Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington should embrace the admission process of the Michigan Law School. The upholding of the University of Michigan Law School's program ensures that the foundation of this proposal will comply with the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. ... This must be the foundation for consideration, simply, to uphold or enhance the status and image of the Law School. ... An issue that must be measured is the foresight that an individual will do well in the school. ... In general, the admission policy must consider all the information presen...

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The Law and Me (Affirmative Action In Colleges) In 1964 and 1965 President Johnson signed the Civil Rites acts, and these acts included affirmative action. ... Powell, Jr., agreed, casting the deciding vote ordering the medical school to admit Bakke. ... The problem is the, "Use of affirmative action to increase minority enrollment at its law school"(www.nytimes.com). ... Prop 209 was one of the first laws to work against affirmative action. ... Finally affirmative action is still keeping qualified people out of graduate schools. ...

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Barbara Grutter was an unsuccessful applicant to University of Michigan Law School. Grutter, despite academic sufficiency, believes she was denied because of the current admissions standards exercised at the law school. ... The Law School of course disagrees and contends that its admissions policy is in compliance with the U.S. ... Supreme Court Bakke decision, holding that the Law School's interest in achieving the educational benefits that come from a diverse student body is compelling, and that its admissions policy is "narrowly tailored" to serve that interest (Alger 1). The court ...

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School sponsored prayer in public schools should not be allowed because it violates the United States Constitution.? ... Therefore, any and all federal laws apply to public schools. On this basis, one can clearly identify that the introduction of school-sponsored prayer in to public schools, in any form, is in direct violation of federal law in many ways. The doctrine of the first amendment states, thatCongress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion?? ... In the end the Supreme Court has ruled school-sponsored prayer in public schools to be unconstitutional and there is...

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He believed that the legislature should not make any law to force religion upon people, building a wall between Church and State (Lauren MacLeod). Jefferson's declaration of a wall between Church and State expressed opinions that the federal government didn't have the authority to force these laws on people. ... Constitution on the subject of voluntary school prayer. ... Jaffrey in 1985, which the courts canceled Alabama's moment of silence law. ... Prayer should not be allowed in public schools. ...

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Many people were outraged that prayer was no longer allowed in schools. ... It is true that students in some school districts have been forbidden to carry their Bible to school, or to wear a religious T-shirt to class. ... Constitution and of federal and state laws. ... Praying in school is not against the law. ... "From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our Nation and our people to the Almighty," said President Eisenhower after signing into law a bill to have "under God" ad...

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Vernonia School District case. The major issue of this case was random drug testing of students involved in school activities. ... The Vernonia School District hired the law firm of Lane, Powell, Spears & Lubersky, and the case was assigned to federal Judge Malcom F. ... Several school officials testified on how drug testing was important in the Vernonia School District. The principal of James" school, Randy Aultman, was the first to testify. ...

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In a debate about the constitutionality of school vouchers last week at New York University Law School, Mr. ... Although nonsectarian schools can also be funded by vouchers, most vouchers so far are flowing to schools with a religious affiliation. ... While private school vouchers will be voted on separately, Senate negotiators agreed last week to offer a bill that allows students in failing schools to transfer to better public schools and receive funds for tutoring or after-school programs. At the heart of the constitutional debate over vouchers is a sentence from the First Amendment that...

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HAZELWOOD SCHOOL DISTRICT ET AL. v. ... Hazelwood School District vs. ... The principal basically broke the rules by not abiding by sets of laws as they relate to journalism. ... If the school wants to take a role of being more conservative, then the curriculum has to be set up in a way that does not interfere with the basis of the law. Reference: Hazelwood School District et al. v. ...

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The principal of the white elementary school refused to accept Linda into the white school. ... The supreme court decided that Charlotte was not abiding by their laws and required the Mecklenburg school system to start busing children to be able to balance out the racial amounts. Busing was used since the school system used the bus transportation a lot and this would be a way to help start the new laws. ... I do think that this law really helped with the civil rights and it opened up a lot of peoples eyes and made them realize that not all of the people were being treated equally. So overa...

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Four justices ruled to admit Bakke and against preferential treatment; and one, to achieve some kind of judicial consensus, upheld Bakke's claim of unfair discrimination and ordered Bakke into the medical school while also upholding affirmative action on the right of universities to seek diversity. ... This landmark affirmative action case challenges racial preferences in student admissions at the University of Michigan Law School. ... It's about restitution. " The CIR represented Grutter in this matter and made the claim that she was harmed...

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He says "In equality declared by our fathers in 1776, and made the fundamental law of Massachusetts in 1780, was Equality before the law". ... The black and white are not equal before the law. ... The decision of the Brown case not only desegregated schools, but showed Americans the Blacks finally had equality in the law. ... In addition there were few black schools in the south. ... The idea of equality before the law, proof of the inequality in the school systems, and feelings of congress's duty to protect blacks 13th, 14th and 15th amendments all contributed to the victory. ...

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This act not only covers employment, but also discrimination in a public places and eventually grew to include public schools and colleges. ... The law applies to all federal, state, and local employers. ... These laws govern both the public and private sector, unions, and employment agencies. This act does however allow for certain exemptions to the law. ... Comply with these laws are of the utmost importance. ...

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These laws known as the Jim Crow laws were used to prevent people of color from using the same facilities, riding the same buses, and going to the same schools as whites. ... It is hard to believe that just less than 60 years ago there was segregation in the schools. ... County School Board of Prince Edward County (Virgina), and Bolling v. ... The cases were combined because they all sought desegregation of schools as the remedy for grossly inadequate conditions in segregated black schools. http://www.civilrights.org/education/brown/. ... Compulsory school attendance laws and the great expe...

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Holder Jr. was born in New York City, where he did not experience the privilege of attending private schools, he studied and worked hard in public school and received a Regents Scholarship from Stuyvesant High School. He continued to work hard after he was admitted to Columbia Law School, where he majored in American History and graduated in 1973. He immediately went into law school at Columbia Law and clerked for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the Department of Justice's Criminal Division. His appreciation for law, an end to corruption, and community service was born at this time. ...

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The Gun-Free School Zones Act prohibits possession of a firearm within 1,000 feet of any school in the United States. ... Congress did not explain in the law what Constitutional provision it believes gave it the power to pass the law. In its defense before the Supreme Court, the Clinton Justice Department cited the commerce clause as justification for the law. ... S. vs Lopez the Court, by a 5 to 4 vote, found unconstitutional a provision of the Gun-Free School Zone Act that made it a federal crime to possess a gun (even one that never traveled across state lines) within a thousand feet of a s...

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For example, in Maryland, blacks were deprived access to the state university's law school. ... The school board argued otherwise. ... The Court had to make its decision based not on whether or not the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment had desegregated schools in mind when they wrote the amendment in 1868, but based on whether or not desegregated schools deprived black children of equal protection of the law when the case was decided, in 1954." ... Furthermore, at the time, some states still did not have mandatory school attendance laws. ... "Compulsory school attendance laws and...

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These laws affected Black Americans. ... They were segregated from schools, restrooms and hospitals; and total institutions like prison and churches. ... This case led to the desegregation of America's public schools and has had a lasting effect on American law and politics. ... Public schools did not allow Black students to attend their "White " schools. ... Supreme Court conclude that state laws requiring "separate but equal schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment." ...

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The case was in fact a collection of five law suits from Kansas, Delaware, the District of Columbia, South Carolina, and Virginia, which were heard by the Court together as each of them was concerned with the issue of the constitutionality of racially segregated public schools. ... However, by the early 1950s instead of ordering desegregation of schools, federal courts required local school boards to equalize their schools ("Bush v. ... Even though the Supreme Court's order to desegregate applied only to the school districts involved in the Brown case, the decision established a pre...

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By 1961, another five states had some integrated schools, while other schools remained segregated. ... Louisiana only began desegregation of schools in 1960, and was met with a boycott of the schools. ... The answer lies not in the law books, but in the hearts of Americans, or lack thereof. It is one thing to devise a law against segregation; it is another to allow these truths to penetrate one's heart. That being true, it took decades for many southerners to see these laws as inherent truths, until which they could not accept the blacks as brothers. ...

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Even though this helped many schools, many other schools in Texas and California still enforced the "No Spanish rule." ... In Texas in 1970, Mexican American schools only received 3/5 of the Federal appropriations that Euro American schools were receiving. ... In a similar case, San Antonio School District v. ... Today, there are all types of discriminatory laws at all types of schools and all levels for all colors, religions, races, and creeds. ... Many of the past events were taken to the law of the land and put into law so that those kinds of injustice would not occur today....

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One of the strongest arguments that had been used to disprove of all these statement had been that "You can't ask whites as a class to bear the responsibly for statistical disparities, unless you can prove the whites were purposely excluding blacks ) (p287) Basically we can imply that the 14th amendment and other laws that stated "separate but equal" had been the laws on the books, but laws in action or rather the lack of laws in action had been totally absent from social reality of black people. ... The Supreme Court finally acknowledged that school segregation was completely unconstit...

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Religion and Public Schools Each day, following state law, many teachers around the US lead students in a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. The specific law states that public schools begin each school day with "appropriate patriotic exercises" and that the Pledge would be sufficient to comply. The specific school policy states that "Each elementary school class [shall] recite the pledge of allegiance to the flag once each day." ... However, if we go back in time we can find examples very similar to the actual problem taking place in our public school now days regarding the Ple...

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The decision marked the end of the post-Civil War reconstruction era as Jim Crow laws spread across the South. ... Examples of how points are awarded include: • White students who attend high schools that have predominantly minority students get 20 points. ... • Elected or appointed leadership positions, meaningful contributions to the high school and community. ... Hasani Tyus, a senior at Detroit's Cass Technical High School, was recently admitted to U-M with a full scholarship. ... It's only fair because most inner-city youth are minorities and most minority ...

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Children in most schools were allowed to leave without problem for their lunch break but now most schools confined the students to the property and will be punished if they leave. Many students who attend public schools minors and don't enjoy the same rights as those of all Americans. ... The spring 2002 edition of the Student Press Law Center's report newsletter states "High school censorship seems to occur in an ever-growing set of circumstances." ... The court ruled "[W] e hold that educators do not offend the First Amendment" The Student Press Law's decision in the Board o...

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