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    The defendant, Mr. John Smith, is in no way guilty of the alleged assault charges brought to the court by his wife, Mrs. Jane Smith. This case, as so many in the United States court system are, ought to be viewed while keeping past rulings with coinciding facts in mind for the purpose of preserving precedent. Precedent is a core principle of the judicial decision making process that uses past relevant cases as the standard for ruling in future cases with similarities and should be implemented as…

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    polarizing subjects in United States legislation. Broad spectrum of opinions either to support more or less restrictions on abortion frequently resurfaces in America. My conducted research is to seek if there should be less restrictions and more providers from all states regarding abortion. I expect this subject to have basis in social, empirical and moral views but ultimately, in my opinion, trends of secularization in society may prevail to cause less restrictions in all states. I also expect…

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    Reproductive Health Care in the United States: A Political History The United States has seen radical changes regarding laws and policies since its origin. Some of the most radical changes are those concerning women’s reproductive rights. In the last 200 years, our country has evolved to be a liberating experience for women and their bodies; however, this experience is relatively new. This is a brief history of women’s reproductive rights in the United States. In 1873, the Federal Anti-…

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    Character of Action: Robert Harrison Keeler petition the Superior Court of Amador County for a review of the case on a “writ of prohibition’ (SCOCAL) Facts: On September 27, 1968, the petitioner and his wife of 16 years received an interlocutory decree of divorce. This decree granted the petitioner custody of their two daughters, ages 12 and 13 years and allowed visitations with Mrs. Keeler on alternative weekends. At the time of the decree Mrs. Keeler was pregnant with Ernest Vogt’s child,…

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    The court decided that the respondent was not seized by the police setting the detour and he just got to be seized under the which means of the Fourth Amendment when he really collided with the tractor trailer. Candidates' decedent (Brower) was executed when the stolen auto he had been driving at high speeds to escape seeking after police collided with a police barricade. Solicitors brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in Federal District Court, guaranteeing, inte alia, that…

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    Congress are outlined. In an essay format answer, you are to discuss the following. First, discuss the enumerated and implied powers of Congress. Second, discuss the important Supreme Court decisions that elaborated the enumerated and implied powers of the U.S. Congress. You need to identify the Supreme Court decision and discuss the impact. In Article I of The U.S. Constitution, the powers and responsibilities of the U.S. Congress is identified by the Legislative Branch. Article I is…

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    more than six years2 from either the original tort or, in this case, a promise to fix the tort. Pitman set the precedent for the Owen Case, which prevented the use of navigational servitude as an argument against their case. In the end, the Federal appeals court reversed…

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    “Plessy vs. Ferguson” a man stood up against authority, when he was taken to court they found nothing wrong with segregating whites and blacks, despite what the majority believed the dissent felt differently and believed it was wrong. Something similar to this happened later in the case of “Brown vs. Board of education” a little girl and her mom thought that the segregation of schools was wrong, when it was taken to court the majority agreed and decided to put an end to it.…

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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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    abortion were illegal, women seeking to terminate their pregnancies would be forced to resort to unsafe and dangerous underground procedures.” (Abortion, paragraph 1). Many people believe that getting an abortion is murder but the fetal viability states, “an abortion is the termination of a pregnancy, not a baby.” (Paragraph 4, Number 31). There are many factors that play into having an abortion, For instance, the person might not be able to carry a baby because of their health, or the parent…

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