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Higher Education in the Supreme Court

question, as well as the basic rights of student athletes who are often governed under the auspices not just of schools but of ind...

Institutions of Higher Learning and the Supreme Court

or activity receiving federal financial assistance" (Kaplin & Lee, 2007). In particular, the case examines how this relates to gen...

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 ...

In the Utah Supreme Court: A Brief

Yoder, 406 U.S. 205, 92 S. Ct. 1526, 32 L. Ed. 2d 15 (1972) Statutes Religious Freedom Restoration Act, 42 U.S.C. 2000bb-1 Utah Co...

Twenty First Century Policing

Policing today shares many similarities with policing of any particular era. At the same time...

Gun Control Laws in Washington DC

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24th AMENDMENT

very Amendment. As such, the Court unanimously agreed people were not to be penalized for opting in favor of what was already the...

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 ...

Ricci v. Stefano and Diversity

of individual who passed the examination and qualified for promotions" (Mereau, 2009). Epstein (2009) points out that the city o...

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...

Legal Representation as Depicted in the Book by Anthony Lewis? ?

the offices of the Supreme Court. He was, however, just one more convicted criminal in a long list of criminals that was pleading...

Analyzing the Fourth Amendment

persons or things to be seized." This is very specific as to what can be done, what is needed to get permission to conduct a searc...

Improving America's Democratic Government

in society and in the courts. The failure to do so has allowed injustices and inequities that have persisted since the founding t...

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...

Analysis: Alabama v. White

"indica of reliability" under Adams v. Williams, 407 U. S. 143, 407 U. S. 147, and also for totality of the evidence under Illinoi...

Should Juveniles be Sentenced to Death?

The death penalty has consequently been in and...

Drug Testing Pregnant Women Without Their Permission

University of South Carolina (MUSC), in cooperation with the city of Charleston, established a policy that enabled the city to pro...

Our Freedoms and the First Amendment

The First Amendment to the US Constitution has played a...

Arguing Against Nurses Participating in the Death of Patients and the Christine Busalacchi Case

Rural Nurses, represented by registered nurse and practicing attorney Jacqulyn Hall, filed an amici curiae (friends of the court) ...

Korematsu v. United States and an Assessment of the Patriot Act

them to the most rigid scrutiny. Pressing public necessity may sometimes justify the existence of such restrictions; racial antago...

'Arbitrary' Capital Punishment?

in todays society, the very foundation upon which it was originally created - to dissuade deviant social behavior - has continued ...

Legality of Searching Public Schools at Random

in-hand information. The second level addresses the reasonableness of the search itself and the methods used to conduct the search...

Equal Protection Clause Application and Different Approaches

according to this position. At the same time, homosexuals argue that they should receive protection because their lifestyle is dif...

Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education

equal access of students to educational benefits and opportunities, for "student-on-student" harassment?" (The Oyez Project, 2008)...

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)....

The Supreme Court and the Fourth Amendment

the arrestee might access the vehicle at the time of the search or that the vehicle contains evidence of the offense of arrest" (G...

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...

3 Law Questions

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

Issues Facing the Police Administrator in Community Policing

"right to remain silent unless he chooses to speak in the unfettered exercise of his own will" (384 U.S. 437). Miranda,...

U.S. Soft, Military, and Economic Power

the Iranian hostage crisis. We survived the Cold War and witnessed the dissolution of the Soviet Union and today we are engaged i...