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'Arbitrary' Capital Punishment?

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

Petitioner Argument in Gregg v. Georgia U.S. Supreme Court Case

In eight pages this moot court debate features a petitioner argument for this case regarding the capital punishment statute in the...

Morse et. al. v Frederick: An Analysis

not been violated but the Ninth Circuit Court reversed that decision. Although that reversal accepted the argument that the event...

US Supreme Court Case of Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer

The Court issued a divided opinion, striking down the seizure order. The decision was 6-3, but 3 of the 6 justices wrote concurri...

Samuel Nelson's Contributions to the US Supreme Court

In six pages this paper presents a biographical profile of Samuel Nelson, a nineteenth century US Supreme Court Justice and also c...

U.S. Supreme Court and the Georgia State Supreme Court

In eleven pages this paper considers the histories of both courts and also provides case details of N.Y. Times v. Sullivan, City o...

The ADA, Two Supreme Court Cases

This research paper pertains to 2 Supreme Court cases involved the provisions of the the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of ...

Supreme Court Chief Justices

In three pages Supreme Court Justices John Marshall and William H. Rehnquist are discussed within the context of the 1832 case Wor...

Goss v. Lopez, 419 U.S. 565 Brief

In two pages this Supreme Court case involving a case brought against a school board in Southern Ohio by students that were suspen...

llegality of Assisted Suicide in Regards to the 14th Amendment

This 5 page paper provides an overview of a case where physicians were sued for assisting terminal patients with suicide and were ...

Hendrick Hudson v. Rowley (1982)

the States must fulfill in order to receive federal funds under the Education of the Handicapped Act (subsequently referred as "th...

Prison Reform and the Confusion of Conflicting Laws

In five pages the ways in which conflicting laws contribute to confusion regarding prison reform are examined within the context o...

Search Consent

Mr. Randolphs absence, after the police arrived Mrs. Randolph told the police "that her husband was a cocaine user whose habit had...

Reflections on the First Amendment

burned an American flag, so although he did not literally speak, his act is still a form of protest. The facts are these: during t...

Habeas Corpus

to a hearing by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal. At such hearings, evidence is presented that the detainee should be considered...

Lawsuits Have Changed How Schools are Funded

money because they do not have it. These schools and districts are severely limited in what they can do to provide a quality educa...

'Right to Die' Case of Nancy Cruzan and the U.S. Government

In a report consisting of five pages former Attorney General and Edwin Meese and late U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan a...

Cain v. Department of Corrections Legal Brief

In five pages this legal brief sample involving a Michigan Supreme Court case is presented in a case overview with facts, issues, ...

Illinois v. Robert S. Lidster and Search and Seizure

At issue in this decision is the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Under most interpretations our governments right to search our home...

The Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin

This essay describes three Supreme Court cases, Bowers v. Hardwick, Lawrence v. Texas, and Bush v. Gore, which are described by To...

Kelo v. New London

before the New London Superior Court, asserting that the "taking of their properties would violate the public use restriction in t...

Anthony Lewis's Gideon's Trumpet

how a previously made poor decision reached by the Supreme Court was ultimately corrected with the Gideon case. Contents : Chapt...

Making a Reparations Case

things are different. Africans were seized from their homes in Africa and brought to the United States for profit. The motive was ...

1967 Case of Katz v. United States

to recognize as reasonable(Katz v US 387 U.S. 347). THE ARGUMENT One of the very reasons that this country clamored for its in...

Law and Crime Scene Investigation

blood to Clyde Stevens. On the basis of this and associated evidence from the Stevens and Ellis residences, an arrest warrant is i...

2000 Santa Fe Independent School District v. DOE

This US Supreme Court case is the focus of this argument, findings, and final decision overview in five pages. There are no other...

Individual Rights Usurped by the U.S. Supreme Court

generally supports freedom of speech, the current conservative move is to protect children from pornography and foul language on t...

Dred Scott v. Sandford Decision Examined

In three pages this essay supports Dred Scott with an argument based upon freedom constitutional rights and argues that the Suprem...

Summary and Review of Lynne Curry’s The DeShaney Case: Child Abuse, Family Rights, and the Dilemma of State Intervention

After putting a name and a face on the social issue of child abuse, and considering the dilemma of the social worker who seeks to ...

Legal Cases and Appeals of Mike Tyson

Alan Dershowitz, filed an appeal immediately following sentencing. After the conviction, Tyson was denied an appeal for a new tria...