Do You Need an Attorney for a Minnesota Divorce? In Minnesota‚ it is not uncommon for couples to file for divorce without legal representation. As they move through the Minnesota judicial system‚ these couples complete and file the necessary paperwork that lays out the terms of divorce. For example‚ each couple must address how property division and child custody will proceed after the divorce is finalized. Mediation is a valuable asset for couples navigating through the divorce process‚ especially
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Abstract The following is a case summary on United States Supreme Court case 03-633 Roper v. Simmons. Even though many disagree with the death penalty all together‚ even more disagree with the death penalty for juveniles. It is my opinion that anyone over the age of 16 who can premeditate and act upon an event so gruesome that includes either or both rape and murder should be subject to the death penalty. Juvenile offenses continue to rise in number and severity and many of those are because
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The trial court decided no due process violation occurred and the plaintiff was at fault. Issues presented: Was Speelman’s substansive and procedural due process violated‚ as well as her right to a preliminary injunction? Holding: Speelman should have been granted
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R v. Latimer The case with Robert Latimer all began with his twelve year old daughter having cerebral palsy and being quadriplegic. Tracy would suffer from many seizures a day and was also believed to have a brain capacity of a four-month old which caused her to be dependent. Tracy underwent many surgeries to try to give her an “easier” life but nothing seemed to chance any changes. No changes for the better or for the worse. So it wasn’t like she was near death. November 19th 1993‚ she was supposed
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Plessy v. Ferguson 14th amendment- equal protection Argued 1896‚ Decided-1896 Louisiana placed a law giving separate railway cars for blacks and whites. In 1892‚ Homer Plessy- 7/8 Caucasian‚ sat in a "whites only" car of a Louisiana train‚ and refused to move to the car for blacks and was then arrested. The Court had to decide whether the Louisiana law was unconstitutional under the 14th amendment. The Court ruled that the state law was within its constitutional boundaries. The majority of this
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Director of the division of clinical psychology at the University of Minnesota‚ co-creator of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI). Starke Hathaway was born on August 22‚ 1903 in Central Lake‚ Michigan. He graduated from Ohio University with a bachelor’s degree in 1927‚ and a master’s degree in psychology and statistics in 1928 from the Ohio State University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in psychology and anatomy in 1932. Hathaway was appointed
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Human trafficking is a bigger problem in Minnesota than many people believe. In fact‚ the Twin Cities are one of 13 cities in the United States with a high child prostitution rate (Women’s Foundation of Minnesota Staff‚ 2017). Human trafficking is a major issue in Minnesota and many measures can be taken to prevent human trafficking‚ such as teaching it in schools‚ donating to programs that help people who were trafficked‚ and raising public awareness. Minnesota’s definition of human trafficking
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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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Mapp V Ohio “The right of the people to be secure in their persons‚ houses‚ papers‚ and effects‚ against unreasonable searches and seizures‚ shall not be violated‚” Mapp V. Ohio (1961) dealt with that very sentence of the constitution. Were the officers at fault or Mapp? This complex question has a complex answer one that puzzled the Supreme Court and led to a change in criminal procedure. The verdict was a strict interpretation of the constitution. The fourth amendment was relevant because
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In the case of Katz v. United states‚ 1967‚ The FBI agents acted on a suspicion that Katz maybe transmitting gambling information over the phone to other people in other states. Katz was using a public phone booth to conduct the transactions of information ("Findlaw’s United States Supreme Court Case And Opinions."). The FBI agents then proceeded to attach an eavesdropping device to the outside of the phone booth to record his conversations. With all the recoding that the FBI could get‚ they
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