State Constitutional Law Case Study

Texas is unusual in its judiciary systems because there are two supreme courts; one handles criminal cases, while the other handles civil cases (Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services, 2016). These courts are known as the Court of Criminal Appeals, and The Supreme Court of Texas; the first handling appeals from

VI. Conclusion The Court apprehended that conducting a DNA buccal test as a part of the arrest process and it does not violate the Fourth Amendment because the test serves from a state that does not require a warrant for a search. The Court apprehended that determining an arrestee's character and criminal background is an essential part of the arrest process and that a DNA test is just as lawful as fingerprinting. Determining a suspect’s criminal background serves the legitimate state interest of determining what level of risk the person positions in the community and what circumstances should be established on his or her discharge from

Initially, Matthew Desmond’s book Evicted represents a profound and realistic ethnography about people’s day-to-day experiences of poverty with a particular focus on the outcomes of housing instability within the state. He exploits the evidence from housing court administrative records, excerpts from the news, and different surveys of renters to support his point of view revealed in the book. In his work, Desmond raises questions why the state is introducing the housing policy that deteriorates the position of tenants renting from private landlords and how a person with the monthly income of $628 and rent of $550 can not only provide his family but also survive. In Evicted, Matthew Desmond reasonably criticizes the American housing system according to which most of the low-income tenants are left alone in the private rental market and have no options to receive affordable apartments.

Addressing California’s Housing Crisis: Affording Dignity in Shelter Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights asserts that housing is a fundamental component to a decent standard of living, yet few city governments--even in the most developed economies--have proven themselves capable of ensuring such a basic right to

Body paragraph3- Everyone is entitled to a house, as long as they can afford it. Well, the Shelley Family had money and they bought a house in a white neighborhood. At the time, black people couldn't live in white neighborhoods so Kraemer sued to take the house back. The Supreme Court considered two questions: are racially-based restrictive covenants legal under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, and could they be enforced by a court of law. In the end, they realized that the argument violated equal protection from 14th amendment . But despite the ruling of the Court, the widespread practice of racial covenants continued, although it is now legally

At one time, public housing had been thought of as a solution for inner city poverty, isolation, and as a basic human necessity for less well-off people (Riis 1890; Marcuse 1986b (1978); Stegman 1990). It was believed by most advocates, that good housing was humane and necessary to the well-being of all people and would greatly improve the quality of life of the people who lived in slums. They envisioned public housing as a way of fulfilling part of the states responsibility to ensure that decent, affordable housing was available for all residents of the U.S. The first national

The state of Mississippi has not passed many laws, which are named in honor of crime victims. A check of the state legislature’s web site, which shows the status of bills passed during each legislative session, shows that, since 2006, only three laws have been passed, which are named in honor of crime victims (Miss. Bill Status, 2016).

Individual rights are a very crucial part of our United States constitution, because whether these rights are being provided towards a criminal defendant or a victim the goal of our national government is to provide the same level of rights adequately to all its citizens. From the time in which the new judicial federalism began up until now, these rights have been more and more in debate case after case both in federal and state courts. A good example to this fact is a comparison between 3 different cases that pertain to decisions from both state and federal court, these cases are Maryland v Craig, Pennsylvania v Ludwig, and Ohio v Self. These cases deal with the defendant’s right to confront witnesses when the witness is a child who is

MILLERSBURG — An armed Killbuck man is in custody after Holmes County deputies responding to a Friday night domestic violence call were able to talk him into giving up his weapon and complying with officers.

A muddy shoe print was use to link an unnamed man who was on the run from the police to his vehicle which was carrying 3 ½ pounds of marijuana. Police detective Chad Larner attempted to pull over this man in a Mazda for speeding but he would not stop. The man was eventually able to lose Larner. He then parked the car, got out and tried to hide. The police later found the car and found the man two blocks away. He attempted to bribe a young woman to walk with him by saying that he would give her $40. The woman told the police that he told her that he was in a police chase in which he was not the driver and he was trying to hide from the police. When the police searched the car they found four bags of the 3 ½ pounds of marijuana. The police also

I agree with the New Hampshire Supreme Court decision that Erin was under “duress” when she signed the prenuptial agreement.

Every New Yorker has the right to a safe and affordable place to live in. New York’s shortage of affordable housing has reached a crisis point. Poor and elderly people throughout New York City are at a greater risk of homelessness and forced low-income residents do not have food or medical care to stay in their homes. A sinful structure of homelessness in New York City is New York’s shortage of affordable housing. Millions of New Yorkers are desperate to find affordable housing and tens of thousands are forced to live either in dirty shelters or on the streets. Recent data indicates that nearly 60,000 people, including more than 23,000 children, stay in the city’s main homeless shelter system (Guelpa). A small amount of poor renter households received a housing subsidy from the local government. Little assistance is being provided which means that most poor families and individuals that seek assistance

Annie’s actions were clearly in self-defense. In the time period that Annie and Floyd where away from the café there was plenty of opportunities for Floyd to threaten Annie and make her fear for the safety of her own life or her daughter’s life. Who is to say that Floyd hasn’t beaten Annie before? Annie could have very easily been in an altered state of mind suffering from “battered woman’s syndrome” from previous episodes or threats. This could have caused her to see events play out differently that the eye witness’s accounted for. After five years Annie knew how Floyd’s mind worked and knew she was imminent danger and had to defend herself.

The State of Texas should continue electing state-level judges in partisan elections instead of being appointed by the governor with approval of the Texas Senate. The most popular method of selecting state-level judges is the assisted appointment, where a nominating committee of both lawyers and non-lawyers review the applications of

In Grootboom the Court was faced with the issue of a group of displaced squatters, who felt that their rights under sections 26 (everyone has right to adequate housing) and 28 (1) (c) (every child has right shelter) were being violated. The Court’s ruling found that the government was not meetings its obligations under sections 26 (2) of the Constitution, which required that the state take measures to increase access to housing; specifically the Court noted that the state had especially failed in providing any sort of aid to those poor who were in desperate need of places to live. Thus the Court issued an order declaring that the state devise and implement a program to