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Case Briefs: Six Supreme Court Cases

"separate but equal" clause violate the rights of black indivudals under the Constitutions 13th and 14th Amendments? In light of ...

The Supreme Court Justice Nominee Review Process

It is not unusual for prospective candidates for Supreme Court Justice to be subjected to considerable criticism during the screen...

Biographical Profile of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan

of their respective families to go to college (Kagan, Elena, 2011). The only daughter sandwiched between two boys - both of whom ...

SUPREME COURT OF CANADA AND EXTRINSIC EVIDENCE

resort for all litigants" (Supreme Court of Canada). The jurisdiction involves the civil law of Quebec and common law of Canadas o...

The Supreme Court, Its Importance and Powers

is often called the "court of last resort," since it is the highest court in the nation. This paper considers how the court is str...

Supreme Court Cases, Pre-Miranda

This paper pertains to 2 pre-Miranda cases that address the issue of self-indiscriminaton. Three pages in length, two sources are ...

Retroactive Child Support Payments: Canadian Supreme Court

they separated, the father had custody for a time, but "the parties subsequently entered into an informal shared custody arrangeme...

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...

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 ...

The Supreme Court, Amicus Curiae, and Abortion

U.S. 173 (1991)), the ACLU filed a brief of amici curiae in conjunction with the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists,...

Supreme Court of Montana - State v. Kuntz

Sheriffs deputies arrived at the scene, Becker was dead, having sustained a single stab wound to the chest (State v. Kuntz, 2000)....

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

1914 Supreme Court Case of Weeks v. US

of Missouri and of the Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Pertinent to this petition, the cou...

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...

Abortion Position of the US Supreme Court from 1965 to 1992

to privacy within the Constitution (Supreme Court Cases 1965-1990, 2005). As such the court "inferred the existence of a zone of ...

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 ...

United States v. Eichmann Supreme Court Case

Texas statute criminalizing desecration of the flag and had provided the flag protection language for the Flag Protection Act of 1...

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...

Civil Rights, the Supreme Court, and the Administrations of Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon

which Brown was grounded rested "solely on the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution" (1977, p. 306). Warren also points out t...

Case Law and Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court

Although the right to public trial is protected under the due process clause, however, that protection is not absolute in that rea...

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...

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...

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 ...

The Brethren Inside the Supreme Court by Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong Summary and Analysis

public has never seen before or since. The major issues the Court wrestled with are considered in great detail, and include abort...