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  • Problems Faster And Cost Less Money
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    Alternative Dispute Resolution Edwin OlmedaUniverstity of Phoenix BUS/415 Israel Camacho-AliceaJune 15, 2005 Alternative Dispute Resolution is the most important aspect in the court's structure because it allows to resolve disputes before ever having to spend money or time. Having to use the court system to resolve disputes can take several years and cost a lot of money. Companies have taken into their system ADR because it can solve problems faster and cost less money. Every company can sure ha...
  • Miranda's Sixth Amendment Right
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    Miranda vs. Arizona: This case had to do with an Ernest Miranda who raped a Patty McGee. After extracting a written confession from the rapist about the situation, Miranda's lawyer argued that it was not valid since the Phoenix Police Department failed to read Miranda his rights, also in violation of the Sixth Amendment which is the right to counsel. Some factors that helped support Miranda's arguments were that the suspect had requested and been denied an opportunity to consult with a lawyer; t...
  • Marshall Appointment To U.S. Supreme Court
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    THURGOOD MARSHALL, associate justice Mr. Civil Rights 1) Life til Death: 1908-1993 (specific date insignificant) Dates on Supreme Court: 1967-1991 2) Great grandfather was slave... Grandfather, Isaiah Williams, organized demonstrations to protest police brutality against African Americans... therefore, from young age, Thurgood felt responsibility to live up to legendary deeds of ancestors Thurgood and father went to courthouse to watch white lawyers and white judges argue cases involving mostly ...
  • Social Facts In Court Cases
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    Law of Precedent One of the major considerations on how someone is tried in a court of law depends upon the previous convictions of similar cases. This law of precedent (stare decisis) was founded hundreds of years ago as part of our common law. The literal translation of stare decisis is "that like cases be decided alike". Precedents in law play a fundamental role in the judicial processes of Canada. From stealing a loaf of bread ranging to murder in the first degree, there are precedents for a...
  • Title IX Case
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    Taking the Law Into Our Own Hands Because the federal government has not strongly enforced Title IX, women all over the country have filed civil rights complaints and lawsuits against their colleges and high schools in order to force their institutions to implement gender equity. These lawsuits and complaints have been quite successful. Since 1990, hundreds of lawsuits and Civil Rights complaints have been filed under Title IX and state Equal Rights Amendments charging gender discrimination in s...
  • Felony Charges The Suspect
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    Our Court At Work I decided to do an essay over the criminal courts from a slightly different point of view. Many people see the courts wheels in action on television when they read a verdict, and for many they watched the trial of the century on TV when O.J. Simpson was found not guilty; however, there are many things that happen most people still never hear about or just do not understand when they do. I decided to do the essay from the police officers point of view and follow it through the l...
  • Supreme Court Decision In Wallace Vs Jaffree
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    The controversial issue of separating church and state in public schools was tested in the courts numerous times in the years preceding the Jaffree decision. These prior cases helped influence the Supreme Court decision in Wallace vs. Jaffree (1985). This case pertains to three Alabama statutes possibly by law establishing a state religion in public schools. These statutes all had the same basic concept and were passed consecutively within just a few years of each other. The first statute passed...
  • 1973 Roe Vs Wade Supreme Court Case
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    The 1973 Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court case was a major landmark in not only the abortion issue, but also in American government. In this paper I will discuss the case, including both arguments and the decision, and the significance of Roe vs. Wade. I will also discuss the basis of the ruling as according to the implied right of privacy through the 14th amendment, and how the court reached that decision. In 1971 Norma McCorvey, a single, pregnant woman in the state of Texas, wanted to get an aborti...
  • Name Of Fred Korematsu
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    Fred Korematsu was born in the U.S. in 1919. His parents were born in Japan. Since he was born in the U.S. he was a citizen. He grew up like a normal kid in California. As he grew up, his life was normal, until the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1942. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese Americans were regarded as a threat to the U.S. President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, also know as the Exclusion Order. This Order stated that any descendants or immigrants from enemy na...
  • Relationship Between The Court Precedents And Griswold
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    On June 7th 1965, married couples in the State of Connecticut received the right to acquire and benefit from contraceptive devises. In a majority decision by the United States Supreme Court, seven out of the nine judges believed that sections 53-32 and 54-196 of the General Statues of Connecticut, violated the right of privacy guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. The case set precedence by establishing marital (and later constitutional) privacy, and had notable influence on three later contro...
  • Chancery And The Common Law Courts
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    Equity is frequently referred to as a supplement to the common law. Cruz on defines Equity as a system of law developed by the court of chancery in parallel with the common law. It was designed to complement it, providing remedies for situations that were unavailable at Law. Because of this, Equity provided a dimension of flexibility and justice that was often times lacking because of the common law's rigidity. This rigidity stems from the fact that, while courts sometimes altered their jurisdic...
  • Loving V Virginia Supreme Court Decision
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    On July 11, 1958 a couple of hours after midnight, Richard Loving a white man and Mildred Loving an African American woman were awakened to the presence of three officers in their bedroom. One of the three officers demanded from Richard to identify the woman next to him. Mildred, full of fear, told the officers that she was his wife, while Richard pointed to the marriage license on the wall. The couple was then charged and later found guilty in violation of the state's anti-miscegenation statute...
  • Supreme Court
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    On the eve of his last day in office outgoing President John Adams, a Federalist, appoints 82 Federalist justices. These "midnight judges" as they were called represented a threat to incoming President Thomas Jefferson, a Democrat-Republican. Jefferson feared Federalist interpretation of the law for the next 20 years, a fear that ended up coming to fruition. The new administration did not take their offices until March of 1801. The Federalists wanted to ensure a continued Federalist presence in ...
  • Africans As Their Property
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    In April of 1839, a group of militant Portuguese abducted a group of 53 Africans, and shipped them to Havana, Cuba. In June of 1839, the Africans were purchased as slaves by four Spaniards and put on the schooner La Amistad (Spanish for 'the friendship'; ) for a voyage to Principe, an island republic, off the west coast of Africa, in the Gulf of Guinea. During this voyage, in the summer of 1839, the Africans performed mutiny on the ship, led by Cinque (Dji mon Hounsou), they kill two of the crew...
  • Crowded Areas Of The U.S. Courts The
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    China's Legal System "In death avoid hell, in life avoid the law courts". This is a famous Chinese saying. From this quote, one might conclude that the litigation process in China is used as a last resort. We, the C.C.N.Y. Black Alumni Association, were afforded a brief opportunity to be exposed to China's legal system. The Chinese culture, both past and present, does not hold the legal profession in high regard. Their system is quite different from the United States. In fact there are only a fe...
  • Nollan Versus The California Coastal Commission
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    Environmental Law: Nollan vs. Abstract of: 483 U.S. 825, 97 L. Ed. 2d 677 James Patrick Nollan, e tux., Appellant. California Coastal Commission. Case Definition: The case is Nollan versus the California Coastal Commission. TheNollans were the appellate's against a decision made by the California Coastal Commission ( ). The Nollans had been leasing a property on the California coast with which they had an option to buy. The property lies directly at the foot of the Pacific Ocean and is a prime p...
  • Court's Decision On The Dred Scott Case
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    The Dred Scott case was the final blow to Abolitionists. It ended the notion of freedom for African Americans. What makes this case interesting is the role the justices play on the issue of slavery. In 1856, a slave, Dred Scott, sued his master, Doctor Emmerson. Scott claimed that Emmerson had taken him from Missouri into the Northwest. The Supreme Court finally processed the case in 1857 and Chief Justice Taney delivered the decision on March 6th. It declared three things. First, according to t...
  • Case To The U.S. Supreme Court
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    Scott vs. Sandford (1857) Dred Scott was held as a slave to Missouri resident Dr. John Emerson. In 1834 Scott traveled with Dr. Emerson to the state of Illinois, and in 1836 to areas of present day Minnesota only to finally return back to Missouri in 1838. Slavery was forbidden in the state of Illinois and under the Missouri Compromise of 1820 was also forbidden in the traveled areas of Minnesota. Upon the death of his owner, Scott sued for his freedom on the grounds that since slavery was outla...
  • Justice Holmes's Clear And Present Danger Test
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    Hess vs. Indiana, 414 U.S. 105 In May 1970, Gregory Hess took part in an antiwar demonstration on the campus of Indiana University. As the crowd of protesters grew to encompass 100 to 150 people "both the Sheriff's Department and the Bloomington Police department were asked to help university officials and police remove demonstrators blocking doorways to a campus building" (Hess vs. Indiana, 414 U.S. 105). After two arrests, remaining protesters moved onto streets and curbs and "did not respond ...
  • Petition With The Supreme Court Of Florida
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    On June 3, 1961, a burglary occurred at the Bay Harbor Pool Room in Panama City, Florida. During the burglary, a window was smashed and the cigarette machine and jukebox had been broken into. A witness claimed to have seen Clarence Earl Gideon in the poolroom early that morning. Later Gideon was picked up nearby with a bottle of wine and some change in his pockets, the police proceeded to arrest him. They charged him with breaking and entering in to the pool room. Gideon was a drifter who could ...

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