City’s ordinances make City’s building inspector responsible for enforcing building code standards and authorizes the inspector to refer for prosecution all known building code violations. The inspector took a newspaper reporter through a number of rundown buildings in a slum neighborhood. After using various slurs to describe the occupants of the buildings, the inspector said to the reporter: “I don’t even try to get these buildings up to code or to get their owners prosecuted because if these buildings ever were repaired, the people who live in them would just wreck them again.” The reporter published the inspector’s statement in a story in the local newspaper. The inspector admitted he made the statements. On the basis of the statements and on the authority of another ordinance that allows the inspector to be fired for “good cause,” City’s council discharged the inspector. Is the City council’s action constitutional?

Church employed Don to plan and lead the musical portions of its weekly worship services. After several disagreements over the music, Church terminated Don. Don alleged that the discharge was retaliatory and brings an appropriate wrongful termination action in court. How should the court rule on Church’s motion to dismiss for want of jurisdiction?

Which of the following are factors the federal courts must consider in connection with a determination of unitariness, or constitutionally mandated desegregated status?

A Senate sub-committee conducted hearings on Unexplained Aerial Phenomena (“UAP”) based upon increased media reports of unusual sightings in the skies over the United States. Several of the hearings were closed to the public due to the sensitive nature of the testimony being offered by members of the military who had encountered such UAPs. The Washington Gazette, a newspaper with national readership, obtained a copy of the transcripts of the closed hearings and has informed the sub-committee’s chairperson of its intent to publish the transcripts.  If the chairperson sues in a court of proper jurisdiction to enjoin the publication, the court should:

Private organizers of an annual parade were required under a state public accommodations law to include among the marchers even those groups whose message the organizers did not wish to convey. A group representing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals applied for a permit to be included in a St. Patrick’s Day parade celebrating Irish heritage for the purpose of expressing the LGBT members’ pride in their sexual orientation. When the application was denied, the group brought suit against the parade organizers, alleging discrimination based on sexual orientation. The trial court held that the parade organizers had violated the public accommodations law and ordered the organizers to include the group in the parade. The highest state appellate court affirmed the order.  If the United States Supreme Court grants certiorari, will it affirm the lower courts’ rulings?

Which of the following statements of constitutional jurisprudence is correct?

According to the article, “10 States with the Best and Worst Healthcare,” where does Texas rank?

Which of the following is not a factor in the consideration of a person’s Free Exercise clause claim?

A state wanted to prevent its only major league baseball team, which is privately owned and operated, from moving to a rival state. The state enacted legislation providing for a one-time grant of $10 million in state funds to the team to cover part of the projected income losses the team would suffer during the next five years for remaining in the state. The legislation required that the team remain in the state for at least 10 years to accept the grant.After accepting the grant, the owners of the team decided to build a new $150 million stadium in the state. As plans for the construction proceeded, it became evident that all of the contractors and subcontractors would be white males. They had been chosen by the team’s owners without soliciting any public bids, because the contractors and subcontractors had successfully built the only other new baseball stadium in the region. Several female and minority contractors filed suit against the team’s owners in federal district court to compel public solicitation of bids for the construction of the new stadium on an equal opportunity basis, asking for an injunction of construction until compliance was ensured. Their only claim is that the contracting practices of the team’s owners denied them equal protection of the laws in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.In this suit, the court will probably rule that:

State passed a law requiring voter identification before registered voters can cast ballots in State’s elections. A study performed by a university determined that those most disproportionately affected by the law were elderly citizens of State, many of whom were disabled by health, or financial means, from being able to procure the requisite identification from State’s offices. Which of the following statements about the constitutionality of the voter identification law is most accurate?