Supreme Court of the United States

case over the issue of prisoners' rights brought to the United States Supreme Court in 1866. The Court was asked to rule on fines imposed upon a liquor dealer by the state. Pervear was licensed by the United States under the current internal revenue code to keep and sell liquor. He was fined and sentenced to three months of hard labor for failing to have a state license for his liquor store. He pleaded that he had a license from the United States under the internal revenue acts of Congress, he…

activist groups rejoiced as the United States Supreme Court ruled in favor of legalizing same-sex marriage believing that a ban of it violated the 14th amendment of the Constitution. This didn’t help stop any hatred of same-sex couples and it seemed that the world would implode due to the court’s decision However, backlash soon followed, leading to an Appeals court, saying it didn’t violate the 14th amendment and many “Christian” groups saying the ruling by the Supreme Court goes against the…

and apprehended by the FBI. Katz cited that the FBI had violated his personal privacy and private settings. Procedural History At the trial, Katz objected to the introduction of evidence of the telephone conversation. The trial court allowed the evidence. The court upheld the conviction, holding…

Finkenbiner 1 MCCLESKEY V. KEMP Emma Finkenbiner Block 7 Mr. Moore 20 April 2015 Finkenbiner 2 McCleskey v. Kemp was a Supreme Court case in 1897. This case dealt with Warren McCleskey, who was convicted of two counts of armed robbery and one count of murder in the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia. McCleskey was African American and his victim was a white police officer names Frank Schlatt. After his sentencing, Warren stated that his punishment was tainted by racial discrimination and…

by the power of the courts. The courts decide if the law is in compliance with the constitution. The significance of Marbury vs. Madison was the supreme court declared that a law passed by congress was unconstitutional and therefore ruled the law could not be enforced. This case made the supreme court an important player in our history. Some notable examples of judicial review in the supreme court history would be Plessy vs. Fergusson, where the U.S. supreme court uphold state racial segregation…

order to understand how the Texas government and the United States Federal Government interact with each other, it is necessary to understand the concept of federalism. Federalism is, by definition, the process of two or more governments controlling the same geographical area. The United States of America is an excellent example of federalism considering it has one centralized government sharing power with fifty different governing bodies at the state level, which are then broken down into local…

March 6, 1875 a court verdict that will preside in infamy, the verdict of the Dred Scott versus John Sandford Supreme Court case. Dred Scott, a once enslaved African-American man who then moved with his wife to Illinois, a free state or one in which slavery is illegal. By virtue of not being allowed to purchase land undeterred by the fact that under state legislation he was a free man, Dred Scott attempted to sue in a federal court. The chief justice in this case was Chief Justice Roger B Taney,…

uneducated man was able to change the law of the United States? As Clarence Earl Gideon was put on trial for breaking and entering, he remained adamant and relentless in his right to due process; more importantly, his right to a lawyer. After being forced to represent himself, Gideon pled not guilty, fought his way through the trial, and was still convicted. Gideon’s resilience would not let this be the end of his battle. He journeyed his way to the Supreme Court and stood up for what he felt…

career, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed a total of seven justices to the United States Supreme Court. Professor of Law at Harvard, and author, Noah Feldman, focuses on the background and evolution of four of FDR’s most influential justice appointees—Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and Robert Jackson— throughout his book Scorpions. In the Supreme Court of FDR, and in our modern-day court, one often wonders how justices’ rulings are influenced. Throughout…

With the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, it is the Constitutional duty of President Obama to choose his successor. While the Republican party is insisting that a Justice is not chosen until after the next Presidential election, President Obama is determined to fill the position in the next few weeks despite the threats of his nomination being declined. At this time I believe that the best possible candidate to fill the position would be Srikanth Srinivasan. To begin, we should…