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Showing 1 to 20 of 81 for “"United States Supreme Court."”.
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Parental rights and state authority : the family in United States Supreme Court rhetoric
With increasing frequency, the United States Supreme Court has faced questions pertaining to the Constitutional rights of parents. Contemporary conflicts between states’ authority and parents’ rights to shape the moral education of children are manifestations of a tension in liberal political …
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The Press as Constitutional Litigator: Shaping First Amendment Doctrine in the United States Supreme Court
… press in constitutional litigation before the United States Supreme Court to shape the First Amendment doctrine that forms the legal environment in which journalists operate. Although the journalism and legal academies produce a significant body of scholarship analyzing First Amendment doctrine …
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The United States Supreme Court and affirmative action: A critical race, black feminist theoretical and textual analysis
… vs. University of Texas was heard before the United States Supreme Court twice: in the October 2012 term (Fisher I) and the October 2015 term (Fisher II). Abigail Noel Fisher and Rachel Multer Michalewicz filed suit against the University of Texas at Austin (UT) claiming that they were denied …
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Queer writes: A phenomenological study of LGBTQIA+ students’ identity and belonging following the United States Supreme Court Obergefell decision
Vice, Josef Since the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v Hodges establishing the right of same-sex couples to marry, the LGBTQIA+ community has become the target of increased homophobia, including acts of violence. Too little is known about the impact this problem has had upon the …
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Status and Integrative Complexity in Decision-Making Groups: Evidence From the United States Supreme Court and a Laboratory Experiment
… methodological approaches. A content analysis of Supreme Court opinions (Study 1) showed that both minority opinions and unanimous opinions were conveyed with less integrative complexity than non-unanimous majority opinions, and this was true regardless of the ideological content of the arguments …
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A Compliant Court: The Political Effects of the Addition of Judgeships to the United States Supreme Court Following Electoral Realignments
… the possibility for conflict emerges with the Court. Justices who make decisions based on old regime preferences of the party that had appointed them to the bench will likely clash with the new ideological preferences of the incoming party. In these circumstances, the president or Congress may …
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A survey of literature concerning selected United States Supreme Court cases dealing with the integration-segregation problem in American public schools
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Illinois school districts' response to Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier (1988)
The United States Supreme Court decision in Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier (1988) granted local school officials greater latitude in controlling student expression in the public schools.
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Perceptions, Knowledge and Experiences among Police Officers: Traffic Stops, Vehicle Searches and K-9 Involvement
… use of canine units following the landmark United States Supreme Court decision of <em>Rodriguez v. United States. </em>In particular, the study examines issues surrounding the length and scope of a traffic stop by police, including stops with canine involvement. Finally, the study includes …
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A History of Establishment Clause Jurisprudence With Respect to Parochial School Funding
… contained within the First Amendment of the 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 …
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Brown v. Board of Education and School Desegregation: An Analysis of Selected Litigation
… most monumental decisions ever rendered by the United States Supreme Court. Its legacy includes a body of case law affecting the shape and meaning of school desegregation over the past fifty years. However, school desegregation and the transition of Brown from courtroom jurisprudence to a …
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Outlaw, outcast, and Obergefell: an analysis of the United States Supreme Court’s ideology in cases that impact the LGBT community
… rhetorical analysis to investigate three United States Supreme Court decisions concerning the liberties of the LGBT community. An analysis of the rhetoric from these cases for both the majority and dissenting opinions is conducted. These artifacts include Lawrence v. Texas (2003), United …
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Addressing the Inequities in Access to Reproductive Healthcare for Gay Male Couples
The current system of federalism in the United States that allows individual state control over reproductive healthcare laws creates a discriminatory impact for gay male couples based upon geographic location. Thus, gay male couples who seek to become parents whe re one of the intended fathers is …
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Communist Party registration and the First Amendment.
… This constitutional question came before the United States Supreme Court in the Communist Party case, 367 US 1 (1961). An analysis of the provisions of the Internal Security Act of 1950 provides the groundwork necessary for a discussion of the arguments presented on the First Amendment issue …
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A sturdy house built on shifting soil: Separation of powers Interpretations from the bench
… of powers doctrine and its application by the United States Supreme Court. Its analysis will focus upon the six different approaches to the doctrine that the Court has employed over the past two hundred years. Moreover, it will show that these six methods of analysis; which include the textual, …
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Miranda v. Arizona (1966): Its Impact on Interrogations
… interrogation. An extensive literature review on United States Supreme Court decisions involving the Miranda warnings, the “Reid Technique” on interrogations, and law journal articles related to the impact of Miranda and The Reid Technique was conducted to shed a light on the significant case of …
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"The pen among our people" : strategies of survivance and assimilation resistance in indigenous rhetoric from Indian newspapers, lawsuits, and society journals, 1870-1924
… Indian nations into dependent wards of the United States oriented Indigenous resistance toward ensuring the survival of Indian peoples, lands, and resources. I argue that strategies of survivance -- a literary theory describing actions designed to ensure Indian survival and …
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The Crucible of Texas Politics: An Analysis of the United States Senatorial Primaries of 1941 and 1948.
… resulted in litigation making its way to the United States Supreme Court.</p>
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Religious liberty through the lens of textualism and a Living Constitution : the First Amendment Establishment Clause interpretations of Justices William Brennan, Jr. and Antonin Scalia.
… examines how the jurisprudential visions of United States Supreme Court Justices William Brennan, Jr. and Antonin Scalia guide their interpretations of the First Amendment Establishment Clause. The paper begins by examining Establishment Clause basics, the United States legal system and …
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