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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court: The Less Than Noble Hank Morgan

a nineteenth-century technological marvel, believing this would put the ineffectual Arthur and the uppity nobles in their places w...

Settling International Disputes Peacefully

the general principles of law recognized by civilized nations. If there is an international law, especially where it is based upon...

3 Supreme Court Cases on Affirmative Action and Equal Protection According to the US Constitution's 14th Amendment

the founding fathers wrote have done so in an attempt at fairness. They have gone with what appeared to be the mainstream thinkin...

The Use of Deadly Force in Effecting Arrest

reversed the lower Courts ruling and found the Tennessee statute unconstitutional because it authorized the use of deadly force ev...

REFLECTIONS ON PEPSICO V. REDMOND

not to. However, its our belief that the court may have been a little over-anxious about the situation and granted the injunction...

LITIGATION AND THE STATE COURTS -- CALIFORNIA

decisions are binding on all other California courts (Fact Sheet - California Judicial Branch). Like the higher-level courts in ot...

Hustler Magazine v. Falwell

not be "reasonably understood as describing actual facts...or actual events" (Hustler v. Falwell, 1988). But while the libel charg...

Preventing Sexual Harassment in Tennessee

president of a state university keeping his job but also being sanctioned for his behavior in Allen v. McPhee (2007). Preventing S...

The Supreme Court and the Fourth Amendment

the arrestee might access the vehicle at the time of the search or that the vehicle contains evidence of the offense of arrest" (G...

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...

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....

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 ...

2 US Supreme Court Cases on 'Life and Liberty'

terminated, or were about to terminate, such aid without prior notice and hearing, thereby denying them due process of law" (Goldb...

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...

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...

A Legal Courtroom Visit

the description of the room itself and the way the people orient to that room. There is, for example, the distinct separation of ...

Issues Facing the Police Administrator in Community Policing

"right to remain silent unless he chooses to speak in the unfettered exercise of his own will" (384 U.S. 437). Miranda,...

The “N” World and the Constitutional Right to Free Speech

Ee derided the student on the basis of her gender and her color. He threatened the other student at one time saying "Ive got a gu...

Juveniles, Transfer Laws And Adult Court

be tried - and convicted - as an adult. The extent to which the justice system has historically provided juveniles with a much li...

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...

Hamlet and Psychoanalysis

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

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...

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...

Economy, Decisions, and Elected Leaders

north-east Prussia should be ceded to the USSR; other territories east of the Oder-Neisse Line should be placed under Polish admin...