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Habeas Corpus

to a hearing by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal. At such hearings, evidence is presented that the detainee should be considered...

Search Consent

Mr. Randolphs absence, after the police arrived Mrs. Randolph told the police "that her husband was a cocaine user whose habit had...

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...

Constitution of the United States and its Structure

signers of the Constitution that everyone becomes involved with the political process; otherwise, to say that it was truly a democ...

The Rights of Women Seen in the Decisions of the Supreme Court

Second World War, the ongoing reluctance was seen, in the case of Tileston v Ullman 318 US 44 (1943) a doctor brought a case on be...

The US Supreme Court: An Overview of Powers

document of the United States of America and outlines the various rights and privileges that are guaranteed to citizens of the cou...

US Supreme Court and its Power

the government to an extent. They must abide by local and national laws. Yet, sometimes these laws are deemed unconstitutional by ...

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...

Re-Assessing Miranda Rights

This paper examines the US Supreme Court case of United States v Dickerson, as marking a return of Miranda issues to the highest c...

2000 Santa Fe Independent School District v. DOE

This US Supreme Court case is the focus of this argument, findings, and final decision overview in five pages. There are no other...

US v Ray 502 US 164 (1991)

In five pages this US Supreme Court case is the focus of this overview that includes facts, procedure, issue, holding, and rationa...

Brook Thomas' Edited Text Plessy v Ferguson A Brief History with Documents

In three pages this paper provides a history and general overview of this landmark case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court as prese...

Educational Expenses Deductibility and the Impact of the U.S. Supreme Court

deduction. Although homeschoolers deem the situation unfair as many families give up a second income for the ability to start the ...

Brown v. Board of Education and its Importance

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

"Oregon v. Smith, et al"

Oregon for a determination of whether or not the use of peyote in church sacraments "is proscribed by the States controlled substa...

U.S. Supreme Court Case Marbury v. Madison

In five pages this research paper considers the history and importance of the U.S. Supreme Court's Marbury v. Madison decision. E...

Individual Rights Usurped by the U.S. Supreme Court

generally supports freedom of speech, the current conservative move is to protect children from pornography and foul language on t...

Anthony Lewis's Gideon's Trumpet

how a previously made poor decision reached by the Supreme Court was ultimately corrected with the Gideon case. Contents : Chapt...

Campaign Finance Issues and the US Supreme Court

a negative concept, the idea of proposing limits based upon monetary consumption is a direct violation of the democratic system up...

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Her Life and Career

Court in August of 1993 by a Senate vote of ninety-seven to three (Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg). Indeed, it can e...

U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment

In five pages this paper discusses how the 14th Amendment has been interpreted by the Supreme Court. Five sources are cited in th...

Plessy v. Ferguson, an Overview

This paper presents a synopsis of Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court case that institutionalized racial segregation in the...

Rehabilitation Versus Court

This 5 page papver gives an overview of restorative justice practices worldwide. This paper includes the feelings of victims as we...

A Case Involving the Pregnant Discrimination Act

Discrimination Act (PDA) of 1978 amends Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in order to "prohibit sex discrimination on the ...

Effectiveness/Judges and Justices

are the prominent and well-known judges in the criminal justice system of the United States, they are not precisely typical, as fe...

Civil Rights and Hugo Black

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

Relationship Between the Judiciary and Gerald Ford

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

Private Commerce and Criminal Justice Productivity Measures

notes, do not abide by this same economic equation; in fact, their productivity versus ever-growing taxpayer-funded resources more...

VERMONT YANKEE NUCLEAR POWER V NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL

agency to follow. The court didnt actually order the agency to follow specific procedures, however, the "mandate of the courts de...

3 Law Questions

and arbitrary. His critics notwithstanding, Jefferson set out and ultimately accomplished what no political leader had considered...