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tended to avoid controversy in the early days. That is, until Chief John Marshall became the chief justice of the Supreme Court. I...

Ginsburg has a certain way of drawing out the agitated masses when she has ruled in a particularly unpopular direction. Case in p...

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

threatening the life of the mother. After much deliberation and extreme media frenzy, Roe won her suit of right to privacy stati...

and useful information about the Supreme Court, and how it is both dealing with and using the Internet. Recent Court Cases ...

in his 1859 examination of the case points out that the US Supreme Court in hearing this case was also concerned with issues of co...

(i.e., if this court upholds the original ruling), then the party has still another option: requesting that the case go to the Su...

legal status to the embryo, fetus or fertilized egg, and it may be enforced even in the case when the woman did not know of the pr...

Long-term solutions carry "higher personal risks and an intangible measure of worth" (Schafer, 2002; p. 14). 2. Utilitarianism A....

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

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

she wants with her own body. Further, the law is based on religious notions, or notions that go to personal belief. Essentially, ...

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

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...

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

should be awarded the equivalent of funds equal to the obligation from 1877 through the present plus interest. That is exactly wha...

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

law and serve as final interpreters of that law. Our concept of the United States, of course, is inextractibly tied with th...

forma pauperis, which means that the usual fees for filing such a petition were waived. Issue The question before the Court in G...

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

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

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

This case involves the rights of a registered student religious group to use the facilities of the University of Missouri, facilit...

did not take the same stance as Olsen, commenting that the First Amendments free exercise of religion guarantee "does not require ...

to the equal protection claus of the fourteenth amendment. The case interpreted the amendment to be universal so that it should al...

Because winning the state of Florida at that point of the game would determine who the next president would be, it was clearly a t...

exposure to various legal liabilities. They help in documenting, the fair and equal treatment required by federal laws while prese...

that the Framers of the Constitution did not intend for the Bill of Rights to do so. Roughly 150 years later, Chief Justice Rehnqu...

Constitutional, and whether or not employers and school superintendents will be barred from implementing drug testing remains to b...

right to work doctrine is not necessarily the rule of employment. For instance, in Texas, an employee challenged her employers man...