YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
Essays 151 - 180
talks of having a bobcat and javelinas as pets (Marie, 1985). She rode horseback and even learned to drive a car by the age of se...
from the other direction. Some critics contend that affirmative action has had a crippling effect upon minority groups because of...
in a firm that specialized in antitrust lawsuits ("John Paul Stevens," 2006). In 1970, Stevens was appointed by President Nixon to...
common citizen. Homes warned of certain demise if this was not the case and observed the value of our government as a teacher, a ...
U.S. 173 (1991)), the ACLU filed a brief of amici curiae in conjunction with the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists,...
Sheriffs deputies arrived at the scene, Becker was dead, having sustained a single stab wound to the chest (State v. Kuntz, 2000)....
right to remain silent until he had secured legal counsel (Skene, 1991). Citing the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, whi...
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, ...
system of checks and balances in the national government the framers divided the duties of the government into three sections. Th...
and two only ("Employment Division, Ore. Dept.," 1990). They did not concur with the judgment and Blackmum as a result filed a dis...
the Florida recount), the Court ruled that the "individual citizen . . . has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors ...
Rural Nurses, represented by registered nurse and practicing attorney Jacqulyn Hall, filed an amici curiae (friends of the court) ...
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...
according to this position. At the same time, homosexuals argue that they should receive protection because their lifestyle is dif...
In another case, heard twelve years later, the Supreme Court it approved a Mississippi statue that had required segregation on int...
civil and criminal courts, all lawsuits were treated as civil suits (Long). The victim prosecuted the case rather than any legal r...
threatening the life of the mother. After much deliberation and extreme media frenzy, Roe won her suit of right to privacy stati...
Campaign Reform Act of 2002, n.d.). The sponsors of the bill were John McCain (R-AZ), Russell Feingold (D-WS), Christopher Shays...
that she was much more responsive and seemed to be improving. Still not fully conscious, at times she would be able to "communica...
term traditionally begins the first Monday in October, and so final opinions are issued in late June (Mears, 2002). Justices divid...
Rehnquist. Reasoning of the Court: The court claims that a conspiracy had been discovered between Bourjaily and Lonardo and this p...
interests, property in interests, security interests, public safety and morals, and even countervailing speech interests" (Carter,...
tended to avoid controversy in the early days. That is, until Chief John Marshall became the chief justice of the Supreme Court. I...
because that is what provides the very essence of who we are as Americans. The United States v. Eichmann...
separate Texas lawsuits where insured parties had sued their HMO for failure to provide procedures or care recommended by their ph...
restroom ("New Jersey," 2004). When one of the girls was told by administrators to empty her purse, she complied, but marijuana w...
and would continue until March of 2004 (2004). Broward Circuit Judge Dorian Damoorgian made a summary judgment in respect to th...
court confused racial discrimination with nepotism (2004). Still, the court ordered the organization to change its admissions pol...
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...
she wants with her own body. Further, the law is based on religious notions, or notions that go to personal belief. Essentially, ...