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case, Donald Marshall, was a Mi’Kmaq Indian who was charged with three offences found in the federal fishery regulations: Fishing without a license, selling eels without a license, and fishing during the close season. In the first decision, the Supreme Court of Canada held that Donald Marshalls practice of catching and selling eels was valid and legal, so found under the 1760 and 1761 treaties between the Mi’kmaq and Britain. Known specifically as the Burying the Hatchet ceremony, it was one of…

INTRODUCTION This essay examines the Australian court hierarchy, and the extension power the High Court attains as it has the ability too overturn decisions made by the Supreme Court. As it is the final court of appeal therefore reintegrates the point that the power of appointment is held within the body of the High Court. As the Australian Federal system consists of national court and a court system for each individual state and the two territories. It will highlight the power comparison…

non-partisan judges to both the Supreme and Appellate Courts. This system allows justices and judges to stand unopposed for a retention vote in the general election. An approval vote starts a new ten-year term for the incumbent judge or justice. A rejection makes the office vacant for appointment. Judges in the lower levels are still chosen by election. With a few exceptions, most candidates for the trial courts compete in partisan primary elections. The trial courts are made up of the…

Final Exam Question 1. Analyze a landmark court rulings explain how this case changed police practices to stay compliant with the law. In 1974, two members of the Memphis Police Department were responding to burglary in progress call; the neighbor reported that she heard glass breaking as someone broke into the home next door (Blume, 1984). Upon investigation, one of the officers witnessed someone fleeing from the back of the house, he spotted the suspect crouching beside a fence thirty to…

wetlands were considered adjacent to a navigable waterway, which makes them covered by the CWA, (a regulation issued by the Army Corps of Engineers). In response to the suits filed against him by the government, Rapanos argued before the District Court that the wetlands on his property are not included under the jurisdiction of the CWA. Rapanos insisted that these wetlands were not considered WOTUS because they were not…

On the above date I was conducting a business check of Walmart. While conducting the business check, I was alerted by Walmart LP Officer, Marion Edwards, that a White male subject was opening packages and concealing items. I proceeded into the vestibule, located next to the grocery entrance, where I made contact with the male subject, later identified as Clifford William Tyler Morris. Edwards, along with several Walmart managers positively identified the subject as the person who was opening…

hospital it had already been too late. She had been found by a neighbour, Robert Molloy, at the bottom of the basement stairs. Initially the police agreed with the doctor who performed the autopsy in that her death was purely an accident. However, a new investigation began into her death in the summer…

operates through a multilayered court system whereby courts of different levels exhibit distinct attributes. The Local and Supreme courts are at opposite ends of the hierarchy; therefore, they accordingly display various procedural disparities as well as behavioural differences of legal personnel. In observing these contrasting bodies, I came to understand how these disparities can affect the way justice is attained and perceived. COURT PROCEDURES The functionality of courts can be seen through…

The Standalone Approach to Education Property Interests The main alternative to the state-based approach is a standalone approach, where courts hold that there is a standalone property interest in education. Currently, the First, Sixth, and Tenth Circuits use the standalone approach to property interests. Most courts using this approach rely on Goss as the basis for their position. For example in Gorman v. University of Rhode Island, the First Circuit held that “[i]t is also not questioned…

of Catherine’s share were not satisfied. The grounds for discussion are found in the Supreme Court decision in Mana…