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McCollum v. Board of Education, 333 U.S. 203 (1948), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case related to the power of a state to use its tax-supported public school system to aid religious instruction. The case was a test of the separation of church and state with respect to education.
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal court cases, and over state court cases that turn on questions of U.S. constitutional or federal law.
Every person who has been nominated to the Court has been an attorney. [ 1 ] Before the advent of modern law schools in the United States , justices, like most attorneys of the time, completed their legal studies by " reading law " (studying under and acting as an apprentice to more experienced attorneys) rather than attending a formal program.
Hale v. Committee on Character and Fitness for the State of Illinois, 335 F.3d 678 (7th Cir. 2003), was a decision made by the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in which the court refused on procedural grounds to disturb the Illinois Committee on Character of Fitness's denial of a license to practice law to Matthew F. Hale, on the ground that he lacked the moral character ...
Pursuant to California Government Code § 68070 and the Judicial Council California Rules of Court § 10.613, the Sacramento County Superior Court has adopted Local Rules for its government and the government of its officers.
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O'Brien was appointed a judge of the Third District of the Illinois Appellate Court to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Thomas J. Homer. [5] She was sworn in on December 26, 2003. [6] O'Brien was elected to the court in 2004 and retained in 2014. [7] O'Brien was elected to the third district seat on the Illinois Supreme Court in ...
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