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Oct. 3rd, 2008 04:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desertvixenFrom rockahulababy:
So Palin can't name any Supreme Court decisions besides Roe v. Wade. The rules: post information about ONE Supreme Court decision, modern or historical, on your LJ. (Any decision, as long as it's not Roe v. Wade.) For those who see this on your f-list, take the meme to your OWN LJ to spread the fun!
Here is mine:
Miranda v. Arizona
This is the Supreme Court decision that mandated police officers to read someone being placed in police custody/held for questioning/arrested their rights before questioning them. The Fifth Ammendment of the Constitution protects us from forced self-incrimination.
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Here's mine:
Gideon vs. Wainwright
In the case, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that state courts are required under the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford their own attorneys. Clarence Earl Gideon appealed his conviction for robbery after doing research in the prison library, and sent a handwritten appeal.
And it has the book, Gideon's Trumpet.
Because justice should not be limited to what you can pay for.
DV
rockahulababy:So Palin can't name any Supreme Court decisions besides Roe v. Wade. The rules: post information about ONE Supreme Court decision, modern or historical, on your LJ. (Any decision, as long as it's not Roe v. Wade.) For those who see this on your f-list, take the meme to your OWN LJ to spread the fun!
Here is mine:
Miranda v. Arizona
This is the Supreme Court decision that mandated police officers to read someone being placed in police custody/held for questioning/arrested their rights before questioning them. The Fifth Ammendment of the Constitution protects us from forced self-incrimination.
*** *** ***
Here's mine:
Gideon vs. Wainwright
In the case, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that state courts are required under the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford their own attorneys. Clarence Earl Gideon appealed his conviction for robbery after doing research in the prison library, and sent a handwritten appeal.
And it has the book, Gideon's Trumpet.
Because justice should not be limited to what you can pay for.
DV
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Date: 2008-10-03 07:27 am (UTC)One of the reasons that was given to explain away IBM's "Whole Herd Buyout" that forced my father into early retirement in 1990 was because IBM had lost a couple of high-dollar lawsuits and needed to unload people to make it up. Of course, they stated with the Fords and Chevys, and tried to lose as few Mercedeses and Porsches as possible. Most of my peers were of the same opinion I was at the time (age 15):
"And whose fault is that? If IBM hadn't acted like a bunch of jackasses, they wouldn't have gotten sued! Why should we have to pay for their idiocy?"
It makes me laugh when people say "They're all Enron!" about Big Business. They're all IBM, too. Where were you with your self-righteous indignation 18 years ago when I needed it?
Oh, dammit, now I have to think of one.
Music of the Moment: War Is Hell (On The Homefront Too) by T.G. Sheppard (I'mma use this one in a Dallas fic, someday)
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Date: 2008-10-06 05:16 pm (UTC)So I'll go the other way in re civil rights, and give you Dred Scott. Grossly oversimplifying: the Feds can't outlaw slavery in states and territories that allow it, and slaves have no rights to speak of. Pre-US Civil War, of course (I don't recall the dates, but I think it was sometime in the 1850s), and was superseded by the 13th and 14 Amendments to the constitution.