A | B |
Miranda v. Arizona | Everyone should to be informed of right to remain silent and to a lawyer during interrogation. |
Mapp v. Ohio | Police have to get a warrant and must follow exlusionary rule. |
Gregg v. Georgia | Death penalty not cruel and unusual. |
Tinker v. Des Moines | Students can wear symbolic armband to protest government. |
Texas v. Johnson | Symbolic speech includes burning US flag. |
Schenck v. US | Speech limited if creating a dangerous situation. |
Cox v. Lousiana | Peaceful protest should be allowed. |
Ny Times v. US | Government can't use prior restraint to hide what it is doing from people. |
Hazelwood v. Kulhmeier | Principal can censor school paper. |
NJ v. TLO | Principal needs reasonable suspicion to search a student's bag. |
Engel v. Vitale | Requiring students to read a prayer in school not okay. |
Lemon v. Kurtzman | Government can't pay for supplies at private religious school. |
WVA v. Barnette | School can't make you salute flag. |
Wisconsin v. Yoder | Amish students don't need to go to high school. |
Wallace v. Jaffree | School sponsored silent prayer not okay in schools. |
Marbury v. Madison | Judicial Review was the precedent of this case. |
Majority Opinion | Opinion of those who voted in the majority. |
Dissenting Opinion | Opinion of the those who voted in the minority. |
Original Jurisdiction | Can hear a case for the first time. |
Appellate Jurisdiction | Hear appeals from lower courts. |
Appointed by the President | Who selects federal judges for hire? |
Writ of Habeas Corpus | Allow the accused to appear before a judge. |
Writ of Certiorari | When a case is sent up from lower court for review. |
Precedent | A guideline for how similar case will be decided in future. |
Overturn | To change or reverse a decision of a lower court. |
Uphold | To agree with the decision of a lower court. |
9 | How many Supreme Court Justices are there? |
How many cases does the Supreme Court take each year? | 100 |
District Court | Has original jurisdiction of most trials involving federal laws. |
Downtown Wilmington | Where is the closest Federal District Court? |