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Supreme Court Ruling Unemployment Compensation
1,456 wordsThe justices determine which cases to take. They never explain the reason for their choices. Whether or not a case is accepted "strikes me as a rather subjective decision, made up in part of intuition and in part of legal judgment, " Rehnquist wrote in "The Supreme Court: How It Was, How It Is, " his 1987 book about the court. Important factors, he said, are whether the legal question has been decided differently by two lower courts and needs resolution by the high court, whether a lower-court d...
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Death Penalty Cases U S Supreme Court
928 wordsMost legal disputes involving state law are initially decided in the trial courts or by an administrative agency. But after such a decision, an individual may turn to the state's appeal courts if he or she believes a legal error occurred that harmed the case. In fact, thousands of cases are appealed every year. (1) They include criminal convictions as well as civil cases involving personal injury, contracts, employment, real estate, probate, divorce, child custody and many other issues. Whenever...
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United States Supreme Court Chief Justice
684 wordsThe Supreme Court is the highest in the United States. It is the "final court of appeal and the expositor of the U. S. Constitution." The United States Supreme Court is now located in Washington D. C. There are presently nine justices that sit upon the court. The court was created by the Constitution in Article 3 of 1787 to act in cases that conflicted with the Constitutional laws and with treaties of foreign affairs. The U. S. Supreme Court has a process for which cases are heard and to which S...
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Supreme Court Justices Passed By Congress
725 wordsThe very first bill introduced in the United States Senate was the Judiciary Act of 1789, led by Connecticut's Oliver Ellsworth. It divided the country in 13 judicial districts. They were further organized into the Eastern, Middle, and Southern circuits. The 1789 Act called for the Supreme Court to consist of a Chief Justice and only five Associate Justices, and for the Court to meet in the Nation's Capital. President Washington nominated John jay as the first Supreme Court chief justice. The Su...
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Supreme Court Appellate Court
544 wordsQualifications for judges of district-level courts include U. S. citizenship, residence in the district for two years immediately before election or appointment, and a license to practice law in Texas. As a guarantee of practical legal experience, a district-level judge must have been a practicing lawyer, a judge of a court of record, or both for at least four years prior to election. As in the case of Texas judges in other state courts, a vacant judgeship (resulting from death, resignation, ret...
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Supreme Court Ruling United States Supreme Court
2,737 wordsThe Supreme Court is the highest governing body that is known to us as the people of the United States of America. In the 1998 - 99 term, the Supreme Court is slated to hear cases on subjects as diverse as business monopolies, labor unions, health insurers, initiative petitions and due process. The justices will also revisit the issue of sexual harassment. The following will just be an overview of how the Supreme Court operates. I will try to point out many things throughout the course of this p...
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Supreme Court Justices Order To Achieve
1,006 wordsThe founding Fathers of United States devised the federal judiciary in a successful effort to separate balance the power of the government they tried to establish. They believed that the judiciary branch must be independent in order to achieve the balanced government. The founders idea was success for the most parts, in theory as well as in practice. Yet over the years, a few unintelligent judges, through questionable rulings, have caused many Americans to begin to question the federal judiciary...
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Supreme Court Ruling Majority Opinion
2,934 wordsThe justices determine which cases to take. They never explain the reason for their choices. Whether or not a case is accepted " strikes me as a rather subjective decision, made up in part of intuition and in part of legal judgment, " Rehnquist wrote in " The Supreme Court: How It Was, How It Is, " his 1987 book about the court. Important factors, he said, are whether the legal question has been decided differently by two lower courts and needs resolution by the high court, w...
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