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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...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

talks of having a bobcat and javelinas as pets (Marie, 1985). She rode horseback and even learned to drive a car by the age of se...

William H. Rehnquist, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice

his Masters from Harvard in 1950 (Barrett, 1995). Returning to Stanford for his law degree, Rehnquist graduated first in his clas...

Court Appointments as a Means of Altering Policy

The result is that laws can be interpreted in a variety of ways, depending on circumstances and depending on our place in history....

Campaign Reform Bill and the Opposition of the American Civil Liberties Union

Campaign Reform Act of 2002, n.d.). The sponsors of the bill were John McCain (R-AZ), Russell Feingold (D-WS), Christopher Shays...

U.S. Supreme Court and Its Power

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

Life and Career of Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor

B, however, would prove enduring and she would return to continue her education at the age of 13. In her childhood memoir, OConno...

Internet and the US Supreme Court

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

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...

Abortion Position of the US Supreme Court from 1965 to 1992

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

Parties Cannot Allege Malpractice if Insurance Refuses to Pay 'Justices Restrict Right to Sue HMO'

separate Texas lawsuits where insured parties had sued their HMO for failure to provide procedures or care recommended by their ph...

Social Change and the U.S. Supreme Court

specific aspect from being overlooked. However, all the people do not adopt this perspective, inasmuch as Ginsburg has a certain ...

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...

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...

Court Administration Issues

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

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...

John Roberts' U.S. Supreme Court Confirmation Battle

on the bench, he needs a majority vote in the Senate. Therefore, his views are very important. Based on past decisions and stateme...

'Arbitrary' Capital Punishment?

in todays society, the very foundation upon which it was originally created - to dissuade deviant social behavior - has continued ...

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) ...

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...

Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court Nomination

In ten pages this paper examines the controversy surrounding the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the US Supreme Court. Eight sou...

Interstate Commerce and the Opinion of a U.S. Supreme Court Justice

lines. "Its no secret that criminals and minors will do the easiest thing they can in order to get guns" (Vertuno PG). The...

Quebec and Secession from Canada

if in fact a majority of Quebec residents wanted to secede, the prime minister and premiers were obligated to negotiate Quebecs in...

78 in The Federalist Papers and Alexander Hamilton

This paper analyzes no. 78 in seven pages in regards to Hamilton's contention that the Supreme Court needs a permanent appointment...

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...

A Matter of Interpretation Federal Courts and the Law by Antonin Scalia

in the US. Glendon says that it no longer seems to limit even judges in the civil law tradition. Tribe and Dworkin argue that to i...

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...

Socioeconomic Factors in the Arizona Orphan Abduction Case

The influential socioeconomic factors regarding the Arizona Orphan Abduction case are examined in 5 pages with the court's evaluat...

Reform of the U.S. Supreme Court

In five pages this paper discusses reforming the U.S. Supreme Court in terms of habeas corpus. Two sources are cited in the bibli...

Reforming the British House of Lords

level of representation within the House have persisted as matters for debate and legislation for so long, it is helpful to consid...