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his is the Supreme Court opinion in the case which involves the case of United States v. Fields. A man named, Abel Fields. who is a resident of California, is being tried for the Stolen Valor Act. In 2011. Abel Fields spoke publicly at a meeting he attend. During his speech, he claimed that he had served in the military for eight years. Along with that false information, fields also says during his time he received a Purple Heart. Everything fields said was false. He did not serve in the…

On June 1st 2015 the Supreme Court issued a decision that could affect the hiring policies and procedures of many employers. The 8-1 decision reversed the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit’s prior decision that under Title VII an employer is not required to provide a religious accommodation unless the employer had actual knowledge. The Supreme Court case was brought by the EEOC on behalf of Samantha Eluaf who was not hired by Abercrombie and Fitch (A&F) because her religious garb…

ISSUE: Was the New York Times liable for defamation? RULING: No. Judgment of the Supreme Court of Alabama was reversed and the case remanded to that court. RATIONALE: The court found the advertisement to be an expression regarding a major public issue, and as such was subject to constitutional protection. The issue for the court was whether the ad forfeited that protection by the falsity of some of its statements. There is no “truth test” for the First Amendment…

You think you know civil rights?,Guess what you don't. Many people think they knowall about it but there is so much more about It. The cases and people did and stilleffect everyday life. Three Supreme Court cases influenced the civil rights movementby attempting to provide protection and equality to all races: Shelley v.Kraemer,Loving v. Virginia ,Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education".Those are only some cases that influence civil rights. - The first case that borough…

charges of discrimination with the Colorado Civil Rights Division; they formed a formal complaint with the office of Administrative Courts. On August 13, 2015, the Colorado court of appeals unanimously affirmed the commission’s order, finding that the bakery discriminated and violated the state law. The Colorado Supreme Court denied review while the United States Supreme Court granted certiorari on June 26, 2017.…

Plessy V. Ferguson was a Supreme Court case that first laid out the idea of “separate but equal”. This court case explains the segregation laws that were set out and why blacks cannot participate in certain events. The Simple Justice film shows the various court cases and the transformation of the society leading up to the Brown V. Board of Education Topeka decision, which declared that separate public schools for blacks and whites were unconstitutional. Thurgood Marshall attended Howard…

In one of my least favorite examples, we later see the Supreme Court uphold freedom of speech over hate speech in the 2011 case of Snyder vs. Phelps. Phelps was the founder of the much-hated Westboro Baptist Church, who are infamous for protesting at soldiers’ funerals and the funerals of homosexuals. They are most known for displaying signs with disgusting sayings or slogans that can be considered hate speech. In 2006, after protesting at the funeral of Corporal Snyder, Phelps and the…

My Supreme Court case takes place from the year of 2002-2008. This case is the case of D.C. V. Heller. The case of D.C. V. Heller is about hand gun and riffle ownership. The situation or background of the case is that hand gun and riffles were not taken and guns were not able to be used unless it was for military purposes. The only problem with that was that it was going against the second amendment which was considered unconstitutional. The second amendment said “A well-regulated Militia…

There are three court cases that this writer finds the most important in regards to NEPA, these are: Cliff’s v. AEC, Sierra Club v. Morton, and Hanley v. Kleindienst. The first case analyzed, Cliff’s v. AEC, covers an agencies’ obligation to obey NEPA to the “fullest extent possible”. The second case Sierra Club v. Morton, covers “standing”. The third case, Hanley v. Kleindienst, covers defining the word “significance’’. All these cases cover impactful aspects of NEPA that need to be studied…

The 1972 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade is arguably one of the most notorious Supreme Court cases of all time. Not only because of the specific issue of abortion, but in the more broad perspective of state laws, versus federal law. This landmark Supreme court case, which was ruled 7-2, upheld the right to privacy under the 14th amendment and protected women in the right to have an abortion within the first three trimester of a women pregnancy. Prior to the Roe v. Wade case in 1973 there was…