Intro to Law
Executive, Legislative & Judicial
What are the three branches of government?
The five freedoms of the First Amendment.
What are Speech, Press, Religion, Assembly and Petition?
It is the amendment designed to prevent us from unreasonable government surveillance.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
It is the full name of the federal open records law.
What is the Freedom of Information Act?
It is the term for questioning a jury to make sure they are unbiased and ensuring they will only rule on what is presented in court rather than in the media.
What is voir dire?
They are written into the Constitution to prevent one branch of government from usurping the power of the other branches.
What are checks and balances?
It is the concept of combined speech and action upheld by the Supreme Court in Texas v. Johnson.
What is symbolic speech or expressive conduct?
They are the Five Eyes.
Who are the US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand?
It is the law you'd use to get access to records from the Austin City Council.
What is the Texas Public Information Act?
It is the name for an unconstitutional injunction issued by a judge prohibiting the media from publishing about a trial.
What is a gag order (a type of prior restraint)?
It is the type of law system where court opinions are the primary source of law. HINT: The U.S. is one of these types of countries.
What is a common law country?
In this case, the US Supreme Court ruled that obscenity receives no constitutional protection.
What is Miller v. California?
It is the European law that took effect in May 2018 and regulates information privacy in the EU.
What is the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)?
What is 9?
It is the case in which the Supreme Court ruled gag orders against the press are unconstitutional.
What is Nebraska Press Assn. v. Stuart?
They are the three federal courts that a case started in Austin would travel through, from trial court to court of last resort.
What are the U.S. District Court for the District of Western Texas, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court?
It is speech that occurs face-to-face, is targeted at a specific individual and is designed to inflict injury or bring about an immediate breach of the peace may be restricted.
What are fighting words?
It is the US government surveillance program that monitored Internet traffic of all American citizens.
What is Prism?
It's what happens when a jury finds someone not guilty even though all the evidence says they're guilty.
What is jury nullification?
His theory says protecting dissent speech can make communities safer and more stable by allowing people to air their frustrations.
Who is Thomas Emerson?
They are the two types of jurisdiction that allow a case to be heard in federal court.
What is federal question jurisdiction AND diversity (with minimum amount in controversy) jurisdiction?
In order to assert a violation of the First Amendment, you must show the government abridged your rights by engaging in ____________.
What is state action?
It is the case in which the Supreme Court ruled that prior restraints on papers about the Vietnam War were unconstitutional.
What is the Pentagon Papers case (New York Times v. United States)?
These are the five categories of unprotected speech.
What are fighting words, false advertising, incitement, true threats, and obscenity?
According to the World Justice Project, accountability, just laws, open government and accessible & impartial dispute resolution are the four universal principles that indicate a country has ________.
What is Rule of Law?