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    Queensland Supreme Court

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    Introduction: The report that we have been studying and learning about is the magistrates court and how there system works so that people pay the price for what they have done. Meaning different consequences given for how bad the situation is. Research Method: To gather our information to help us finish our report we did a series of different methods such as going on a class excursion where we went to the court house to see it first hand, we also went to the police station where

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    Supreme Court Injustices

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    Article III:1 of the Constitution states that “the judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme court, and in such inferior courts as the congress may from time to time ordain and establish.” The US Supreme Court currently has eight justices serving. The current justices are (Chief Justice) John G. Roberts Jr., Anthony M. Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, Samuel Anthony Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan. For a justice to be chosen, the

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    The purpose of this research is to rationalize an amendment to the Constitution of the United States forcing Supreme Court Justices into a medical review to determine if the Justices are physically and mentally able to continue to serve their tenure. The focus is to create a half way point between two opinions in the very controversial subject of the Supreme Court Justices tenure. As the Judicial Branch becomes more active, citizens have questioned the rationale of justices serving for life, while

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    Supreme Court In America

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    Many American citizens aren’t aware of the importance the Supreme Court has, the U.S. Supreme Court’s rulings are consistently changing the lives of every American. Three good examples of this are, Planned Parenthood v. Indiana, Trinity Lutheran Church v. Pauley, and Grimm v. Gloucester School Board, these are all cases that have affected Americans greatly. The present and future changes in America are affected, and the decisions influence future issues and cases’ outcomes. Abortion debates have

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    When I was in high school, I use to take a class call U.S. Government. In this class, we take cases from the Supreme Court and simulate them by having some students act as the lawyers’ team and some students act as the judges for the cases. I had much more knowledge to how Supreme Court run their cases comparing to how lower County Courts run their cases. Therefore, I was able to pick up the differences in between these two courts. There were

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    therefore I will start with a brief explanation of the kind of courts that can be found in the state of Louisiana. The Supreme Court is the highest court in Louisiana and its main responsibility is to review some cases from lower courts in which the decisions that were made by the judges are questionable, some civil cases can also be reviewed by the Supreme Court. [2] The Supreme Court is composed of one Chief Justice and six Associates Justices, all justices and all judges in the state of Louisiana

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    The U.s. Supreme Court

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    The U.S. Supreme Court is the highest federal court in the United States of America. This is expressed in Article III, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution, which states that, “The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court.”(1) They have jurisdiction over all matters pertaining to federal and constitutional law, including the interpretation of such laws. Article III, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution clarifies the Supreme Court’s judicial jurisdiction by stating that

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    Supreme Court Segregation

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    US Supreme Court deems segregation unconstitutional following the case of Brown VS Board of Education of Topeka. On May 17, 1954, the supreme court ordered all schools to integrate. The supreme court announces a second ruling ordering all public schools to be integrated "with all deliberate speed" (qtd. in History.com Staff. "Integration"), following the widespread resistance to the original integration orders. The first school to be integrated was Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas on

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    Supreme Court History

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    The Supreme Court was made up by the Judiciary act of 1789. It was made up of six justices and they had to serve on the court until they died or retired. The Supreme Court was put on Article 3 of the Constitution, which states that the Supreme Court is jurisdiction on all laws and they overlook treaties of the United States. The first meeting of the Supreme Court was on February 1, 1790 in the Merchant's Exchange Building in New York. Since 1935, they have decided a lot of America’s issues. Some

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    The Supreme Court Essay

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    The Supreme Court The Supreme Court has had many different places where it was located over the years. There has been a struggle to find a permanent home for the most powerful court of law. At first, the meetings were in the Merchant Exchange Building in New York City. The court then followed the nation's capitol to Philadelphia in 1790. In 1800 the court again relocated to Washington DC. At first they spent their time meeting in various places. The place to find the Supreme Court now

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