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Workplace, Sexual Harassment, Legal Issues, and the U.S. Supreme Court

as the accused, and also how due process is factored into the complex equation. Sexual harassment is regarded as a violation of t...

The Lasting Implications of Miranda v Arizona

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

4 Types of Legal Issues

only non-identifying information about the other person, such as physical descriptions, age, basic medical data, hobbies, and such...

Race and Emotional Distress in the Workplace

racial supremacy destroyed the theoretical underpinnings of American racism (20). This is a nice thought, but while things have ch...

Tennessee Eviction Proceedings

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

Human Resource Case Study on Micronics Technology

dependent upon Carol having dinner with Buddy, the supervisor. It is also a hostile environment case because Buddy touches her, re...

Can Recovered Memories and Eyewitness Testimony Be Trusted?

Men and women are being accused, tried, and convicted with no proof or evidence of guilt other than the word of the accuser" (Loft...

A Legal Courtroom Visit

the description of the room itself and the way the people orient to that room. There is, for example, the distinct separation of ...

Drug Testing and the Constitution

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

Legal Business Meaning of Copyright

creator to profit from his creation for 28 years, but after that become the property of the public. "That way we would never end ...

Liability Issues and UK Internet Service Providers

v Demon (1999), where it was the principles of a former case Bynre v Deane (1937) that were applied, where there was a direct comp...

Can the War on Drugs be Won?

to further global policies under the guise of another name; global policies which would never have been supported by the American ...

General Motors v. Romein Analysis

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...

Discussion of Brown v. Board of Education

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

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...

Supreme Court and Commercial Speech Issues

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

Tobacco Wars and Marketing

of gray in this matter. Motorcycles are for example are more dangerous than automobiles but are sold and advertised anyway. McDona...

Transsexuals and Their Legal Rights

of surgery (Deardorff, 2002). In fact, there is little protection for transsexuals in terms of laws or government intervention:...

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...

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...

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...

Racial Issues and the Cases of Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger

a "tremendous victory" (Peterson, 2003) by U of Ms President Mary Sue Coleman - allows for colleges and universities to continue a...

Forensic Science at Work

of minute DNA details an invasion of privacy on the most cellular level and has overtones of Big Brother written all over it, acco...

College Newspaper Funds Control

a right to regulate its business operations (2004). Still, the college is not allowed to control content (2004). A third type of n...

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...

Balistreri v. Nevada Livestock - A Legal Brief

the form of the parents Petaluma residence. * Respondent requested that the parents execute a deed of trust on their home. The pa...

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...

John Kerry v. George W. Bush's Views on the Supreme Court Contrasted

of Bush and Kerry are intimately aware, of course, that the judicial branch can override both the President and Congress. They ar...

Capital Punishment and Donald P. Roper v. Christopher Simmons

death (2004). While evidentiary rules are not pertinent here in terms of the guilt of the defendant, evidence is pertinent in resp...

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 ...