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Decision Making, Politics, and Public Policy

In seven pages this paper examines the roles of the Supreme Court, the president, and the significance of public interest groups i...

Supreme Court Case of Casey v. Planned Parenthood

In six pages this Supreme Court decision and its ramifications are examined. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

Supreme Court Cases in Canada and Marriage Breakdown and Evolution

to determine when deciding whether or not economic contribution had any bearing on equitable distribution. As it turns out, the r...

New York Times Co. v. United States

free press, and that dissent is a vital, healthy and necessary part of citizenship-even during wartime. Introduction We have...

Questions from "Gideon's Trumpet"

counsel. In fact "The United States Supreme Court had not said he was entitled to counsel; in Betts v. Brady and succeeding...

Business Issues in the Music Industry

acquired by larger companies seeking to grow through that route. Traditional retailers have blamed Internet retailers, piracy and...

Assisted Suicide and Cruzan v. Harmon

Legal responsibility, government boundaries, and the Cruzan v. Harmon Supreme Court decision on legalizing physician assisted suic...

The Miranda v Arizona Case, Due Process, and Miranda Rights

with empirical studies. But interest in the subject quickly waned, and research in the last couple of decades has been virtually n...

New Jersey and New York Supreme Courts Compared

Decisions of New Jersey and New York Supreme Courts are compared in a paper that consists of five pages. Seven sources are cited ...

Antitrust Case of Microsoft and a Supreme Court Judge's Opinion

God-like, Bill Gates stands on the top of the highest monetary mountain. However, the Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Offi...

Free Speech Issues Delegated by the Warren, Burger, and Rehnquist Courts

This paper examines First Amendment cases seen by The Supreme Court under different Chief Justices. This five page paper has one ...

Effective Weapon of Nonviolence and Martin Luther King Jr.

In five pages this paper examines the factors that fueled the civil rights movement including 'Jim Crow' laws and the Supreme Cour...

A Consideration of the 14th Amendment

In 5 pages this paper discusses the purpose and subsequent Supreme Court decisions that affected this Amendment. There are 5 bibl...

Supreme Court Case of the State of Florida v. J.L.

In one page this Supreme Court case is examined in terms of the 14th Amendment and state sovereign rights regarding citizen protec...

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)....

'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...

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...

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...

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) ...

Comparison Between a Preliminary Case and One Decided by California's Supreme Court

In five pages this paper examines how a similar judgment in a preliminary case regarding liability in a shopping center parking lo...

Salting as Defined and Practiced

treated as employees at the companies for which they had applied (Baskin PG). Other courts were split on the issue and so the Supr...

Cultural Climate of the Period and the Dred Scott Decision

even if the federal government could buy the slaves, the freed slaves could not be turned into citizens without an amendment to th...

Supreme Court Justice Appointments and the 2000 Election

In five pages this report discusses how Presidents can influence constitutional law interpretation through Supreme Court justice a...

Court Administration Issues

family reasons (United States: Rehnquists legacy, 2005). If either of these justices retire, the country, President George W. Bush...

Child Spanking and Canadian Law

found. First Reason The first reason for objecting to spanking is that the line between it and child abuse can become blurred. ...

Brown v. Board of Education and Societal Prejudice in the Law and in Cartoons

Hundreds of cartoons were generated in response to Brown v. Board of Education. Many of them have made their way to the World Wid...

A Court Divided by Tushnet

does suggest that, like a game of chess, the future of he state is to some extent contingent on who is president. Depending upon t...

Law and Crime Scene Investigation

blood to Clyde Stevens. On the basis of this and associated evidence from the Stevens and Ellis residences, an arrest warrant is i...

Summary of the Case of Employment Division v. Smith

and two only ("Employment Division, Ore. Dept.," 1990). They did not concur with the judgment and Blackmum as a result filed a dis...