United States Court of Claims

Name of the Case: Cleveland Board of Education v. Loudermill 2. Citation: 470 U.S. 532 3. Date Decided: 1985 4. Facts: James Loudermill was hired in 1979 by the Cleveland Board of Education in the capacity of security guard after Loudermill had stated on his application that he had never been convicted of a felony offense. Later, it was determined by the Cleveland Board of education that Loudermill had indeed been convicted of a felony offense in 1968; therefore Loudermill was terminated for…

can be unpredictable in their behavior and may rule against them. Prosecutors like sure things as does the State and a plea bargain gains an admission of guilt without the right to an appeal in exchange for leniency. However, a plea bargain may induce prosecutors to over-charge a suspect in an attempt to bully them into gaining a plea bargain. Plea bargains are also not conducted in open court so there is a lack of transparency that occurs (Carp, Stidham, Manning, & Holmes, 2017, p. 226).…

In this relatively recent, landmark Supreme Court case, the Association for Molecular Pathology, various other medical professionals, and even a few patients petitioned together in order to sue Myriad Genetics for attempting to patent the specific genes known as BRCA1 and BRCA2. Christopher A. Hansen represented the plaintiffs of this case while Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., Solicitor General, from the Department of Justice in Washington D.C., argued on behalf of the respondent of the case…

Wade, the district attorney of Dallas, Texas (“Roe v. Wade Facts: What You Need to Know about the Decision” para. 5). The District Court of Texas found that the law did violate Roe’s rights. The court denied a ruling that would have prevented the law from being enforced (“Landmark Cases of the U.S. Supreme Court” pg. 634). Wade appealed to the United States Supreme Court, which reviewed the case throughout 1971-1972 (“Roe v. Wade” para. 2). Due to the process and time of this case being…

When someone violates an administrative agency’s rules and regulations, they must go through the adjudication process. This process is made up of several steps than can result in an appeal or rising to a higher level of court. To start with, agencies have their own separation of power. There is a group who writes the rules, another group that prosecutes violators, and a group to decide if a rule has been broken and the penalties. This results in the adversary process trial. The trial is held…

district courts, thirteen circuit courts of appeals, and one Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is authorized under Article III of the Constitution. District and circuit courts are created by congressional statutes and can be eliminated or reorganized (Ginsberg et al. 609). All federal judges, except for judges of certain specialized or territorial courts, are appointed by the president for life. The president will discuss a lower federal court nominee with the senator from the nominee’s…

The great privilege of United States of America is the people of the country have the right to equality. Clayborne Carson an author of the argumentative essay “Two Cheers for Brown vs. Board of Education”. Born in Buffalo, New York; he is an educated scholar who specializes in African American and civil rights history. Carson’s essay is summarizes how Brown affected the outcome of desegregation in public schools. Brown is a Supreme Court decision that ruled public schools to allow African…

Seeing is believing, right? What about the practice of people seeing what they expect to see? The Crucible by Arthur Miller, reveals the dangers of bringing the idea of eyewitness testimony into court. In Proctor’s world, a relationship with God is defined by the letter by the Bible. Those who refute any part of the the Bible are non-believers. Proctor lives his life by doing good by good deeds for his community, guided by his own sense of righteousness rather than the definition of religion as…

each year that were conceived from rape, incest, and unprotected sexual intercourse. It was the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case, that the court decided the right to privacy under the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment extends to a woman’s decision to have an abortion. The court’s ruling to this day has been one of the most controversial decisions made by the Supreme Court. It has created a national debate amongst many issues, such as whether or not abortion should be legal, to what…

activities of their employees. In the first case, First Alert Medical Response (First Alert) ambulance service exercised those rights when they fired Betty Nelson over social media postings (Holley, Jennings, & Wolters, 2012). A recent Idaho Supreme Court decision supports First Alert’s actions. By comparing and contrasting these two cases, the issues of technology and job protection in the contemporary workplace can be prudently considered and a legal case made for reasonable workplace social…