Banning Books in Public Schools The 1st Amendment to the constitution does guarantee freedom of speech and freedom of the press. However, when children are involved, freedoms often become blurry. In some cases, they are not freedoms at all, when par Continue Reading...
This is troubling because these entities are using the court system to circumvent the law. At which point, it is only a matter of time until another showdown will emerge. This is similar to the disastrous decision that Supreme Court made with the Dr Continue Reading...
T) he FBI can now act like a domestic CIA when seeking a criminal conviction. It can obtain a secret warrant from a secret court to gather evidence of crime without ever having to present to the court evidence that the person upon whom it wishes to Continue Reading...
Freedom of Speech and Art "Freedom of speech' is a fundamental right of citizens of the United States. The constitution grants complete freedom of speech under the First Amendment which states: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment Continue Reading...
Obtaining a warrant to take blood sample of a person suspected of drunk driving but has refused to take breath test takes longer time and undermines the essence of time in this process. The Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. together with other judge Continue Reading...
Excessive Force Liability The International Association for the Chiefs of Police (IACP) has maintained an updated model policy on the use of force for over two decades (Hough & Tatum, 2012). A number of 'use of force' policies implemented by pol Continue Reading...
Sports Law Unlike was the case a few decades ago, sports has today become a multi-million dollar industry. It is this exponential growth in the 'business of sports' that has informed the growing interest in sports law. The legal issues that, in one Continue Reading...
Social Media Recently, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) made its first social media-related ruling. The board adjudicated a case against Costco, and in this case the NLRB struck down Costco's social media policy as standing in violation of Continue Reading...
Moreover, not all states have shield laws. The states that do have such laws are Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Ne Continue Reading...
Some have even been detained for long periods of time without being informed when they would be released or even the reason for their detention. The situation at airports is no less dire. Some airlines have even refused to let Arabs on board because Continue Reading...
" And perhaps points to a key deficiency within the public school milieu. After all, just because a particular educational principle is not carefully scripted into the classroom plan or even school year does not mean that its unexpected inclusion is Continue Reading...
Theory & Context: Public Administration and the Rule of Law The purpose of this study is to integrate the arguments including the strengths and weaknesses of the works of Lynn (2009), Moynihan (2009) and Rosenbloom (1992) and to compare and cont Continue Reading...
IRS Off your Health Care Act of 2013 - [H.R.2009] KEEP THE IRS OFF YOUR HEALTH CARE ACT OF 2013-1 KEEP THE IRS OFF YOUR HEALTH CARE ACT OF 2013-2 It has been two months since they have introduced H.R. 2009, the Keep the IRS Off Your Health Care A Continue Reading...
Overcrowding in Prisons: Impacts on African-Americans The overcrowded prisons in the United States are heavily populated by African-Americans, many of them incarcerated due to petty, non-violent crimes such as drug dealing. This paper points out tha Continue Reading...
Internet Censorship One of the most publicized debates or controversial issues in the recent past is whether information on the Internet should be censored. The controversy associated with the issue is centered on whether the censorship is necessary Continue Reading...
Crisis Management and Public Relations Strategies Individual Portfolio: Case Studies on Louis Vuitton, Miley Cyrus and PETA Louis Vuitton (Fashion Brand) The primary source of Louis Vuitton's success was the emergence of consumers with a desire i Continue Reading...
This higher standard for commitment has woven its way through the Court System and is the basis for our current, more liberal, understanding of the complexities involved in this controversial issue. REFERENCES Atkinson, J. Private and Public Prote Continue Reading...
The Court cited language from Boyd in support of its proposition. The Boyd Court had held that the Fourth and Fifth Amendments "apply to all invasions on the part of the government and its employees of the sanctity of a man's home and the privacies Continue Reading...
Criminal Justice & Criminology Has the Miranda vs. Arizona ruling decreased the percentage of arresting official violations of defendant Fifth Amendment rights? (Rian) CJ327W Research Methods in Criminal Justice The Miranda vs. Arizona rulin Continue Reading...
Guantanamo Bay and the United States History of Guantanamo Bay, and the U.S. Involvement with Guantanamo Bay The Legality of the U.S. Occupation of Guantanamo Bay Why Do the U.S. Hold Guantanamo Bay? The Legal Position Regarding the U.S. Being in Continue Reading...
Slaughter-House Cases Impact of the Slaughter-House Cases The adoption of the constitution of the United States of America faced opposition from groups that feared the takeover of a centralized government. This opposition arose from the fear that t Continue Reading...
Corruption exists within all aspects of government, and has since early civilization. While many steps have been taken to prevent such corruption in other areas of the world, the United States has recently introduced legislation that has the potentia Continue Reading...
Political Science OSHA The Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHAct) of 1970 was passed by Congress in order to make sure that every working person in the country had safe and healthful working circumstances and to preserve human resources. Under Continue Reading...
The law's intended purpose of preventing and detecting future attacks was the dominant concern of lawmakers. Yet, the hasty manner in which the law passed through Congressional lawmaking processes causes opponents to argue that lawmakers gave dispro Continue Reading...
Criminal Procedure, Section 3051, Professor Passante 4th Amendment Paper Hypothetical Fact Pattern Larry did not violate Kathy's Fourth Amendment rights. The Fourth Amendment does not confer a general right of privacy. Instead, it specifically pro Continue Reading...
United States, 116 U.S. 616 (1886). In Boyd, a defendant had been compelled to produce his business papers. The Court determined that the compulsory production of those papers amounted to requiring the defendant to provide testimony against himself. Continue Reading...
Copyright Infringement & the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998 This paper looks into the issues of copyright infringement and circumvention of technology with reference to Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. The author of thi Continue Reading...
" (Quoted in Hillary Goodridge & others v. Department of Public Health...") Implementing the Court's decision, Massachusetts made same sex marriage legal in the state on May 17, 2004; it is thus far the only state to do so. Most other states have Continue Reading...
long-term impact of Florence v. The Board of Chosen Freeholders. This will be accomplished by: studying the parties involved, discussing the facts of the case, identifying the constitutional issues, examining the decision in terms of the vote, the o Continue Reading...
It also illustrates how many of the same human rights that the U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted and applied are protected by others in a similar way." (Youm, 2007) It is noted that Louis Henkin stated of the U.S. constitutional system and interna Continue Reading...
Next, the researcher will conduct a query of the computer awareness of education administrators, teachers, parents, and students in the New Orleans school district, then evaluation of documented data will provide a research base of the required elem Continue Reading...
Building more prisons (only 15 of the 112 current Texas prisons are private) cost the taxpayers money, money that, given the current economic climate is begrudgingly spent. Indeed, Dick J. Reavis, of the Texas Monthly, believes that the prisons of 2 Continue Reading...
VIII. The "State Action" Requirement In the provisions of the Constitution that protect individual rights, primarily the application of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights, the acts that are prohibited require governmental involvement Continue Reading...
Padilla v. Kentucky: Implications for U.S. Immigration This paper provides a review of the relevant literature concerning the case, Padilla v. Kentucky,[footnoteRef:1] discussing citizenship, and similar predicaments in other countries. It is this p Continue Reading...
Right's residential property. Mr. Sight can still be held and charged on any evidence taken directly from his person, but not from the evidence secured from his private residence. Reasons Although the K-9 team alerted to the presence of drugs in M Continue Reading...
The court therefore found that there was no legitimate purpose for the laws other than to discriminate against out-of-state wineries. I agree with the Court's decision. The Court ruled that the 21st Amendment was intended to restore the state's rig Continue Reading...
