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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....

Can Recovered Memories and Eyewitness Testimony Be Trusted?

Men and women are being accused, tried, and convicted with no proof or evidence of guilt other than the word of the accuser" (Loft...

Recommendations of Lord Justice Auld on Oral Evidence in Court

in a trial. These have all received a high level of coverage in the press. However, one of the lesser considered areas has been th...

English Law and Self Defense

may be seen in cases where there is domestic violence and gender differences come to the fore. Fighting back immediately is likely...

Hamlet and Psychoanalysis

the circumstances at an emotional level. His mother Gertrude married Claudius less than a month after the murder. Although Hamle...

Workplace, Sexual Harassment, Legal Issues, and the U.S. Supreme Court

as the accused, and also how due process is factored into the complex equation. Sexual harassment is regarded as a violation of t...

Authority in Thomas More's Utopia and Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince

who studied the conditions of power, political struggle, and warfare. As such, we note that this is where his authority stems from...

Basic Human Rights Undermined by the Human Rights Act of 1998's Margin of Appreciation

may be seen as conflicting. However, the effectiveness of the Act given by the margin of appreciation may be argued to undermine 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...

4 Types of Legal Issues

only non-identifying information about the other person, such as physical descriptions, age, basic medical data, hobbies, and such...

Lawmaking and the ECJ

House of Lords, where there is the ability for input before the law is passed. This is seen as reducing the ambiguity, and also co...

Judge Interpretation of the 1967 Abortion Act and the Royal College of Nursing of the United Kingdom v DHSS (1981) Case

Radioactive Substances Act 1948, section 3 (1) (a), the Therapeutic Substances Act 1956, section 9 (1) (a); the Drugs (Prevention...

Race and Emotional Distress in the Workplace

racial supremacy destroyed the theoretical underpinnings of American racism (20). This is a nice thought, but while things have ch...

Tennessee Eviction Proceedings

end of November. In January 2003, they gave to the landlords agent (another tenant on the same property) a check for $700, which ...

Supreme Court and Commercial Speech Issues

concept refers to the rights of businesses to advertise in any manner that is not in opposition to laws requiring truth in adverti...

Tobacco Wars and Marketing

of gray in this matter. Motorcycles are for example are more dangerous than automobiles but are sold and advertised anyway. McDona...

Dynamic v. Constrained Court Debate

he was not willing to create an entirely separate distinction for the law books. Instead, he opted to have each of the fifty stat...

Hugo Black

States had boundaries over which he was not permitted to cross. This, however, was not immediately evident when Truman "ordered s...

Transsexuals and Their Legal Rights

of surgery (Deardorff, 2002). In fact, there is little protection for transsexuals in terms of laws or government intervention:...

Bench Memorandum Example

A grade. However, after this grade was awarded there were complaints from parents to the school principle; Principle Skinner. Foll...

Discussion of Brown v. Board of Education

initiated a process of change that cannot be abandoned. In the Short-Term Dougherty (2002) explains that the case was based on t...

Justice in the United States

However, this is an exaggeration, surely, as there has been a precedent for this type of secret military trial. It occurred in 194...

General Motors v. Romein Analysis

Marx would say that the world is reduced to work for hire with no creativity. Durkheim would say that the world was reduced to not...

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...

Protocol of Public Schools and the US Constitution's 4th Amendment

The case is clearly poignant in a sea of cases concerning individual rights and freedoms. It is certainly apropos in todays climat...

The Landmark Case of Roe v. Wade of More Than a Generation Ago

which to base her arguments in favor of abortion rights. The question on which the case rested was whether a woman had the...

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...

Limiting Liability in Effective Employee Handbooks

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

Supreme Court Questions

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