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Planned Parenthood Supreme Court
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Recidivism Of Sex Offenders
1,305 wordsSex offenders have been a serious problem for our legal system at all levels, not to mention those who have been their victims. There are 43, 000 inmates in prison for sexual offenses while each year in this country over 510, 000 children are sexually assaulted (Oakes 99). The latter statistic, in its context, does not convey the severity of the situation. Each year 510, 000 children have their childhoods destroyed, possibly on more than one occasion, and are faced with dealing with the assault ...
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Supreme Court Ruled United States V
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T L O First Amendment Rights
1,006 wordsTo me, the basis of the Fastback 317 is to emphasize the First and Fourth Amendments of the Unites States Constitution and how they apply to students in the educational environment. The cases referred to in the book are informative because they illustrate the boundaries for teachers and student boundaries both as an individual and as a citizen of the United States. In my opinion the case that holds the most significance for a teacher was the case of New Jersey v T. L. O. This dealt with the proc...
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Strict Scrutiny Armed Forces
1,093 words... apriorism but it is within the right of every individual to express his dislike of, or objection to, the armed forces. As noted in Street v. New York, the Court wrote that it is firmly settled that under our Constitution the public expression of ideas may not be prohibited merely because the ideas are themselves offensive to some of their hearers. The second clause of the Georgia statute, which outlaws wearing a military uniform while advocating the overthrow of the government, is also uncon...
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Vice President Gore Florida Supreme Court
927 words(Slip Opinion) Cite as: 531 U. S. (2000) 1 NOTICE: This opinion is subject to formal revision before publication in the preliminary print of the United States Reports. Readers are requested to notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Court of the United States, Wash- ington, D. C. 20543, of any typographical or other formal errors, in order that corrections may be made before the preliminary print goes to press. GEORGE W. BUSH, ET AL. , PETITIONERS v. ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE FLORIDA SUPREM...
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Criminal Justice System Cruel And Unusual
1,276 wordsArticle VIII: What Does It Really Mean? required, nor excessive fines imposed, Excessive bail was borrowed with a few slight changes from the English Bill of Rights Act. The concept of bail in both England and in the United States was never thought as right to bail in all cases, but to provide that bail would not be excessive in cases where it is considered legitimate to set bail. The definition of Bail, as according to the Random House Dictionary of the English Language, property given as suret...
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The Impact Of Technology Upon Course Trial
2,699 words... Tell The Story, Or Does It Become The Story? The same jurors who want to see a computerised re-creation of the crime may also be the most sceptical that it will reveal the truth because they know how such systems are engineered and how results can be fabricated. They may be entertained, but will they be convinced? Studies show that, after 72 hours, people remember only 10 percent of what they hear, 20 percent of what they see, but an amazing 65 percent of what they see and hear. There is no ...
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Arrest Search Warrants And Probable Cause
1,681 words1. The United States Supreme Court has held that normally, a police seizure of either evidence of a crime in a constitutionally protected area or a possible criminal defendant must be based on probable cause (e. g. , Illinois v. Gates (1983) ). Furthermore, the Court has repeatedly stated that a government search or seizure on private premises without a warrant is presumptively unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment unless it falls within one of the "carefully delineated" (Welsh v. Wisconsin, (...
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Sherman Antitrust Act Market Power
965 wordsTying: Right or Wrong If we discuss the important tying case between Eastman Kodak Co. V. image Technical Services, Inc. , 112 S. Ct. 2072 (1992), the decree prohibited not only tying, i. e. , conditioning sales of film on the purchase of photo-finishing, but also bundling, i. e. , offering film with or without photofinishing, or the use of coupons. In terminating the decree, the court eliminated the ban on tying as well as on bundling. Court has terminated an anti monopoly decree over the gover...
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Law Enforcement Officials Law Enforcement Agencies
1,907 wordsNext Five Years & Principle of Inquiry in Police Force The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution states that people have the right to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, but the issue at hand here is whether this also applies to the searches of open fields and of objects in plain view and whether the fourth amendment provides protection over these as well. In order to reaffirm the courts decision on this matter I will be relating th...
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Copyright Infringement Intellectual Property
2,439 wordsA copyright is the right to produce, reproduce, and transform any original work. Copyrights are only given to original works that fall under the following seven categories: Literary works, Musical works including accompanying any works, Dramatic works including accompanying music, Choreographic works, Graphical and sculptural works, Motion pictures and other audiovisual works, Sound recordings, and Architectural works 1. Under the Canadian copyright act any published or unpublished original work...
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Irwin Mcgraw Hill Drug Testing
1,954 wordsEmployee Privacy Concerning Drug Testing In The Employee Privacy Concerning Drug Testing In The Workplace Employee Privacy Concerning Drug Testing in the Workplace December 13, 2000 Labor and Employment Law MGT 424 Fall 2000 Employee Privacy Concerning Drug Testing in the Workplace A. Court Cases Affecting Privacy of Employees and Drug Testing in the Workplace 1. Supreme Court cases affirming drug testing a. Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives Association 109 S. Ct 1402 (1989) b. National Treasu...
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African American Students Supreme Court Decision
2,629 wordsThe most critical civil rights issue in the United States has concerned the status of its African-American minority. After the Civil War the former slaves situation as free people granted them the rights of citizenship which was established by the 13 th and 14 th Amendments that were legalized in 1865 and 1868, individually. The 15 th Amendment, legalized in 1870, prohibited race, color, or previous condition of bondage as grounds for denying or restraining the rights of citizens to vote. In add...
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Chief Justice Marshall Supreme Court
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Twenty Five Years Bill Of Rights
1,599 wordsAbortion. The word alone provokes strong emotion in both women and men alike. Roe v. Wade was decided twenty five years ago, but still the fight is not over. Instead, there are mass rallies, bombings of abortion clinics, murders of doctors and workers at such clinics, intimidation, arrest, political lobbying, and numerous Supreme Court cases. What is it that divides families, and keeps old friends from speaking to one another on the topic? Why are opinions so polarized and why are minds so close...
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T L O Law Enforcement Officers
1,135 wordsName of the case and year it was decided X New Jersey v. T. L. O. (1985) The constitutional amendment V or section thereof X which the court is interpreting X 14 th amendment The specific facts of the case X On March 7, 1980, a teacher at Piscataway High School in New Jersey found two girls smoking in a restroom. Since this was a violation of school rules, the teacher took the two students to the principals office. The assistant vice principal questioned the two girls separately. One student adm...
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Criminal Acts Parking Lots
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Product Liability Football Player
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Prayer In School Pledge Of Allegiance
2,200 wordsPundits and editorial writers pounced on Newt Gingrich when he suggested, soon after the election, that Republicans in the House would take up a school prayer amendment after acting on the agenda outlined in the Contract With America. Most insisted the proposal was a major political blunder. But then most of them had previously decried the contract itself as a major political blunder, sure to lose votes for Republican candidates. The school prayer amendment is an excellent idea, but ambitious ve...
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