Famous Arizona Women Lawyers and Judges
Who is Janet Napolitano?
He is the main character in Kafka’s “The Trial.”
Who is Josef K?
A 1L’s delight involving a package of fireworks exploding on a Long Island train station that led to the “foreseeability” test.
What is Palsgraf v. Long Island R. Co., 248 N.Y. 339 (1928)?
In this case, the U.S. Supreme Court held lawyer advertising to be constitutionally protected under the First Amendment.
What is Bates v. State Bar of Arizona, 433 U.S. 350 (1977)?
In this murder trial, both the prosecutor and the defense attorney were disbarred based on their conduct during the media spectacle.
What is the Jodi Arias trial?
Who is Ruth McGregor?
He is the protagonist of "An American Tragedy"?
Who is Clyde Griffiths?
This famous case has been dubbed the Hot Coffee case
What is Liebeck v. McDonald's Restaurants, P.T.S., Inc., (N.M. Dist. Aug. 18, 1994)?
He was the lead petitioner in a famous 5th Amendment case authored by Chief Justice Warren and later killed in a knife fight in a downtown Phoenix barroom.
Who was Ernesto Miranda?
After having been sentenced to death, and spending more than 10 years in prison, DNA proved this man’s innocence, taking a bite out of junk science testimony presented in Maricopa County Superior Court.
Who is Ray Krone aka the Snaggletooth Killer?
Who is Patricia Orozco?
She is the protagonist of "To Kill a Mockingbird"?
Who is Scout Finch?
This 1955 Washington Supreme Court case is remembered for its facts: 5-year-old boy pulls a chair out from under an old lady just as she's about to sit down.
What is Garratt v. Dailey, 46 Wash. 2d 197 (1955)?
What is Application of Gault, 387 U.S. 1 (1967)?
In her murder trial following her failure to pack appropriately, the prosecution presented “psychic testimony” of Count “Cheiro” Hamon and “pubic hair sanity theory” by famed alienist, Dr. Joseph Catton.
Who is Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, 1933?
This southern Arizona native was the first woman admitted to practice in Arizona, and also the first woman to argue solo before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Who was Sarah Herring Sorin?
In this legal thriller, lawyer Reggie Love helps protect 11-year old Mark Sway from both the FBI and the Mob after Mark learns where the body of a well-known politician and victim of a recent and Mob hit is buried.
What is "The Client"?
This Supreme Court case established the “actual malice” requirement for a public official to be entitled to damages for defamation in 1964.
What is New York Times Co. v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964)?
In United States v. Arizona, 567 U.S. 387 (2012), Justice Kennedy held this action by the Arizona legislature to be preempted by federal law.
What was state legislative regulation of immigration?
Adding to Arizona’s long history of political scandals, the Maricopa County Attorneys Office took a gamble that led to 1/10 of all sitting Arizona law makers being removed or resigning from office.
What is AzScam?
Appointed by Gerald Ford in 1976 as a federal district court judge, this U of A law school graduate was the first female U.S. Attorney in Arizona, and during World War II was a Women’s Air Force Service Pilot in the U.S. Army.
Who was Mary Ann Richey?
He is the main character in Scott Turow’s novel “Presumed Innocent.”
Who is Rusty Sabich?
This California Supreme Court case gives 1L’s the following brain teaser: Three men go hunting: two behind and one in front, forming a triangle. The two behind see a quail. They shoot. One shot strikes the front man’s eye and the other strikes his upper lip. Which of the two men behind is at fault?
What is Summers v. Tice, 33 Cal. 2d 80 (1948)?
(bonus points for the answer: Either or both)
This case – an original filing in the U.S. Supreme Court in 1952 – was the longest running case in the Court’s history, with its opinion issuing 11 years later after a two-year trial before the Court’s Special Master, and is primarily responsible for the growth in Arizona’s population in the last 60 years.
What is Arizona v. California, 373 U.S. 546 (1963)?
Don Bolles wrote hard-hitting investigative articles about these two individuals long suspected of extensive fraudulent schemes but neither was indicted for his murder.
Who were Ned Warren and Kemper Marley?