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  • Gideon's Sixth Amendment Right
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    Clarence Earl Gideon was arrested in 1961 and charged with breaking and entering a pool hall with intent to commit theft, by taking money out of vending machines. What he did at the time was considered a felony. When it came time to have the trial he did not have enough money for a lawyer and asked that one be appointed to defend him. The judge denied the request saying that under Florida state law counsel can be appointed only in a capital offense. Since Gideon didn't have a lawyer and was not ...
  • Case 1 The
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    On March 1, 2005, I went to the 3rd District Matheson Court House in the down town area and sat in on a few small claims court cases. I wanted to do this because I had never been to an actual court proceeding and I have been interested in seeing one live instead of on television. I am going to write about the three different cases that I sat in on, what the conflict was, what the outcome was and what I learned from each one. CASE #1 The Plaintiff's name in this first case was Watt. His case was ...
  • Picket Line For The Purpose
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    Speech -plus, the incorporation of pure speech and some kind of action, is a freedom that is generally not protected strictly as pure speech because actions may endanger safety or conflict with the rights of others. Just as pure speech, it incorporates the spoken word. But in addition to it, the "plus" may take the form of marching, singing, chanting slogans, or the dreaded picketing. The intention of these actions are for the purpose of bringing attention to the speech in which they are trying ...
  • The 5th Amendment
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    The 5th Amendment Basically, the 5th Amendment states that no one shall be charged with capital crimes without a Grand Jury's permission, except in cases regarding the military while under service in wartime or public danger. No one can be put on trial again for the same crime. You can't be forced to testify yourself. That no one should be executed, jailed, or have property seized without a legal precedent. Also you can't be put through cruel or unusually punishment. If private property is seize...
  • Power Of Judicial Review Over State Cases
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    A History of the Early Assertion of Judicial Power Once upon a time there were several men planning out the best way to divide the power in a fledgling new country. Some of them wanted one big power, and others wanted three smaller ones where the power was roughly equally divided. Eventually they went with the idea of the three powers and everyone appeared to be relatively content with that. However, the two bigger and more important powers, the Executive and Legislative, started getting quite p...
  • Christian Lawyers In Our Courts
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    The judicial system in the United States is in desperate need of Christians with high ethic principles to take control of our courts. More Christian lawyers in our courts is one way of getting ethics into the judicial system. There are major controversial issues lawyers encounter when dealing with their clients and business in general. Firstly, many people question if an honest lawyer can defend a guilty client. "t is true that a lawyer is expected to represent a client zealously within the boun...
  • U.S. Courts And Canadian Courts
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    NORTH vs. SOUTH A comparison of legal systems Many Canadians believe that Canadian law and American law are one in the same, (aside from major discrepancies i.e. Death Penalty) or at least very similar. But what most people do not know is that, in fact they are very different. Even though both systems evolved over hundreds of years from The English Common Law system, they have since taken different routes. Canada has kept mostly to the British formalities such as discipline and even the black go...
  • Lower Court And Scott
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    This commentary will focus on the impact of the Dred Scott decision in America. Dred Scott was born a slave in Virginia to the family of Peter Blow originally. The family moved to St. Louis and sold Scott to Dr. John Emerson, a military surgeon stationed at Jefferson Barracks. Scott traveled with Dr. Emerson to different areas such as Illinois and Wisconsin territories, where slavery was prohibited. This is because of the Missouri Compromise, this compromise was created to end expansion of slave...
  • Senate And House
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    Approval of the Journal 1. The Speaker shall take the Chair on every legislative day precisely at the hour to which the House last adjourned and immediately call the House to order. Having examined and approved the Journal of the last day's proceedings, the Speaker shall announce to the House his approval thereof. The Speaker's approval of the Journal shall be deemed agreed to unless a Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner demands a vote thereon. If such a vote is decided in the affirmative...
  • Thurgood Marshall
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    After the Reconstruction period, African Americans had won freedom and no longer were seen as processions of the whiteman, although, something even more evil existed, segregation. This problem made life for many black people an ever-continuing struggle. Black people were forced to attend separate schools, churches, hotels, and even restaurants. At the time, white males dominated the work force and many African Americans rarely found well paying jobs. The court system judged people of color more ...
  • Important Case
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    Important Cases of the US Supreme Court The United States Supreme Court has interpreted the constitutional guarantees contained in amendments to the constitution. Among these Guaranteed rights are the freedoms of religion, speech, and press, along with the right of protection against illegal search and seizure, equal protection under the law, and the right to counsel. These rights all contained in the first amendment to the constitution are arguably the most important rights guaranteed to citize...
  • Automatic Seatbelts The Court Of Appeals
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    The State Farm case deals with the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration's (NHTSA) actions dealing with Standard 208. Secretary Brock Adams issued a new mandatory passive restraint regulation in the late 1970's, which included the phasing in of passive restraints in large cars by 1982 and all cars by 1984. Manufacturers had the choice of passive system to include either airbags or automatic seatbelts. the Court of Appeals upheld Modified Standard 208 as a rational, non arbitrary reg...
  • Child Residence Dispute To Court
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    CHILDREN AFFECTED BY DIVORCE &PROTECTING THEIR BEST INTEREST SOn the 11th of June, 1996, the Family Law Reform Act 1995 came into effect amending certain sections of the Family Law Act 1975, in particular, those relating to the care of children involved in divorce situations. The object of these amendments, according to the new act, was to ensure two things. Firstly, "that the children may receive adequate and proper parenting to help them achieve their full potential", and secondly, "to ensure ...
  • Conflicts Between Religious Beliefs And Government
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    The first amendment in the Bill of Rights guarantees freedom of religion, speech, press assembly, and the right to petition the government. The establishment clause supports the first amendment by directing the national government not to involve itself in religion. And the Free Exercise Clause guarantees the citizens that the national government will not interfere with their practice of religion. The Cantwell vs. Connecticut tested these clauses in 1940. The Supreme Court decided that there are ...
  • Warrantless Searches Of Open Fields
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    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 their decisions in the cases of Oliver vs. United States ...
  • Every Decision By The Supreme Court
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    The moment the first slave was brought to America a ball was set in motion that one day somewhere and somehow a distinction between races had to be dealt with. The Civil War helped to make a stand against enslavement. A few years later in Plessy vs. Ferguson another step was taken to give blacks equal but separate treatment and access to public facilities. After taking a giant leap into the future, fifty-eight years, we have another landmark case. In Brown vs. Board of Education, the separate bu...
  • Case To The U.S. Courts Of Appeals
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    The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, referred to hereafter as EEOC was established in 1965 and was given the authority to investigate claims, against employers, arising under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA). EEOC investigates discrimination claims against employers based on race, sex, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, as well as sexual harassment, an...
  • U.S. District Court Judge John Bates
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    WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Court of Appeals has rejected a request by the nation's largest phone company to stay an earlier court ruling ordering the company to identify two subscribers who were allegedly offering hundreds of copyrighted songs over the Internet. The ruling in the closely watched case is a victory for the recording industry, which has been trying to force Verizon to turn over the names of the two people for months. While U.S. District Court Judge John Bates ruled in favor of the reco...
  • Thurgood Marshall
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    Thurgood Marshall By: Michael Davis 1st Period Febuary 13, 2003 Thurgood Marshall, one of the greatest lawyers for the NAACP and the first black justice on the united states supreme court. All through his c arrear he fought for rights for non-whites with a fierce, never tiring stamina until his case was won. His acheviements created many civil rights for the afracian-american and other non-white races, such as outlaw discrimination in school. Thurgood Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland on ...
  • Justice In The Common Law Courts
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    The law affects every aspect of our lives. We live in a society which has developed a complex body of rules to control the activities of its members. In the world two legal systems predominate: those based on the laws of ancient Rome, those based on the common law of England. In order to understand the English society we are going to examine some basic features of the English legal system. It is important to remember that English law refers to the law as it applies to England and Wales. Scotland...

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