Christian Marble SECTION #:22230408 Date:11/12/13 Korematsu v. United States U.S. Supreme Court 1944 Facts: In 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Executive Order 9066. This order allowed the United States military to section off parts of the US as military areas. In these areas they were trying to exclude specific groups of people from them. The group they were trying to exclude were the Japanese-Americans because they were believed to be acting as spies and sending signals
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Introduction “This court has before it a unique and serious matter involving novel legal issues and international law.”2 The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals chose these words to describe Valdez v. State of Oklahoma,3 a case in which a Mexican national argued for postconviction relief from the death penalty on the basis of Article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (VCCR),4 to which the United States is a party. Significantly, Valdez made the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals one
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Following the September 11th terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, President George Bush and British Prime Minister Blair gave speeches regarding the terrorist attacks. In both of their speeches they used a variety of rhetorical strategies combined with a distinct tone to express their sadness towards the families affected by the tragic event. President George Bush and Prime Minister Blair gave very passionate and emotional speeches concerning the tragedy. In Bush’s speech
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Philadelphia, PA, for violating the Sedition Act for: “attempting to cause insubordination in the military and naval forces of the United States” and was convicted. A few days later after he was convicted, he appealed his case to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court agreed to hear his case and his case was tried on January 9th, 1919. During the trial, many questions were brought up. One of which was whether or not the first amendment could be limited during wartime and whether or not if the Sedition
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is an issue today that although Congress have these powers, there are not effective checks put on the president’s power today. The Supreme Court can declare the actions of any member of the executive branch, including the president, to be unconstitutional. For example, Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer (The Steel Seizure Case) was a United States Supreme Court decision that limited the power of the President of the United States to seize private property in the absence of either specifically
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In 2004, the Supreme Court established in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld that although all enemy combatants are subject to detainment, including U.S. citizens, detainees who are U.S. citizens cannot be held indefinitely without all the due process protections enforceable through judicial review. The court upheld this decision despite the fact that Hamdi was allegedly caught as a part of supporting forces hostile to the U.S. in Afghanistan. According to the 8 of 9 justices who were part of the plurality opinion
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Consequently, Gideon was arrested in a nearby tavern and ordered to stand trial. On August 4, 1961, Clarence Earl Gideon appeared for trial before Judge Robert L. McCrary, Jr. in the Circuit Court of the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida for Bay County. The trial transcript begins as follows: (Lewis P9) The Court: The next case on the docket is the case of
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Courtroom Observation Written Assignment Part I – First Draft – 15 points This assignment requires that you provide details of a court case, e.g. crime, victims, environmental circumstances (who, what, where, when, why), potential issues with trial, etc. You may choose from the list of defendants or cases below or choose your own. Casey Anthony Phillip Garrido George Zimmerman OJ Simpson Debra LaFave Timothy McVeigh James Holmes Scott Peterson Dennis Rader Drew Peterson Brown v. Board of Education
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Center Inc. Supreme Court of New Mexico 555 P.2D 696. FACTS Plaintiff-appallee represented by Gary J. Martone, J. Richard Baumgartner, and Joseph Goldberg, Albuquerque. Defendant-appellant represented by Heidel, Samberson, Gallini & Williams, Jerry L. Williams, Lonvington. This appeal comes from the Bernalillo County District Court where the court reversed a decision of the Unemployment Security Commission and awarded benefits to a discharged employee. The ruling of the court is being appealed
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Functions of Law LAW-421 Contemporary Business Law Tad Davis Louis Malinchak February 27, 2014 The functions and role of law in business and society is to keep corporations from exerting power over the citizens as well as implementing a balance between the use of infrastructure such as highways, railroads etc. Examples of this are laws imposed by entities such as the FDA, FCC, DOT, NTSB, and USDA keep businesses from directly or indirectly causing harm to consumers as
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