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John plays high school football.He is a good student and is very popular.He has never been in trouble, he is on the honor roll, and is in a relationship with a good, clean cut, beautiful girl.Life just couldn’t get any better.However, he also smokes marijuana.One week the high school decides to have a spontaneous mandatory drug test for its athletes.John is furious.He is afraid he will get caught, get in trouble, be kicked off of the team, lose his girlfriend, and be labeled a loser by his classmates.He believes this is a violation of his Constitutional rights.Unfortunately for John (LOL, HA HA!!, sorry John you’re busted!!) the Supreme Court has ruled that mandatory drug tests for high school athletes are not in violation of the

The words “separation of church and state” are not in the Constitution.

The 1963 Supreme Court decision holding that anyone accused of a felony where imprisonment may be imposed has a right to a lawyer was the _____________________ decision.  The decision requires the government to provide a lawyer to anyone so accused who is too poor to afford one.

A former student of mine who said Gregory Lee Johnson (the man who burned an American flag in protest in Dallas, Texas outside the National Republican convention) looked like an idiot also believed that people who burn the flag ought to be beheaded.However, in the the famous Supreme Court case Texas vs. Johnson the Court struck down a state law which prohibited flag burning as being in violation of the 1st amendment right to free speech

Texas has a 9 member court known as the __________________ which serves as the court of last resort in civil cases.

There are ______________ immediate courts of appeals in Texas covering thirteen multicounty regions that hear appeals of both civil and criminal cases from the district courts.

Despite recommendations by researchers to reform the judicial system in Texas and small changes that have been made, in the absence of public support for it, there is unlikely to be any major changes in the Texas court system due to many players having a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.

“These courts have original jurisdiction in civil cases when the amount in dispute is $10,000 or less, and they have original jurisdiction over criminal offenses that are punishable by fine only.”

Choose the correct present form of the verb that completes the sentence. ¿Tu amigo mira mucha televisión?

Choose the correct present form of the verb that completes the sentence. ¿Ustedes dibujan en la clase de arte?