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William H. Rehnquist, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice

his Masters from Harvard in 1950 (Barrett, 1995). Returning to Stanford for his law degree, Rehnquist graduated first in his clas...

A Legal Courtroom Visit

the description of the room itself and the way the people orient to that room. There is, for example, the distinct separation of ...

Court Appointments as a Means of Altering Policy

The result is that laws can be interpreted in a variety of ways, depending on circumstances and depending on our place in history....

Can Recovered Memories and Eyewitness Testimony Be Trusted?

Men and women are being accused, tried, and convicted with no proof or evidence of guilt other than the word of the accuser" (Loft...

Race and Emotional Distress in the Workplace

racial supremacy destroyed the theoretical underpinnings of American racism (20). This is a nice thought, but while things have ch...

Tennessee Eviction Proceedings

end of November. In January 2003, they gave to the landlords agent (another tenant on the same property) a check for $700, which ...

Lawmaking and the ECJ

House of Lords, where there is the ability for input before the law is passed. This is seen as reducing the ambiguity, and also co...

Judge Interpretation of the 1967 Abortion Act and the Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom v DHSS (1981) Case

Radioactive Substances Act 1948, section 3 (1) (a), the Therapeutic Substances Act 1956, section 9 (1) (a); the Drugs (Prevention...

Basic Human Rights Undermined by the Human Rights Act of 1998's Margin of Appreciation

may be seen as conflicting. However, the effectiveness of the Act given by the margin of appreciation may be argued to undermine t...

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...

Pertinent Issues in First Amendment Law

interests, property in interests, security interests, public safety and morals, and even countervailing speech interests" (Carter,...

Bleak House by Charles Dickens and the English Court System

novel and helps us see some of the critical sarcasm which Dickens offers in the preface to his novel. In the preface to this nov...

Should the U.S. Participate in the International Criminal Court and the World Trade Organization?

the organization gives unfair trade advantages to some of the countries that need those advantages the least. Even without the im...

Nationalization Dispute Settlements and International Law

of their investment and work. Both perspectives are very understandable but are not agreed upon widely. One example for how the...

The Hearsay Rule

Rehnquist. Reasoning of the Court: The court claims that a conspiracy had been discovered between Bourjaily and Lonardo and this p...

Genocide in East Timor?

the force deportations of the Ottoman empires Armenians and the families that had lived in the Cossack lands and the Ukraine where...

Balistreri v. Nevada Livestock - A Legal Brief

the form of the parents Petaluma residence. * Respondent requested that the parents execute a deed of trust on their home. The pa...

Private Security Industry and Increased Powers

law enforcement in general: the role of the police has changed and developed considerably in the past twenty years, and part of th...

Position Paper on the Workplace and Clandestine Monitoring

Attorneys cried foul stating that the clients Fourth Amendment rights had been grotesquely violated by the FBI agents. This is wha...

Proportionality and Australian Law

in alignment with Constitutional standards. It can be argued, then, that the High Courts acceptance of the relevance of proportio...

Supreme Court Case Adarand v. Pena

from the other direction. Some critics contend that affirmative action has had a crippling effect upon minority groups because of...

Comparing Federal and Texas State Judicial Systems

well as handling legal matters. Although literature is sparse as to why the Texas justices are elected rather than appoint...

Racial Issues and the Cases of Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger

a "tremendous victory" (Peterson, 2003) by U of Ms President Mary Sue Coleman - allows for colleges and universities to continue a...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

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...

Arbitrations, Unions, and Courts

The problem with the arbitration process, however, is that it can sometimes be lengthy and frustrating. This can be especially fru...

Advertising and the Use of Ebonics

blacks in the U.S. and the Caribbean alike (Everybodys: The Caribbean-American Magazine, 1998). Ebonics has invoked considerable ...

UK Tourism Marketing

to avoid placing a particular perspective on an area which may limit the potential. This means there is a need to attract a wide r...

Political Systems Comparison

coercion is prevalent (British Library, 2003). However, big business has become so big and capital has become so concentrated in f...

Do Not Call List Case Study Analysis

and would continue until March of 2004 (2004). Broward Circuit Judge Dorian Damoorgian made a summary judgment in respect to th...

Freedom of Speech and The United States v. Eichmann

because that is what provides the very essence of who we are as Americans. The United States v. Eichmann...