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Supreme Court Decisions
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined two years of federal court of appeals school speech rulings in light of two recent Supreme Court decisions applying public forum analysis to determine the limits of governmen' speech.
Abstract: This study scrutinizes two years of federal court of appeals school speech rulings in light of two recent Supreme Court decisions applying public forum analysis to determine the limits of governmen...
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TL;DR: The Court's adoption of a developmental model of culpability may produce future challenges to lengthy juvenile sentences, broad provisions allowing transfer of juveniles for trial as adults, and even possibly to younger juveniles' competence to stand trial.
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TL;DR: This article examines legal questions of the combination of emotions and alcohol, because their frequent appearance together in 'crimes of love' has great importance both legally and to psychiatric research.
Abstract: This article examines legal questions of the combination of emotions and alcohol, because their frequent appearance together in 'crimes of love' has great importance both legally and to psychiatric research. Drawing on German Supreme Court decisions, possibilities and pitfalls in the search for viable criteria to determine the perpetrator's degree of guilt are looked at from legal and court psychiatric points of view. Language: de
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors reveal the underlying cognitive structure of appeal cases in both Philippine and American English and determine obligatory and optional elements in the appeal case in both varieties of English.
Abstract: Legal cases present an important resource for teachers of English for Academic Legal Purposes (EALP) because they provide material for the simultaneous practice of legal and linguistic skills. However, the comprehension of legal texts may be difficult on the part of the reader who is not an expert in the area yet. This study was a replication of the study done by Castro (1997), in which the cognitive structure of Philippine criminal cases had been analyzed. The aim of the study was to reveal the underlying cognitive structure of appeal cases in both Philippine and American English and determine obligatory and optional elements in the appeal case in both varieties of English. Fifteen American appeal cases from «Lex Libris», an electronic collection of U.S. Supreme Court decisions, and 15 Philippine appeal cases compiled and published in the Supreme Court Reports Annotated (SCRA), were compared and analyzed. The model of cognitive structuring in legislative writing proposed by Bhatia (1983) was used in analyzing the data. The contrastive analysis showed that both Philippine and American Supreme Court decisions have similar underlying cognitive structures, with certain obligatory moves that are characteristic of legal cases as a distinctive genre of legal discourse. The differences revealed by the analysis were mainly in the moves within the three obligatory parts of the criminal appeal case and in the realization of the moves. Pedagogical implications of using this framework in teaching EALP are also discussed
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01 Jan 2013
TL;DR: The issue of the appropriate role of religion in the public schools has been a hot topic in American public education as discussed by the authors, especially in South Carolina, since the early 1960s when the United States Supreme Court ruled that state-sanctioned, non-denominational prayer violated the First Amendment's no-establishment clause.
Abstract: Since its inception in the mid-1800s, public education has been one of the most contested arenas in American life. Among the battles fought in this domain, none have been more heated than the appropriate role of religion in the public schools. From the 1844 Philadelphia Bible Riots, to the 1925 debate over Darwinism and Creationism, to recent skirmishes regarding the Pledge of Allegiance, these and other disputes have been the subject of considerable scholarship. In South Carolina, however, one controversy regarding the intersection of religion and public education has received little attention, namely the trio of harshly criticized Supreme Court decisions between 1962 and 1963. At the height of the Cold War and in the midst of racial integration, the High Court in Engel v. Vitale (1962) ruled that state-sanctioned, non-denominational prayer violated the First Amendment's no-establishment clause. In response, the majority of South Carolinians decried the ruling as advancing a Communist agenda and permitting the federal government to intrude into state matters. This indignation only intensified after the Supreme Court held that devotional Bible reading and the recitation of the Lord's Prayer as seen in Abington v. Schempp (1963) and Murray v. Curlett (1963) were violations of the First Amendment's Establishment Clause. Once again, South Carolinians were very vocal in expressing their fear that the removal of longstanding religious exercises from the public school would allow atheism to fester which, in turn, would promote Communism. Despite the Palmetto State's fondness for religion, surprisingly some citizens and religious denominations, especially Jewish leaders, applauded the decisions as a way of upholding Jefferson's &ldquo'wall of separation'&ldquo principle. Those who supported the decisions often understood that South Carolina, which by the twentieth century was more pluralistic than ever before, had no authority to assume a religion or mandate religious practices in any public institution. Despite the Supreme Court's edicts, religion still characterizes the state of South Carolina and will therefore remain a hotly contested topic in the structuring of public institutions, such as the public school.
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