Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

First Amendment right to free speech? The Supreme Court has found some speech, verbal and nonverbal, is protected. On the other hand, the Supreme Court has also found that students’ dress, although a means of expression, can be regulated by schools. Some courts have demanded the rights of students be balanced against the need for school leaders to make logical health and safety laws. Most dress code policies prohibit clothes that are obscene and offensive to others. These policies also state…

of obscenity, including how it is related to and different from pornography, how it has evolved, and the problems currently associated with it. This paper will briefly examine the history of how obscenity has been defined and dealt with in the United States, apply a personal view to the standards set by the “Cambria” list, and discuss the effect the internet has had on the way the courts now deal with obscenity cases. Pornography vs obscenity Pornography is widely defined as material which…

power and are keeping gun rights where they are now are trying to remove them saying that people should be allowed to carry guns on them and use them at shooting ranges and for self protection. In the states that have the least amount of gun restriction there is a lower shooting rate than the states with more gun restrictions. The NRA has many good points about gun laws and restrictions. They say that, if people had guns during these shooting that the shooters would have ended up dead a lot…

Women today have flourished despite years of continuous setbacks. Women today have the right to be whoever they please, a teacher, a doctor, a CEO of a big company, and even run for presidency. These ideals would have been a crazy notion in the 1870’s where women were considered inferior to men. But women are so much more than that, and they showed that through hard work and dedication they could accomplish what men could, however this process would not be any easy one. Women were fighting for…

Final Exam Arizona State University Ulysses Avila November 30, 2014 Questions 1. (10 Points): Write a short brief of U.S. v. Jones (2012). Make sure you follow the format for legal briefs in the example posted on Blackboard. (See Content section for brief example, and Week 14 Readings for the court case). . . . . . . . . . . . Pages 3-4 (5 Points): In your own words,…

The three parts of the decision went as followed. The first was the Fifth Amendment privilege (which states that no person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury). In this instance, Miranda was basically compelled to be a witness against himself and his confession…

In 1954, an extensive amount of the United States schools were racially segregated, due to the legal decision of Plessy vs. Ferguson in 1896, which stated the segregated facilities were constitutional as long as they were equal to each other. In the early 1950’s NAACP lawyers conveyed action lawsuits on behalf of African American children and their families in the states Kansas, South Carolina, Delaware and Virginia to allow black children the right to attend in all white school. The US Supreme…

Page 2: Tough Times Continue at Riverboat School District The case centers on if it is acceptable to pass out flyers inviting students to a church back to school party. There two considerations that must be wade in order to best seek an answer to this issue: the legal and communal impact. Legally because it was routine for flyers to be passed out by other organizations, like the YMCA, Boy Scouts, and Girl Scouts, then this organization must be given access as well. The Equal Access Act…

Jerry Montez had a promising future in basketball. In high school, he made the starting varsity lineup as a freshman, won the Kansas state basketball championship title all four years in a row, received numerous awards, including Gatorade Player of the Year, went both All-American and All-State, and was offered full-ride scholarships for basketball to Division One schools such as Villanova, the University of North Carolina, and Kentucky. Jerry also made the starting lineup of the USA National…

compensate for women. At most MUW policy perpetuated the serotyped view of nursing as an exclusively women’s jobs. The state failed to achieve there alleged objective by creating a discriminatory school. The last argument addresses MUW admission statement violates Title IX of education amendment in the equal protection clause. Title IX education amendment reads, “ The Educational Amendment of 1972, prohibiting sex discrimination in any education program or activity receiving Federal financial…