Anti-Abolitionist Gag Rules
The First Amendment to the Constitution provides for the right of the people ‘‘to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.’’
Read the full storyAnti-Abortion Protest and Freedom of Speech
The concept of a ‘‘buffer zone’’ was first raised in the 1990s. It was based on two things: increasingly violent and intrusive protests by anti-abortion forces and clinic actions to try to keep protesters a certain distance away from the clinics.
Read the full storyAnti-Anarchy and Anti-Syndicalism Statutes
From the ‘‘Salem witch trials’’ to the criminal prosecutions that constitute part of the government’s ‘‘war on terror,’’ American criminal law has been used to stamp out threats, perceived or actual, to federal and state governments.
Read the full storyAnti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was founded in 1913 by Sigmund Livingston, a Chicago lawyer, to combat the anti-Semitism and discrimination against Jews that was prevalent at the time.
Read the full storyAntidiscrimination Laws
Discrimination occurs when the civil rights of an individual are denied or interfered with because of the individual’s membership in a particular group or class.
Read the full storyAntipolygamy Laws
In the United States antipolygamy laws were exclusively aimed at the polygamous practices of the nineteenth- century Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons) which began to publicly practice and advocate polygamy in 1852.
Read the full storyApodaca v. Oregon, 406 U.S. 404 (1972)
In Apodaca v. Oregon, the U.S. Supreme Court addressed the question of whether the Sixth Amendment’s right to a jury trial required a unanimous verdict.
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Those responsible for adding the Bill of Rights to the new federal constitution intended those amendments to act as limits on the national government only, a point illustrated as succinctly as possible by the opening words of the First Amendment: ‘‘Congress [emphasis added] shall make no law . . . .’’
Read the full storyApprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. 466 (2000)
This case was designed to protect the Sixth Amendment right to a ‘‘speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury’’ and the right inherent in the due process clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to have every element of a criminal offense proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
Read the full storyAppropriation of Name or Likeness
Appropriation of name or likeness, the oldest and most widely recognized branch of the invasion of privacy tort, imposes liability for unauthorized use of another’s name, likeness, or other identifying characteristics.
Read the full storyAptheker v. Secretary of State, 378 U.S. 500 (1964)
Aptheker is an important civil liberties case involving the right to travel. In Aptheker v. Secretary of State, 378 U.S. 500, 84 S.Ct. 1659 (1964), the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a federal law that the Court believed unconstitutionally interfered with the freedom of American citizens to travel abroad.
Read the full storyArizona v. Fulminante, 499 U.S. 279 (1991)
Arizona v. Fulminante considered whether a state court properly found a defendant’s confession was coerced in violation of the Fifth Amendment and whether admission of a coerced confession is properly evaluated using harmless error analysis.
Read the full storyArizona v. Hicks, 480 U.S. 321 (1987)
In Hicks, the Supreme Court announced that probable cause is required to justify the search or seizure of items discovered in ‘‘plain view’’ during an unrelated search. Police entered an apartment after shots were fired through its floor, injuring a man in the apartment below.
Read the full storyArizona v. Youngblood, 488 U.S. 51 (1988)
In Youngblood, a divided Supreme Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment due process clause does not require the government to preserve evidence that could conclusively prove the defendant innocent.
Read the full storyArraignment and Probable Cause Hearing
Depending on whether the crime charged is brought federally or within a state jurisdiction, an individual accused of a crime could be faced with a few different pretrial proceedings.
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