Supreme Court of Canada

According to a poll conducted by Forum Research in June 2016, 72% of the 2,271 Canadians they surveyed are in favour of assisted death in Canada. Like many of these Canadians, I also believe that each of us should have the right to end our lives in our own terms. For one, medically-assisted dying gives people the “ability to make other arrangements to allow themselves to spend their final days in a more comfortable and personal setting.” Second, euthanasia can help shorten the grief of the…

The assumption approach is also harmful to plaintiffs, because courts allow claims to continue even if the claims are not viable. One of the reasons that the assumption approach exists is that courts rarely find that students were not provided enough process. Courts do not have to address the merits of the property interest question if they find that process was sufficient. The reason this is bad for plaintiffs is that this allows claims to continue even if they are not viable meaning that…

The Supreme Court is that of a Chief Justice of the United States and a set number of Associate Judges, fixed by congress and appointed by the President. The Supreme Court has specific guidelines on how many cases they are to hear in a set time but, they have discretion on which cases they choose to hear out in court. Many cases they hear deal with questions, or conflicts, with the interpretation of the constitution, such as the cases: Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, Beauharnais v. Illinois, and…

conducted was reviewed, Terry vs. Ohio case. The court further went into other cases that had resolved issues on the fourth amendment and the Terry search (Minnesota v Dickerson, 1993). Indeed, in Michigan vs. Long, the Court held that in the context of that case, a Terry search allowed the search of the individual and passenger’s compartments of the automobile to ascertain beyond doubt that the defendant was not armed and dangerous. In limited cases, the Court held that when contraband is…

Statue of the International Court of Justice (the ICJ Statue), a declaratory document of sources of international law firmly established in state practice, treaties (or conventions) are one of the main sources of international law. Although international law is generally binding on Canada, treaties that affect the rights or duties of any persons or entities within Canada’s jurisdiction must first be legislatively implemented into Canadian law to be enforceable by Canadian courts. The…

segregation beginning with his administration and extending to places such as Haiti. The NAACP had a significant in 1922 with Moore vs. Dempsey where twelve black men faced charges of killing whites during a riot. "During the trial a mob surrounded the court building, shouting that if the accused black men were not sentenced to death, the mob would lynch them." (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_moore.html) As a result of prisoners being tortured and the jury finding the accused…

Reinterpretation by the Supreme Court leads to inconsistency in approach The shift in approach and lack of consistency is also evidenced in the approach taken in Hall then subsequently reinterpreted in St- Cloud. In Hall, the issue was regarding the tertiary ground for denying bail, the Supreme Court made statements regarding the rare circumstances that the tertiary ground would be used. The Chief justice stated that “while the circumstance in which recourse to this ground for bail denial may…

It wasn’t until the first half of the twentieth century but since has been growing less popular in the last few decades. This is due in part because they often are overturned in court if Congress has not given prior delegated authority to the president. Executive orders that are sustained, are those not overturned in courts. Sustained executive orders most often have some prior authority from Congress that legitimizes them. Informal powers are those of persuasion and…

Case: Maryland v. Pringle, 540 U.S. 366 (2003). Court: United State Supreme Court Dates: Argued November 3, 2003—Decided December 15, 2003 Parties: Maryland / Appellants Pringle / Appellee Procedural History: Pringle, along with three other men, were arrested for possession of drugs and large sums of money but Pringle took full guilt. Pringle first filed a motion with the trial court to suppress his confession with claims that his arrest was illegal because the officer did not…

A recurring theme prior to the advent of the Canadian Bill of Rights (1960) is that courts dealt with human and civil rights cases almost exclusively on the basis of jurisdiction. The common neglect for the principle of equality in these decisions hindered the expansion of rights to the afflicted groups. This paper will provide an overview of three landmark cases that were decided on jurisdictional basis and did little to advance the rights of the disenfranchised. In 1899 the Judicial Committee…