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Essays 301 - 330
The result is that laws can be interpreted in a variety of ways, depending on circumstances and depending on our place in history....
that she was much more responsive and seemed to be improving. Still not fully conscious, at times she would be able to "communica...
term traditionally begins the first Monday in October, and so final opinions are issued in late June (Mears, 2002). Justices divid...
regardless of any opposition from Agnes (the little girls mother), the connections that exist between the grandparents and child a...
Ginsburg has a certain way of drawing out the agitated masses when she has ruled in a particularly unpopular direction. Case in p...
end of November. In January 2003, they gave to the landlords agent (another tenant on the same property) a check for $700, which ...
caused within the United States poor communities speak to the ongoing issue of racial divide, with one of the most striking exampl...
his Masters from Harvard in 1950 (Barrett, 1995). Returning to Stanford for his law degree, Rehnquist graduated first in his clas...
B, however, would prove enduring and she would return to continue her education at the age of 13. In her childhood memoir, OConno...
are clearly in the minority. There seems to be less women taking judgeships in the high courts, even though there are increasing...
irritable (Wilson, 2003). Hes a not very likeable individual in Lewis book, but the point stands that according to the Constitutio...
and arbitrary. His critics notwithstanding, Jefferson set out and ultimately accomplished what no political leader had considered...
"right to remain silent unless he chooses to speak in the unfettered exercise of his own will" (384 U.S. 437). Miranda,...
equal access of students to educational benefits and opportunities, for "student-on-student" harassment?" (The Oyez Project, 2008)...
the arrestee might access the vehicle at the time of the search or that the vehicle contains evidence of the offense of arrest" (G...
not be "reasonably understood as describing actual facts...or actual events" (Hustler v. Falwell, 1988). But while the libel charg...
the founding fathers wrote have done so in an attempt at fairness. They have gone with what appeared to be the mainstream thinkin...
the offices of the Supreme Court. He was, however, just one more convicted criminal in a long list of criminals that was pleading...
(When Alzheimers Patients Fall in Love, 2007). In a USA Today article that further explored the John OConnor love affair,...
notes, do not abide by this same economic equation; in fact, their productivity versus ever-growing taxpayer-funded resources more...
question, as well as the basic rights of student athletes who are often governed under the auspices not just of schools but of ind...
or activity receiving federal financial assistance" (Kaplin & Lee, 2007). In particular, the case examines how this relates to gen...
On June 7, 1892, Homer Plessy was arrested for challenging Louisianas Separate Car Act in a deliberate act of civil disobedience a...
Policing today shares many similarities with policing of any particular era. At the same time...
of their respective families to go to college (Kagan, Elena, 2011). The only daughter sandwiched between two boys - both of whom ...
proceedings provides a means whereby any evidence that was obtained by law enforcement officers by violating the Fourth Amendment ...
Yoder, 406 U.S. 205, 92 S. Ct. 1526, 32 L. Ed. 2d 15 (1972) Statutes Religious Freedom Restoration Act, 42 U.S.C. 2000bb-1 Utah Co...
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...
whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction...
in society and in the courts. The failure to do so has allowed injustices and inequities that have persisted since the founding t...