Supreme Court of the United States

The case of Kansas v. Hendricks, 521 U.S. 346, (1997), is a United States Supreme Court case involving the constitutionality of a state civil commitment law, and how that law was being applied to persons who had been convicted of certain crimes. The law in question, was designed to civilly commit people who had a history of predatory sexual violence, and who had a personality disorder, or who had a mental abnormality (Cornell University, n.d.) In generic terms, the law was designed so that…

Within the United States Constitution, there are a number of rules and laws that have been outlined and are left for interpretation by the judicial branch of the U.S. government. These interpretations can be taken for exactly what they say, which would be known as a strict interpretation. On the other hand, these laws can be taken and manipulated in order to apply them in a number of different ways; this would be considered a loose interpretation of the Constitution. The Supreme Court is…

The United States v. Virginia court case was discussed on Jan 17, 1996. The Virginia Military Institute was founded in 1839. The Virginia Military Institute was said to have violated the “Equal Provision” clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution by retaining a public military institute for only men. The advocates involved were Paul Bender, who argued the case for the United States and Theodore B. Olson, who argued the case on behalf of Virginia. The U.S was the petitioner while…

The United States during times of war has done many things that it should not have. Some of those include stripping American citizens of their rights. Example cases in which citizens’ rights have been violated include Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v Sawyer, Hamdi v Rumsfeld, and Korematsu v United States. The Supreme Court has done a good job for the most part in upholding the constitutional rights of the citizens during times of war and national security crisis. The Supreme Court has done a…

the Constitution of the United States. Supreme Court According to the Glossary of Legal Terms (n.d.), A Court is a governing body of leaders that has the authority to settle, manage, or control legal issues and disputes. The Supreme Court is the highest-ranking court under the law of the Constitution in the United States of America. (The Supreme Court of the United States, June 04, 2017). The Supreme Court plays an intricate role in the judicial process. The Supreme Court has the most…

Sixth Amendment. In conclusion, the Crawford v. Washington case impacted the Supreme Court of Virginia’s decision in Briscoe v. Commonwealth and Cypress v. Commonwealth. The defense attorneys and prosecutors in Virginia should proceed in caution of the sixth amendment with confronting witnesses. Keywords, Briscoe v. Commonwealth, Cypress v. Commonwealth, Crawford v. Washington, Sixth Amendment The Supreme Court of the…

best served in court of law, the terms justice and law must be defined first. Justice is broadly getting and knowing what is just based on moral concepts such as law, equity, ethics, rationality, religion,…

beginning to support movements that would bring equal rights to Blacks in the United States. Soon, five cases were filed in Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington D.C., and Delaware on the behalf of elementary schoolers that were facing racial segregation in their school districts. The five cases were collectively heard by the Supreme Court as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. In May of 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that the “separate but equal” policy violated the fourteenth…

creation? The best way to track this, is to follow Supreme Court cases dealing with the Fourth Amendment, as our technological world progresses. Olmstead v. United States and Katz v. United States are two similar cases, that exemplify the progression of the Fourth Amendment. Both of these cases are based around police wiretapping. The question in both, do the police require a warrant when there is no physical intrusion of privacy? In Olmstead v. United States(1928), Roy Olmstead was knowingly…

multinational telecommunications establishment, possessed a patent that protected speech recognition software in the United States. Similarly, Microsoft, an American multinational technology company, created code to make a computer program that also recognized speech, but instead decided to sell it in foreign countries. Essentially, Microsoft found a complex loophole in Section 271(f) of the United States’ Patent Act and was eventually able to legally sell their speech recognition program in…