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The supreme court is the most powerful court in the land.... Trial courts and appellate courts make up the supreme court.... The children are charged exorbitant prices for medication care and compensation to those children in case of death is slight compared to that given to children raised by parents of the opposite sex (supreme court, 2013).... The action of the district court was justifiable.... The state government was accessing its democratic right by allowing same-sex marriage and therefore the federal government had erred by disobeying instruction given by the court....
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The amendment had been instrumental in deciding the outcomes of such landmark cases as Brown v Board of Education and Roe v Wade (Daniel, p.... The paper 'The Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses' presents the Fourteenth Amendment, which was proposed and ratified immediately after the civil war is regarded as one of the most important legislations appended to the United States constitution....
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The researcher of the following paper highlights that the question of available protection for new products which are software is a complex issue.... Under UK law, the Copyright Design and Patents Act 1988 (“the Act”), software is protected by the law of copyright.... nbsp;… Although this is a powerful form of protection against authorized copying of code, it may not be adequate to protect novel underlying ideas....
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The Irish supreme court in “In re JH (An Infant)”1 held that intervention by the state in a family affair is only considered as reasonable only if it proved that there are “persuasive objectives” why the well being of the child could not be offered in the guardianship of the parents.... This was also reiterated in “N v Health Service Executive” where it was held by Irish supreme court that “extraordinary situations “did not present to substantiate a child to remain in the custody of her pre-adoptive parents....
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Many instances of adolescent activities like violent fighting within or outside the school premises by the use of weapons, bullying, rape and in occasional cases even murder, have left the air restless and encumbered with a menacing premonition that such things are to continue if nothing is done in place to prevent them.... hellip; This research will begin with the statement that the contemporary American educational system is occupied and tainted with a variety of complications....
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The judicial review is a power of the supreme court; the supreme court granted itself this power in the famous case of Marbury v.... Madison of 1803, the supreme court made a very historical statement; the Court declared it “emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is” (Bell, 2004).... The purpose of this feat was to give the court power to assess and review the constitutionality of acts that were approved and conceded by the Congress or those acts that the President had approved (Jordan, 1999)....
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This clause is problematic for many because it falls along the Federalist/Anti-Federalist divide and the contemporary Conservative/Liberal divide.... From the paper "The Elastic Clause as Interesting Reason for Political Debate in the United States" it is clear that the McCulloch case demonstrated just how elastic the necessary and proper clause was: namely because it stretched the power of the Congress over all of the states by a matter of precedent....
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This case was sensational for the controversial verdict of a Tennessee stature that approved the officer to use all necessary means to enforce the arrest of fleeing or forcibly resisting defendant while the Police Department allowed the use of deadly force only in cases of burglary.... The case study examines the conditional liabilities of the police department and the Tennessee statute during the prosecution and after the verdict by the Apex court of the US....
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