There are many hoops that a case must jump through in order to reach the federal supreme court‚ and there are different tracks in which it can get there. The Supreme Court can have original jurisdiction‚ it can reach the court via the federal system‚ and it can reach it via the state courts. The Supreme Court receives thousands of cases a year‚ and will only hear from approximately 80. The Supreme Court has original jurisdiction in a variety of cases. For instance‚ they have original jurisdiction
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In 1976‚ the California Supreme Court ruled that psychotherapists have a duty to warn and protect potential victims if their patients made threats or otherwise behaved as if they presented a serious danger of violence to another. This ruling happened because of the Tarasoff Case of 1969‚ in which the court determined the need for therapists to protect the public was more important than protecting patient-therapist confidentiality. (Vitelli 1) The Tarasoff Case is based on the 1969 murder of a University
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Supreme Court Case Study Media Center Research: Presentations: Choose one Supreme Court case from approved list provided in class. Download the format below from Edline. Each bullet must be answered in a complete sentence. Punctuation and spelling will be part of the grade. [10 points each] Attach Citation sheet (Noodletools). [20 points] Class presentation. [20 points] References will be cited by using Noodletools – MLA Advance. Two sources must be cited. You will investigate your case by using
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The roles of either the Chief Justice of the United States or the associates under him are very important and extremely demanding positions. These are the people who speak for the judicial branch of the federal government and the Chief Justice serves as the chief administrative officer for the federal courts. The Supreme Court is the highest federal court in the United States. Justices of this court are positions that are needed for the health of the government and nation‚ so it common for innumerable
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One Supreme Court member that stands out from the rest would have to be John Marshall. There is no doubt about this because he made the Supreme Court a co-equal branch of government. This means that it was an equal branch to the legislative and the executive. He became a Supreme Court Justice in 1801 and was appointed by John Adams. While holding his position he set three major goals that set precedents and made him the most significant Supreme Court Justice ever. Marshall strengthened the national
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that the Supreme Court was the most important branch of the federal government in assisting African Americans achieve their civil rights in the period 1865-1992 Many people would agree that the Supreme Court was the most important branch of the federal government in assisting African Americans achieve their civil rights between 1865-1992. For example‚ the Supreme Court overturned African American convictions in the Powell vs. Alabama Case in 1932 and the Brown vs Board of Education case of 1954 proved
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they do not have the intent to try to rule neutrally‚ or that the oath of office taken is cast by the wayside like refuse. Rather‚ I purport that the very process under which they have risen to be considered for the bench is a political one‚ and indeed makes them a part of the political game outside which you consider them. I will concede that you are correct in part‚ at least on some level. It is obvious that the Court‚ as conceived by the Framers‚ is designed to be separate from the vagaries of
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Slavinski 1/3/05 Constitutional Law Supreme Court Case Write-Up Case: Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1976) Source: Internet http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=438&invol=265 http://texascivilrightsreview.org/phpnuke/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=129 http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/324/ Issue: Did the University of California violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection
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THE FEDERALISM SYSTEM Federalism in the United States is a complex and ever-changing network of relations between national‚ state‚ and local governments. Federalism requires that state and local governments play a role in nearly every policy area. To fight the War on Terror‚ for example‚ the FBI‚ a federal organization‚ seeks to cooperate with state and local police forces. Worries about an impending avian flu epidemic have state health agencies and local hospitals working with the Centers for
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The landmark case of McCulloch v. Maryland in 1819 unanimously ruled that the Constitution allowed Congress to establish the National Bank. The Court also asserted that the Constitution did not allow a state to tax the Bank. Chief Justice John Marshall stated that the Constitution does not explicitly grant Congress the right to establish a national bank‚ but also noted that the "necessary and proper" clause of the Constitution gives Congress the authority to do that which they felt was best for the
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