Administrator Moore, appellant Timberlake vehemently disagrees with
Administrator Moore, appellant Timberlake vehemently disagrees with
Case name: Rankin v. McPherson, 483 U.S. 378 (1987) Facts: Ardith McPherson was appointed a deputy in the Constable’s office of Harris County, Texas, on January 12, 1981. Her duties were only clerical. On March 30, 1981, McPherson discussed with her boyfriend, and fellow employee, a report about an attempt to assassinate the President of the United States. She made the remark “If they go for him again, I hope they get him”. Her remark was reported to Constable Rankin, who fired McPherson, even though she told him she did not mean anything by it.…
To start this article, Wayne K. Durrill, tells of how four freedmen by the names of Jim and Lewis Coppedge who are brothers, Ned Myers who is Coppedge’s step-father, and George Chambers kill James W. Redfearn. Redfearn is the owner of a general store called Whites Store in Anson County North Carolina. It is believed that the freedmen committed crime because the KKK was coming to the store. Testimony was used to convict Lewis and Ned of Murder. This same testimony was used to convict Jim as well, but at a later time.…
Steven Avery is a simple man from Manitowoc County in Wisconsin. The Avery family owned and operated an auto/salvage yard. As a young man Avery has his share of run in’s with the law, but they were relatively minor and Avery did his time without compliant. In 1985, Avery was newly married and his wife was expecting his first children. This year was also a year of great loss for Avery.…
Reference: letter to the editor--United States Postal Service mangers and its Board of Governors members’ misconduct--misfeasance, malfeasance, nonfeasance, and the violation of disabled veteran Ralph Timberlake’s civil rights and privileges under the color of law. The United States Postal Service’s officials have unlawfully and unjustly ceased home mail delivery service to Disabled Combat Wounded Veteran Ralph Timberlake at his home address of 2117 Atkins Drive, Huntsville, Alabama 35810. The United States Postal Service executives’ official equivocal supposition for their evil and vile accroachment upon Disabled Veteran Ralph Timberlake’s rights and privileges to receive United States Postal Service’s home and property mail delivery service,…
The court stated that existing provisions for state aid to financial public education did not violate the equal protection clause for both Federal and State Constitution. It was also not unconstitutional under the education article of the state constitution. This action had challenged the state’s provisions for financing public schools that was prosecuted by two groups. The original plaintiff in 1974 is the board of education of 27 school districts that are located at various places in the state and 12 students of public schools located in some districts. The original plaintiff felt that the system for financing public schools that was presented in the state, in which funds that are raised by locally imposed taxes by the share of the state’s money violates the equal protection clause at both state and federal.…
“Experience,” was the message Susan Theall voiced at a forum held at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Tuesday afternoon. Theall and Vanessa Anseman were initially scheduled to debate but Anseman was not able attended after a district judge Alonzo Harris ruled Monday she was ineligible said moderator Ian Auzenne who is the vice president of the Acadiana Press Club. “Yesterday district judge Alonzo Harris of St. Landry parish ruled Anseman was ineligible to run,” he said. “Anseman filed an appeal on his ruling and because the appeal is a lengthy process she will not be able to attend.”…
1. Name of Case Texas v. Johnson 491 U.S. 397, 109 S.CT. 2533 (1989) 2. Facts of Case Gregory Johnson joined a protest in Dallas, Texas during the 1984 Republican Convention. During the protest Johnson burned a flag as others chanted.…
In 1997, the Texas legislature enacted a law requiring all public universities in Texas to admit all high school seniors who ranked in the top ten percent of their high school’s graduating class. The University of Texas at Austin, after finding disparities between the racial and ethnic makeup of the university's undergraduate population and the state's population, decided to modify its race-neutral admissions policy. The new policy continued to admit all in-state students who graduated in the top ten percent of their high school classes, however, for the remainder of the in-state freshman class the university would consider race as a factor for admissions into the university. The plaintiff, Abigail Fisher, a white female, applied for undergraduate admission to the University of Texas in 2008.…
Name of the Case: Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill 2. Citation: 470 U.S. 532 3. Date Decided: 1985 4. Facts: James Loudermill was hired in 1979 by the Cleveland Board of Education in the capacity of security guard after Loudermill had stated on his application that he had never been convicted of a felony offense. Later, it was determined by the Cleveland Board of education that Loudermill had indeed been convicted of a felony offense in 1968; therefore Loudermill was terminated for dishonesty regarding the submission of his application.…
Facts: David Riley was pulled over by the police for a traffic violation. Because Riley was driving with a suspended driver's license the car was searched and impounded. The police found inside the car two loaded guns. Riley was arrested for the possession of firearms. While searching him the officer also seized the suspect’s cell phone.…
Boy Scouts of America v. Dale is a Supreme Court case that occurred in 2000. The question of the case was whether or not the application of New Jersey’s public accommodations law violated the Boy Scouts’ First Amendment right of expressive association to bar homosexuals from serving as troop leaders. Prior to the case, James Dale was the assistant scoutmaster of Troop 73. He had been an Eagle Scout, and after reaching the age limit at which he could be a member of the Boy Scouts, joined the adult division as an assistant. Around the time he joined the adults in Boy Scouts, he also left home to attend Rutgers University.…
Whereas, the outcome was unsatisfactory. The court has denied the request despite Houston’s…
1) From the case study, provide one example of each of the forms that public policies can take: laws, rules or regulations, other implementation decisions, and judicial decisions. Law: Social Security Amendment of 1965 is a public law 89-96. It was created to aid senior citizens with health insurance (Medicare) and to provide health care to indigent population and disabled (Medicaid). Rules/Regulations:…
During this week’s reading, my eye was caught by the actions of then-Governor of Arkansas Orval Faubus in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education II (1955). Even as he felt pressures from both the judicial and executive branches of government, he refused to comply with the new standards of racial equality. In 1955, the Supreme Court issued a decision on the case that came to be known as Brown v. Board of Education II, ruling that states must immediately end any segregation in their school systems immediately. Not surprisingly, many states in the South fought this new regulation tooth and nail, but the textbook raised one particularly interesting case: Governor Orval Faubus.…
Steven Avery a man with a troubled past , a former husband and father. Avery Is currently imprisoned at the Correctional Institution in Waupun, Wisconsin for the murder of photographer Teresa Halbach. Avery throughout much of his early life had several troublesome run-ins with the Manitowoc Police Department. Avery had done a long list of crimes as well as time for previous crimes which Included the robbery of a bar , running his cousin off the road and holding her at gunpoint , and the torching of a live cat.…