Essays on Constitutional Law

Mapp v. Ohio was a landmark U. S. Supreme Court Case where as on May 23, 1957 police officers outside Cleveland Ohio received an anonymous tip that a suspect in a bombing and illegal betting equipment case was being hid in the house of Dollree Mapp. After which, three officers preceded to the house and…

Robey v. Hinners Facts: In 2005, Robey who runs his business in Sikeston, Missouri sold a used 2002 Cadillac Escalade to a Kentucky resident, Hinner, over ebay auction. As Robey advertised, the car was “clean, better and average” and with an “ 1 month/1,000 mile Service Agreement”. After Hinner bought the car, he realized that…

The concept of law can be established under two focus points, which are Order and Compulsion, Order being the sense f a method of system and compulsion which is the enforcement of compliance with the law. The definition of law can be described by several components that explain the concept of law. Some of the…

1a) With reference to the source, describe the measures that exist to maintain the independence and neutrality of the judiciary. The independence of the judiciary from the executive and legislative is said to kept by things like their fixed salaries and sub judice rule. Their salaries ‘are paid from the Consolidated Fund’ and aren’t fixed…

                                                           Grutter v. Bollinger                         The ruling of the Supreme Court regarding Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) invites rigorous debate as to whether or not the majority opinion in the case, which concluded that   “factoring race into the admissions decisions of the University of Michigan Law School was compatible with the Constitution” (Pollak, 2005), in fact,…

Audiovisual monitoring of employees by their employers – The spying scandal of LIDL What fundamental civil rights were violated by LIDL? By monitoring their employees through audiovisual media, the food supply chain LIDL infringed upon people’s rights of human dignity and of the non-violation of a person, in their immediate expressions, their social role and…

Dicey defined ‘conventions’ as the non-legal rules that govern the application of legal rules. The British constitution recognizes the importance of prerogative powers, which are legal powers held by the crown but exercised by the government without parliament’s authorization. However, debates have arisen over their scope due to their unwritten nature. Consequently, there is a…

It is similar to the American concepts of fair procedure and procedural due process, the tater having roots that to some degree parallel the origins of natural justice. 1 Although natural justice has an impressive ancestry and is said to express the close relationship between the common law and moral principles, the use of the…

What should Bud do to convene an extraordinary general meeting? Board Meeting of December 31, 2013 At the outset, it must be emphasized that the validity of a meeting hinges on a number of factors: 1. Whether sufficient notice was given; 2. Whether the relevant notice was properly served; 3. Whether the contents of the…

Commissioner v. Duberstein In the Case number 376, Commissioner V. Duberstein, an individual taxpayer gave to a business corporation, upon request, the names of potential customers. The individual’s information was valuable to the corporation and in return the, corporation gave him a Cadillac automobile, the corporation then charged the cost of the car as an…