Facts: In 1965 a group of individuals in Des Moines held a meeting to protest the Vietnam War. The group decided to fast and wear armbands as a sign of there disapproval. The principals of the Des Moines schools heard of the armband protest and adopted a policy banning any student from wearing the armbands at school. Any student caught wearing the armband at school would be asked to remove it‚ and if he refused he would be suspended until he returned without the armband. John Tinker and several
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In the poem "The Ballad of Birmingham" by Dudley Randall‚the historical events are being used in the poem by talking about racism. In the poem‚ African-American were being bomb by the whites and in the past‚ there were alot of racism. The bombing occurred at the African-American 16th street Baptist church‚ September 15‚ 1965. Four members of the Ku Klux Klan planted at least 15 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath the front steps of the church. It was an act of white supremacist
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DISCRIMINATION BASED ON RACE CASE Summary of Patricia Pitts v. Wild Adventures‚ Inc. In this case‚ a plaintiff is Patricia Pitts who is an African-American female. And the defendant is Wild Adventures‚ Inc. that operates a theme park in Valdosta‚ Georgia. The plaintiff claims race discrimination and unlawful retaliation Under Title VII and U.S. Code Section 1981 based on the defendant’s grooming policy prohibiting dreadlock and cornrow hairstyles‚ the defendant’s failure to promote plaintiff
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Ronald Robillard Prof. Jane Curth Personal and Community Health Section 012 06/11/13 Medical Marijuana Medical marijuana less harmful than most other legal tobacco products and has the ability to reduce the pain within ailing people. Marijuana also has the potential to raise the U.S. out of their tough economic struggle as well as lower crime rate and create more jobs for many more people. Marijuana should be legalized for medical use across the country. Marijuana has a negative stigma attached
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extent to which the law reflects moral and ethical standards.” As societies morals and ethics constantly change the law must adapt to meet the needs and standards that society holds valuable. To ensure that the wider community is content with the legal system it is important for individuals to investigate how the law deals with certain categories of crime‚ as well as how well the law is dealing with the prominent issue. Societies changing values influence the process of law making and the implementation
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Speluncean a. Truepenny CJ i) Does the law exhaust the requirements of ’justice’? Depends on one’s view of Justice. Justice in Truepenny’s eyes is to extend clemency to the defendants and that if this is done then in his eyes‚ ’ justice will be accomplished without offering any encouragement for the disregard of law’. ii) Mercy may not be part of the law if it is followed to the letter of the law. iii)
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Legal Studies. Man jailed for crime spree A man from Gin Gin‚ west of Bundaberg in south-east Queensland‚ has been jailed for stealing more than $32‚000 during a seven-month crime spree. Anton Michael Janezic‚ 39‚ pleaded guilty to 34 charges including fraud‚ theft‚ drug and driving offences between September 2009 and April last year. Of the fraud charges‚ 15 relate to activity in the bank account of Duingal man‚ Robert Pitman‚ who was found dead in his caravan after a fire last April. Magistrate
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holistic outcome for all parties involved. The issues that explore and reflect the role of discretion within our criminal justice system are police discretion‚ charge negotiation and judicial discretion in sentencing. The first aspect of the legal system in which discretion is used is in the powers given to police in the criminal investigative process. The responsibility of enforcing criminal always and ensuring they are adhered to lies with the police in the prevention and detection of crime
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ASANTE TECHNOLOGIES‚ INC. v. PMC-SIERRA‚ INC. 164 F. Supp. 2d 1142 (N.D. Cal. 2001) Legal Case Analysis The lawsuit results from a dispute involving the sale of electronic parts. The plaintiff‚ Assante Technologies is a Delaware corporation with its primary place of business in Santa Clare‚ California. Assante entered into a contract with Unique Technologies‚ located in California; which is the distributor of PMC-Sierra‚ Inc. located in British Columbia‚ Canada. The plaintiff alleges that the Defendant
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TOURISM TRAVEL BOOK REVIEW TRAVEL ETCETERA THE WORLD ON ANOTHER PLANE STEPHEN SCOURFIELD Travel Etcetera: The World on Another Plane. By Stephen Scourfield. First published in Australia 2005. St George Books‚ Newspaper House‚ 50 Hasler Road‚ Osborne Park‚ Western Australia 6017. ISBN 0-86778-07101. 182 Pages. $19.95 (Paperback). [i]Stephen Scourfield is a professional full-time Western Australian writer and photographer since 1977. [ii]Scourfield’s
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