John Robert Vane

By “blue-sky” research, Sir John Vane means researching and spending time partaking in activities that a person is genuinely interested in, not wasting time on activities with a goal of reaching an end-product or result. Rather than using research as a means of self indulgence, Sir John Vane uses the notion of blue-sky research to instead participate in what one is interested in. Advantages to blue-sky research include the development of Bayer aspirin and its’ effects on society today. Through genuine

How is marriage defined? Any of the diverse forms of interpersonal union established invarious partd of the world to form a familial bond that is recognized legally, religiously, or socially, granting the participating partners mutual conjugal rights and responsibilities and including, for example, opposite-sex marriage, same-sex marriage, plural marriage, and arranged marriage. Sadly many religions still will not accept same sex marriage. A ruling by Massachusetts ' highest court that prohibiting

SUMMARY The Voting Rights Act 42 U.S.C. §§ 1973 et seq., decision is important regarding the laws governing voting rights and their relationship to minority voters. Its implication and effects however does not end within the legal realms and dimensions but continues through to society, culture, and human rights. The Voting Rights Act initially established in 1965 under Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration protected “racial minorities” from biased voting practices. It was a huge stride in the civil

Have you been in so much pain that you were immobilized and physically unable to work yet denied any medical treatment? This happens to be the story of G.W. Gamble, a prison inmate injured while serving his prison sentence. In 1973 Gamble was unloading cotton bales from a truck in accordance with his prison labor assignment. During a routine shipment unloading, a “6.00 pound” cotton Bale (later determined to be 600 pounds, fell onto him, causing him to severely injured his back. Gamble struggled

In the monumental 2015 Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges, the majority of the justices voted that the right to marry is a fundamental right of the people, regardless of the gender of the two-people joining in matrimony. Although this current Supreme Court case is considered a landmark case for the progression towards equality, this national debate pertaining to gay marriage has been going on since the 1986 case of Bowers v. Hardwick, which altered a Georgia law to “consider only the constitutionality

Gun control laws have long been a heated topic in the U.S. for years. The second amendment which states the right to bear arms contains a lengthy history of interpreting its meaning; for some it means that citizens should have a right to protect themselves and for others it is interpreted as it only applying to people in the military. No matter what people define the second amendment as, the recent gun mass shootings have brought this topic to the forefront where it has been debated continuously

King v. Burwell (2015) is a Supreme Court case involving two parties, the petitioner David King and the respondent Sylvia Mathews Burwell the Secretary of Health and Human Services. In a brief background of the case according to Oyez, Congress passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010 to increase the number of Americans covered by health insurance and lower health care costs. ACA requires each state to establish an “exchange” in which people can purchase health care; and if a

In 1988-1989, the Pennsylvania legislature passed a law on its abortion laws. Among these new provisions, the law required informed consent and a twenty-four hour waiting period prior to the decision to get an abortion and a minor seeking an abortion has to have the consent of a legal guardian or the parent. Married women seeking abortion is to inform the husband or father of her intentions of aborting the fetus. (Oyze) The case came to be because the question was whether or not the state can require

The U.S. Supreme Court, as well as other federal courts, have been ruling, shaping, and creating abortion policy over the last 40 years. Its earliest case can be traced back to January 1973, where the Roe v. Wade decision was made granting women the constitutional right to terminate their pregnancies. Since then legislators and governors still find trouble with developing law that regulates abortion. Before the Roe v. Wade ruling, abortion rights were banned or heavily restricted across American

On February 2nd, 1970 the Supreme Court was presented with the case Roe vs Wade. The case Roe vs Wade involves a woman named Norma McCorvey who is known as Jane Roe in court documents and a man named Henry Wade. Jane Roe had her first child in 1965. The child, Melissa was taken care of by Jane’s mother. Jane would leave the child with her mother while she went out with friends. One day Jane was woken up by her mother and was told to sign insurance papers when in reality those papers were adoption