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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...

'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...

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...

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...

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...

Supreme Court Judicial Nominations and Traditional Values

law and serve as final interpreters of that law. Our concept of the United States, of course, is inextractibly tied with th...

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...

Court Administration Issues

family reasons (United States: Rehnquists legacy, 2005). If either of these justices retire, the country, President George W. Bush...

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...

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...

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. ...

Justice and Ethics

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

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...

Concept of Eugenics

In six pages the eugenics concept is examined as its political development pertains to Social Darwinist Oliver Wendell Holmes and ...

Roberts v. Louisiana and Mandatory Capital Punishment

In nine pages this paper examines mandatory capital punishment in a historical chronicle that includes Roberts v. Louisiana, the l...

Protection Offered by the Constitution

Few rights protected in the U.S. Constitution are harder to define and agree on than the right to free speech. This paper focuses ...

Physician Assisted Suicide and the US Supreme Court

In five pages this paper examines the growing and highly controversial issue of physician assisted suicide and the position of the...

Legal Considerations Regarding Workplace Sexual Harassment II

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses workplace sexual harassment in various legal considerations featuring definition, r...

Avis and Racial Discrimination

In nine pages this paper discusses the racial discriminatory practices of Avis Rent A Car with landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases o...

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...

The Effects of Litigation On Special Education

This paper addresses three US Supreme Court cases that led to legislation aiding handicapped and mentally-challenged students. Th...

Should Supreme Court Decisions Be Considered Groundbreaking 'Landmarks?'

In four pages the argument is presented that Supreme Court decisions are not in effect as groundbreaking as they are portrayed and...

Supreme Court and U.S. Government's Separation of Powers

In eight pages this paper discusses the presidency of Bill Clinton, the U.S. separation of powers, and decisions made by the Supre...

Plessy v. Ferguson and Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation

In five pages this paper discusses the problems associated with the Emancipation Proclamation and the U.S. Supreme Court Case of P...

Samuel Nelson's Contributions to the US Supreme Court

In six pages this paper presents a biographical profile of Samuel Nelson, a nineteenth century US Supreme Court Justice and also c...

Progressive Reform Movement and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

In five pages this paper discusses how the Progressive Reform Movement perspectives relate to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell...

Impact of Brown v. Board of Education

This paper consists of seven pages and discusses how despite the best intentions of the U.S. Supreme Court in this 1954 decision t...