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Censoring Censorship When watching reality TV, it isn’t uncommon to see a censored gesture or word. The censoring is done for the good of the public, so the viewers don’t see or hear anything vulgar. But there’s another type of censoring that isn’t truly benefiting the public: the censorship of literature and language. While some books have been banned for years, the banning of language is new. By censoring language and literature in schools and elsewhere, students are being sheltered and many…

In Rummel v. Estelle, the Supreme Court is examining the question of “whether the petitioner was subjected to cruel and unusual punishment”, with the petitioner being William James Rummel. In accordance to Texas’ “recidivist statute”, which provides that “[whoever] shall have been three times convicted of a felony less than capital shall on such third conviction be imprisoned for life in the penitentiary”, Rummel was sentenced to life in prison with chance for parole. This, Rummel protested, was…

controlled substance with intent to sell, an aggravated felony. He was originally charged with two counts of selling narcotics by a person who is not drug-dependent in violation of General Statutes § 21a-278 (b), and two counts of possession of a narcotic substance with intent to sell in violation of General Statutes § 21a-279 (a). Budziszewski hired Gerald Klein to be his defense attorney who then proceeded to negotiate the lesser charge as part of a plea agreement. Budziszewski pleads guilty…

due process and equal protection of the law. The Garrity Rights begin in New Jersey when two law enforcement officers were being investigated. These two officers were given the choice to either incriminate themselves or to loss their jobs under a statute on the grounds of self-incrimination. The confessions of the officers were taken; however, their confession was not voluntary, but coerced as they were under the impression that they would lose their jobs if they did not cooperate with the…

adequately establish subject matter jurisdiction under the Alien Tort Statute. In its 1994 decision in Central Bank of Denver v. First Interstate Bank of Denver, the U.S. Supreme Court held that, absent explicit Congressional direction, the federal courts should not infer that a federal securities fraud statute implies a cause of action for aiding and abetting securities fraud, when no such cause of action is expressly described in the statute.(2) U.S. District Judge John Sprizzo used the…

Nemet contends that it has done an adequate entreat that is a valuable resistance of rule 12(b) (6) motion (Nemet-Brown, 2011). The statute is on the appropriate standards at the juncture of proceedings, which shows Consumeraffairs.com was a data provider, and that they are not entitled to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) immunity statute (Cato Institute, 2004). Moreover, Nemet suggests that subsequently its factual allegations are adequate enough to refute the…

religious canons. Marsh v. Chambers, 463 U.S. 783 (1983). Government may not demonstrate a preference for one particular sect or creed. Allegheny Cnty. v. ACLU, 492 U.S. 573 (1989). A court’s finding of improper purpose behind a statute is appropriately determined by the statute on its face, its legislative history, or interpretation by a responsible administrative agency. Edwards v. Aguillard, 482 U.S. 578 (1987). Entanglement must be excessive before it runs afoul of the Establishment…

The Anglo Normans The third Aubrey and Robert de Vere were both part of the group of 25 Barons who drew up the Magna Carta, often collectively referred to as the ‘Anglo Normans’. With the exception of William Marshall, de Lacy and Lord Arbemarle, the 25 Barons who were to have authority over the country under the Magna Carta all had their main family seat or castle in East Anglia. This was not (as Walter Scott would erroneously write) an alliance of Anglo Saxons and Normans. Indeed the…

Pennsylvania adopted a statutory program that provides financial support to nonpublic elementary and secondary schools. • Pennsylvania does reimbursement for the cost of teacher salaries, textbooks and instructional material. • Rhode Island adopted a statute under which the state pays directly to teachers in nonpublic school. The supplement is 15% of their annual salary. • In Rhode Island a teacher must not teach a religion class in order to receive the supplement. • In Pennsylvania the…

Because of the uniqueness and complexity of Indonesia’s initial conditions Horowitz does not make any bold claims about the replicability of that country’s constitutional experience. He does, however, contend that Indonesia’s form of constitutional development was particularly suited for promoting democracy in that country. Given the role sequencing, incrementalism, and path dependency played in Horowitz’s narrative, additional research within a historical institutionalism vein might provide…