State court

First, let me apologize for quitting the court and walking out during the hearing. I should not have acted that way. I pray that God forgives me for such a terrible thing. I know your reputation as a judge, and it is an empowering one. I understand your signature has put almost four hundred people in jail and caused seventy-two people to be hanged. However, I would like for you to consider your decision of condemning these people because of these teenage girls. I beg you to wait on the…

must be reached in order to automatically trigger the Court to overturn stare decisis, the problems that exist with an archaic rule will keep progressing until a new solution is formulated.…

Supreme court justices are politicians. The most basic definition of a politician is, a person that achieves a position of policy making over an organized community. Judges, in theory, should be fair, unbiased, neutral, impartial and not based or linked to any political party or movement. However, decisions made by the Supreme Court judges have had huge political significance. While it’s not the standard in lower courts, the United States Supreme Court is forced to make political and judicial…

October 2012, the Court of Appeal of England and Wales denied the applicant jurisdiction to the London Employment Tribunal. During those proceedings, the applicant submitted that EU law applied, and that under articles TFEU 18 and TFEU 45 that Court, by denying jurisdiction, would discriminate based on nationality against the applicant. Moreover, the applicant made several submissions both in the grounds for appeal as well as in the skeleton arguments asking that Court, as the Court of last…

district courts, thirteen circuit courts of appeals, and one Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is authorized under Article III of the Constitution. District and circuit courts are created by congressional statutes and can be eliminated or reorganized (Ginsberg et al. 609). All federal judges, except for judges of certain specialized or territorial courts, are appointed by the president for life. The president will discuss a lower federal court nominee with the senator from the nominee’s…

interesting to take this class during an election year, perhaps now is also one of the most interesting times to study a Supreme Court justice. I chose John Roberts for two reasons, first, because he was a conservative and it is very likely that Donald Trump will choose a conservative justice this year. Secondly, because I thought it was interesting that he became a Supreme Court Justice at a relatively young age. I wondered, “Did he come from a well-known family?” “Were they wealthy?” or “Did…

With the issue of grandparents rights being on the front line both on the state and federal legislation it is important to know that the case that has affected all states to date. In the matter that went before the U.S. Supreme court in 2000 was Troxel v Granville, this case was based around the paternal grandparents petitioning for visitation after the mother began to limit visitation with the grandchildren, in this case the grandchildren spent significant time with their grandparents through…

On June 26, 2015 the United States Justices decided on a pivotal case in American history. In a close 5-4 vote the Justices deemed that same-sex marriage was constitutional via the 14th amendment. The Obergefell et al. v. Hodges case was the finality of a slow evolving progression for same-sex marriage (Obergefell v. Hodges). This landmark decision allowed same-sex marriage to be legal in the United States. After this decision same-sex couples rushed to their nearest marriage clerk to solidify…

clothing Coolidge was wearing during the days the victim Mason was missing. The police provided all the evidence to the state attorney general in order to get a warrant to arrest Coolidge at his home, in which the state attorney agreed to do so (“Coolidge v. New Hampshire, 403 U.S. 443 (1971),” n.d.). The police arrived at the house days later with…

According to United States Court, Clarence Earl Gideon was an undereducated man in Florida, who only went to schools for 8 years, because he escaped from home when he was in middle school. After that, he always went into the prisons with nonviolent crimes. However, he was a criminal to commit a misdemeanor in Panama City in 1963. At trial in Bay County Circuit Court, Fourteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida, Gideon went to the court without a lawyer. Because he did not have enough money to hire an…