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University of Maryland did not accept to admit black students. However, in 1936, the Court of Appeals decided that black people must be accepted because there wasn’t any other law schools in Maryland for black students. Lawyers Charles Houston and Thurgood Marshall won the case even though Marshall had been denied admission himself. In 1938, the second case “Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada” was a United States Supreme Court decision holding that…

From just accepting rumors that he is the Zodiac Killer to watching porn with supreme court justices—Ted is a strange guy. According to Maclean's Canada author, Jason Markusoff, Ted was born on a -9 degrees Celsius December day in Canada to parents Rafael Cruz and Eleanor Darragh. When Ted was born, they named him Rafael after his father, and consequently they called him by his father’s childhood nickname: Felito. In grade school, Ted’s classmates would call him Dorito, so at 13 he changed his…

NAACP. In 1939 the NAACP set up a branch called the Legal Defense Fund, which worked to end segregation through legal actions. (Good, 16) The LDF took many cases to the Supreme Courts where most rulings were for the NAACP due to the unequal facilities between white and black schools. In 1952, the NAACP had three cases in the Supreme Court, which was rescheduled, to be heard a second time in 1953. By 1953 two more cases had been added and the 5 cases were known as Brown v. Board of Education.…

legislative branch, the judicial branch and the executive branch. The way checks and balances work is that the congress are able to pass laws but the president has the power to veto. The president can nominate Supreme Court justices, but they have to approved by the senate. The Supreme Court can void laws that have been passed by the congress by…

to work according to the unions’ expert constituted an undue hardship on the employer. The superior court upheld the arbitrators’ decision and so did the Canadian Supreme Court as her past absenteeism due to her illness provided cause for undue hardship along with the medical professionals lack optimism regarding her ability to return to work. Therefore, it is established in by the Canadian courts that an employee need not ignore the past in order to assess the undue…

prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society. Sections 3 of the Charter which states that every Canadian citizen has the right to vote. Section 52(1) of the Charter which states that the Constitution of Canada is the supreme law of Canada, and any law that is inconsistent with the provisions of the Constitution is, to the extent of the inconsistency, of no force or effect. Also the main law that is at issue is S.51(e) of the Canadian Elections Act. In the…

applied to law school at the University of Texas. He then partnered with the NAACP, to sue the university of Texas for failure on “separate but equal” accommodations. The supreme court reviewed his lawsuit, and went in Sweatt’s favor. However, this was just one lawsuit of the many that were being sent to the supreme court in regards to discrimination and inequality. Naming these lawsuits under one name, Brown, would prevent them from being labeled as just another lawsuit. By doing so, it…

The legal and education arm of NAACP made concerted efforts in other landmark court cases, such as the Missouri ex rel Gaines V. Canada case of 1938 that saw an all-black graduate student of Lincoln University to be allowed to attend University of Missouri Law School after being denied admission on racial considerations (Tushnet, 1987). Sweat V. Painter case of 1950 was another important case where the legal and education arm of NAACP continued to press against discrimination of African…

John Hart Ely was a Law Professor at Harvard University in 1973, during that time he wrote a case study in the Harvard law Review FLAG DESECRATION: A CASE STUDY IN THE ROLES OF CATEGORIZATION AND BALANCING IN FIRST AMENDMENT that provides a basic framework for judicial resolution for flag desecration. Katherine Gelber is an Associate Professor in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland. In this article she asses the responses in political…

protection of a witness or a potential witness (and the family members or people closely associated, in some cases).The United States has one of the most well developed Witness Protection Programmes. Effective Witness Protection schemes are there in Canada and South Africa also. In European countries such as Italy, Germany and Netherlands, the Witness Protection Programme covers organised crimes, terrorism, and other violent crimes where the accused already know the…