Sentences with phrase «supreme court cases»

continuing problems in recruiting and retaining blacks and other minorities at the top law firms; the rise of a small group of lawyers who focus on Supreme Court cases; the decline in civil rights cases that make it to the high court; and the court's dwindling caseload.

Posts are summaries of recent appellate and Supreme Court cases.

If you are ever invited into a local classroom to speak about the Supreme Court's role in our nation's history, you may first want to visit Landmark Supreme Court Cases, a site developed to support educators in teaching about landmark Supreme Court cases.

The release includes all Supreme Court cases and all Courts of Appeals decisions from 1950 on.

Covering all Supreme Court cases, this new feature compiles information and commentary into a resource that houses virtually everything you might want to know about -LSB-...]

The release included all U.S. Supreme Court cases and all federal circuit decisions since 1950.

The term gerrymandering dates to the early 19th century and has been the subject of U.S. Supreme Court cases going back decades with very little resolution of the issue.

The three looked at Supreme Court cases decided between 1954 and 2006.

US Supreme Court cases have been available on the Internet for years — from law schools, the Court itself, and even older cases from FLITE.

Seeing this drama unfold in Australia made me wonder what impact Facebook was having on British Columbia courts, in particular I was interested to see if Facebook had come up in British Columbia Supreme Court cases.

2 For purposes of this discussion all research references to California Appellate and Supreme Court cases are from AccessLaw.

So while this law student initiative might, in the long run help cure the problem of diversity at the Supreme Court (by ensuring a larger minority representation at large firms that handle Supreme Court cases), the growing consolidation of the Supreme Court bar still troubles me - as much or more than the lack of diversity.

Actually, it could be emulated for US Supreme Court cases but I am waiting to see how the US District Court cases will be handled, unless someone decides to start scanning in the Federal Supplement and Federal Rules Decisions etc..

2 UNANIMOUS Hawaii state supreme court cases on Sept. 29, 2000, HI v. Milford and HI v. Kalama, settled this issue.

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Find out about the stories behind little - known Supreme Court cases, the Spanish influenza and 19th - century orphans shipped to Michigan from New York.

For example, previous Supreme Court cases found «single - race schools were intentional segregation,» Orfield said.

Boutrous and Lipshutz cite several historic U.S. Supreme Court cases in their argument that public education meets the fundamental - right test, including Washington v. Glucksberg, in which the Court found that public education is «deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition» and «implicit in the concept of ordered liberty.»

Even graduates of the worst public schools know about the landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases Plessey vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. The Board of Education.

«If you look at the last 50 years, or all of history, of state behaviors and rampant inequity at the state level in U.S. Supreme Court cases, it's reasonable to think you'd see divestment from underserved communities, in favor of either saving money or to redirecting funds to places with more political clout and wealth,» Marchitello said.

The appeals court first agreed with the trial court that the voucher programs did not run violate the Religion Clause, citing two Arizona Supreme Court cases, Community Council v. Jordan, 432 P. 2d 460 (Ariz. 1967), andKotterman v. Killian, 972 P. 2d 606 (1999), that suggested that Arizona's Religion Clause was «virtually indistinguishable from the United States Supreme Court's interpretation of the federal Establishment Clause.»

No one also knows how the growth formulas work, including litigants in state supreme court cases.

Perhaps signaling the importance of the case, the one hour allotted for oral argument is one - third longer than most Supreme Court cases get.

She has worked with national organizations to present social science evidence in U.S. Supreme Court cases on racial integration, on state and national initiatives to improve interracial relations in schools, and with non-governmental and international organizations to evaluate applied programs designed to reduce racial and ethnic conflict.

The appellate court introduced a new standard that conflates language from two separate Supreme Court cases in a way that leaves school officials subject to litigation and restricts their ability to maintain harassment - free school environments.

UCW students are studying Supreme Court cases and learning about their constitutional rights as part of an exciting seminar taught at the University of Chicago Law School.

Players test their persuasive abilities by arguing real Supreme Court cases, and must convince a judge that the law is on their side.

The Landmark Supreme Court Cases, a joint offering from Street Law and The Supreme Court Historical Society, presents a handful of lesson plan ideas:

In both the NH and U.S. Supreme Court cases, the justices ruled that plaintiffs demonstrated no personal injury either financially or to their constitutional rights, so they were sent packing.

Ulster County has the second highest volume of Supreme Court cases in the district and yet has only one locally based trial judge.

Humanists UK adopted a similar approach in the Supreme Court cases Nicklinson (also concerned with assisted dying) and NIHRC (about abortion in Northern Ireland).

What is the difference in 1) background and 2) implications of the supreme Court cases Buckley v. Valeo and Citizens United v. FEC?

The US has the first amendment and many supreme court cases that formally establishes a separation of church and state legal philosophy in our country.

Judge Rolf Thorson, elected to County Court in 2014, was initially assigned to Westchester County, but now primarily handles Supreme Court cases.

But McDonnell was actually only the latest in a series of Supreme Court cases over the last two decades that have dramatically narrowed federal corruption laws.

Funding mechanisms for enforcement would include a check box on tax forms for publically - funded campaigns, money from the unclaimed funds property fund and a ten percent surcharge for certain state Supreme Court cases.

He blasted efforts that seek to limit the power of unions, be it right to work laws or limitations on dues, now being decided in Supreme Court cases.

Citing the relevant Supreme Court cases, the Judge concluded that Ajibola failed to depose to any fact which showed that his rights had been affected beyond that of ordinary member of the public.

For instance, Supreme Court cases are usually billed higher than cases conducted at the High Court.

This led to many US Supreme Court cases trying to determine the rights of captured suspected terrorists, ranging from the rights of basic humane treatment to the right of public jury trials as civilians are entitled.

So Supreme Court cases are already controversial and they still ended in unanimous decisions thirty out of seventy - four times in 2014.

The Act barred both free and enslaved blacks from the rights of citizenship, laid the foundation for the 1857 Dred Scott Decision, and triggered more than a century of Supreme Court cases like Takao Ozawa v. United States (1922), where Ozawa argued that as a Japanese man, he was white.

Central to this drama are two Supreme Court cases: Engle v. Vitale (1962), in which the Court decided that government - directed prayer in public schools was an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment's establishment clause; and Abington v. Schempp (1963), which declared unconstitutional a Pennsylvania statute that provided for compulsory Bible reading in public classrooms.

So in the wake of the Supreme Court cases, which have many people up in arms on all sides of the issue, let's remember the witness of Jesus that announces no one is excluded from God's radical grace.

### More Perfect From RadioLab, this show looks at how individual Supreme Court cases are still shaping cultural values.

It was as true prior to those two crucial Supreme Court cases as it is now that the fundamental question regarding capital punishment is not what murderers have done or deserve.

A long line of Supreme Court cases holds that states must pay unemployment compensation to employees who lose their jobs because of their religious beliefs.

Michael W. McConnell is assistant professor of law and the University of Chicago Law School and a frequent litigator in Supreme Court cases involving church and state.