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under arrest, bringing about the creation of the Miranda Rights and forever altering all criminal arrests and law enforcement conduct. The Supreme Court’s decision in Miranda v. Arizona addressed four different cases involving custodial interrogations. These four cases included Miranda v. Arizona (the first case taken), Vignera v. New York, Westover v. United States, and the case of California v. Stewart. In each of these cases, the defendant was questioned by law enforcement in an excluded…

In the case of Miller v. Alabama, 132 S. Ct. 2455 - Supreme Court 2012, the issue presented before the court was under the Eighth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment is it cruel and usual punishment to sentence a fourteen-year-old to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Kuntrell Jackson, Derrick Shields, and Travis Booker discussed a plan to rob the Movie Magic video store in the evening on November 18, 1999. It is alleged that once the time had come to rob the movie store the…

judicial branch is made up of multiple court systems. The history of this action goes back to the court case of Brown vs. Brown Board of education of Topeka Kansas which occurred in 1954, the Supreme Court made a decision that still impacts us today. According to the United States Courts, what occurred was that Linda Browns daughter applied to a white school which was her local school and was not accepted because she was African American. Went to the Supreme Court (head of the judicial branch)…

STUDENT NOTES AND COMMENTS ON THE CASE: I stand by the Court’s decision to uphold Roe v. Wade because I believe that whether a woman chooses to abort her fetus or not should ultimately be left up to her. The State should not have the authority to forbid abortions up until the fetus is able to live outside of the womb, at which point I believe that it is not moral nor should it be legal to abort the fetus. I agree with the decision made in the case of Planned Parenthood v. Casey to uphold the…

Legalizing Abortion On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court made a very important 7-2 decision. They made the decision to legalize abortion in the United States of America in the case of Roe vs. Wade. In this case Jane Roe stated that women had the right to do what they wanted with their body, she argued this “right” for women to have an abortion under the Fourteenth Amendment. She argued this case against Henry Wade, the Dallas County district attorney. Wade was against abortion and enforced a…

motion and dismissed the suit on the grounds that infant plaintiff’s failed to state a cause of action, thus taking the position that its allegations, though true, gave the infant no right to recover damages in the courts of New York. The defendant also claimed that there was no medical evidence that proved the plaintiff’s injuries resulted from her…

Ruth Bader Ginsburg to shatter it. Although it was a move in the right direction, Hannah Brenner remarks in Rethinking Gender Equality in the Legal Profession’s Pipeline to Power: A Study on Media Coverage of Supreme Court Nominees that “Three women now sit on the Supreme Court of the United States, and a fourth recently retired, suggesting the attainment of formal gender equality. Despite this appearance of progress, women remain significantly underrepresented in major leadership roles within…

7. NASCAR and the MLS are unique in that they have a certain type of stability that other sports do not. In a previous case, the Supreme court ruled that it did not know enough about the sport of NASCAR to make fair rulings. Due to this, NASCAR has their own appeals panel of three people (owners or NASCAR reps) to make decisions. A current example of this occurred earlier this year. A driver failed a post-inspection for three loose lug nuts. This team is facing a 35-point deduction and a…

Since the 1970’s same sex marriages have been a controversial topic within federal, state and local authorities. Until recently, the federal law classified marriage as a union between a man and a woman, however, on the state level, marriage is primarily governed by state laws for purposes such as taxes and other federal matters (family.findlaw.com). In 1996, The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was passed, allowing states to refuse same sex marriages, thus, denying couples of benefits such as…

Myriad won this case and argument in the federal appeals court. (Advisory Board, 2012) However, the Association of Molecular Pathology claimed the “exclusivity has allowed Myriad to dictate the cost of genetic testing, stopped other laboratories from creating and offering new and improved testing procedures, and made it impossible to obtain second opinions that could better inform patients of their cancer risk” (Advisory Board, 2012, ____). The court ultimately ruled Myriad failed to create new…