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…2012, the Supreme Court of Canada dealt with the case of R. v. N.S., where a witness, anonymized as N.S., had accused her uncle and cousin of sexually abusing her…
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…Virginia Board of Education v. Barnette, the Supreme Court ruled that the First Amendment cannot compel uniformity of opinion, reasoning in part, “Boards of Education … have, of course, important, delicate, and highly…
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…at issue, Maine presented two complementary arguments to the Supreme Court: 1) We only want to fund private equivalents to a public school education. 2) We do not want taxpayer…
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