United States Court of Claims

Fatal Injustice Throughout history, important cases have changed the way people look at controversial topics and they continue to influence people’s thoughts on these topics to this day. The Supreme Court case between Castle Rock, Colorado and Jessica Gonzales made many people question the efficiency of law enforcement. One horrific series of events that took everyone by surprise led to a very influential case that affected many people, including Jessica Gonzales and the police officers…

Abortion, an Injustice to Human Life Despite the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case, abortion remains a heated and controversial political issue and civil rights disagreement. People who oppose abortions are called pro-life, seeking to protect all human life, and people who support abortions are called pro-choice, seeking to protect the civil rights of women. Many individuals and organizations have tried to make abortions illegal. The fight to make abortions illegal has been fought on both…

Birth control is a very touchy subject to lots of people today. Many still oppose this and fight to make it illegal or at least not free to woman all over despite that there are forms of free birth control and its legal all over the nation. The United States remains the highest rate of teen pregnancies throughout the world. Nearly 750,000 american teenagers become pregnant each year and 82 percent of these pregnancies are unintended. Many of these young girls become pregnant because they were…

Delano Roosevelt appointed a total of seven justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. Author and professor of Law at Harvard, writer Noah Feldman, focuses on the Supreme Court of FDR in his book Scorpions, particularly the stories of the four most influential and revolutionary justices: Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and Robert Jackson. Feldman seeks to analyze what influenced each justices’ decisions in the court, and follows their evolution on the bench. Overall, Feldman…

Roe v. Wade was the Supreme Court decision that granted the right to a legal abortion in the United States. Prior to 1973, procuring or attempting an abortion was a criminal offense under many state statutes, except when medically advised for the purpose of saving the life of the mother. This prohibited women who wanted to obtain an abortion from legally getting one. Roe v. Wade was filed in Texas in March 1970 on behalf of the plaintiff Jane Roe, a single and pregnant woman without the means or…

Leaders direct shared effort. Everyone shares in the successes and failures. Reference WWII, Roosevelt said, “We are now in this war. We are all in it-all the way. Every single man, woman and child is a partner in the most tremendous undertaking of our American History” (p 188). To inspire a vision, others must believe what you say and ultimately, Roosevelt had to build his credibility to deliver the truth effectively. How do you maintain credibility? One is by keeping any promises you make…

some police officials and destroyed evidence. This complaint was strangely ignored. The trial court had acquitted Sharma for lack of evidence . Sharma’s acquittal led to a huge public outrage and there was nationwide “Justice for Jessica” campaign. Meanwhile the Delhi High Court reversed the verdict of the trial Court and held Manu Sharma as guilty. He appealed against the verdict and the Supreme Court held that the prosecution has proved that the accused is guilty beyond reasonable doubt and…

the three major components of the Canadian criminal justice system. First we must examine each of the components of the criminal justice system alone before we get to understand how they overlap together. First of all, there is the police, the courts and the corrections. The police are the law enforcers and maintainers of order throughout Canada. There are three levels of policing in Canada; municipal, provincial and federal, there are some circumstances that they work together to accomplish…

Justice Stephen Breyer Justice Stephen Breyer has been on the Supreme Court for almost 22 years. He was confirmed to the court by the Senate on June 29, 1994. Justice Breyer’s confirmation was not a surprise considering how highly qualified he was, as well as, how highly others thought of him. For most of Breyer’s adult life he has had an influential role in the legal field. This paper will summarize Justice Stephen Breyer’s early life through today. We will also analyze his jurisprudence in…

Biography Sonia Sotomayor was appointed a Supreme Court justice in 2009 and became the first woman of Latin origin at the highest level of judicial hierarchy in the United States. Sonia Sotomayor was born in Bronx, New York, on June 25, 1954. Her parents were both born in Puerto Rico but moved to New York during World War II (Biography 2016). In Bronx, Sonia was raised in poor catholic Puerto Rican community and was speaking mostly Spanish (Lewis 2016). At age seven, she was diagnosed with…