Scholars of judicial politics have studied how the Supreme Court determines which cases to review. Some scholars look to a theoretical game model, which suggests that a conservative higher court would probabilistically review liberal decisions of a lower court judge than review conservative decisions regardless of the facts of the case. Other scholars look to the threat of Congressionally induced factors which influences the Supreme Court’s agenda. Game theory tries to prove that the justices will
Case law is an area of law developed by the courts while hearing and determining disputes.[ Federal Court of Australia - Glossary of legal terms. ] Judges make the decisions when to make case law, if they see it is needed in a dispute. However there are arguments that judges should / shouldn’t be allowed to make case law. There are three stages that occur when judges make case law; the pre-trial stage, the trial stage, and the post-trial stage. In the pre-trial stage both parties exchange evidence
united states court system operates at federal and state level. The federal courts hear and decide cases that involve constitutional law, and disputes involving states. They also handle cases involving admiralty or maritime law as well as bankruptcy cases. The court system analyzes what happened in a particular way and decide what way to resolve the issue and what punishment will be accorded to the guilty perpetrator, as per the provisions of the united states constitution. The court system operates
I. INTRODUCTION “International practice shows the increasing importance of umpire courts and international courts of arbitration in social and political life of individual countries, both the most advanced ones and those that are only striving for prosperity, as well as the international community as a whole.”1 American International Commercial Arbitration Court A. Objectives / Purpose of the Study Republic Act No. 876, othewise known as “The Arbitration Law” was approved on June 19, 1953 and
Affirmative action (or positive discrimination) denotes some kind of support/help for those people who were negatively affected by their own specific characteristics as sex, race, and religion (Noon 2011). In the university admissions, affirmative action policies are used to provide fair and equal access to education for the historically underrepresented group of people, who in this work are African American students (Messerli 2010). Being introduced about 50 years ago, the affirmative action is
proof that nations with death penalty have lower crime rate. By
(Walker 2000). There are three essential elements of defamation. Firstly, the statement must be defamatory in nature. The defamatory statement should be targeted to the reputation of the person defamed. A statement is considered as defamatory if it lowers the plaintiffs in the estimation of right thinking members of society generally. A defamatory statement would also cause the plaintiff to be shunned or avoided. Furthermore, it would also expose the plaintiff
turned violent and two people were shot. This is how Andy ended up facing a charge of murder. Andy could just admit that he was there, testify against the others, and face a few years in juvenile detention. Otherwise, he would be transferred to adult court and if he was found guilty, he would spend a much longer time in detention and prison. He decided to take the risk and go to trial (Steinberg). Trying juveniles as adults has always been a controversial topic to the public. There are many different
(Cox, S., Allen, J., Hanser, R., Conrad, J. 2013). This system was put in place to reduce the juvenile crime, violence, and victimization, then put the teens back into society reformed. Before the juveniles are sent to juvenile jails, the juvenile court provides due process, care, rehabilitation, while protecting society (Cox, S., Allen, J., Hanser, R., Conrad, J. 2013). Many states in the beginning of the juvenile system, increased the penalty for the young offender. By the 20th century, many state
don’t gain the money they deserve thanks to the fact that they either don’t have the money to go to court, wait too long, or don’t realize till it’s too late and the statute of limitations is up. Other times when they are brave enough making it to court they need a testimony from a medical personnel, however, they can’t find someone to testify (abpla.org). Usually most people don’t end up making it to court on the grounds that lawyers are expensive and the legal system can take a while, on the other hand