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than cakes, but they are also art. If the government were to make Phillip make cakes that go against his beliefs, they would be stopping his freedom of speech (Liptak). Based on past Supreme Court cases where religious rights start to to cross other laws and rights, there is a

choice for the Supreme Court. This has become a very important topic in this year’s election. This turn of events has the ability to change the power structure of the Supreme Court from Republican run to a Democratic run Court. This could change many laws in the US. Over the weekend President Obama began to look over the list of potential candidates for the position. One report from the New York Times has suggested some judges that might be on the list. Judges like, Merrick B. Garland who is the Chief

Affordable Care Act (PPACA), into law. The United States is at the beginning of a long overdue and much needed overhaul to the health care system. The changes made to the law by legislation, focuses on: provisions to expand public health coverage, an effort to control health care costs, initiatives to improve health care delivery system, and reorganization of spending under Medicare (Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 2014). More than 90 changes were included in the law; some went into effect almost

Organised Crime-Maritime Piracy, Smuggling and Human Trafficking: Organised crime groups will utilise the Indian Ocean space to conduct their illicit operations (Hastings, 2012). Major crimes include piracy, smuggling and human trafficking. Piracy is a major security challenge in the IOR as it threatens peace and regional stability, trade and commerce as well as international energy movement (Herbert-Burns, 2012). It has encountered a lot of attention within the media as a successful means of financial

He co-founded the Hastings Center. Most of what the Hastings Center publishes is in regards to bioethics. This article, in particular, was written for the Commonweal Institute, a catholic opinion journal, which Mr. Callahan was also executive editor for. Mr. Callahan admits that he does

Gaines 1 Hayley Gaines Professor Johnson College Composition 2 13 April 2015 The Right to Die Physician assisted suicide has been practiced over the past couple centuries and is beginning to spark the interest in many people who suffer from terminal diseases. Physician assisted suicide is the voluntary termination of one 's own life by administration of a lethal substance with the direct or indirect assistance of a physician ("Physician-assisted Suicide"). Starting in the early 1800 's

many women are getting legally paid less because of their job title. Although, they are performing the same work as a male, their job title does not declare that. Therefore, they are legally able to get paid less. This is, however, a violation of laws that has been passed and must be amended. Mohamad G. Alkadry, an associate professor and director of the master of public administration program at West Virginia University, claims that the wage gap has persisted throughout the years and has never

DIFFICULT DECISIONS DURING WARTIME: A LETTER FROM A NON-ALIEN IN AN INTERNMENT CAMP TO A FRIEND BACK HOME is Frank H. Wu from San Francisco, CA. Wu is a highly distinguished man who has been a Chancellor and Dean of University of California Hastings College of Law since before 2014. The reason for him writing this fictional letter, was to raise awareness of the concentration camps that were placed here in the United States to hold American people of Japanese heritage. The Japanese Americans were placed

differs. Also, how we think of freedom of religions and about imposing limitations to the beliefs of a person. A current issue that has happened is for Christian students on campus. In its over-100-year history, the University of California Hastings College of Law has denied student organization status to only one group, the Christian Legal Society, because it required its leaders to be Christian and to abstain from sexual activity outside of marriage. The Founders thinks that “freedom of religion”