Structured Controversy Topics
Get help researching various controversial topics for TRW. Contact a librarian if your topic is not listed below.
- Children and Education
- Government
- Homosexuality
- Legal
- Media, Computers, and Technology
- Medicine & science
- Religion
- Social issues
- Women's Issues
- Supreme Court Decisions
See also Supreme Court Decisions
| The Media, Computers, and Technology |
| Censorship on the Internet |
| Fahrenheit 9/11 (Michael Moore ) |
| Media and Women's self-image |
| Movie ratings |
| News media coverage |
| Privacy: Invasion of privacy | For public figures |
| Pornography |
| Reality Television |
| Violence and Television |
Supreme Court Decisions
Many controversial social issues (e.g., affirmative action, gun control, privacy) have been brought before the U.S. Supreme Court at one time or another. Use the links below to obtain information about current and historical decisions made by the U.S. Supreme Court.
LexisNexis is an online database to which St. Kate's subscribes. One category of it contains news, another legal information. Select: Legal Research, then Federal Case Law. You can then limit your search to Supreme Court decisions.
The Legal Information Institute (http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/)
The Legal Information Institute offers Supreme Court opinions under the auspices of Project Hermes, the court's electronic-dissemination project. This archive contains nearly all opinions of the court issued since May of 1990, as well as a collection of over 600 of the most important historical decisions of the Court prior to that date. Contains links to other info on the Supreme Court, such as biographies and photos of the Justices.
The Official Web Site of the Supreme Court of the United States (http://www.supremecourtus.gov/)