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

In another case, heard twelve years later, the Supreme Court it approved a Mississippi statue that had required segregation on int...

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

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

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...

the Florida recount), the Court ruled that the "individual citizen . . . has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors ...

Sheriffs deputies arrived at the scene, Becker was dead, having sustained a single stab wound to the chest (State v. Kuntz, 2000)....

system of checks and balances in the national government the framers divided the duties of the government into three sections. Th...

Tin Drum, was a co-winner of the Cannes Film Festivals coveted prize, the Palme dOr, for Best Picture in 1979, and the next year, ...

This paper presents a synopsis of Plessy v. Ferguson, the U.S. Supreme Court case that institutionalized racial segregation in the...

This paper summarizes Fourth Amendment rights and focuses on the Supreme Court case of Payton v. New York. Four pages in length, f...

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...

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. ...

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

(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...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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...

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

found in the Constitution are specific and straightforward as well; however, many are not ("Marbury," 1992). Much is up to the cou...

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