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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...

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...

The Hearsay Rule

Rehnquist. Reasoning of the Court: The court claims that a conspiracy had been discovered between Bourjaily and Lonardo and this p...

Pertinent Issues in First Amendment Law

interests, property in interests, security interests, public safety and morals, and even countervailing speech interests" (Carter,...

Do Not Call List Case Study Analysis

and would continue until March of 2004 (2004). Broward Circuit Judge Dorian Damoorgian made a summary judgment in respect to th...

An Examination of The Fourth Amendment

restroom ("New Jersey," 2004). When one of the girls was told by administrators to empty her purse, she complied, but marijuana w...

Justice and Ethics

Long-term solutions carry "higher personal risks and an intangible measure of worth" (Schafer, 2002; p. 14). 2. Utilitarianism A....

Child Spanking and Canadian Law

found. First Reason The first reason for objecting to spanking is that the line between it and child abuse can become blurred. ...

2004 Unborn Victims of Violence Act and its Impact

legal status to the embryo, fetus or fertilized egg, and it may be enforced even in the case when the woman did not know of the pr...

How Cases Get to the United States Supreme Court

(i.e., if this court upholds the original ruling), then the party has still another option: requesting that the case go to the Su...

Thomas Joe Miller El v. Janie Cockrell Supreme Court Opinion

DeMoss, Circuit Judge, 261 F.3d 445, should have been granted, based on the assertion that the petitioner showed adequate evidence...

Legal Brief and Summary of Gideon v. Wainwright

forma pauperis, which means that the usual fees for filing such a petition were waived. Issue The question before the Court in G...

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...

Social Change and the U.S. Supreme Court

specific aspect from being overlooked. However, all the people do not adopt this perspective, inasmuch as Ginsburg has a certain ...

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...

Weber's Law Function and Roe v. Wade

she wants with her own body. Further, the law is based on religious notions, or notions that go to personal belief. Essentially, ...

A Court Divided by Tushnet

does suggest that, like a game of chess, the future of he state is to some extent contingent on who is president. Depending upon t...

Brown v. Board of Education and Societal Prejudice in the Law and in Cartoons

Hundreds of cartoons were generated in response to Brown v. Board of Education. Many of them have made their way to the World Wid...

Abortion Position of the US Supreme Court from 1965 to 1992

to privacy within the Constitution (Supreme Court Cases 1965-1990, 2005). As such the court "inferred the existence of a zone of ...

Campaign Finance Issues and the US Supreme Court

a negative concept, the idea of proposing limits based upon monetary consumption is a direct violation of the democratic system up...

US Supreme Court and Women

are clearly in the minority. There seems to be less women taking judgeships in the high courts, even though there are increasing...

Bill of Rights as Treated by the U.S. Supreme Court

In five pages this paper discusses how the Bill of Rights are treated by a supposedly liberal U.S. Supreme Court. Five sources ar...

Developing the U.S. Constitution

The U.S. Constitution has grown and changed greatly since its ratification. This paper examines how amendment and reinterpretation...

Overview of US Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist

attorney general in the Nixon administration between 1969 and 1971 and he is best known for promoting a conservative anticrime pos...

Cain v. Department of Corrections Legal Brief

In five pages this legal brief sample involving a Michigan Supreme Court case is presented in a case overview with facts, issues, ...

Canada's Abortion Laws

This is a paper consisting of ten pages and discusses the topic of abortion as it relates to Canadian law and includes the 'Bubble...

Supreme Court Cases in Canada and Marriage Breakdown and Evolution

to determine when deciding whether or not economic contribution had any bearing on equitable distribution. As it turns out, the r...

Supreme Court Case of Casey v. Planned Parenthood

In six pages this Supreme Court decision and its ramifications are examined. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

Getting a Case to the U.S. Supreme Court

the Supreme Court when one of the two parties involved believes that the final verdict was not acceptable (McWhirter PG). In most...

Decision Making, Politics, and Public Policy

In seven pages this paper examines the roles of the Supreme Court, the president, and the significance of public interest groups i...