Examples of suspect classification in the following topics:
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- When the court uses the strict scrutiny standard to evaluate affirmative action cases, the court is employing the standard because the court must do so in every case of suspect classification.
- For the classification to be constitutional, the class must have experienced a history of discrimination, must be definable as a group, must have limited political powers, and its characteristic must have little relationship to the government's policy aims or the ability of the group's members to contribute to society.
- The Supreme Court has consistently found that classification based on race, national origin, and alienage require strict scrutiny review.
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- The Miranda warning is a statement read by police to criminal suspects that asserts their right to counsel and right to remain silent.
- Thompkins, the Court ruled that a suspect must clearly and unambiguously assert right to silence.
- Arizona, the Supreme Court held that the admission of an elicited incriminating statement by a suspect not informed of these rights violates the Fifth and the Sixth Amendment right to counsel.
- Thompkins, the court held that unless a suspect actually states that he is relying on this right, his subsequent voluntary statements can be used in court and police can continue to interact with or question him.
- Thompkins, the Court ruled that a suspect must clearly and unambiguously assert right to silence.
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- In the 2009-2010 term of the United States Supreme Court, it was handed down that a suspect's request for legal counsel is only good for fourteen days after the suspect is released from police custody.
- In the 2009-2010 term of the United States Supreme Court, it was handed down that a suspect's request for legal counsel is only good for fourteen days after the suspect is released from police custody.
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- A broadening of the discretion allowed to law enforcement and immigration authorities in detaining and deporting immigrants suspected of terrorism-related acts.
- On May 26, 2011, President Barack Obama used an Autopen to sign a four-year extension of three key provisions in the USA PATRIOT Act: roving wiretaps, searches of business records (the library records provision), and conducting surveillance of lone wolves-- individuals suspected of terrorist-related activities not linked to terrorist groups.
- The court found that increased monitoring of suspects caused by such legislation like the Patriot Act directly put the suspects Constitutional rights in jeopardy.
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- Outside the context of politics, two-dimensional classifications are in fact quite common.
- For example, locations on the earth's surface are described in terms of two numbers, one representing classification by latitude and one indicating classification by longitude.
- Dmitri Mendeleev's periodic table of the chemical elements is probably the most famous example of a two-dimensional classification in the history of science.
- A "periodic table" of human associations can be constructed by combining the two one-dimensional classifications which we examined above (as shown in Table 5):
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- Judicial activism describes judicial rulings suspected of being based on personal or political considerations rather than on existing law.
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- Internment camps during World War II were used to hold Japanese American residents and citizens, who were suspected of anti-American plotting without the benefit of legal proceedings.
- In 1875, the Page Act expressly prohibited the entry of immigrants deemed "undesirable," including Asian men seeking contract labor and Asian women who were suspected of engaging in prostitution.
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- Only a few nations possess such weapons or are suspected of seeking them.
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- Police officers are not required to advise a suspect that he/she may refuse the search.
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- Social change is generally regarded as suspect.