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    In 1976‚ the California Supreme Court ruled that psychotherapists have a duty to warn and protect potential victims if their patients made threats or otherwise behaved as if they presented a serious danger of violence to another. This ruling happened because of the Tarasoff Case of 1969‚ in which the court determined the need for therapists to protect the public was more important than protecting patient-therapist confidentiality. (Vitelli 1) The Tarasoff Case is based on the 1969 murder of a University

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    have to answer but he was wrong. The supreme court held that the exclusionary rule was only applicable in criminal courts and was not meant to be seen as a right but as a way to reduce unreasonable searches and seizures conducted by police ("Oyez: US v. Calandra‚" n.d.). Stone v. Powell (1976) was convicted of murder in the state of California. Powell claimed that the search against him was unlawful so the gun found on him should have been inadmissible in court. He tried to file a writ of habeas corpus

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    to 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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    Before making the final decision the court considered the following factors‚ length of delay‚ prejudiced to the accused‚ explanation for the delay‚ and Waiver of Appellants. The Supreme Court then concluded that the delay of 2 years after the appellant’s preliminary trial was unreasonable. The Crown did not justify the institutional delay and did not prove that the

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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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    Proportionality Really in the Eighth Amendment? TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………………………………3 General Background and Procedural Information……………………4 Origins of the 8th Amendment and History of Proportionality……………………………………………………………………………………………………4 Capital Crimes and Proportionality: Furman‚ Gregg‚ Coker………………………………………………………………………………………7 The Proportionality See-Saw: Rummel to Harmelin………………9 The Second Dimension: Criminal

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    would spy on America and sabotage our defenses. (2 points) Score 3. The majority of the court believed that compulsory exclusion of large groups of citizens from their homes was okay in what situation? Answer: When our shores are in danger‚ or threatened by hostile forces we must do what is necessary to protect them. (2 points) Score 4. What did the dissenting justices think about the power of military authorities? Answer: The Supreme Court (2 points) Score 5. The dissenting

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    Poor health was always the go to excuse for Sir Fairfax whenever it came to political involvement. Though the Captain-General of the New Model Army was a military mastermind‚ he turned over nearly all politics to his second in command‚ Oliver Cromwell‚ to handle. It is possible that the reason why Fairfax was such an involved field commander was that he was looking for ways to stay away from parliament. At the beginning of the Putney Debates‚ Sir Thomas Fairfax turned suddenly ill‚ and he selected

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    Understanding the macromolecules in our bodies that are essential to our lives is what makes up molecular biology. One of the many things to understand about the macromolecules in our bodies is to first know about how they interact and types of interactions that are involved with each other‚ especially down to an atomic level. These interactions are included within types of covalent and non-covalent bonding. Covalent bonding involves the pairing of electrons that are shared between atoms‚ whereas

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    to argue that I should do more‚ be more‚ or effect more then my finitude allows. So why do I‚ why do so many of us‚ insist on denying our finitude? Why do we think we have the capacity to be the arbiters of a universal morality? The war to end all wars This issue runs deeper than the immortality of the soul‚ and it goes further than the impulse we feel to leave our mark on the world. It masquerades

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