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The Lasting Implications of Miranda v Arizona

caused within the United States poor communities speak to the ongoing issue of racial divide, with one of the most striking exampl...

Justice and Ethics

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

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...

Reverse Discrimination Issues

to the equal protection claus of the fourteenth amendment. The case interpreted the amendment to be universal so that it should al...

2000 Presidential Election and the Case of Bush v. Gore

Because winning the state of Florida at that point of the game would determine who the next president would be, it was clearly a t...

Declaration of Independence's Unfulfilled Promises

Thurgood Marshall, for example, minced no words about his feelings about the Declaration and the Constitution in his 1987 work, "A...

Nancy Cruzan Case, the U.S. Constitution, Attorney General Edwin Meese, and U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan

In five pages this report considers the 1990 'right to die' case involving Nancy Cruzan in a comparative analysis of the views of ...

Punitive Damages and Their Constitutionality

In ten pages this paper discusses the awarding of punitive damages and the judicial review process of the U.S. Supreme Court. Eig...

Constitutional Rights and Roe v. Wade

In eight pages this argumentative essay examines Roe v. Wade with such topics as refuting arguments, social benefits, original dec...

Abortion Legislation in the Early to Mid 1990s

of legislation that authorizes the state to develop and enforce regulations regarding the licensure and operation of abortion clin...

The Christ Child Goes to Court by Wayne Swanson

In five pages this text by Wayne Swanson is examined within the context of the Lynch v. Donnelly US Supreme Court case. There are...

Powers of the President and Special Prosecutors

In four pages this research paper considers a hypothetical decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in an examination of a presidential ...

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...

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...

Supreme Court Development and the Role of Justice John Marshall

In five pages this paper discusses Marbury v. Madison and the role played by Justice John Marshall in this consideration of how th...

Overview of the US Supreme Court Case United States v. Marion

process leading to the indictment, and that no issues of expediency were claimed regarding the time frame between the indictment a...

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 ...

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...

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...

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, ...

Representation and US Voting Rights

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

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...

Developing the U.S. Constitution

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

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Widmar v. Vincent

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