Chicago v. Morales
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A 1 page brief of the Illinois Supreme Court Case in which the validity and Constitutionality of Chicago’s Gang Congregation Ordinance which prohibits members of street gangs from loitering in public places. This ordinance was enforced based on an individual’s conforming to pre-defined criteria used to define gang membership. The Illinois Supreme Court found this ordinance violated the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. No additional sources are listed.
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Chief Justices
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A 3 page paper which discusses various aspects of two particular court cases and the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court which presented the court's opinion. The court cases are Worcester v. Georgia (1832) and Wisconsin v. Mitchell (1993). The judges discussed are, respectively, John Marshall and William H Rehnquist. Both of the cases presented dealt with issues of race and culture. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Constitutional Freedoms
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11 pages in length. Freedom of regligion and the establishment of our constitutional freedoms as regards free exercise and libel are inherent rights of the United States citizens. Throughout our history these developments have been tested time and again by the system as regards the competing judicial approaches employed and the constitutional tests as well. These developments have for the most part been favorable ones, indicating that our constitutional freedoms are indeed inalienable and have withstood the tests of time. Nowhere are these values more obvious than in the liberalism of our religious freedoms and rights. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Cooper Industries Inc. v. Leatherman Tool Group, Inc.
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This 5 page paper provides an overview of the central issues related to the pending Supreme Court Case of Cooper Industries Inc. v. Leatherman Tool Group, Inc. and considers the central issues related to the case, with a focus so the issue of the use of punitive damages. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Court Case Shipper v. Levitt & Sons, Inc.
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A 4 page hypothetical decision for a law case about whether the developer and builder of a house, can be held liable, on the principles of negligence or warranty / strict liability for scalding injury sustained by the plaintiff's 16 month old son which was due to the failure of defendant to install a water temperature reducing mixing valve, if its installation was recommended by the water boiler manufacturer. Law-exm2.wps
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Court Cases Concerning Religion and Constitutional Rights in Public Schools
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A 5 page paper which discusses three important court cases which deal with religion in public schools. The cases discussed are Everson v. Board of Education (1947), Engel v. Vitale (1962), and Pickering v. Board of Education (1968). Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Court Debate: Constrained Versus Dynamic
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7 pages in length. The extent to which courts have the ability to impart significant changes upon existing laws is bound by two important elements: constrained and dynamic perspectives. From the constrained viewpoint, courts are quite limited in their collective strength to modify legislature due to constitutional limitations, lack of judicial independence and insufficiency of implementation powers. In contrast, the dynamic point of view reflects the belief that "courts are free from electoral constraints and institutional arrangements that stymie change. Uniquely situated, courts have the capacity to act where other institutions are politically unwilling or structurally unable to proceed" (Rosenberg, 1991, p. PG). The writer discusses constrained versus dynamic court as they relate to doctor-assisted suicide. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Critique Of 'The Case for H.R. 1534: Equal Access to the Courts'
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A 5 page paper discussing the implications of the Private Property Rights Implementation Act of 1997, which gave property owners claiming violation of their constitutional rights regarding the use of their land equal access to federal district court already enjoyed by anyone else making a similar claim for any reason but land use. Before the rule, it could take years for a property owner to be allowed access to federal court by state courts—one elderly lady spent six years and untold legal fees before 'winning' a Supreme Court case allowing her case to be heard in a federal district court.
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Current Issues in Commercial Speech and How the Supreme Court is Deciding These Issues
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A 15 page paper discussing various settings in which commercial free speech has been challenged in recent cases and focusing on the influence that the Central Hudson test has had on all of them. Justice Stevens attempted to effect a change in determining whether First Amendment protection is warranted in specific cases in the 44 Liquormart case and again in the Greater New Orleans Broadcasting case. Cases now in lower courts combined with the results of these and other cases indicate that changes in determination of First Amendment protection may well be on the horizon. Bibliography lists 9 sources in 38 footnotes.
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Descration of the Flag
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A 5 page paper that supports the development of a constitutional amendment against the desecration of the flag. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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