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U.S. Supreme Court Case of Hoffa v. the United States

on appeal to the Sixth Circuit Court (349 F2d 20). The Supreme Court in this case ultimately had to make a...

Gun Control and the 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution

were needed, and with that, the Second Amendment guaranteed the right of individuals to bear arms in service of that militia, so t...

Issues of First Amendment Law

In the first of these cases, Board of County Commissioners v. Umbehr, a trash hauler in Kansas had his contract terminated because...

1920s' Prohibition and Its Impact Upon U.S. Crime, Religion, and Economics

reality throughout the United States and many wished to end these corrupt practices seen in many a saloon across the country. T...

4th Amendment and Thermal Imaging Technology Search Reasonableness

lack of narrow definition. It was not until 1967 in Katz v. United States (389 U.S. 347 (1967)) that the Supreme Court arrived at...

Case Law and Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court

Although the right to public trial is protected under the due process clause, however, that protection is not absolute in that rea...

U.S. Constitution, Civil Rights, and Slavery

that blacks, even if they were freed blacks, were not due citizenship and could never become citizens of the United States. As suc...

Constitutionality and Capital Punishment

During the 1970s, the case of Furman vs. Georgia pretty much wiped out the constitutionality of capital punishment when the Suprem...

History of the Civil Rights Movement in America

the Union. It was Lincoln who had endorsed the Reconstruction plan, but Congress was far more cautious. Congress determined that...

Education, the Separation of Church and State and the 2002 US Supreme Court Case of Zelman v. Simmons-Harris

The controversy over this program surrounded the fact that in the 1999 to 2000 school year some 82% of the private...

The Constitution and Bill of Rights

United States. The federal courts are responsible for addressing offenses against the country, including issues of treason. Ou...

Educators and Copyrights

or translating copyrighted materials for visually handicapped persons (NLS, 2010). Prior to this amendment, authors and publishers...

Wording of the 1st Amendment of the US Constitution

to practice his or her religion but also notes that the state will never have an official religion. This has been the subject of m...

Why English Should Not Be the U.S. Official Language

supremacy of white, native-born citizens" (Diamond, 1996, p. 154). Because so many people speak English and it is the primary lan...

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...

Constitutional Issues Q and A

systems as well as other venues. Schools are notoriously at odds. What occurs sometimes is that religious groups object to scienti...

Proposed Victims' Rights Amendment and the Constitution

is deemed illegal by the court--even if it has to do with a technicality--the case is not supported. There is in...

Procedure and Criminal Law V

was properly arrested or whether he was offered counsel. He could not be made to incriminate himself, and it is likely that an at...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Crises in the Constitution

took until 1791 for the states to agree on the ten that have endured (Mount, 2005). However, as needs arose, and different concern...

Government Censorship and its Disadvantages

In five pages the disadvantages of censorship by the government are discussed within the context of the First Amendment and the Mc...

A Consideration of the 14th Amendment

In 5 pages this paper discusses the purpose and subsequent Supreme Court decisions that affected this Amendment. There are 5 bibl...

Workplace Privacy and Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives Association, 489 U. S. 602, 1989

In five pages this paper examines privacy in the workplace with regards to this case that considered whether or not mandatory work...

Media Law and People v. Larry Flynt Film

around the Supreme Court Case of Jerry Falwell v. Larry Flynt. A few months prior to Hustlers magazine interpretation of the prin...

Free Speech Issues Delegated by the Warren, Burger, and Rehnquist Courts

This paper examines First Amendment cases seen by The Supreme Court under different Chief Justices. This five page paper has one ...

1962 U.S. Supreme Court Case Robinson v. California

In two pages this paper presents a brief of this 1962 Supreme Court case and how the California interpretation was found to be vio...

Illinois Supreme Court Case Chicago v. Morales

In one page this brief assesses the validity of the Gang Congregation Ordinance of Chicago that prohibits public loitering of stre...

Supreme Court Case of the State of Florida v. J.L.

In one page this Supreme Court case is examined in terms of the 14th Amendment and state sovereign rights regarding citizen protec...

First Amendment Issues in the Film, The People vs. Larry Flint

This paper examines First Amendment issues seen in the film, the People vs. Larry Flint, which is based on actual events and case ...

4th Amendment and Advances in Technology

In 6 pages this paper discusses the impact of technological advancements on the privacy issues detailed by the 4th Amendment of th...

Explosive Issue of Gun Control

In three pages the explosive arguments for and against gun control are examined in a consideration of advocacy and a protection of...