Anton Scalia Case

In the case of Robert Tolan and Marian Tolan vs. Jeffrey Wayne Cotton, I will be discussing what interest me about this case. I will also deliberating on the liability and criminal liability of this case. The Tolan vs. Cotton case interests me because the United States have so many police that are brutalizing citizens. In some cases the police officers are getting away with it. After reading, reviewing, and studying this case I have learn a lot about the criminal system and laws that men and women should obey. I will explain how the nine judges on the Supreme courts all came to a verdict against the police officer Jeffrey Cotton after he shot an innocent suspect. This people

He was foully murdered by the Ku-Klux"(Doc A). The Ku Klux attack him because he didn't believe the same thing as them. He was a Republican and they didn't like how he was a senate so they killed him. They stabbed him and then hung him in the in the Grand Jury room.

The Supreme Court is the courtroom where all the legal cases dealing with congress or the constitution go to get a final decision. The Court is currently composed of a chief justice, eight associate justices, and nine officers. Their main goal as members of the Supreme Court is to make sure everything and anything abides by the constitution. It has many powers when it comes to law and especially the constitution, but it is not overly powerful due to the other two branches of the government. Checks and balances helps keep their powers level and just as important as the executive and legislative branch powers. The Court has the ability to remove a law or refute anything that violates the United States Constitution. The Supreme Court, on average, receives around 7,000-8,000 petitions for a writ of certiorari every term. The Court grants and hears oral arguments for eighty cases. One case specifically was Printz v. United States. This case focused on dealing with background checks when purchasing a firearm. Jay Printz deemed the provisions to the Brady Bill unconstitutional, decided to take it to the District Courts and eventually the case ended up in the Supreme Court, where Stephen P. Halbrook fought and won the case based on a five to four ruling in favor of Printz.

The United States president, Barack Obama, nominated a longtime federal judge Merrick Garland to take the position of the Supreme Court and replace the former justice, Antonin Scalia. Merrick Garland’s past decisions related to different issues had made him the talk of the town. Although Garland has a 19 year record on the U.S. court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, this does not lend him to a fast evaluation (Mcshane).

Defamation is defined as a statement that injures another party’s reputation. Defamation includes both written statements, libel, and spoken statements, slander. In order to prove defamation 4 things must be shown: a false statement claiming to be true is made, sharing that information either verbally or through written communication with a third party, fault and damages.

On July 17, 2014, 43 years old black man named Eric Garner was selling loose cigarettes illegally on Staten Island. As the polices approach Erica to make their arrest, he raised both hands in the air and requested for both officers to not touch him. Meanwhile, the second officer came behind Eric and put him in a choke hold in order to restrain the 350 pounds man down to the ground. After he was restrained to the ground both officers roll him over onto his stomach. Within seconds after being roll over to his stomach Erica Garner repeatedly shouted to the police officer, "I can't breathe!", while he was laying on his stomach face down to the sidewalk pavement. Suddenly, the 350-pound black male died of compression of the neck from the officer's

The district court ruled against Mr. Comerford’s claim that the evidence brought against him was unconstitutional. For the purpose of this legal argument, Knotts v. U.S., Kyllo v. U.S, and Katz v. U.S. will be used to suggest to the Court that Comerford had no reasonable expectation of privacy in his evening drug runs, and Smith v. Maryland will be used to prove that there is no expectation of privacy regarding the phone numbers dialed. Together, these two cases prove that the government agents were not conducting an illegal search by tracking Comerfords location using The Chum, and that the evidence gathered by this investigation may be used against Comerford in a Court of law.

Legislation passed under former Chief Justice John Marshall would continue the Federalists agenda to define a strong central government while diminishing state level powers. Arguably the most important Supreme Court case in history, Marbury v. Madison’s (1803) presided over the commissions of several judges appointed in the final hours of the Adams administration. Chief Justice Marshall would deny the petition and writ, claiming the court did not have the power to issue them however; he awarded the plaintiffs their commissions. As result Marshall’s decision established judicial review allowing federal courts to nullify acts of Congress that violate the Constitution. Despite the immediate limitations Marshall place on the court his actions would

In 1986, the 15th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Warren Burger, informed President Ronald Reagan of his decision to retire. Reagan’s first duty was to fill the role of Chief Justice, which he did by appointing justice William Rehnquist to Chief Justice. Now Reagan was tasked with nominating a justice to replace Burger’s seat in the Supreme Court. According to those who were involved in the decision, it came down to Robert Bork and Antonin Scalia. With Warren Burger leaving the Court, it meant that the Court would be balanced with four conservative justices and four liberal justices. This placed even more importance on Reagan’s decision to nominate a justice who would often times be making the deciding vote. Reagan needed to nominate a

"Since the Turner choice, government and state court feelings have taken after Garland's thinking and maintained trunk looks construct exclusively with respect to proof of individual medication use found in the traveler compartment. Be that as it may, they are misinformed," Kamens composed. "[I]t does not take after that a man who as of late smoked cannabis in an auto keeps a stash nearby in the storage

For Scalia, everything the Supreme Court debated about had clear issue. When talking about religion and freedom of speech he believed, “speech by and about religion received precisely the same protection under the First Amendment as any other kind of speech.” (Tobin 113) when talking about whether minors should be executed such as in the Stanford vs Kentucky case, Scalia wrote that states could execute 16 year olds and seventeen year olds.

Supreme Court reflected and reinforced nationalism during the post-Ghent years, despite the ominous setbacks concerning slavery.

Scalia was a very good person to all who may have stepped foot in the Courts. Of the political debates and that is how he enjoyed his life. He worked with renowned cadets and had a grand old time. I think that he will live in infamy for life. In political world because, he is so cherished and outcomes of the moment. He says what he wants and is very polite. But on thing that no one expected to happen did. (Scalia’s death at age 79, the high court had been divided between the appointees of Democratic presidents, all fairly liable, and five Republican appointees, all relatively conservative).

The Government has a system in place, laws to abide by to protect everyone that will be involved. Mr. Green is Houston’s city controller that is responsible for approving and directing the city’s money to future projects. Currently, he is blocking the City Councils vote on contracts worth $1.5 billion and this is not the first time he has blocked it. Before he pushes the contract for a vote he wants to review the bids, while digging deeper than anticipated or what everyone expected. Is it within his right to to look how the bid went and how the employees scored the bid? Is he wasting the city’s money just to push this off onto the next controller? What’s the requirement for contracts, bids and what the city requires?

I am interested in attending the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University due to the plethora of opportunities that are offered to their law students. I believe that these opportunities are encapsulated by the Scalia Law Advantage, as the law school’s proximity to northern Virginia and Washington, D.C. grant access to an incomparable amount of career opportunities and high-caliber faculty. These features are especially of interest to me as I believe that gaining practical experience in the government, a private law firm, or a non-governmental organization would be integral in developing a legal career. In addition to the exceptional location and professional opportunities, Mason Law’s smaller community and 1:11.8 teacher to student