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Delivering the Miranda warning at the time of arrest. Which of the following arguments most directly supports efforts to achieve tort reform? Too many people abuse the civil courts as a mechanism to win damages, which raises the costs of doing business. Which of the following is an example of the contrast between civil law and criminal law ...
Equal Protection Supreme Court Cases. The Equal Protection Clause in the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides that no state may deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. While the Fourteenth Amendment applies only to the states, courts have determined that equal protection principles ...
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Aug 12, 2023 · Board of Education 一 The utilization of a state’s tax supported public school system and its machinery for compulsory public school attendance to enable sectarian groups to give religious instruction to public school pupils in public school buildings violated the First Amendment.
- When Can A Private Body Be Amenable to Judicial Review?
- Can The High Court Surveil The Investigatory Powers Tribunal?
- Legality of Voter ID Pilot Schemes
- 'A Blank Piece of Paper': Supreme Court quashes Prorogation
- Challenging Expert Regulators: The Limits of Judicial Review
The Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the Divisional Court, in R (Holmcroft Properties Ltd) v KPMG LLP, and agreed that KPMG was not amenable to judicial review when acting as an independent reviewer of a bank's redress scheme. However, while both courts ultimately reached the same conclusion, their reasons for doing so were quite different. B...
In R (on the application of Privacy International) v Investigatory Powers Tribunal and others, the Supreme Court considered whether judicial review of decisions of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal ("IPT") was successfully excluded - or ousted - by statute and whether such ouster was permissible in any case. The IPT was established under the Regula...
Following an announcement made in November 2018, the Minister for the Cabinet Office made orders - under section 10 of the Representation of the People Act 2000 (the "Act") - for the implementation of pilot schemes which required voters to produce some form of ID ("Voter ID pilot schemes"). Section 10(2)(a) of the Act provides that a scheme under s...
In the case of R (Miller) v the Prime Minister and Cherry and Ors v Advocate General for Scotland11 justices of the Supreme Court held that the Prime Minister's advice to the Queen to prorogue Parliament was not only capable of being reviewed by the Court but was also unlawful. The decision is all the more remarkable for the fact that it was unanim...
In R (Lasham Gliding Society Limited) v Civil Aviation Authoritythe claimant - Lasham Gliding Society ("LGS") - challenged the Civil Aviation Authority ("CAA")'s decision to approve a change in air traffic controls in the airspace around Farnborough Airport. The claimant's argument was that the permitted change increased the risk of a mid-air colli...
Despite these strong institutional protections for judicial independence, many studies in political science have argued that the Supreme Court is in fact influenced by public opinion (Mishler and Sheehan 1993; Flemming and Wood 1997; McGuire and Stimson 2004; Giles, Blackstone, and Vining 2008; Epstein and Martin 2010; Casillas, Enns, and Wohlfa...
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Example 4.1. The U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v Wade (1973), which found a constitutional right for women to have access to an abortion, is an example of law made through a common law tradition.
Apr 4, 2013 · In a case alleging 75 instances of infringement in an educational setting, a district court, proposing a fair use standard based on less than 10% of a book, determined that 70 instances were not infringing. On appeal, the Eleventh Circuit rejected the 10% standard and emphasized the importance of a flexible case-by-case fair use analysis.
