Amendment's free speech provisions affects symbolic acts in case considerations of ...

Trade Secrets and What Constitutes Them Assessed

statement as to whether it has ever done business with Cheap Cups; the owner of Cheap Cups supposedly is unfamiliar with Farber Co...

U.S. Patriot Act and Policymakers

essential step in defeating terrorism while protecting the constitutional rights of all Americans" (Olsen, 2001). However, many b...

Patriot Act Benefits Assessment

point of the Patriot Act is to make all Americans "better off" by enhancing national security to guard against future acts of terr...