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Supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action in the Area of Higher Education

continue acting as though they are contributing to a more racially diversified academic community, when in reality they are really...

Campaign Reform Bill and the Opposition of the American Civil Liberties Union

Campaign Reform Act of 2002, n.d.). The sponsors of the bill were John McCain (R-AZ), Russell Feingold (D-WS), Christopher Shays...

Was the 2000 Presidential Election Stolen by George W. Bush?

term traditionally begins the first Monday in October, and so final opinions are issued in late June (Mears, 2002). Justices divid...

Pertinent Issues in First Amendment Law

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

4th Amendment and Thermal Imaging Technology Search Reasonableness

lack of narrow definition. It was not until 1967 in Katz v. United States (389 U.S. 347 (1967)) that the Supreme Court arrived at...

Civil Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Administrations of Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon

which Brown was grounded rested "solely on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution" (1977, p. 306). Warren also points out t...

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...

Pledge of Allegiance and the U.S. Supreme Court

lawsuit was filed in 2000, but failed to draw any media attention until a Ninth Circuit Court panel handed down a 2-1 ruling in Ju...

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...

Justice and Ethics II

it is likely that he is carrying a significant amount. If he reaches his destination in no worse physical condition than that whi...

Abortion Position of the US Supreme Court from 1965 to 1992

to privacy within the Constitution (Supreme Court Cases 1965-1990, 2005). As such the court "inferred the existence of a zone of ...

Child Spanking and Canadian Law

found. First Reason The first reason for objecting to spanking is that the line between it and child abuse can become blurred. ...

An Ethics Case Study

This paper consists of 3 pages and involves a student supplied case study in which the best friend of the President of the United ...

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...

Court Administration Issues

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

Thomas Joe Miller El v. Janie Cockrell Supreme Court Opinion

DeMoss, Circuit Judge, 261 F.3d 445, should have been granted, based on the assertion that the petitioner showed adequate evidence...

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...

John Marshall, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

also very supportive of business and the emerging American market economy 8. Marshall was outspoken against those who believed in...

Overview of the Case Korematsu v. United States

In five pages this essay discusses this controversial case in an overview that also examines a previous Japanese American curfew d...

Parties Cannot Allege Malpractice if Insurance Refuses to Pay 'Justices Restrict Right to Sue HMO'

separate Texas lawsuits where insured parties had sued their HMO for failure to provide procedures or care recommended by their ph...

Social Change and the U.S. Supreme Court

specific aspect from being overlooked. However, all the people do not adopt this perspective, inasmuch as Ginsburg has a certain ...

UK State and Healthcare Law

If we look at the situation historically the state has not always involved itself in healthcare. At the begiunnig of the twentyith...

Analyzing the Fourth Amendment

persons or things to be seized." This is very specific as to what can be done, what is needed to get permission to conduct a searc...

Analysis: Alabama v. White

"indica of reliability" under Adams v. Williams, 407 U. S. 143, 407 U. S. 147, and also for totality of the evidence under Illinoi...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Black Rights

whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction...

Improving America's Democratic Government

in society and in the courts. The failure to do so has allowed injustices and inequities that have persisted since the founding t...

Should Juveniles be Sentenced to Death?

The death penalty has consequently been in and...

24th AMENDMENT

very Amendment. As such, the Court unanimously agreed people were not to be penalized for opting in favor of what was already the...

Drug Testing Pregnant Women Without Their Permission

University of South Carolina (MUSC), in cooperation with the city of Charleston, established a policy that enabled the city to pro...