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Workplace Sexual Harassment Court Decision Process

to the harassment, at least as it was defined in terms of the instances of sexual intercourse that had occurred on bank property. ...

The Supreme Court and Abortion

privacy within the Constitution (Supreme Court Cases 1965-1990, 2005). As such the court primarily inferred that the Constitution...

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...

Thomas Joe Miller El v. Janie Cockrell Supreme Court Opinion

DeMoss, Circuit Judge, 261 F.3d 445, should have been granted, based on the assertion that the petitioner showed adequate evidence...

Procedure and Criminal Law IV

do not always perfectly align, however. Though the police had the right to arrest Frank and they needed to respond to the worried...

The Implications and Impact of Eminent Domain

is expected to result in a greater benefit to the community as a whole, is not a violation of the Fifth Amendment of the Constitut...

Legal Cases that Change Society

considered right to life, as well as an individuals right to choose. The Court elected not to address the right to life issue, fo...

Kelo v. New London

before the New London Superior Court, asserting that the "taking of their properties would violate the public use restriction in t...

Argument against School Prayer and Religion in Public Schools

passing laws that say all students WILL pray in class that they run afoul of the Supreme Court. There are many solid reasons why ...

Evaluating the EEOC v. Steamship Clerks Union Case

court confused racial discrimination with nepotism (2004). Still, the court ordered the organization to change its admissions pol...

Oregon's Death with Dignity Act and the American Government

request, but may not require, the patient to notify their next-of-kin of the prescription request. A patient can rescind a request...

Making a Reparations Case

things are different. Africans were seized from their homes in Africa and brought to the United States for profit. The motive was ...

Supreme Court Case Adarand v. Pena

from the other direction. Some critics contend that affirmative action has had a crippling effect upon minority groups because of...

Wrongful Courtroom Decisions

In five pages this paper examines what happens when courts make the wrong decisions with the Supreme Court also considered. Three...

Supreme Court Ruling on Cedar Rapids Community School District v. Garret F.

In five pages the case in which the Supreme Court ruled that a school provided nurse should attend to a student dependent upon a v...

History of Minimum Wage, Supreme Court to Rule on ACA

in the current minimum wage of $7.25, which became effective on July 24, 2009 (WHD, 2011). This history is also characterized by t...

The Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin

This essay describes three Supreme Court cases, Bowers v. Hardwick, Lawrence v. Texas, and Bush v. Gore, which are described by To...

Lying by a Police Officer

This research paper/essay describes a scenario in which a police officer is shown to have lied. The writer hypothetically takes th...

A Landmark Event, Brown vs. Board of Education

This paper recounts the details associated with the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education and discusses why thi...

Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren

In twelve pages Earl Warren's life and role as Supreme Court Justice are discussed with a consideration of whether the President c...

Cain v. Department of Corrections Legal Brief

In five pages this legal brief sample involving a Michigan Supreme Court case is presented in a case overview with facts, issues, ...

Violent Video Games: Who Takes Responsibility

This 4 page paper gives an answer to the question of who is responsible for violent video games. This paper includes the Supreme C...

Canadian Supreme Court

In five pages this paper examines the Supreme Court of Canada in an overview of justice appointment in an analysis of 2 methods of...

Closed Chambers by Edward Lazarus

In five pages Lazarus's text on the Supreme Court is analyzed with such issues as capital punishment and desegregation discussed a...

Prayer at High School Football Games

In six pages the Supreme Court's decision to prohibit high school students leading public prayer prior to football games is examin...

Jim Crow's Emergence and Decline

The Jim Crow laws are examined in five pages in an overview of the 'separate but equal' 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court deci...

Supreme Court Case of North Carolina v. Alford

In fifteen pages this paper examines the criminal justice importance of this Supreme Court case and offers an appellate process ov...

Ferrill v Parker Group

Ferrill only the compensatory damages of $500 (Findlaw, 2007). This is considered just? The woman was hired on a temporary basis t...

The Case of Aaron B. Cooley v. Board of Wardens of the Port of Philadelphia Brief Examined

In six pages the brief of Aaron B. Cooley v. Board of Wardens of the Port of Philadelphia, to the Use of the Society for the Reli...

Sovereignty & An International Court

inadmissible if a case is already being handled by a state with jurisdiction, unless it is deemed that the state in question is "g...