Knowing Your Rights
This Amendment protects your right to remain silent, or shut the heck up, when in law enforcement custody.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
Unlike criminal liability, this second form of liability usually means the victim is owed money for the harm.
What is Civil Liability?
This word is used by lawyers in the courtroom when they take issue with something the other side has said – usually said loudly, cutting off whoever is speaking.
What is "Objection"?
This case is known as the 'test case' that resulted in schools being desegregated, meaning "separate but equal" was no longer a valid excuse.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This is the type of law that Ms. Cat has spent most of her time at UCLA studying, and resulted in her trip to Armenia for post-war victim interviews.
What is International Human Rights Law?
This is the type of person a warrant must be signed by to allow ICE agents to enter a property, unlike their own warrants, which are signed by their agents.
What is a Judge?
In a jury trial, this side always speaks to the judge first, and gets a "rebuttal" period in their closing argument.
What is the Prosecution and/or Plaintiff?
Unlike being arrested, when you are ____, you are not being accused of a crime – however, you are not free to leave, and have to identify yourself to an officer.
What is Detained?
This is the crime that you were tasked with defending Jurassic Park from. [Hint: two words]
What is Negligent Homicide?
This is the name of the city in Texas that Ms. Cat is from - which is also listed somewhere in the classroom.
What is El Paso, Texas?
This Amendment protects your right to speak with an attorney, and your right to a speedy trial.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
This is the highest source of law in the U.S., which all state and federal law must follow.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
This is a type of voting, by hand, that can be used to gauge where a group is at without taking a formal vote.
What is "Fist-to-Five Voting"?
The U.S. has ratified this many international human rights conventions, out of the ten listed on the UN website, along with two optional protocols.
What is Three?
Today is the one year anniversary of ___, an event Ms. Cat has talked about repeatedly.
What is Ms. Cat Being Arrested?
This is the alternate definition of "KYR", which reminds us to be conscious of how the law impacts us based on parts of our identities.
What is Know Your Risks?
This is the stage of questioning where attorneys ask the other side's witness questions, to try and make them look bad, unlike direct examination, which makes them look good.
What is Cross Examination?
This word, starting with an “r”, means to deceive someone. It refers to tactics used by ICE agents that involve lying or misrepresenting facts to civilians.
What is "Ruse"?
We previously learned about Ozawa v. U.S., where a Chinese man could not get U.S. citizenship because of discriminatory U.S. immigration law. This is the argument he tried to make to get an exception.
What is Arguing he Qualified as White?
This is a day of the week, but also, more importantly, the name of Ms. Cat's black cat.
What is Friday?
If you are ever stopped by a police officer, this is the first question you should ask.
What is "Am I Free to Leave?"
While the United Nations is known as the main source of int'l law, there are also local int'l human rights bodies. This is the name of the system that has control over the Americas.
What is the Inter-American System?
These four “I”s of oppression are helpful to know when looking at caselaw, and our daily lives, to understand how systems of power impact us.
What are Ideological, Interpersonal, Institutional, & Internalized?
This Convention is ratified by every country except the U.S., and includes rights like the right to an identity, and the right to participate in cultural activities.
What is the Convention on the Rights of the Child?
This is how old Ms. Cat was when she started law school.
What is Twenty One?