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Powers of the President and Special Prosecutors

In four pages this research paper considers a hypothetical decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in an examination of a presidential ...

Plessy v. Ferguson and Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation

In five pages this paper discusses the problems associated with the Emancipation Proclamation and the U.S. Supreme Court Case of P...

Impact of Brown v. Board of Education

This paper consists of seven pages and discusses how despite the best intentions of the U.S. Supreme Court in this 1954 decision t...

Supreme Court Development and the Role of Justice John Marshall

In five pages this paper discusses Marbury v. Madison and the role played by Justice John Marshall in this consideration of how th...

Overview of the US Supreme Court Case United States v. Marion

process leading to the indictment, and that no issues of expediency were claimed regarding the time frame between the indictment a...

Roberts v. Louisiana and Mandatory Capital Punishment

In nine pages this paper examines mandatory capital punishment in a historical chronicle that includes Roberts v. Louisiana, the l...

Protection Offered by the Constitution

Few rights protected in the U.S. Constitution are harder to define and agree on than the right to free speech. This paper focuses ...

Legal Considerations Regarding Workplace Sexual Harassment II

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses workplace sexual harassment in various legal considerations featuring definition, r...

Avis and Racial Discrimination

In nine pages this paper discusses the racial discriminatory practices of Avis Rent A Car with landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases o...

The Effects of Litigation On Special Education

This paper addresses three US Supreme Court cases that led to legislation aiding handicapped and mentally-challenged students. Th...

Drug Testing and the Constitution

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

Reverse Discrimination Issues

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

2000 Presidential Election and the Case of Bush v. Gore

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...

The Lasting Implications of Miranda v Arizona

caused within the United States poor communities speak to the ongoing issue of racial divide, with one of the most striking exampl...

Widmar v. Vincent and Free Speech

an issue that directly impacted on Cornerstone, but could equally impact on any religious group wanting to use any public grounds,...

Legal Brief on United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians

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

Widmar v. Vincent

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

Educational Law, Cases, and Issues

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

Social Belief Systems and the Impact of Roe v. Wade

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

Workplace Obscene Language, Name Calling, and its Negative Impact

invite more personal discussions and verbal altercations are somewhat acceptable. Interestingly, on that show, a woman came on boa...

2004 Unborn Victims of Violence Act and its Impact

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...

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...

Legal Brief and Summary of Gideon v. Wainwright

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

Justice and Ethics

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

Restrictive Environment and Application of Social Impact Analysis III

In fifteen pages this continuation of two other papers includes the Cedar Rapids Community School District v. Garret F. U.S. Supre...

Criminal Profitability at the Victim's Expense

In eight pages victims rights and restricting a criminal from profiting off of crime and victimization is discussed in a considera...

Necessity of the US Bill of Rights According to William J. Brennan Jr.

Brennan, Jr. points out that it is only during the last forty or fifty years that the Bill of Rights has been enforced by the cour...

Comparison Between the Nigeria Election of 1993 and the United States Election of 2000

the deadline mandated by federal law. "That date is upon us, and there is no recount procedure in place under the state Supreme Co...

Declaration of Independence's Unfulfilled Promises

Thurgood Marshall, for example, minced no words about his feelings about the Declaration and the Constitution in his 1987 work, "A...

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...