Supreme Court of Canada

extra over the limited hours the 60 hour weekly schedule they were limited to and was fined. Lochner then made a case of this pleading that this gesture was unconstitutional. Eventually this case would make it all the way to the Supreme Court. This case would be taken to court because of the 1897 New York passed a law which prohibited bakers specifically to only be able to work 60 hours a week and 10 hours a…

As we know about the Supreme Court, The Supreme Court is made up of nine justices, coming from varied religious and ethnic backgrounds with six males and three females. Presidents nominate Justices for life tenure and they must be confirmed by majority vote of the Senate. According to NY Times article that has the title” Supreme Court Ruling Makes Same-Sex Marriage a Right Nationwide”, on June 27th, the US Supreme Court decided 5-4 that same-sex couples have a ‘fundamental’ right to marry, and…

Education case, the Supreme Court has the right to deem it unconstitutional and prohibits enforcing the law. In the Brown v. Board of Education case, segregation of schools was argued and fought, and in 1954 the Supreme Court based their ruling on the Fourteenth Amendment. Over many years after judicial review was established,…

Many discussions have arisen from U.S. cases and Supreme Court cases such as Gregg v. Georgia and Furman v. Georgia. Our penal systems over the past 40 years have no where near resembled those of other, peer countries. In earlier years, death penalties and death penalty cases had risen to an all time high…

In a more present case in 2005 brought before the Supreme Court in Granholm V. Heald (Granholm v. Heald, 544 U.S. 460 (2005)), it was in question whether states should allow the direct shipment of wine to the customer, whether the winery is in the same state or not. “The Court held that Section 2 of the 21st Amendment did not give states the power to discriminate against out-of-state wine sellers in ways that would otherwise violate the Commerce Clause.” (UMKC, n.d.) Meaning that it is unfair…

A landmark case related to mass incarceration in the United States, Brown v. Plata, required a significant reduction in the prison population of the State of California. The Court held that overcrowding of prison facilities led to eighth amendment violations related to inadequate health and mental health care services which contributed to unnecessary and preventable deaths (Brown v. Plata). This case appropriately demonstrates that mass incarceration is unsustainable with the current prison…

In the United States of America there are two types of courts, federal and state. Federal courts are created under the Constitution to determine debates involving the Constitution and laws passed by Congress. State courts are created by a state which includes local courts created by cities, counties, and other municipalities. The differences between federal and state courts are defined mainly by jurisdiction. Federal court jurisdiction hear lawsuits against the United States and those…

into that court case, we are going to focus on the influence of the First Amendment and religious…

The Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments were established to protect the rights of the suspected, the accused, criminal defendants and that of convicted criminals. There have been several instances of the course time where these protections of rights haven’t been upheld. An example of when these protections of rights have been neglected is the Powell v. Alabama in 1932. There are several things that made this particular case so different from that of other cases. The time period, the…

Around the time the Bill of Rights was created was when civil liberties first flourished. They are established in the Bill of Rights. Basically civil liberties are personal guarantees and freedoms that the government cannot abridge, either by law or by judicial interpretation without due process. It has been working for more than a century now and it is very important part of the Bill of Rights. The term civil liberties are often confused with civil rights. However, they are different because…