1. Tennessee v. Lane
Evolutionism or creationism, it is a long lasting controversy of how everything came into being. In certain areas of the United States, mostly the Bible belt in the South, there are laws or statues that make it illegal to teach certain theories, presumably evolutionism, to students in public schools. Everyone has their own beliefs about the subject but the real question is, "Should everyone's beliefs be taught in public schools?" Well, this debate has been going on ever since 1925 when the first Supreme Court case of this kind was being started in Tennessee. It all started when John Thomas Scopes, a biology teacher, was convicted of a violation of the Act of 1925, which stated people could not teach the idea that man descended from a lower order of animals in the public schools of Rhea County. .
Although he only was fined $100.00 in Rhea County he believed this decision was in violation of his 1st and 14th Amendment rights and decided to take this case to the Supreme Court in Tennessee. There it was decided that banning the teaching of any theory other than the one taught in the Bible was considered unconstitutional on the bases of combining church and state. This was the first of many Supreme Court cases concerning the teaching of evolutionism in public schools. Perhaps the most well known Supreme Court case was Epperson v. Arkansas. In October of 1968 Susan Epperson, an Arkansas public school teacher, was brought to court for violating the "anti-evolution" statue. Like Scopes, she was charged with teaching the theory of evolution in her class room, and was in fear of being dismissed from her job. The Judge presiding over the case decided this statue was unconstitutional for two main reasons; the first Amendment mandates governmental neutrality between religion and religion, and between religion and non-religion. Also, a state's right to prescribe the public school curriculum does not include the right to prohibit teaching a scientific theory or doctrine for reasons that run counter to the principles of the first Amendment.
This is all in addition to the fact that this trial started as nothing more than a publicity stunt dreamed up in order to help the ailing economy of Dayton Tennessee, and the defendant, John Scopes, who was actually a coach who only substituted as a teacher, was asked if he would be willing to go on trial before any charges were filed. ... In fact the trial effectively turned the small southern town of Dayton Tennessee into a three ring circus, complete with hot dog vendors and street merchants peddling anti-evolution books. ... In the 1920's when the Scopes trial took place John Scopes...
Tennessee v. ... After a three day trial at the Federal District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, the court concluded that Hymon's actions were authorized by the Tennessee statute, which in turn was constitutional (Lexis, 1985). ... Later at the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit found that Hymon had acted in good-faith reliance on the Tennessee statute and was therefore within the scope of his qualified immunity (Lexis, 1985). ... As seen here, Tennessee statutes allowed police officers to use whatever force they felt necessary to catch a felon. ... Hopefully with Tenness...
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The King family had been living in Montgomery for less than a year when the highly segregated city became the epicenter of the burgeoning struggle for civil rights in America, galvanized by the landmark Brown v Board of Education of Topeka decision of 1954. ... In the spring of 1968, while preparing for a planned march to Washington to lobby Congress on behalf of the poor, King and other SCLC members were called to Memphis, Tennessee to support a sanitation workers' strike. ... Authorities found Ray's fingerprints on the rifle used to kill King, a scope and a pair of binoculars...
The maximum effective range of the M4 is around 550 meters-meaning a trained shooter could, without a scope, hit a human-sized target at that distance. ... To fully understand this, one has to keep in mind that a police officer, according to the Supreme Court's 1985 Tennessee v. ...
The past one hundred years have been very interesting in the United States. The United States has advanced quicker and more progressive than any other country. It wasn't an easy journey though. Society in the beginning was harsh and uncomprimising. The zeitgeist at times was very bl...
It is beyond the scope of this article to determine exactly why that seemingly strange reaction sometimes occurs. ... Washington, North Dakota, Iowa, and Tennessee banned the sale of cigarettes in the 1890s, but the laws were generally ignored (Dillow 1981, 94-107). ... (Hess 1996, 55) Page 3 V OLUME III, N UMBER 3, W INTER 1999 F O R B I D D E N F R U I T ✦ 443 More recently, the focus in the United States has shifted to warnings, restrictions, and high taxes rather than prohibition. ...