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McKeiver v. Pennsylvania, 403 U.S. 528 (1971), is a decision of the United States Supreme Court. The Court held that juveniles in juvenile criminal proceedings were not entitled to a jury trial by the Sixth or Fourteenth Amendments. [1] The Court's plurality opinion left the precise reasoning for the decision unclear. [2]
Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Citizens (PARC) v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 334 F. Supp. 1257 (E.D. Pa. 1971), was a case where the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was sued by the Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Citizens (PARC), now The Arc of Pennsylvania, over a law that gave public schools the authority to deny a free education to children who had reached the age of 8, yet had ...
Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County: Racial Segregation: 377 U.S. 218 (1964) closing the local school and giving white students vouchers to attend schools outside of the county was unconstitutional under the equal protection clause Wilbur-Ellis Co. v. Kuther: 377 U.S. 422 (1964)
Judge Robert McGhee of the Gila County superior court, acting as a juvenile court judge, [6] presided over Gerald's preliminary hearing the next morning, [3] which he ended by saying he would "think about it," and Gerald remained in custody for several more days until he was released, without explanation. On Gault's release, his mother received ...
Mt. Healthy City School District Board Of Education v. Doyle: 429 U.S. 274 (1977) School districts are not arms of the state and cannot claim sovereign immunity under the Eleventh Amendment; First Amendment rights of public employees subject to adverse employment action possibly related to protected expression. Whalen v. Roe: 429 U.S. 589 (1977)
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Their claims point to a broken juvenile justice system in Pennsylvania, said Jerome Block, a New York lawyer whose firm filed the new cases and is helping pursue similar lawsuits in Illinois ...
Brewer, 408 U.S. 471 (1972) The Supreme Court extended Fourteenth Amendment due process protection to the parole revocation process, hold that the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires a "neutral and detached" hearing body such as a parole board to give an evidentiary hearing prior to revoking the parole of a defendant and ...