Court Observation Paper For my observation paper‚ I chose to visit the Wayne County Circuit Court (Family Division)‚ which is located at 1025 East Forest in Detroit. The date of my visit was March 6th and I was there from 8:45 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. There is a neighborhood surrounding the court‚ however it is also right off of I-75 and minutes from downtown‚ which makes it very easy to locate. When I arrived‚ I found parking to be very easy and I parked across the street on Forest. When I walked
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Why was the Supreme Court built in 2010 and how effective has it been at upholding civil liberties? The Supreme Court was introduced in 2010 as a replacement for the House of Lords as the top law court of justice in the UK‚ Wales and Northern Ireland. This court has cost approximately 59 million pounds to build and was officially open on 1st October 2009. The enactment of the Supreme Court came about under the Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (The Supreme Court [Online]‚ 2010) and currently stands
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forever changing‚ the need for progressive laws and regulations is important. Although the United States Supreme Court cannot directly change these laws‚ it does
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had been passed‚ denied‚ and even overturned by the courts. First I viewed the debate and proposed 2014 amendment of medical marijuana in the Politics in Florida book (Ch. 2‚ Pg. 58). After‚ I viewed another 2014 amendment that was less debated upon‚ being the Water and Land Conservation (Ch. 9‚ Pg. 300). Lastly I took a slightly different approach in selecting the Florida Marriage Protection Amendment‚ as this issue was heavily involved in the court system. Instead of analyzing the amendments themselves
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1/3/05 Constitutional Law Supreme Court Case Write-Up Case: Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1976) Source: Internet http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=438&invol=265 http://texascivilrightsreview.org/phpnuke/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=129 http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/324/ Issue: Did the University of California violate the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection clause‚ and the Civil
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Thematic Essay-Supreme Court Cases The outcome of cases that have gone through the United States Supreme Court judicial branch have each had a major impact on how the laws and amendments of the United States Constitution are interpreted. Two cases in particular that expanded constitutional liberties is the case of Engel vs. Vitale (1962) and the case of Tinker vs. Des Moines School District (1969). Not only did both of these cases expand constitutional liberties in general‚ they more specifically
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Question : One should always use a capital “C” for “court.” Student Answer: True False Comments: Question 2. Question : When the U.S. Supreme Court‚ in its discretion‚ decides to take a case‚ it is said that the Court has: Student Answer: acted in conference certified the case granted certiorari acted en banc Comments: Question 3. Question : Any case decided by the highest court in a state may be reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court. Student Answer: True False Comments:
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Barbara Leigh Werner Everest University Online California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Mistake Recently a Federal Judge has court ordered California Officials to reduce the California Inmate population that is crowding their State Prisons within a six month time frame. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is again disappointing the California people and creating a newly revised strategy to drain the pockets of several California tax payers as anemergency solution to their current
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Each court period in U.S. history impacted the U.S. Supreme Court differently. When the new era of the Warren court was established in 1953‚ President Dwight D. Eisenhower had appointed Earl Warren as the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court thinking that Warren would introduce and spread conservative views throughout the U.S. Supreme Court when in fact he led the court into making liberal decisions. Warren surprised and tricked Eisenhower by his decisions in landmark court cases. The cases heard
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considered one of the most important cases in U.S. Supreme Court history. This landmark case is of great importance in the American political system because John Marshall‚ chief justice of the Supreme Court from 1801 to 1835‚ was able to bring respect and prestige to the Court. The Marshall Court announced that a court has the power to declare an act of Congress void if it contradicts the Constitution. For the first time in history‚ the Supreme Court asserted its role in reviewing federal legislation‚ a
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