United States Court of Claims

1 in 3 women will have an abortion within their lifetime. Feminists of the late 1960’s early 1970’s worked for reproductive rights. And on January 22, 1973 the U.S. Supreme Court, affirms the legality of a woman 's right to have an abortion under the Fourteenth amendment to the Constitution. Once abortion became legal, people of the 70’s had easy access, however since then accessibility has decreased. Controversy, forces unhealthy abortions, the violation of fundamental human rights, disrupting…

California court system issue a writ to have Apple assist in the investigation, which later occurred. A writ, in legal terms, is a document from a court ordering someone to do something or not to do something, this was of course used to demand the creation of a back-door for the FBI. The specific passage that was argued in the court states “The Thirteenth section of the Judiciary Act of 1789 authorized the circuit courts to issue writs of prohibition to the district courts and the Supreme Court…

Many times in our court system we have a tough time trying to find the justice. What is just always doesn’t come out; people are heavily discriminated in today’s societies. In The Art of Racing In the Rain a Denny Swift, who is innocent, has been wronged by the justice system, mainly because he had to spend so much money to prove his innocence when it shouldn’t have, so in this case justice for me is not achieved. Justice a scheme or system of law in which every person receives his/ her/its due…

Whether or not women should have the right to an abortion is an argument that is on the news a lot nowadays. This argument dates back to the early 1970s and the Roe v. Wade court case. In fact, the Roe v. Wade case is one of the most talked about supreme court cases to date. It took place in Texas, where state law only allowed abortion to save the life of the mother. “Jane Roe”, a pseudonym for the appellant, wanted to have an abortion. However, the appellee, Henry Wade, argued that it was…

In 1915, every state had some sort of “Jim Crow “law. Blacks could not eat in the same restaurants, drink from the same water fountain, watch movies in the same theatre, play in the same parks, or attend the same schools as whites. Black men could not shake hands with a white man or even make eye contact with a white woman. When America joined World War II in 1942, they needed as many soldiers as possible to battle the Germans and Japanese. They could not do that without enlisting blacks into…

Supreme court justices are politicians. The most basic definition of a politician is, a person that achieves a position of policy making over an organized community. Judges, in theory, should be fair, unbiased, neutral, impartial and not based or linked to any political party or movement. However, decisions made by the Supreme Court judges have had huge political significance. While it’s not the standard in lower courts, the United States Supreme Court is forced to make political and judicial…

The 20th Century saw several changes take place in all sectors in the United States. Fields like science, technology, mass communication, and the economy made great improvements in this century. The 20th Century also witnessed the struggle for freedom by minority races and slaves and their liberty. These innovations, change in governance and certain ideologies transformed America into something similar to what the country is now. One of the most significant movement/ideology was progressivism.…

Marshall was the main suspect, even though a lack of evidence, because “…he shared what [the Commission believed] was a general sense in Sydney’s White community at the time that Indians were not ‘worth’ as much as Whites” (AIDWYC, 2014). At trial, the Court depended on the evidence of two teenage would-be eyewitnesses, Maynard Chant (who was on probation at the time) and John Pratico (whose psychiatrist later testified that he was prone to self-congratulatory delusions) (AIDWYC, 2014).…

For centuries, there has been a huge controversy over what the public should be allowed to see when it comes to nudity in art. One of the most famous pieces of art that portrays nudity is Michelangelo’s statue of David. The statue of David was given to Queen Victoria as a gift from an Italian nobleman in 1857, without knowing that the statue showed a man’s genitals. Having been shocked, officials commissioned a sculptor to cover the man’s genitals with a fig leaf that could be taken on and off.…

which is to some extent higher than the absolute minimum before he is classified as non-indigent. For purposes of this study, the term "indigent" refers to a defendant possessing no money or so little that he clearly meets the standard by which the court determines those to whom counsel will be assigned. The term "borderline indigent" is used to describe a defendant with some resources but in an amount that is insufficient to obtain the quality of representation his case requires (Havighurst &…