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- 81: Assisted Suicide
- ... matters of personal choice, including choices involving treatment of one's own body. On the other hand, the law also appears to recognize state interests in preventing suicide. Because the Supreme Court has never spelled out the principle determining which personal choices are protected from state interference and which are not, the Court cannot be said to have taken a stand on the issue of suicide. The only resolution to this problem is to go in favor of a right to self- ...
- 82: Religion in Public Schools
- ... and allowed prayer in class. Another area of controversy has been the presence of religious symbols on the school grounds. Schools such as the one in Livingston have gone to court over the wearing or carrying of objects such as the SikhÕs kirpans. All these examples point to the fact that there are severe disagreements on the subject of religion in ... the complete population is Christian? ArenÕt these students being denied their religious rights? These questions may be asked by many. Government has a lot to do with the debate. Many Supreme Court rulings have made laws allowing or prohibiting the act of praying in schools in the past eighty years. The first one was in 1914 when the ÒGary PlanÓ was ...
- 83: Abortion - Right To Choose
- ... the rights we have today. Here are some important cases: 1965 - Griswold v. Connecticut - upheld the right to privacy and ended the ban on birth control. Eight years later, the Supreme Court ruled the right to privacy included abortions. Roe v. Wade was based upon this case. 1973- Roe v. Wade: - The state of Texas had outlawed abortions. The Supreme Court declared the law unconstitutional, but refused to order an injunction against the state. On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court voted the right to privacy included abortions. In ...
- 84: The Civil Rights Movement
- ... vote. Most of these practices came to an end with the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In 1896 came the landmark case of Plessy v. Ferguson. The Supreme Court, in this case, upheld the legality of racial segregation. At the time of the ruling, segregation between blacks and whites already existed in most schools, restaurants, and other public facilities in the American South. In the Plessy decision, the Supreme Court ruled that such segregation did not violate the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. This coined the phrase "Separate but equal" and set the way ...
- 85: Juvenile Justice
- ... a forty year sentence in prison. Prosecutor Kelly Siegler said Villareal had shown no remorse: “He does not deserve . . . to live among us”(11). Begun in 1889; the first juvenile court was established in Cook County, Ill., some as well as myself would claim that the juvenile justice system has become weak in its old age (Hetter 39). The first known ... had trouble fitting him into the electric chair. Records show that since that first execution, about 350 people have been executed for crimes they committed as juveniles (40). A 1988 Supreme Court opinion set the current age limits for execution. Ruling on the Oklahoma case of a fifteen-year-old murderer, the high court declared the death penalty unconstitutional for anyone ...
- 86: John Paul Stevens: Biography
- John Paul Stevens: Biography John Paul Stevens, the 101st Justice to serve on the supreme court of the United States, and the first appointed by President Gerald R. Ford. John Paul Stevens became a member of the high court in December of 1975. Stevens, a middle aged man, with a reputation as a sharp-minded, hardworking lawyer, and first rate judge was given the highest evaluation from the ...
- 87: Assisted Suicide
- ... matters of personal choice, including choices involving treatment of one's own body. On the other hand, the law also appears to recognize state interests in preventing suicide. Because the Supreme Court has never spelled out the principle determining which personal choices are protected from state interference and which are not, the Court cannot be said to have taken a stand on the issue of suicide. The only resolution to this problem is to go in favor of a right to self- ...
- 88: Important African American Figures
- ... 61, was a special counsel for NAACP. Thurgood was also the founder (1939) of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. All of the 32 cases he argued before the Supreme Court, he won 29. His most notable victory came with Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kan. in which the Supreme Court struck down the "separate but equal" policy that was used to justify public school segregation. He also won cases against poll taxes, racial restrictions in housing and whites- ...
- 89: Affirmative Action
- ... until they are equal to the proportions existing in the available labor market.(Grolier's Electric Encyclopedia, 1993) Affirmative action plans that establish racial quotas were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in the case of University of California VS. Bakke in 1978. This case arose when the medical school of the University of California at Davis twice rejected Allen Bakke's ... of setting aside 16 of the 100 positions for racial minorities was a violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment. In a complex 5-4 decision the Supreme Court ordered that Bakke be admitted. The court ruled that even though universities may consider race and ethnic origins as a factor in evaluating candidates for admission, they may ...
- 90: Jerry Falwell vs. Hustler Magazine
- Jerry Falwell vs. Hustler Magazine The respondent, Jerry Falwell, a nationally known minister and commentator of politics, filed a diversity action in Federal District Court against the petitioners, Hustler Magazine, Inc., a nationally circulated magazine and its publisher, to recover damages for, inter alia, libel and in intentional infliction of emotional distress arising from the ... be understood as describing actual facts...or events”, but it ruled in his favor on the emotional distress claim, stating that he should be awarded compensatory and punitive damages. The Court of Appeals agreed by rejecting Hustler Magazine, Inc.'s argument that the “actual malice” standard of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan had to be met before Falwell could sue for emotional distress. However, because the jury decided that the ad didn't describe actual events, it was considered an opinion protected by the First Amendment. The court ruled that the issue was whether or not that opinion was outrageous enough to be considered an intentional infliction of emotional distress and awarded Falwell money. This case then ...
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