I feel that it was worth it. I have a feeling that the Supreme Court is going to end segregation'" (Kluger 667)
The case went to the Supreme Court because a Kansas court judged the children had no right to integrated education, and the suit was appealed to the Supreme Court. Interestingly, while Topeka elementary schools were segregated, their junior and senior high schools were not (Marshall 19)
The Roberts Court gutted significant provisions of campaign finance reform in its Citizens United decision, which allowed corporations and other organizations deemed fictional persons under the law to have the right to 'free speech' and thus could not be restricted in their ability to freely donate to express their political views. And "Roberts wrote the majority opinion in Shelby County, which overturned several other cases upholding the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act section at issue" although the Act itself was left to stand (Byellin 2013)
Roberts Jr. is less activist than any court in the last 60 years" (Liptak 2013)
Roberts Jr. is less activist than any court in the last 60 years" (Liptak 2013)
For example, in Casey v. Planned Parenthood (1992), Roe was affirmed although the Court ruled "that states may regulate abortions so as to protect the health of the mother and the life of the fetus, and may outlaw abortions of 'viable' fetuses" (McBride 2007)
"In striking down part of the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996, a 5-to-4 majority of the Supreme Court overturned a law that denied federal benefits to same-sex couples. The decision does not guarantee a right to same-sex marriage, but it allows people who live in states that allow same-sex marriage to receive the same federal benefits as heterosexual couple" (Schwartz 2013)
Bell, a "decision that freed many innocent men…. [allowing] DNA forensic evidence found after a death penalty conviction can be used to overturn a conviction" and thus expanding the rights of condemned criminals to reflect changes in technology (Sprung 2013)
The Brown decision was to set the tone between the Warren Court and the court which Rehnquist presided over when he became Chief Justice. "The years 1962-1968 are often referred to as the heyday of the Warren Court when it moved in an aggressively liberal direction on numerous constitutional issues ranging from racial to civil rights, to legislative apportionment, to church state relations, to freedom of speech, to criminal justice" (Rapczynski 2014)
Rehnquist philosophy Chief Justice Rehnquist's articulated philosophy was in stark contrast to that of the Warren Court's. According to Rehnquist: "the judicial review function can be performed consistently with the democratic concept of government only if the Court objectively interprets the Constitution according to the framers' intent as derived from the constitutional text, the historical record, and necessary implication" (Riggs & Proffitt 1983: 567)
It appears that very little, if any, psychological studies establish a real medical state of mind such as the battered wife's syndrome. The literature is filled with reviews and commentaries justifying some feminist view for women (Thurstan 1998), or studies on anything having to do with abuse (Bartholomew 2008, Brady 2000, Riggs 2007)(follow the funding availability) to a lack of provision for husband abuse studies (Migliaccio, 2002)
But empirical research on the 'battered wife/woman abuse syndrome defense' per se is still elusive. One psychological study (Schuller 2004) examined contrived jury psychology tests - and their verdicts based on different approaches to explaining a battered woman's defense to a jury
The closer a 'syndrome state of mind' was put forth, the higher the probability of acquittal. Kahan (Kahan 2008)studied how the public perceived judging abusive reactions in a trial circumstance
It appears that very little, if any, psychological studies establish a real medical state of mind such as the battered wife's syndrome. The literature is filled with reviews and commentaries justifying some feminist view for women (Thurstan 1998), or studies on anything having to do with abuse (Bartholomew 2008, Brady 2000, Riggs 2007)(follow the funding availability) to a lack of provision for husband abuse studies (Migliaccio, 2002)
Lavellee case - and the enormous violence against women legislation and programs that together have reached an influence on our legal systems that go far beyond fairness to undermining long established due process procedures in the legal arena. Morse (Morse 1995)suggests that criminal would be better off by adopting generic excusing conditions for defense than creating syndromes as excuses
" Identification of the psycho-legal assumption by the Supreme Court about human behavior By upholding the trial court's verdict, the Supreme Court validated what has become known as the battered wife syndrome defense. According to Regehr (Regehr 1995) this defense relies on expert testimony that a battered woman accused of murder or aggravated assault suffers from psychological sequelae and that this psychological distress contributes to her apprehension of danger and ultimately her apprehension of death during a particular battering episode
But nevertheless some of their aculturalization would unknowingly show up in their views. Street (Street 2001) examined pathological responses to post traumatic stress disorder for battered woman
When receiving the draft of the three middle-ground justices, Stevens suggested a reorganization of their opinion so that he and Blackman could join most of it and there would be a single opinion that was supported by a court majority. Justices O'Connor, Kennedy and Souter quickly agreed, and the opinion became the law of the land (Totenberg, 2010)
In this case these plaintiffs were challenging the fact that the respondent, Johnson Controls Inc., had implemented a policy to disallow females of childbearing age to work in an environment with significant lead exposure unless they could prove they were infertile (International Union, UAW v
In this case these plaintiffs were challenging the fact that the respondent, Johnson Controls Inc., had implemented a policy to disallow females of childbearing age to work in an environment with significant lead exposure unless they could prove they were infertile (International Union, UAW v