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Samuel Nelson's Contributions to the US Supreme Court

In six pages this paper presents a biographical profile of Samuel Nelson, a nineteenth century US Supreme Court Justice and also c...

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....

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...

Christine Busalacchi and Euthanasia

that she was much more responsive and seemed to be improving. Still not fully conscious, at times she would be able to "communica...

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...

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...

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...

Conservative Response to Roe v. Wade

threatening the life of the mother. After much deliberation and extreme media frenzy, Roe won her suit of right to privacy stati...

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 ...

Overview of the 1857 Dred Scott U.S. Supreme Court Decision

in his 1859 examination of the case points out that the US Supreme Court in hearing this case was also concerned with issues of co...

U.S. Supreme Court and Its Power

Ginsburg has a certain way of drawing out the agitated masses when she has ruled in a particularly unpopular direction. Case in p...

Life and Career of Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

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

Victoria Supreme Court Case of Parish v Smyrnos

door bell ring at an early hour, that she looked outside and saw a naked man with an erect penis (2003). She was frightened. This...

An Examination of The Fourth Amendment

restroom ("New Jersey," 2004). When one of the girls was told by administrators to empty her purse, she complied, but marijuana w...

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...

Marbury v. Madison and the US Supreme Court's Jurisdiction Justification

tended to avoid controversy in the early days. That is, until Chief John Marshall became the chief justice of the Supreme Court. I...

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...

The Hearsay Rule

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

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...

Sexual Mimicry and its Behavioral and Physiological Elements

between gender-specific characteristics and the process by which animals pursued beneficial reproductive dynamics. Theorists have...

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...

How Cases Get to the United States Supreme Court

(i.e., if this court upholds the original ruling), then the party has still another option: requesting that the case go to the Su...

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...

Supreme Court Decision Making and the U.S. Constitution

did not take the same stance as Olsen, commenting that the First Amendments free exercise of religion guarantee "does not require ...

Widmar v. Vincent and Free Speech

an issue that directly impacted on Cornerstone, but could equally impact on any religious group wanting to use any public grounds,...

Evaluating the EEOC v. Steamship Clerks Union Case

court confused racial discrimination with nepotism (2004). Still, the court ordered the organization to change its admissions pol...

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 ...

Proper and Improper Methods of Interrogation by Law Enforcement

the police, he or she is often under the hot seat, and the problem is that without rules, police can and do try anything to get in...

Weber's Law Function and Roe v. Wade

she wants with her own body. Further, the law is based on religious notions, or notions that go to personal belief. Essentially, ...