The Supremes

Since the Supreme Court's inception, there has been considerable debate on its proper role in government. This discourse includes disagreements over the proper role of courts in comparison to legislatures, as well as significant dispute on the degree of rigidity necessary when interpreting the language of the Constitution. From this discourse, two opposing schools of thought have formed: proponents of judicial activism and the implicit ideal of loose constructionism against proponents of…

Title and Citation: Fry V. Napoleon Community School District Topic: A school district denying the student the right to have a service dog attend school. Level or Type of Court: Supreme Court- Oct 2016 Facts of the Case: A student with cerebral palsy obtained a service dog with the doctor’s approval to help her live as independent as possible. The service dog was hypo-allergenic and was to stay out of the way when not needed. The Community School District of Napoleon refused to allow the…

The two Supreme Court systems in Texas are the Court of Criminal Appeals and Texas Supreme Court. According to utexas.edu, the Court of Criminal Appeals “is the highest state court for appeals resulting from criminal cases. This court has statewide, final appellate jurisdiction over criminal cases. It also makes rules of post-trial and appellate procedure for criminal cases. The court has the power of discretionary review, meaning it does not have to hear a case if it so chooses. The one…

conviction on the basis of freedom of expression. The Supreme Court then ruled the illegally obtained evidence must be excluded…

The Supreme Court has always made decisions that have had lasting impacts on society. ¬A time period during which this was particularly true was the period between the years 1953 and 1969, when the Chief Justice of the court was Earl Warren. Under his influence, the court made a number of legal decisions that continue to hold significance in American society today. Such court cases include Brown v. Board of Education (1954) and Miranda v. Arizona (1966). The issue of segregation has long been a…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Ahead of a hearing next week by the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, property rights supporters held meetings across the state to inform people about the importance of property rights and royalties from mineral and gas companies. The state Supreme Court is scheduled to rehear Leggett v. EQT on Tuesday. In November, the court ruled in favor of landowners after EQT Corporation, a Pittsburgh-based petroleum and natural gas company, took deductions from royalty payments.…

There were many cases that reached three Supreme Court cases that lead to the segregation of schools. I will discuss three cases that led to the segregation of schools and the establishment of the separate but equal doctrine after the passage of Plessy v. Ferguson. The Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 case set the tenor that the Warren court case preceded during matters related to racial segregation. Establishing the concerns within this Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 set great policy…

A recent United States Supreme Court decision may mean that Kansas state boards may be vulnerable to antitrust lawsuits unless Kansas takes action to protect these boards. In North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners v. Federal Trade Commission, the United States Supreme Court held that state boards controlled by active market participants could be liable under Federal antitrust law. Antitrust laws are designed to prevent parties from limiting competition or trade in the market. Prior to…

of Education. Griswold V. Connecticut is a supreme court case that took place in 1965. According to PBS, the case came about because Estelle Griswold, the executive director of Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut and Dr. C. Lee Buxton, doctor and professor at Yale Medical School were arrested and found guilty of prescribing contraception illegally. Griswold and Buxton claimed the…

Rhetorical Analysis I will be analyzing, "The Supreme Court Says Again: Juveniles Are Different”, a 7 paragraph article written by the Editorial Board and published to the New York Times on January 25, 2016. In discussions of The Supreme Court’s repeated ruling over the last decade, it has become a controversial issue that it is morally and constitutionally wrong to equate offenses committed by emotionally undeveloped adolescents with crimes carried out by adults. While some argue that no…