Case Problem
The FBI's pole surveillance were operational 24 hours a day for this many consecutive days, though they recorded only when motion occurred.
What is 93 days? (p.5)
In this Circuit case, three cameras monitored a residence for approximately eighteen months. Although the court found there was no search, it did expressing concern about increasingly pervasive surveillance.
What is United States v. Tuggle?
In this 1863 case, the Court said the President “was bound to meet it in the shape it presented itself, without waiting for Congress to baptize it with a name.”
What are the Prize Cases?
“For the Fourth Amendment protects people, not places.”
What is Katz v. United States? (p.351)
+50 pts, which Justice?
The U.S. federal court system has this many REGIONAL courts of appeals.
What is 12?
The fictional place with no academic freedom, and where residents had to eat at least a pound of red meat daily...
What is Sommerland? (Footnote 1)
This justice’s Katz concurrence articulated the two-part test requiring of privacy.
Who is Justice Harlan?
The Bronner majority borrows this 1932 immigration case’s idea that sustained congressional inaction, in the face of a consistent agency interpretation, creates a presumption of acquiescence.
What is Costanzo v. Tillinghast?
“In the home, our cases show, all details are intimate details”
What is Kyllo v. United States?
+50 pts, which Justice?
This Latin phrase means “to stand by things decided” and describes courts’ adherence to precedent.
What is stare decisis?
The pole cameras could observe these two signs of activity through Bronner’s windows, even though they could not identify occupants or see items inside
What are lights going on and off and movements near the windows? (p.6)
United States v. United States District Court required prior judicial approval for domestic-security surveillance but expressly reserved questions involving these connections.
What are foreign powers or their agents/agencies? (310).
This 1936 case calls the President the “sole organ” in foreign relations, but its actual holding upheld a congressional delegation of an arms-embargo power to the President.
What is United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp.?
Who wrote the Youngstown concurrence, “When the President acts pursuant to an express or implied authorization of Congress, his authority is at its maximum... When the President takes measures incompatible with the expressed or implied will of Congress, his power is at its lowest ebb.”
Who is Justice Jackson
Our beloved coach Andrew studied this major at Williams.
(+100 points bonus: Name his graduation year) (+50 points bonus each: Name an activity he participated in or a responsibility he held as a Williams student)
What is Theater!
(2004) (Junior Advisor, Cap and Bells, Housing Coordinator, Frosh Revue)
Despite Bronner’s lawful presence and lack of prior criminal convictions, the AG used this classification to invoke the PAT, applying it to Bronner
What is a "removable non-citizen with a criminal record?" (p.7)
In US v. US District Court, this danger connects First Amendment freedoms with the need for Fourth Amendment safeguards in domestic-security investigations.
What is unchecked surveillance chilling lawful political dissent and/or targeting people for their political beliefs? (p.314).
In Youngstown, Justice Jackson said a President acting against Congress’s expressed or implied will is at his “lowest ebb.” This is the category the Bronner dissent argues applies, reasoning that the NDAA and ATA carve-outs resemble Taft-Hartley’s rejection of seizure.
What is Jackson’s third category?
What case is this from: “Citizenship in the United States of an enemy belligerent does not relieve him from the consequences of a belligerency which is unlawful because in violation of the law of war.”
What is Ex parte Quirin (1942)?
A Williams College graduate, this Supreme Court justice was appointed by Abraham Lincoln in 1863. (Hint: he took part in Ex parte Milligan)
Who was Stephen Johnson Field?
From pizza to personal care, the FBI’s surveillance revealed these ten details of Bronner’s daily life...name five of them.
What are:
1. Pizza orders at least twice a week;
2. Sparklets water jugs on Tuesdays;
3. Blue Apron on Thursdays;
4. Monthly Chewy deliveries;
5. Monthly Omaha Steaks deliveries;
6. Costco deliveries of unknown products;
7. A visit from a Geek Squad representative;
8. Visits from HVAC repair company representatives;
9. A masseuse visiting twice a week; and
10. Purchases of Thin Mints, Samoas, and Tag-Alongs from Girl Scouts at his front door?
(p.6)
Identify the case, and both of the reasons the Court rejected treating the generation of cell-site location data as meaningfully voluntary.
What is Carpenter v. US? What are that cellphones are indispensable to modern life and that they automatically generate location records without an affirmative act by the user?
This 2024 Eighth Circuit immigration-detention case holds that due process imposes no time limit on detention pending deportation absent a “ruse.” The Bronner majority cites it for that holding. The dissent leans on its “courts can craft safeguards” sensibility, even though the case rejected periodic-review balancing.
What is Banyee v. Garland?
What case is this from:“Martial law cannot arise from a threatened invasion. The necessity must be actual and present; the invasion real, such as effectually closes the courts and deposes the civil administration.”
What is Ex parte Milligan (1866)?
These nine people currently serve on the United States Supreme Court.
Who are John Roberts (Chief Justice), Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and Ketanji Brown Jackson?