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    challenged Kansas’s school segregation laws in the Supreme Court. Linda Brown’s case in the Supreme Court was Brown Vs. Board of Education of Topeka.   Furthermore‚ Linda Brown is important to education because this case was a major civil rights victory because it was ruled racial segregation in public educational facilities are unconstitutional. This event brought an end to federal tolerance of racial segregation. In 1896‚ the Supreme Court ruled in Plessy Vs. Ferguson believed "separate but

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    Arthur James originally filed their case against the state of Ohio to challenge its refusal to recognize their marriage on their death certificates‚ despite being legally married in Maryland. The Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court case was formed from four similar same-sex marriage cases originating in Ohio‚ Tennessee‚ Michigan‚ and Kentucky that were consolidated by the Supreme Court under the title of Obergefell v. Hodges. It was accepted by the Supreme Court on January 16‚ 2015 whenever the petitioners

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    trial?  The judge listens to both sides of the case to make a recommendation to the jury of what outcome to decide.  The judge makes sure the evidence is presented fairly and that the jurors understand the law and procedures.  The judge chooses who will serve on the jury and will consider the recommendation of the jury in a bench trial.  The judge selects what evidence may be shown at trial and what evidence will be reserved for the appeals court. Points earned on this question: 5 Question

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    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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    Georgia’s Court System Few people are familiar with the basic functions and responsibilities of the state’s courts. Different courts are set up to do different things. Cases are heard based on the subject matter jurisdiction they are given. The Georgia court system consists of five classes of trial level courts: the magistrate‚ probate‚ juvenile‚ state and superior courts. There are also approximately 370 municipal courts. There are two appellate courts: the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals

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