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Tolerance, Freedom of Speech, and J.S. Mill

in his views. Freedom of speech should be given precedent over the reaction which that speech may cause. This precept has been u...

Cultural Climate of the Period and the Dred Scott Decision

even if the federal government could buy the slaves, the freed slaves could not be turned into citizens without an amendment to th...

Reverse Discrimination and Regents of University of California v. Bakke

history of slavery alone but also that a whole people were marked as inferior by the law. And that mark has endured. The dream o...

Salting as Defined and Practiced

treated as employees at the companies for which they had applied (Baskin PG). Other courts were split on the issue and so the Supr...

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Sexual Harassment

In five pages this paper presents the history of a sexual harassment case that was heard by the U.S. Supreme Court and discusses w...

4th Amendment Rights and the Practice of Search and Seizure

In ten pages this paper discusses the rights guaranteed by the 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution in terms of search and seizu...

Texas Flag Burning Case Arguments

In three pages this paper argues that the overturning of this decision by Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist was correct. On...

Anthony Lewis's Gideon's Trumpet

face of all odds endows Gideons Trumpet with all the elements that typically comprise an American bestseller. On the other ...

School Environment and Sexual Harassment

terminology likely is not. The difficulty in defining the term is further complicated with the settings in which it can occur. ...

78 in The Federalist Papers and Alexander Hamilton

This paper analyzes no. 78 in seven pages in regards to Hamilton's contention that the Supreme Court needs a permanent appointment...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

Social Belief Systems and the Impact of Roe v. Wade

disingenuous. Yet, that is a valid view. Some people believe that abortion is not good. It is not healthy and impinges on some rel...

Educational Law, Cases, and Issues

school district and some question as to whether the deletion of information resulted in a violation of student rights. The United...

Widmar v. Vincent and Free Speech

an issue that directly impacted on Cornerstone, but could equally impact on any religious group wanting to use any public grounds,...

Widmar v. Vincent

This case involves the rights of a registered student religious group to use the facilities of the University of Missouri, facilit...

Court Administration Issues

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

Legal Brief on United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians

should be awarded the equivalent of funds equal to the obligation from 1877 through the present plus interest. That is exactly wha...

1985 Robert Echols v. State of Florida State Supreme Court Case

wife unconscious. On their way to the airport, they discarded the gun, jewelry boxes, the victims wallet, and a bag taken from th...

Pros and Cons of Prayer in School

In ten pages this research paper assesses the historical pros and cons associated with school prayer in American public schools be...

Filling Court Dockets with Sexual Harassment Cases

other workers using email can constitute sexual harassment. As the cases fill the court rooms across the country and the dockets b...

Buckley v. Valeo, the 1st Amendment, and Free Speech

the United States Senate has commented twenty-three years after the decision, "We believed that these restrictions were fundamenta...

Developing the U.S. Constitution

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

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...

Majority Opinions of Brennan and Meese on the 1952 US Supreme Court Case of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 U.S. 579

This paper considers how Justice William Brennan and Edwin Meese would have decided this U.S. Supreme Court case in a paper consis...