Justice Thurgood Marshall was the first African-American Supreme Court Justice in the United States. He was one of the most influential Civil Rights advocates that had been able to shut down segregation in schools. Justice Thurgood Marshall had accomplishments that made his place significant in...
The Joint family property does not cease to be joint family property when it passes to the hands of a sole surviving coparcener. If a son is born to the sole surviving coparcener, the said properties become the joint family properties in his hands and...
The Supreme Court will hear a petition to exclude the affluent members, or the creamy layer, of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes from the benefits of reservation. The members who earn a specified income should be subjected to a means test, a test conducted...
Entertainment Merchants Association and other plaintiffs filed suit in federal court against California Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr., and others challenging a state law that prohibited the sale or rental of “violent video games” to minors as a violation of the First Amendment. The law...
An effective system of public procurement enhances the government’s ability to regulate business, creating forms of the impact of the system of state orders on the economy, stimulating its development. This is an effective way for the state, when choosing the most acceptable method of...
Loving v. Virginia is a landmark civil rights Supreme Court case in which laws prohibiting interracial marriage was invalidated. The case arose when Mildred Loving, a black woman, and Richard Loving, a white man, were sentenced to a one-year prison sentence in Virginia, for marrying...
As we rely on our judicial system more and more to protect the rights of the citizens in the United States we must review the concepts of judicial restraint versus that of judicial activism. The concept of judicial restraint encourages the judges to almost “police”...
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came...
The problem set is approaches to statutory interpretation by the judiciary. In theory, parliament is the supreme law-making authority in the land. However, it is up to judiciary to interpret laws and as such they can often modify a law beyond what was originally intended,...
Introduction Majora Carter stands out as a prominent figure in the realm of environmental justice and economic equality activism. In February 2006, she delivered an impassioned eighteen-minute speech at a TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference in Monterey, California. Her talk, titled “Greening the Ghetto,” primarily...
William Malloy was arrested on September 11th, 1959 by the Hartford Connecticut police at 600 Asylum Street due to gambling raid. He was placed in jail for one year and was fined $500 because he pleaded guilty to a criminal offence, pool selling. However, 90...
The jury system consists of twelve people who sit in criminal and civil events to make decisions on matters of facts. These are the people of who command great dignity and respect in the society and in some instances they have expert knowledge on various...
Regarding to the LaGrand case, the Federal Republic of Germany declared against the United States of America based on one convention which is Art. I of the Optional Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations concerning the Compulsory Settlement of Dispute of 24 April...
In Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, the Supreme Court held that governments may restrict the right of corporations to make independent expenditures on behalf of political candidates. The Austin Court articulated a new constitutional standard for evaluating campaign finance regulation. Such regulation, the Court...
In the case of Pena Rodriguez v. Colorado, a man named Peña Rodriguez had been convicted of sexual conduct and harassment in the Colorado Supreme Court. However, after the final verdict, it was brought to Peña Rodriguez’s attention by the other jurors that there had...
Even in popular media, the idea of equivalent exchange is commonly used to demonstrate the important value of morals and justice. The questioning of morality and justice has not been phased by the coming and going of eras, and authors of all time periods and...
One case that uses the reason of insanity defense is the Andrea Yates case. Andrea Yates was a woman from Houston, Texas who drowned her five children. This event occurred on June 20, 2001. She was said to suffer from severe depression after the birth...
“Eat a Twinkie, kill a man.” This was a phrase seen often in the newspapers and media during the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. The so-called “Twinkie Defense” is one of the more colorful myths of the criminal justice system; the misunderstood argument in the...
On January 8, the US Supreme Court refused to review two cases challenging a Mississippi law that would permit businesses and government employees to deny services to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual And Transgender (LGBT) people to safeguard a persons’ sincerely held religious beliefs and moral convictions....