Reconstructions: Frederick Douglass, Albion Tourgée, and Plessy v. Ferguson

Ferguson v. City of Charleston (2001)

The US Supreme Court case Ferguson v. City of Charleston (2001) established that public hospitals couldn't legally drug test pregnant women without their consent when those women sought prenatal care at those hospitals. The court held that such searches violated the pregnant women's protections under the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution. The decisions also indicated those circumstances t...

Ferguson v. Florida: rationally understanding competence to be executed?

The U.S. Supreme Court addressed competency to be executed in Ford v. Wainwright, holding that execution of the insane violates the Eighth Amendment. More than 20 years later, the Court defined this standard in its landmark decision in Panetti v. Quarterman. The Panetti ruling held that an inmate's factual awareness of the reasons for his execution was not sufficient to determine his competence...

Compensation Court. Rowbottom v. Shaw, Savill and Albion Company Limited. Coronary Disease and Myocardial Infarction

The plaintiff was a waterside worker, 46 years of age. On 5th May, 1943, he claimed that he sustained an accident in the course of his employment when was helping to drag a tray along so as to place lt in the chest. The pain became worse as he kept ?n working, but when he spelled between the loadings ?f the cargo the pain eased up a little. He continued working during the morning until the lunc...

Ferguson , Melanie A . and

Thomas Ferguson and

In the White House, among journalists, and for many political practitioners, the idea of a major “political realignment” that might dramatically reshape the face of American politics remains as tantalizing as ever. But among historians and political scientists, no one needs a weatherman to tell which way the wind is blowing. The long-venerated “realignment” approach to election analysis develop...