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Developing the U.S. Constitution

The U.S. Constitution has grown and changed greatly since its ratification. This paper examines how amendment and reinterpretation...

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...

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...

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....

U.S. Supreme Court Case of Troxel v. Granville

regardless of any opposition from Agnes (the little girls mother), the connections that exist between the grandparents and child a...

Christine Busalacchi and Euthanasia

that she was much more responsive and seemed to be improving. Still not fully conscious, at times she would be able to "communica...

Was the 2000 Presidential Election Stolen by George W. Bush?

term traditionally begins the first Monday in October, and so final opinions are issued in late June (Mears, 2002). Justices divid...

Conservative Response to Roe v. Wade

threatening the life of the mother. After much deliberation and extreme media frenzy, Roe won her suit of right to privacy stati...

Defining Judicial Review Throughout History

civil and criminal courts, all lawsuits were treated as civil suits (Long). The victim prosecuted the case rather than any legal r...

Overview of the 1857 Dred Scott U.S. Supreme Court Decision

in his 1859 examination of the case points out that the US Supreme Court in hearing this case was also concerned with issues of co...

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...

Victoria Supreme Court Case of Parish v Smyrnos

door bell ring at an early hour, that she looked outside and saw a naked man with an erect penis (2003). She was frightened. This...

Pertinent Issues in First Amendment Law

interests, property in interests, security interests, public safety and morals, and even countervailing speech interests" (Carter,...

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...

Supreme Court Case Adarand v. Pena

from the other direction. Some critics contend that affirmative action has had a crippling effect upon minority groups because of...

Freedom of Speech and The United States v. Eichmann

because that is what provides the very essence of who we are as Americans. The United States v. Eichmann...

Marbury v. Madison and the US Supreme Court's Jurisdiction Justification

tended to avoid controversy in the early days. That is, until Chief John Marshall became the chief justice of the Supreme Court. I...

Analysis: Alabama v. White

"indica of reliability" under Adams v. Williams, 407 U. S. 143, 407 U. S. 147, and also for totality of the evidence under Illinoi...

Should Juveniles be Sentenced to Death?

The death penalty has consequently been in and...

The Supreme Court, Its Importance and Powers

is often called the "court of last resort," since it is the highest court in the nation. This paper considers how the court is str...

Drug Testing Pregnant Women Without Their Permission

University of South Carolina (MUSC), in cooperation with the city of Charleston, established a policy that enabled the city to pro...

Gun Control Laws in Washington DC

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Our Freedoms and the First Amendment

The First Amendment to the US Constitution has played a...

24th AMENDMENT

very Amendment. As such, the Court unanimously agreed people were not to be penalized for opting in favor of what was already the...

A Case Involving the Pregnant Discrimination Act

Discrimination Act (PDA) of 1978 amends Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in order to "prohibit sex discrimination on the ...

Ricci v. Stefano and Diversity

of individual who passed the examination and qualified for promotions" (Mereau, 2009). Epstein (2009) points out that the city o...

Antitrust Case of Microsoft and a Supreme Court Judge's Opinion

God-like, Bill Gates stands on the top of the highest monetary mountain. However, the Microsoft Chairman and Chief Executive Offi...