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Papers On Supreme Court & Constitutional Law
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Hendrick Hudson v. Rowley (1982)
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A 3 page case analysis of Board of Education of the Hendrick Hudson Central School District v. Rowley. Supreme Court of the United States, 1982 (458 U.S. 176). This case concerned a deaf child and the degree of services that States are legally required to offer under the Education of the Handicapped Act. Facts of the case, issues presented, rational for the Court's ruling and significance are discussed. Bibliographical citation is incomplete.
Filename: khhhvr.rtf
Paper Title: Hendrick Hudson v. Rowley (1982)
History of Capital Punishment
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This 5 page report was written to
be used as the background material for an informative speech to
be given on the history of capital punishment. Most nations in
the developed world and an increasing number of nations in the
developing world have officially abolished the death penalty.
However, matters in the United States are significantly
different. If public opinion polls are to be believed, the
general concept of execution for crimes is still popular in the
United States. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: BWhiscap.wps
Paper Title: History of Capital Punishment
Hoffa v the United States
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A 5 page overview of this Supreme Court case involving attempted bribery of a petit jury by the president of the Teamsters labor union, Jimmy Hoffa. The case argued, unsuccessfully, that the government’s use of a paid informant who worked his way into Hoffa’s motel suite and the area of his legal counsel, constituted a violation of Hoffa’s Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment rights. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: PPlwHoff.rtf
Paper Title: Hoffa v the United States
How Will the Supreme Court Rule on the Allen Snyder Case?
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This 3 page paper looks at the Allen Snyder case, a capital case that the U.S. Supreme Court will hear soon. The problem is that an all white jury convicted a black man of murder. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: SA730AS.rtf
Paper Title: How Will the Supreme Court Rule on the Allen Snyder Case?
Hugo Black: From KKK to Civil Rights
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15 Pages. Hugo Black was born in Alabama in 1886. After getting a law degree he spent time practicing law and then Black, an active Democrat, was elected to the United States Senate in 1926. Black was known to be a big fan of Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal. The most interesting thing about this man elected to the Supreme Court was that he once was active in the Ku Klux Klan. Once on the Supreme Court Bench however, Black lost all racist and prejudiced views. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
Filename: JGAhugob.rtf
Paper Title: Hugo Black: From KKK to Civil Rights
Identification Procedures & Mirada Issues
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A 4 page research paper that addresses two legal topics: police procedures for eyewitness identification using a photo lineup and issues pertaining to the Miranda ruling. Discussion of police procedure takes up roughly 3 pages; Miranda issues, 1 page. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: khidmir.rtf
Paper Title: Identification Procedures & Mirada Issues
In Defense Of American Liberties
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5 pages in length. Samuel Walker's In Defense of American Liberties: A History of the ACLU demonstrates the strengths, weaknesses and changes implemented by the American Civil Liberties Union over the past century. Its in-depth and detailed, if not sometimes strong and emotional, depiction gives the reader a sense of reality with regard to how it was -- and still is -- to fight for one's inherent freedoms. The writer discusses Walker's interpretation of how the ACLU climbed up from the ranks to become the most respected civil liberties organization. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: Walker3.wps
Paper Title: In Defense Of American Liberties
Information Theory as an Explanation for Policy Failure
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This 6 page report discusses public policy and whether or not when policy fails, if 'implementation theory' can be pointed to as a convincing explanation of the failure. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: Polfail.wps
Paper Title: Information Theory as an Explanation for Policy Failure
Inherent Rights: Freedom Of Speech
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9 pages in length. People "cannot stifle free speech because [they] don't want to hear it" (Mass, 2005, p. 33) in a country where liberty and personal rights are as essential to one's existence as are the life-sustaining elements of food and water. According to a judgment in the 1999 Redmond-Bate v DPP case, Lord Justice Sedley contended that free speech consists of "not only the inoffensive, but the irritating, the contentious, the eccentric, the heretical, the unwelcome and the provocative, provided that it did not tend to provoke violence" (Anonymous, 2003). Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: TLCFreeSpch.rtf
Paper Title: Inherent Rights: Freedom Of Speech
Interest Groups and the U.S. Supreme Court
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15 pages in length. Excellent for anyone studying judicial systems or public administration ...With much attention paid to several modern cases, this report examines the role that special interest groups have in determining the decisions of Supreme Court Justices. It is argued that special interest groups have actually come to have a bit too much power today and that their resulting abuses should be curtailed. The cases of Clarence Thomas and of Robert Bork are used as primary points of discussion. Bibliography lists 11 sources and a FREE annotated bibliography briefly describes their use in the paper.
Filename: Judicnom.wps
Paper Title: Interest Groups and the U.S. Supreme Court
Interpretation of the Law
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This 6 page paper explores several theories of law and concludes that originalism is the only valid way to interpret law in the United States. The 1931 McBoyle v. United States is used to begin the discussion. Scalia's opinions are duly noted. Textualism is discussed. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: SA006Law.rtf
Paper Title: Interpretation of the Law