U.S. Constitution Between 1777 and 1786, the Articles of Confederation determined what the federal government could and could not do (School of Law, n.d.). The Articles provided no authority for tax collection or regulation of commerce, a situation Continue Reading...
Supreme Court and Public Opinion The Supreme Court of the United States was established in 1789 as part of the basic three sections of the American governmental system: Executive (President and Staff), Legislative (Congress), and Judicial (Supreme C Continue Reading...
Supreme Court cases (Muller V. Oregon) women's right Why it was an issue of national importance The Muller v. Oregon case was among the most crucial Supreme Court cases in the U.S. during the progressive regime. The case held an Oregon law that lim Continue Reading...
Supreme Court of Mississippi. CASH DISTRIBUTING COMPANY, INC. v. James NEELY. Facts In 1973, James Neely started working for Cash Distributing Co., a company that distributed Anheuser-Busch products in several parts of the United States. The compan Continue Reading...
7. Sester v. United States - Docket No., 10-7387 -- The question is whether a district court has authority to order a federal sentence to run consecutive to an anticipated, but not-yet-imposed, state sentence ? 8. Williams v. Illinois - Docket No. Continue Reading...
Johnson Controls, Inc. (886 F.2d 871 (7th Cir. 1989). The Supreme Court heard this case because they were concerned with an employer's gender-based fetal-protection policy. The question was whether an employer could exclude a fertile female employe Continue Reading...
District of Columbia v. Heller Case Brief Case Facts: The District of Columbia Code prohibited carrying an unregistered firearm and banned the registration of handguns through its provisions. However, the provisions granted the chief of police the l Continue Reading...
Justice Antonin Scalia's philosophy and contributions to the US Supreme Court, and the effect of his demise on the Court, particularly on Amendments IV, V, VI and VIII. Philosophy and Impact of the Death of Scalia Owing to Justice Scalia's Continue Reading...
Supreme Court established in analyzing the constitutionality of punishment? List and discuss at least three of them. The only specific mention of definition of legally administrable punishment in the U.S. Constitution is that the punishment not be Continue Reading...
Marbury v. Madison Supreme Court Case Study Every year Supreme Court provides decision in cases that really impact the American citizen's rights. The aim of this analysis is to keenly check cases handled by the Supreme Court and the way they were g Continue Reading...
For example, he voted to require that schools utilize resources to support religions activities if they designate resources to non-religious activities (Board of Education. v. Mergens, 1990). Further, Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002) called for vouch Continue Reading...
Supreme Court Decision in Woodenvs.the United StatesWoodenvs.the United StatesCase BriefIn 1997, William Wooden Broke into a storage facility in Georgia and stole ten different units, resulting in a guilty plea to 10 counts of burglary. In 2014, a pl Continue Reading...
Supreme Court's recent decision to ban the execution of mentally challenged individuals raises important ethical issues. Judges must be able to determine if a person is indeed mentally challenged. While the legal system and psychology have made impo Continue Reading...
Cannibal Cop" -- When does evil thought become a crime? Gilbert Valle III was a 28-year-old former New York City police officer who was arrested after his wife reveled to authorities that he was obsessed with the idea of kidnapping women, torturing Continue Reading...
Women on the Supreme Court: Do They Matter? At present, there have only ever been four women to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court. If women and men are capable of coming to the same conclusions, the question emerges concerning whether it matters that Continue Reading...
Supreme Court Justices as regards their lifetime appointment status. Life tenure by Supreme Court judges has numerous significances as well as drawbacks. However, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages and, as such it should be taken into consid Continue Reading...
Religious Freedom-First Amendment Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah Religious Freedom is one of the key principles on which the foundation of our country was laid. United States has always supported and endorsed free exercise of re Continue Reading...
Acheson Hotels, LLC v. LauferDeborah Laufer was a frequent litigant with physical disabilities and vision impairments, who brought a lawsuit against Acheson Hotels, alleging that Acheson Hotels failed to publish necessary information about their acce Continue Reading...
History Of the Western Law Meaning - in legal terms - for nations to "stay the hand of vengeance" Justice Robert Jackson, while delivering his opening speech in November 1945 during the infamous Nuremberg trials for war offenses, enjoined the leade Continue Reading...
Hamilton Assertion Proves Incorrect There are parts of Hamilton's statement regarding the nature of the Supreme Court and its influence that are largely inaccurate. There are myriad examples which prove the Supreme court has both force as well as wi Continue Reading...
Jim Crow and the Segregation of SchoolsThe Jim Crow era lasted from after the Civil War, i.e., roughly around the late 19th century, to the mid-20th century in the United States. It was characterized by a series of policies at the state and local law Continue Reading...
Labor Relations/Collective Bargaining The discussion below is a review of the case between Mach Mining and EEOC A close look at the sex discrimination case against March Mining LLC, EEOC, and the respondent decided that there was enough ground to b Continue Reading...
Adams vs. Uno Restaurants, Inc. Gerald K. Adams, the plaintiff, had been employed by Uno Restaurants, Inc., the defendant, for several years. On March 20, 1996, Adams arrived for his nighttime line cooking shift at Uno Restaurants in Warwick. Few mi Continue Reading...
Branches When it comes to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, all three branches of the United States government play their own role when it comes to this enacted legislation. Beyond that, the idea of federalism and federal supremacy cl Continue Reading...
If this is the idea that we convey here today what is going to stop the imposition of regulations in other areas of the State's social and economic life just because Congress feels that there might be a relationship to highway use or safety. In the Continue Reading...
Supreme Court opinions and dissents are essentially reflections of judicial self-restraint or judicial activism. Generally, the Supreme Court reflects judicial self-restraint or judicial activism through the use of the doctrine of standing in majorit Continue Reading...
(United States Supreme Court, 2008). It is impossible to completely determine why a president choices a Supreme Court nominee. However, it seems likely that Ginsburg's feminist history had something to do with his choice. She was one of the first fe Continue Reading...
Although that case involved jury selection, the Court established a standard for alleging racial discrimination in prosecution. The Court held that the defendant has to show that he is a member of a cognizable racial group, that the prosecutor has a Continue Reading...
Chisholm vs. Georgia Supreme Court Case The case of Chisholm v. Georgia, 2 U.S. 419 in the year 1793 is considered by many to be the first great United States Supreme Court case (Wikipedia PP). In 1792, South Carolina residents executing the estate Continue Reading...
However, this Court also recognizes that mental illness oftentimes differs from other immutable characteristics, such as mental retardation and age, in that a defendant oftentimes has the ability to control mental illness through medical interventi Continue Reading...
Eyewitness Testimony The Supreme Court, in Neil v. Biggers, 409 U.S. 188, 93 S. Ct. 375 (1972), set out some guidelines as to what a court must consider when it is trying to determine how much credibility to give to eyewitness testimony. This case i Continue Reading...
Let such programs fund themselves through private charitable contributions. If they're justified they'll survive. Laws and policies should be reformed so they protect all the rights and due process for both men and women equally. In concluding, ju Continue Reading...
The true spirit and meaning of the amendments, as we said in the Slaughter-House Cases (16 Wall. 36), cannot be understood without keeping in view the history of the times when they were adopted, and the general objects they plainly sought to accomp Continue Reading...
Supreme Court Chief Justices Warren and Rehnquist Compare and contrast approaches to criminal procedures by U.S. Supreme Courts: The Warren vs. The Rehnquist Court A common philosophical debate within the legal community is when the approach advo Continue Reading...
death penalty and minors - recent Supreme Court finding Death Penalty was extensively applied in the olden times across the world. The modern crusade for banning of capital punishment started in the 18th century with the writings of Montesquieu and Continue Reading...
Miranda Rights To most people, the case Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), is synonymous with the Miranda warnings given to accused criminals. People understand that Miranda means that a criminal defendant has the right to remain silent and th Continue Reading...
Appointment of Judges to Canada's Supreme Court The current democratic governance system in Canada permits the federal Cabinet and the Prime Minister to appoint judges to the country's Supreme Court.[footnoteRef:2] As the appointments are formalized Continue Reading...
