United States District Court for the District of Maryland

power with the central government, states and local governments. A federal government is different than a confederation in the way that the states and local government have more power than the main government. There are also different kinds of federalism such as; dual and cooperative federalism. In dual federalism, they believe that states and other local government should have as equal power as the central government. In cooperative government, they believe that states and other local government should

challenge the state of Ohio and its refusal to recognize the fact that the two were in a same-sex marriage and that it should carry over to the death certificate. The two married in Maryland in 2013 where it is legal. Mr. Arthur, suffered from an illness that eventually took his life two months after litigation began. Due to the laws in Ohio, and

behaviors. Slavery in the United States was governed by an extensive body of law developed from the 1660s to the 1860s. Slaves did not accept their fate without protest. There were many instances of rebellions. One of the earliest examples of a slave uprising was in 1712 in Manhattan. As African-Americans in the colonies grew in number, the white settlers worried that violent rebellions could occur. The fear of rebellions led each colony to pass slave codes. Every slave state had its own slave codes

Ct. 945 (2012) Nature of Case: The District Court condemned Antoine Jones of previous drug crimes. The defendant asked for an appeal and then then it headed D.C. Circuit of Appeals which they ended up reversing the condemnation. They stated that the no warrant use of the GPS violated the fourth amendment. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals refused a rehearing en banc. The U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari (review order of a higher court from previous court decision). Concise Rule of Law: The

” John Marshall, fourth Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court certainly did, from witnessing the birth of our country, to serving as the longest tenured Chief Justice in Supreme Court History. In a span of just under two years, he went from serving as a member of Congress, representing Virginia's 13th District, to serving as the nation's fourth Secretary of State, to being appointed the fourth Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, January. It Begins John Marshall was born

In 1908, Thurgood Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland to Norma and Willie. Norma, his mother, was a schoolteacher and his father, Willie, was a railroad porter and a steward at a Maryland country club. “On the southern rim of the Mason-Dixon line, the Baltimore of Marshall’s boyhood was rigidly segregated. But there was also a thriving black business district and a well-organized black middle class.” Since Marshall grew up where it having a black community was a little more accepting than other

STYLE: United States v. Jones 565 US_(2012) FACTS: In 2004 Antoine Jones came under suspicion of drug trafficking and was made the target of an investigation. In 2005 the government applied and obtained a search warrant permitting it to install a Global-Positioning-System (GPS) device on a vehicle registered to Antoine Jones’s wife. The warrant authorized the GPS to be installed within 10 days in the District of Columbia, but it was not installed until the 11th day in Maryland. The government then

for equal educational opportunities for African-American students has left its indelible mark on the history of the state of Alabama. Alabama fought to maintain its binary public educational system. Through numerous memorable demonstrations and landmark cases African-Americans were

is made up of the court system. The courts include Supreme, Circuit, the magistrate, and the municipal. The judicial branch interprets the laws. Each court has judges. The supreme court judges are appointed by the president and approved by congress. State judges are elected rather than appointed. The main body of the judicial branch is the Supreme Court. It is the top court and none of the other courts can challenge it. The supreme court gave the power of establishing other courts to congress. The

The Power to Declare War: Does it Mean Anything Anymore? Throughout the history of the United States, the President has bypassed the Congress and engaged in warring actions. All cited Emergency Action as the qualifying reason. Some, after the fact asked congress for a declaration of war, others have not. Regardless, the Chief Executives seemed to have found that a formal declaration is not required whenever it would benefit them. War Powers Article I, Section 8, Clause 11