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Drug Testing Pregnant Women Without Their Permission

University of South Carolina (MUSC), in cooperation with the city of Charleston, established a policy that enabled the city to pro...

Improving America's Democratic Government

in society and in the courts. The failure to do so has allowed injustices and inequities that have persisted since the founding t...

SUPREME COURT OF CANADA AND EXTRINSIC EVIDENCE

resort for all litigants" (Supreme Court of Canada). The jurisdiction involves the civil law of Quebec and common law of Canadas o...

Analysis: Alabama v. White

"indica of reliability" under Adams v. Williams, 407 U. S. 143, 407 U. S. 147, and also for totality of the evidence under Illinoi...

Should Juveniles be Sentenced to Death?

The death penalty has consequently been in and...

How Will the Supreme Court Rule on the Allen Snyder Case?

race, Snyder refers to Batson v. Kentucky, a case in 1986 that would not allow the practice of eliminating jurors due to race ("Co...

Michael Parenti's Views on the U.S. Government

down the road to create a society that embraces both people of color, and women. Although many contend that the Framers were inter...

Lethal Injection: Cruel and Unusual Punishment?

by electric chair, hanging, and shooting squad seem quite morbid! Those, however, have been the primary means that have been used...

Pennoyer v. Neff/Attachment of Land

Neff does not appear in court (Shecket). Having won his suit, Mitchell knows that Neff will be getting some land because he file...

Summary and Review of Lynne Curry’s The DeShaney Case: Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Dilemma of State Intervention

After putting a name and a face on the social issue of child abuse, and considering the dilemma of the social worker who seeks to ...

Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education

equal access of students to educational benefits and opportunities, for "student-on-student" harassment?" (The Oyez Project, 2008)...

Colby/Deaths of Nancy Cruzan

that the legal struggle took on her family was immense. Her father never recovered emotionally and committed suicide (Colby, 2002)...

New York Times Co. v. United States

free press, and that dissent is a vital, healthy and necessary part of citizenship-even during wartime. Introduction We have...

Political Questions

U.S. Constitution makes the President, a civilian leader, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Navy and Militia. While the Presiden...

Questions from "Gideon's Trumpet"

counsel. In fact "The United States Supreme Court had not said he was entitled to counsel; in Betts v. Brady and succeeding...

Business Issues in the Music Industry

acquired by larger companies seeking to grow through that route. Traditional retailers have blamed Internet retailers, piracy and...

Representation and US Voting Rights

the Florida recount), the Court ruled that the "individual citizen . . . has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors ...

Supreme Court of Montana - State v. Kuntz

Sheriffs deputies arrived at the scene, Becker was dead, having sustained a single stab wound to the chest (State v. Kuntz, 2000)....

Miranda v Arizona, Implications for Law Enforcement

system of checks and balances in the national government the framers divided the duties of the government into three sections. Th...

Comparison of Obscenity

Tin Drum, was a co-winner of the Cannes Film Festivals coveted prize, the Palme dOr, for Best Picture in 1979, and the next year, ...

'Arbitrary' Capital Punishment?

in todays society, the very foundation upon which it was originally created - to dissuade deviant social behavior - has continued ...

Legality of Searching Public Schools at Random

in-hand information. The second level addresses the reasonableness of the search itself and the methods used to conduct the search...

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...

Legal Cases that Change Society

considered right to life, as well as an individuals right to choose. The Court elected not to address the right to life issue, fo...

Brown v. Board of Education Summarized

In another case, heard twelve years later, the Supreme Court it approved a Mississippi statue that had required segregation on int...

Equal Protection Clause Application and Different Approaches

according to this position. At the same time, homosexuals argue that they should receive protection because their lifestyle is dif...

Arguing Against Nurses Participating in the Death of Patients and the Christine Busalacchi Case

Rural Nurses, represented by registered nurse and practicing attorney Jacqulyn Hall, filed an amici curiae (friends of the court) ...

The Implications and Impact of Eminent Domain

is expected to result in a greater benefit to the community as a whole, is not a violation of the Fifth Amendment of the Constitut...

Organizational Communication and Personal Power

have to know whos in charge. Max Weber, the German sociologist, "defined power as the ability to get things done your way in spite...

Duties of Trustees Over Their Investments

someone, either an individual, or an organisations, to use property, and for one reason, or another, are not able to hold the lega...