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Styles of Making Legal Decisions

who also figure prominently in the decision-making process by virtue of the arguments they offer for courts consideration and the ...

Opposition to Illegal Immigration Arguments

of fields. A few of these points are: * "Each year more than 1.3 million legal and illegal aliens settle permanently in the U.S. ...

U.S. Judicial System and Racial Minorities

as being subordinate to their white counterparts. This perceived image in the testing arena, where individuals are forced to perf...

Comparative Analysis of the Judicial Systems in the US and Libya

law of the land, rather than a superfluous document ("Judicial" ). Of course, Libya does have a Constitution, but it is seemingly ...

Judicial Misconduct Judged

decisions, Massachusetts Judge Maria I. Lopez was formally charged with six counts of judicial misconduct in August of 2002 in ord...

Juvenile Court System and Sentencing

(Overview, 2004). The age of majority, that is, the age at which the defendant is considered an adult differs from state to state....

Case Disposition and Drug Offenders

of drug case is processed across the state (OSCA, 2004). For instance, a drug offender might be assigned to a treatment program du...

The Boy Scouts of America

have ended their programs with the Scouts: the "Los Angeles City Council asked all city departments to review their relationships ...

Peremptory Judicial Challenge and Racial Minorities

exclusively white legal society (Scherer 655). Political scientist Samuel Krislov agrees, adding that minority jurists reflect mi...

Texas and Wisconsin Judicial and Constitutional Structures

states and joining the Union. One of the features of the United States government is that individuals can disagree yet stil...

Courts and Leases' Interpretations

was noted that the tenant did not comply with the original terms of the contract in that he was expected to notify the landlord th...

Political Structure of the State of Texas

Governors and Lieutenant Governors serve for two-year terms. The main purpose of this branch is to help enforce rules, regulations...

EU and UK Law, the Individual, and Judicial Review

unfavourable verdict. However, this is not the only time when a review is sought. It should also be noted that in theory...

The Positive and Negative elements Within the US Government

This 6 page paper gives an overview of a few aspects of the US Government. This paper includes the pros and cons of The Constituti...

Alternatives and Assessment in a Judicial Review Case

and potential use of judicial review, and then at how it can be applied as well as the potential defences that may be cited by the...

Internet and the US Supreme Court

and useful information about the Supreme Court, and how it is both dealing with and using the Internet. Recent Court Cases ...

Defining Judicial Review Throughout History

civil and criminal courts, all lawsuits were treated as civil suits (Long). The victim prosecuted the case rather than any legal r...

Consideration of Medical Negligence

In ten pages medical negligence is considered with such cases as 1957's Bolam v. Friern HMC and 1997's Bolitho v. Hackney HA refer...

Patient Choice and Medical Negligence

mechanism it can be expected that this shift in the accountability and transparency needs to be indicates within case law. It can...

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...

Education and Religion Judicial Opinion

her endeavor to specialize in this sort of journalism. At the same time, there is no requirement for a journalist--even one specia...

New Nation of America and its Founding Documents

official title of the document was unanimously passed on July 2, 1776, signed on July 4, 1776 with an official proclamation made i...

Walker's Battered Women Syndrome and the Frye Rule

be categorised as admissible once it is seen as "generally acceptable" in its field. As Grossman points out, however, since the co...

UK Private and Public Bodies and Administrative Law

a significant distrust of administrators appropriating legal functions, and a prevailing attitude that administrators should be su...

Book Review of Child Victims Crime, Impact, and Criminal Justice

by many experts to be a "breakthrough" book - for the most part, while studies of victimization of adults of crime have been print...

U.S. and UK on Lifting the Corporate Veil

is where there has to prevent fraud or where there is a parent company that controls and dominates their subsidiary company. It wa...

The Jury Disorder in the Courts by Stephen J. Adler

reasons, of course, often based on stereotypes of race, gender, age or income that lead them to believe a particular candidate wil...

James McPherson's 'An Act of Prostitution'

discipline, and demonstrates the ambiguities and inadequacies within the structure of the system. The idea that the law is depende...

1803's Marbury v. Madison

and his Republicans had just defeated Adams and the Federalists in the 1800 elections" (pp. 400). As a result, a political battleg...

English Law and Corporate Veil Lifting

was the first time there was a real definition of the relationship between a parent company and its subsidiaries. This may clari...