A state wanted to prevent its only major league baseball tea…
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:
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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?
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Intending to encourage long-time resident aliens to become American citizens, a state passed a law denying numerous state and municipal jobs to persons who had been resident aliens for longer than 10 years. Those already in the state had to apply for American citizenship within a year after the law took effect. Persons who had acquired resident alien status prior to achieving the age of majority had until age 30 to acquire such status or be automatically disqualified from obtaining such a job. A 40-year-old man who has been a resident alien in the state for 15 years applied for a job as a police emergency response telecommunications expert. He had not filed for citizenship within the one-year grace period. May the state constitutionally rely on the statute to refuse to hire the man?
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Cal, an officer in the United States Army, has grown disgruntled with the competency of his superior officers. When he learned that his unit was about to be deployed to a potentially hostile country he applied for conscientious objector (“CO”) status on the grounds that as a member of a traditionally pacifist religious group, he would not be able fulfill his duties as an officer in a combat situation. Cal has never professed any religious beliefs and had often been heard denigrating religious persons. After reading an online article about the history of conscientious objectors in the U.S. Military he moved ahead with his CO application. May Cal’s conscientious objector application be constitutionally denied?
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