Important Peeps
Supreme Court
Special/Inferior Courts
Landmark Cases
Random
100
First Latina Supreme Court Justice
Sonia Sotomayer
100
Decision of the court. Written by the most senior member of the majority
Majority Opinion
100
The courts set up by Congress for the Virgin Islands, Guam and the Northern Marina Island are called
Territorial Courts
100
Landmark case that made abortion legal
Roe vs. Wade
100
The power to look at the constitutionality of a law
Judicial Review
200
Who is the current Supreme Court Chief Justice?
John Roberts
200
The right to ask a higher court to hear a case
Appeal
200
A military court or a trial held in such a court under military law.
Court Martial
200
Landmark case that gave constitutional rights to those accused of a crime.
Miranda vs. Arizona
200
The authority of a court to review decisions made by lower courts
Appellate jurisdiction
300
Oldest member of the Supreme Court currently
Ruth Bader Ginsberg
300
Information or opinion on why someone (or group) disagreed with the rest of the court
Minority Opinion
300
case in which a person has been accused of breaking a law
Criminal Case
300
Landmark case that made segregation ILLEGAL in the United States
Brown vs. Board of Education
300
A judicial philosophy in which judges play minimal policymaking roles, leaving that duty strictly to the legislatures
Judicial Restraint
400
Only Supreme Court Justice who was also once President
Howard Taft
400
List of cases to be heard by the Supreme Court
Docket
400
authority shared by both federal and state courts
Concurrent jurisdiction
400
Landmark case that gave the Supreme Court the power of judicial review
Marbury vs. Madison
400
A written statement filed by each party to a case before oral arguments are made
Brief
500
Former Supreme Court Justice from NH (just retired)
David Souter
500
Process of Justices debating the cases privately with each other
Conference
500
A Supreme Court order to a lower court to send up a case record for review
writ of certiorari
500
A landmark Supreme Court decision which confirmed that status of slaves as property rather than citizens
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
500
First African-American Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall
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