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    segregation in the California school districts toward children of Mexican descent. The Brown case brought attention to the Courts that segregated school facilities are not equal and in fact has a detrimental affect in Negro children. Below I will discuss the two cases and list the four factors. Westminster was a federal court case that…

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    Barbour American International School Was the U.S. Supreme Court Correct in Its Decision in Brown vs Entertainment Merchants Association. Mark Sbitnev US History Mr. Marusak Fall Semester 2015 Introduction On May 20, 2009, Governor Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown filed a petition for certiorari with the Supreme Court , asking the Court to hear an appeal of the 9th Circuit’s ruling(Gamasutra Article). In court the California argues that its Act may restrict the minors…

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    Fundamental rights are granted through the Constitution of the United States, and are a part of our liberty and freedom. Also, The Ninth Amendment reads, “The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. In other words the right to bear arms should not be taken away from anyone. Opponents of gun control consider the right to bear arms in some sense a fundamental right, and having those rights taken away is…

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    in the United States (Ziegler). For the past year, there has been a great deal of negativity surrounding incoming immigrants, recent immigrants, and immigration in general. These attitudes were made more prevalent when the newly elected president, Donald Trump, instituted an executive order to temporarily ban entrance to the United States to seven Muslim-majority countries (Trump). This ban was eventually lifted by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (Liptak). Although in the United States, there…

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    Gays In The Military

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    When President Bill Clinton took office after winning the 1992 election he stated that he would stay true to his campaign promise to repeal the military ban on gay, lesbian, and bisexual people in the military through an executive order. This was met with backlash from important military and political leaders and the religious right. Clinton and his administration knew they couldn’t alienate these groups because they would need them to help pass policies throughout Clinton’s term that he viewed…

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    In 2011, Brown v Plata was a decision by the United States Supreme Court that held that a court-mandated population limit was necessary to remedy a violation of the inmate’s Eighth Amendment constitutional rights. This federal class action civil rights lawsuit alleged that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (CDCR) medical services were inadequate for the inmates. The lawsuit stated that the CDCR violate not only the Eighth Amendment, but also the American with…

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    Miranda Persuasive Speech

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    can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you. Do you understand the rights I have just read to you? With these rights in mind, do you wish to speak to me?” History of Miranda Warning In June of 1963 Ernesto Arturo Miranda, a young man of 23 years of Mexican origin, was on trial for the kidnapping and rape of Jane Doe, a girl of 18, at the Superior Court of Maricopa County Arizona; not…

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    identified man as the killer. Police changed witness statements that pointed to Chapman’s innocence. A forensic pathologist later found that one of the women had not been murdered, but had actually died of a drug over dose. Catawba County Superior Court Judge Robert Ervin presided over Chapman’s retrial hearing. In granting Chapman a new trial Judge Ervin noted that withheld evidence, “lost, misplaced or destroyed” documents, the use of weak circumstantial…

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    Lily took her pay discrimination complaint all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled in 2007 that claims like hers had to be filed within one hundred and eighty days of an employer’s decision to pay a worker less, even if she did not learn about the unfair pay until years after the discrimination began. To make sure that…

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    Discrimination In Military

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    nondiscrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. No one would be discharged for engaging in homosexual acts, and those who had been discharged through Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell could not be denied readmission if they were otherwise qualified. (United States House of Representatives). In 2009 the bill was introduced yet again, this time by Representative Ellen Tuascher. Soon after in 2010 Senator Joseph Lieberman introduced Don’t Ask Don’t Tell repeal legislation titled the Military Readiness…

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