destroying over thirty thousand documents before being subpoenaed by the SEC‚ predictably hindering the investigation. During May of 2002‚ Arthur Andersen LLP was finally indicted on charges of obstruction of justice by the Southern Texas District Court‚ served by Michael Chertoff. The jury believed that Arthur Andersen and its employees were in violation of 18 US Code § 1512‚ a public law which covers “tampering with a witness‚ victim‚ or an informant”5‚ due to the mass destruction of documents in
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minor receiving the death penalty it gets even more interesting. The Supreme Court case of Roper v. Simmons was a perfect example of that. Roper v. Simmons presented the Supreme Court with two questions: 1) whether or not the execution of those who were sixteen or seventeen at the time of a crime is cruel and unusual punished and 2) does is violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment. The main audience for this particular case is the general American population‚ and specifically affects the juvenile
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petition the Government for a redress of grievances”. The Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines (1969) is a landmark case that established whether or not students leave their 1st Amendment rights at the school gate. In December 1965‚ Mary Beth Tinker‚ a 13-year-old junior high student‚ gathered a group of students and decided to wear black wristbands that protested the Vietnam War. When asked to take the wristbands
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the Civil Court The function of the Civil Court is to deal with civil matters‚ cases which don’t include criminal matters. The role of the County Court in the Civil Court The role of the county court is to deal with small‚ simple cases; they deal with civil non-criminal matters). Businesses who try and recover money that they are owed go to civil courts as it’s a small non-criminal case‚ an individual who wants compensation for injuries he/she has had can also go to a civil court as well as
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W Marbury v Madison 1803 will forever and always be a Supreme Court Case that will live infamously in today’s history. During the election of 1800 against incumbent president John Adams of the Federalist Party versus the Anti-Federalist Party nominee Thomas Jefferson‚ with Jefferson being the victor. Before Adams were to leave the presidential office‚ he made what is called “midnight appointments” of new judgeships to counter act the Jeffersonians once in office. John Marshall‚ who was secretary
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Not a lot of people today are racist because of the civil rights movement.The civil rights movement is for the people to be good and they made more laws to make people to be even better.Three Supreme Court cases influenced the civil rights movement by making people to lessen African American:Shelley v. Kraemer‚Plessy v. Ferguson‚and Brown v. Board of Education. The cause Plessy vs. Ferguson made a law requiring restaurants‚ hotels‚and hospitals to serve African Americans.States began to require
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Courts in UK Her Majesty’s Courts of Justice of England and Wales are the civil and criminal courts responsible for the administration of justice in England and Wales; they apply the law of England and Wales and are established under Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom does not have a single unified judicial system—England and Wales have one system‚ Scotland another‚ and Northern Ireland a third. There are exceptions to this rule; for example in immigration law‚ the
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the Florida Supreme Court demanded a recount of the votes. This possibly violated the Constitution’s claim of equal protection and due process guarantees. The Supreme Court ruled against a recount‚ and gave instructions to undergo a recount that were impossible to carry out with the time given‚ thus essentially ending the election‚ and winning Bush the presidency. 2. The Constitution stated that there would be the Supreme Court‚ and Congress would create lower level courts as needed. With the creation
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Case: Near v. Minnesota 1931 U.S. Supreme Court Parties Jay Near (Plaintiff) State of Minnesota (Defendant) Facts: A publication‚ The Saturday Press‚ published an article alleging that City officials of Minneapolis were complaisant with gangsters who were engaged in illegal activities in the city. A Minnesota law was in effect which allowed the state courts to enjoin a publication which was engaged in a public nuisance. To be a nuisance the publisher had to be printing material that was malicious
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Three Supreme Court Cases with Impact The modern civil rights movement has been affected by three very important Supreme Court cases. The first infamous case was the Dred Scott v. Sanford decision which dreadfully took away the rights of African Americans. Then the case of Plessy v. Ferguson was held in 1896 which had a major impact on the civil rights movement. This case decided that African Americans were “separate but equal”. Then finally the last infamous case was the Board v. the Board of Education
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