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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"U.S. Supreme Court"”.
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The Impact of Institutional Rules on the U.S. Supreme Court
Assessing Judicial Certainty: The Supreme Court's Use of Questions and Statements During Oral Arguments The United States Supreme Court hears oral arguments for every case granted full consideration. These proceedings are an hour in length with each party receiving exactly 30 minutes to state its …
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External Constraints and Internal Norms on the U.S. Supreme Court
… In other words, I address the questions why the Court can come to consensus at all and why do individual justices join the majority coalition against their sincere policy preferences. Drawing from scholarship on the Court’s maintenance of its institutional legitimacy, I posit that external …
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Religious institutions and associational freedom in U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence.
… in the American legal tradition. I analyze the Supreme Court's treatment not only of houses of worship, but of religious non-profits, schools, businesses, and student groups at public universities as well. I argue that the protection of religious institutions should concern all citizens because, …
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A More Global Court? Judicial Transnationalism and the U.S. Supreme Court
<p>For many decades, Supreme Court justices and legal scholars have argued over the validity of different tools in constitutional interpretation, including social science data, public opinion and, most recently, laws and standards of decency from abroad. Although several of those currently on the …
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Validity and Constitutionality of Inter Parte Reviews Before the U.S. Supreme Court
<p>For 400 years, courts have adjudicated disputes between private parties about the validity of patents. Inventors apply for patents to an administrative agency. Patent examiners review the application to determine whether or not an idea is valid to have a patent issued. Patent examiners are …
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The Influence of Interest Groups as Amicus Curiae on Justice Votes in the U.S. Supreme Court
… increased over the past few decades in the Supreme Court despite a limited understanding of their influence. Previous literature has suggested that at the U.S. Supreme Court level, interest groups as amici are no more likely to get justices votes in a liberal or conservative direction than …
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An Analysis of Random Student Drug Testing Policies and Patterns of Practice In Virginia Public Schools
… if school districts' policies aligned with U.S. Supreme Court standards and Virginia statutes. The second purpose was to ascertain the patterns of practice in selected Virginia school districts that currently conduct random drug testing of students. This included identifying which student groups …
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A History of Establishment Clause Jurisprudence With Respect to Parochial School Funding
… United States Constitution. The United States Supreme Court has debated how to interpret the meaning of, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." In Everson v. Board of Education (1947), the Court took its first action in an Establishment Clause case concerning …
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"If I am not for myself, who is for me?" : an examination of legal and ethical considerations concerning LGBTQ+ populations and collections in museums.
… gender minorities. Following the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015, museums nationwide began acquiring LGBTQ+ collections. With this new surge of collecting, this paper seeks to examine and analyze the ethical and legal protections being afforded to collections …
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Adding Flesh to Sullivan’s Bones: The Legacy of St. Amant v. Thompson
… law in the United States. While the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in St. Amant v. Thompson often now gets lost in the myriad decisions labelled as “Sullivan’s progeny,” the ruling established standards for the application of the “actual malice” test established in New York Times v. …
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God save this honorable court : religion as a source of judicial policy preferences
If Supreme Court behavior is structured largely by the policy preferences of the justices, political scientists ought to consider the source of those preferences. Religion is one force that can strongly shape a judge’s worldview and therefore her votes. In this paper, I examine the effect of …
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Corporate criminal liability and international criminal law
… criminal law has been embraced by the U.S. Supreme Court in its 2018 opinion in the case Jesner v. Arab Bank. The study contests the narrow interpretation provided by the U.S. Supreme Court and argues that, whilst never formally recognised, the question of the international criminal …
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Of mice and missiles: An Austrian School economic appraisal of Lucas v South Carolina Coastal Commission
… regulatory "takings" case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court; Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Commission. It is discussed using the economic tools of analysis presented in Chapter I with references to the legal case history addressed in Chapter II.
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Character education through secondary school literature classes
… from Nevada School Law and relevant U.S. Supreme Court decisions which indicate the permissibility of teaching for character development in the public school setting. This thesis will also offer a rationale and constructive suggestions for teaching for character development especially …
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The Politicization of the American Judiciary: Practical and Theoretical Consequences of a Partisan Supreme Court
… employed a long-term strategy to engineer a Supreme Court that propagates conservative legal ideology. The organizational structure of the Federalist Society finds, recruits, and retain members who will wield the organizational strategies of the organizations to achieve policy outcomes not …
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The policy consequences of Garcetti v. Ceballos for personnel management in public schools
… Labor and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, once said, the concept of management rights is simply “a recognition of the fact that somebody must be the boss. . . . People can't be wandering around at loose ends, each deciding what to do next. Management decides what the employee …
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"Call Me Bill": Social Justice and the Administrative Jurisprudence of William Brennan, Jr.
This study examines former U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, Jr.'s opinions on the following administrative law topics: civil rights, civil liberties, human resource management, due process, and privacy. The purpose of this examination is (1) to apply Rohr's regime values framework to …
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The Adjudication Of Presidential Power In The U.S. Supreme Court:a Predictive Model Of Individual Justice Voting
… relations between the Congress and the Supreme Court are well documented; Congress makes law and, if requested, the Court interprets it. The interaction between the president and the Court, however, is not nearly as well defined, and certainly not as public. Supreme Court cases involving …
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States on the Federal Stage: The Amicus Curiae Role of State Attorneys General
… number of amicus curiae briefs filed at the U.S. Supreme Court. While scholars debate the effectiveness of amicus curiae briefs, they generally agree on the effectiveness of briefs filed by executive attorneys. A plethora of studies address the amicus curiae brief activity of the solicitor …
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The role of the Supreme Court in the consitutional system of the United Arab Emirates: a comparative study
… with demonstrating the importance of the Supreme Court in the constitutional system of the United Arab Emirates, discovering its possible contributions to constitutional development and recommending measures to improve the effectiveness of the Court. A brief analysis of the modern history …
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