Article Summarization on the News Article Regarding the Possible Violation of the Eighth Amendment Payton Iannarino The article I found was written on March 14‚ 2011 about the controversy of the constitutionality of the treatment of Private Manning. There have been many articles about this topic‚ but the one I looked at was an editorial in the pages of the New York Times. Private Manning was convicted of leaking restricted military files to WikiLeaks and was arrested on the twenty sixth of May
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Gamble‚ Gamble’s Alabama Rules of Evidence 406 at “Practice Pointers” para. 4 (“[j]udicial emphasis appears to fall upon the concept that habit requires a regular response to a repeated situation”). Finally‚ Gore v. BMW addressed the constitutionality of Alabama’s methods for imposing punitive damages. In conjunction with the Hammond and Green Oil‚ it is a part of Alabama’s judicial review of punitive damage awards for excessiveness. It does not in any way expand the Alabama Rules of Evidence
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the states. The federal government had no right to exercise powers not specifically delegated to it; should the federal government assume such powers‚ its acts under them would be void. Thus it was the right of the states to decide as to the constitutionality of such laws passed by
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to arrest him because he did not pay off his violation ticket. Hardwick was then charged for criminalized sodomy due to a Georgia statute. The federal district court dismissed the case because Hardwick failed to make a valid claim against the constitutionality. When appealed‚ the Court of Appeals reversed and remanded the court’s decision‚ saying the statute was unconstitutional. The Attorney General of Georgia appealed to the Supreme Court and was granted certiorari. THE LAW: Georgia Code16-6-2
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line. 8. An Erie‚ Pennsylvania‚ public indecency ordinance prohibited knowingly or intentionally appearing in public in a “state of nudity.” Pap’s‚ the owners of Kandyland‚ an Erie establishment featuring totally nude dancers‚ challenged the constitutionality of the ordinance. a. Explain the nature of that constitutional challenge. I would have to say it would challenge the first amendment. The right to assemble or even to some aspect(if one chose to argue this way)‚ the right to religious freedom
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New Jersey v. T.L.O.‚ (1985) is the case that impacted me the most. It is a decision by the US Supreme Court regarding the constitutionality of a search of a public high school student after she was caught smoking. A search of her purse revealed drug paraphernalia‚ marijuana‚ and documentation of drug sales. She was charged as a juvenile for the drugs and paraphernalia found in the search. She went against the search‚ claiming it violated her 4th Amendment right against unreasonable searches. The
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INTERNATIONAL LAW 1. The Province of North Cotabato v. Govt. of the Republic of the Philippines Peace Panel on Ancestral Domain (GRP)‚ October 14‚ 2008 –Right to Self-Determination of People 2. Suzette Nicolas v. Romulo‚ February 11‚ 2009 – Constitutionality of the VFA 3. Rome Statutes of International Criminal Court (Articles 1-21) (Attached) 4. United Nations Security Council Resolution 1970 (2011) (See UN website) 5. United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 (2011) (See UN website) 6
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Principles of the Constitution & the Branches of the Federal Government Grand Canyon University: POS 301 10.30.12 Principles of the Constitution: A Chart The Effectiveness of Checks and Balances The founding fathers could see issues with giving too much power to any one part of the government. They had witnessed what ha happened in Pennsylvania when their legislature‚ uncheched by a judiciary or executive‚ ignored essential liberties which lead to the deprivation of rights to Quakers
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The podcast Cruel and Unusual covers the issue of the death penalty and whether or not it should be allowed in the U.S. It discusses the controversy within this issue‚ especially the lethal injection and the constitutionality of capital punishment in regards to the ban of cruel and unusual punishment in the 8th amendment. Some of the cases mentioned were Wilkerson v Utah where the Supreme Court initially ruled to allow a firing squad to be used in the death penalty and Baze v Rees (2008) in which
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Miller v. Alabama (2012) Supreme Court Case Introduction The Supreme Court reviewed the constitutionality of mandatory life sentences without parole enforced upon persons aged fourteen and younger found guilty of homicide. The court declared unconstitutional a compulsory sentence of life without parole for children. The states have been barred from routinely imposing sentences based on the crime committed. There is a requirement
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