Sophomore Project Cases (#1)
Sentencing a mentally disabled person to death violates the 8th Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.
What is Atkins v. Virginia?
The 14th Amendment does not protect the right to have an abortion.
What is Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization?
Landor v. Louisianna Department of Corrections.
Does the RLUIPA allow suing prison employees?
The HEROES Act did not give the president power to discharge $ billions in student loan debt.
What is Biden v. Nebraska?
Carter threatens to punch Carter, but then swings and misses.
What is assault?
They have the burden in a civil case.
Who is the plaintiff?
Congress did not give the president power to forgive billions in student loan debt.
What is Biden v. Nebraska?
The method of execution is not cruel and unusual unless there is a substantial risk of serious harm.
What is Glossip v. Gross?
Louisiana v. Callias
Does a congressional map that creates districts to increase minority voting power violate the Equal Protection Clause?
Requiring students to stand and recite the Pledge violates the 1st Amendment.
What is Board of Education v. Barnett
Carter doesn't threaten anyone, but quietly walks up and punches Carter.
What is battery?
The attorney who calls the witness to the stand asks them questions.
What is direct exam?
Firing an employee for being gay or transgender violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
What is Bostock v. Clayton County?
Sentencing a minor to life in prison without parol, for a non-homicide crime, violates the 8th Amendment.
What is Graham v. Florida ?
Monsanto v. Durnell
Can plaintiffs recover from a herbicide manufacturer that fails to warn about the risk of cancer?
The government must provide an attorney to defendants charged with serious crimes.
What is Gideon v. Wainright?
A defendants admits to a crime, in exchange for a shorter jail sentence.
What is a plea agreement?
The attorney who did not call the witness to the stand asks them questions.
What is cross examination?
Video games are speech, because they communicate ideas.
What is Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association?
Avoiding the Establishment Clause is not a compelling reason to violate the Free Exercise Clause.
What is Kennedy v. Bremerton School District?
Mullin v. Al Otro Lado
Do immigrants "arrive in the United States" if border patrol stops them on the Mexico side of the border?
Before questioning someone who is in custody, police must warn them about their 5th and 6th Amendment rights.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
The prosecutor's burden in a criminal case.
What is "beyond a reasonable doubt"?
After hearing all evidence and arguments, jurors leave the courtroom to discuss the case privately before reaching a verdict.
What is jury deliberation?
The RFRA applies to for-profit corporations.
What is Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.?
Schools can regulate speech that disrupts the learning environment.
What is Mahanoy Area School District v. B. L.?
Trump v. Barbara
Are children born in the United States U.S. citizens, even though their parents were unlawfully or temporarily in the U.S.?
Evidence that police obtain by violating the constitution cannot be used at trial.
What is Mapp v. Ohio?
What is "preponderance of the evidence"?
Lawyers ask potential jurors questions, to decide which jurors would be best for their case.
What is voir dire?
True threats are not protected by the First Amendment.
What is Counterman v. Colorado?
The president does not have immunity for non-official acts.
What is Trump v. United States?
United States v. Hemani
Courts have the power to declare acts of Congress and the executive branch unconstitutional.
What is Marburry v. Madison?
They have the burden of proof in a criminal case.
Who is the prosecution?
A police officer must show this to a judge before they can get a search warrant.
What is probable cause?