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

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

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

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

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

law and serve as final interpreters of that law. Our concept of the United States, of course, is inextractibly tied with th...

forma pauperis, which means that the usual fees for filing such a petition were waived. Issue The question before the Court in G...

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

should be awarded the equivalent of funds equal to the obligation from 1877 through the present plus interest. That is exactly wha...

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...

B, however, would prove enduring and she would return to continue her education at the age of 13. In her childhood memoir, OConno...

States had boundaries over which he was not permitted to cross. This, however, was not immediately evident when Truman "ordered s...

A grade. However, after this grade was awarded there were complaints from parents to the school principle; Principle Skinner. Foll...

schools were deemed unconstitutional (1990). The ruling was followed in 1955 with a court order that mandated desegregation of th...

initiated a process of change that cannot be abandoned. In the Short-Term Dougherty (2002) explains that the case was based on t...

Marx would say that the world is reduced to work for hire with no creativity. Durkheim would say that the world was reduced to not...

which to base her arguments in favor of abortion rights. The question on which the case rested was whether a woman had the...

concept refers to the rights of businesses to advertise in any manner that is not in opposition to laws requiring truth in adverti...

consider how the separation of the powers may be seen as developing in Canada as the system under which the Supreme court operates...

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

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...

Constitutional, and whether or not employers and school superintendents will be barred from implementing drug testing remains to b...

that the Framers of the Constitution did not intend for the Bill of Rights to do so. Roughly 150 years later, Chief Justice Rehnqu...

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

members completely and accept without challenge - has indeed proven to be one of the most powerful standards of our culture and th...

or liberal justice can change the odds of Roe v. Wade being overturned, for example. While many presidents have had to make the im...

right to work doctrine is not necessarily the rule of employment. For instance, in Texas, an employee challenged her employers man...