General Appellate Law
Facts of the Case
Constitutional Issues
AMCA Rules
Bonus Law Questions (Andrew's Questions)
100
This party to an appellate case is dissatisfied with the ruling of the lower court, and would like to see it changed.

What is a petitioner?

100

This Olympus act prohibiting birth control.

What is the Reap What you Sow Act?

100

This issue is derived from the first amendment in the case.

What is Free exercise?

100

In an oral argument, each presenter must speak for a minimum of this amount of time.

What is 7 Minutes?

100

This is the department that oversees fraud committed in securities, but that cannot enforce criminal penalties.

What is the Security and Exchange Commission?

200

This is the highest court that one could appeal to, for example the US Supreme Court.

What are courts of last resort?
200

This church, of which respondent was a part of, required the use of birth control as one of its core principles.

What is the Church of Balance?

200

This case sets the basis required for the strict scrutiny test with regards to constitutional rights.

What is Glucksberg? (100 Bonus "points" if the full case name was given)

200

Notes used during an oral argument must be written on this

What is paper?

200

This legal principle in contracts represents the idea that parties to a contract will act "so as not to destroy the rights of both parties to receive the benefits of the contract"

What is Good Faith?

300

This legal principle, Latin for let the decision stand, is commonly referred to as the legal principle of precedent.

What is Stare Decisis?
300

Mindy Vo operated this business from which she was able to acquire birth control illegally.

What is a pharmaceutical company?

300

In the dissenting opinion, Justice Marco Romero claims that this case's "grandiloquent pronouncements
regarding fundamental rights suggested broad scope," but ultimately disagreed that it was more important than Glucksburg.

What is Obergefell?

300

This is the maximum number of points that can be earned in an oral argument competition.

What is 400?

300

In 1982, a supreme court ruling in Engblom v. Carey found that the use of prison dormitories by striking national guardsmen constituted a violation of this amendment?

What is the Third Amendment?

400

These types of facts are not presentable at appellate trial, due to the jurisdiction of the appellate court.

What are case facts?

400

This number, totaling at 35%, was disconcertingly higher than the national average in Olympus.

What is the STI Rate?

400

This case marked the beginning for the courts non-following of Smith vs Employment Division

What is Fulton vs Pennsylvania?

400

These are the categories for which scoring takes place in an oral argument tournament

What are Knowledge of subject matter, Response to questions, Forensic Skill and courtroom demeanor, Organization logic and demeanor?

400

In Iowa, these are the tiers of misdemeanors. (500+? Bonus points for identifying which misdemeanor it is to intentionally causes a gorilla to escape private captivity)

Simple, Serious, Aggravated (Aggravated; I am not a lawyer do not release gorillas from captivity and expect this to be a defense against a felony or something) (Source IA Code 717F.13)

500

These terms refer to the process sending a ruling back to a lower court with new rules that have come from a supreme court ruling.

What is remanding

500

Per the CDC, of the 16 Billion set aside, 13.7 Billion dollars annually are spent on treatment for this disease, noted in a footnote.

What is HIV?

500

According to Griswold, these amendments make up the "zones of privacy" encompassed under penumbra theory.

What are the First, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Ninth Amendments?

500

In elimination rounds, this method will be used to determine what side takes which issue, unless the teams have already met before in competition.

What is a coin toss?
500

These courts mark the first step in any federal trial (200 bonus points if you can get the number that represents Iowa!)Federally, this commission oversees all trials and prosecutions.

What are District Courts? (IA is in the 6th)
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