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    English Piracy Trial

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    Alfred Rubin, the prominent historian on English piracy law believes there may be some precedent for such a view. While acknowledging that the crown required special commissions to sail again pirates beginning in the sixteenth century, he contends that some jurists followed natural law. This approach meant that no such license was necessary to hang a pirate when delivering them to authorities was impractical. However, little evidence exists that this kind of frontier justice was anything beyond rumors

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    ruling itself and those that ruled on it. These implications include the bankrolling of elections on the treasuries of private, and possibly foreign, corporations; the noticeable growth of partisanship in the judiciary; and the detrimental growth in judicial activism and its dismantling of legislative action6. The primary implication on the Citizens United ruling was so obvious it was included in the

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    Law where the Judge interpret the existing law and determines distinctions and boundaries. Precedent is the key factor in Common Law. The English Common Law originated in the middle ages. So, Common law relies on judgment passed by Judges in earlier cases and/or at higher courts. A Common Law system gives a significant importance to Judges and their judgments. Stare Decisis is the system of Judicial Precedent in English Law,it means “to stand by matters that have been decided”. Judges look at past

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    Mirroring the increase in size of the federal government, the Supreme Court’s role in public policy has also grown over the years. While the 1803 landmark case of Marbury v. Madison established the Supreme Court’s role of judicial review in determining whether or not congressional or presidential acts are constitutional, the Supreme Court played a relatively minor role to the public for centuries. In fact, nominations to the Supreme Court were readily and swiftly confirmed through the mid-20th

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    President Clinton overstepped her limits as President of the United States to implement the expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Policy through an executive order. An action that was previously enacted by President Barack Obama but was quickly canceled in the decision of US v. Texas. She, or anyone that retains the position of the presidency, does not have the authority to enact immigration policy under the nation’s constitution and thus violates the separation of powers doctrine

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    Citation: Stankovic v State of NSW [2016] NSWSC 18 Court: Supreme Court of New South Wales Judge: Davies J Material facts: The Plaintiff had used his property both as a junk yard and to keep one-hundred pigs, which was deemed prohibited under the Baulkham Hills Shire Council Local Environment Plan [4]. The Plaintiff contests that orders to restrain the Plaintiff’s land use [8] by Pain J in the Land and Environment Court of NSW in 2005 constituted the ‘violation of correct legal procedures’ [14]

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    The Warren Court refers to the Supreme Court of the United States between 1953 and 1969, when Earl Warren served as Chief Justice. Warren led a liberal majority that used judicial power in dramatic fashion, to the consternation of conservative opponents. The Warren Court expanded civil rights, civil liberties, judicial power, and the federal power in dramatic ways. One way the Warren Court liberalized America, is through the court cases of Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), Escobedo v. Illinois (1964)

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    Australian Legal System

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    Australia. This approach introduced a “responsible government” which allowed to have own legal and law system within different British colonies to resolve legal issues separately. The doctrine of precedent could be referred as a systematic method of making judicial decisions with allowing previous judicial decisions to a particular situation. Furthermore, judges are following previous law cases and issues to find an alternative solution.

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    the idea of judicial review was created. The Supreme Court creates precedents, which can be overturned in the future, depending on who the new justices are. Hypothetically speaking, though it would be preposterous to do so, the Supreme Court could overturn the decision in Marbury v. Madison, making the whole judiciary branch become obsolete. This idea of creating precedents and overturning them seems really good in theory, but in the future, it could cause problems. Multiple precedent-setting Supreme

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    court systems have a multiple purposes and elements of court. Federal and state court system is what makes up the dual court system of the U.S. Today the U.S. court system is what it is today because of previous legal codes, common law, and the precedent it played in the past. Making the U.S. court system a vital role in the criminal justice system.. A court is a way for society to formally punish wrongdoers or criminals and make decisions. Courts determine behaviors based on society beliefs on

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