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U.S. Supreme Court Case of Troxel v. Granville

regardless of any opposition from Agnes (the little girls mother), the connections that exist between the grandparents and child a...

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...

Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court Nomination

In ten pages this paper examines the controversy surrounding the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the US Supreme Court. Eight sou...

The 1966 Miranda v Arizona Case and Civil Rights

This paper analyzes this US Supreme Court case in terms of its lasting significance and impact upon criminal defendants' civil and...

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...

Reverse Discrimination and Regents of University of California v. Bakke

history of slavery alone but also that a whole people were marked as inferior by the law. And that mark has endured. The dream o...

Discussion of U.S. Supreme Court Cases with Controversial Issues

This single, historic decision brought forth a great many opportunities for each state to recognize the importance of allowing peo...

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Sexual Harassment

In five pages this paper presents the history of a sexual harassment case that was heard by the U.S. Supreme Court and discusses w...

4th Amendment Rights and the Practice of Search and Seizure

In ten pages this paper discusses the rights guaranteed by the 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution in terms of search and seizu...

Tolerance, Freedom of Speech, and J.S. Mill

in his views. Freedom of speech should be given precedent over the reaction which that speech may cause. This precept has been u...

Precedents of the U.S. Supreme Court and Free Speech

In five pages this paper examines how the 14th Amendment's free speech provisions affects symbolic acts in case considerations of ...

Political Questions

U.S. Constitution makes the President, a civilian leader, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Navy and Militia. While the Presiden...

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 ...

Educational Law, Cases, and Issues

school district and some question as to whether the deletion of information resulted in a violation of student rights. The United...

John Roberts' U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Battle

on the bench, he needs a majority vote in the Senate. Therefore, his views are very important. Based on past decisions and stateme...

Social Belief Systems and the Impact of Roe v. Wade

disingenuous. Yet, that is a valid view. Some people believe that abortion is not good. It is not healthy and impinges on some rel...

Chief Justice John Marshall's Supreme Court Influence

found in the Constitution are specific and straightforward as well; however, many are not ("Marbury," 1992). Much is up to the cou...

Workplace Obscene Language, Name Calling, and its Negative Impact

invite more personal discussions and verbal altercations are somewhat acceptable. Interestingly, on that show, a woman came on boa...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Stevens' Philosophy

in a firm that specialized in antitrust lawsuits ("John Paul Stevens," 2006). In 1970, Stevens was appointed by President Nixon to...

Brown v. Board of Education Summarized

In another case, heard twelve years later, the Supreme Court it approved a Mississippi statue that had required segregation on int...

Gathering Evidence, Ethics, and US Supreme Court Guidelines

common citizen. Homes warned of certain demise if this was not the case and observed the value of our government as a teacher, a ...

Representation and US Voting Rights

the Florida recount), the Court ruled that the "individual citizen . . . has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors ...

Miranda v Arizona, Implications for Law Enforcement

system of checks and balances in the national government the framers divided the duties of the government into three sections. Th...

U.S. Supreme Court Decision of Miranda v. Arizona

right to remain silent until he had secured legal counsel (Skene, 1991). Citing the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, whi...

Comparison of Obscenity

Tin Drum, was a co-winner of the Cannes Film Festivals coveted prize, the Palme dOr, for Best Picture in 1979, and the next year, ...

John Marshall, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

also very supportive of business and the emerging American market economy 8. Marshall was outspoken against those who believed in...

Conservative and Liberal U.S. Supreme Court Cases

Chicago vs. Jesus Morales; Palmer vs City of Euclid, Ohio and Connecticut Department of Public Safety vs. Doe. All three of these ...

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...