Vocab
Caesar's Latin
Judge at work
Tools
Court Cases
100
Coalition of judges
What is bloc?
100
Friend of the court
What is amicus curiae?
100
Where most Supreme Court cases come from
What is lower court of appeals?
100
Big court tool and knockout punch
What is judicial review?
100
Created judicial review
What is Marbury vs. Madison?
200
Written statement with a legal argument or short or your chonies
What is brief?
200
Unsigned court statement
What is per curiam?
200
Most of the work is this type of case
What is civil liberties?
200
Justices write this when they agree with the majority for different reasons
What is concurring opinion?
200
Overturned Plessy vs. Ferguson
What is Brown vs. Board of Ed of Topeka
300
Deciding vote in a court conference
What is swing vote?
300
Order for records
What is writ of certiorari?
300
This president put four Supreme Court justices to work
Who is Richard M. Nixon?
300
Opposing side opinion
What is dissenting opinion?
300
Took away impoundment
What is Train vs. NYC?
400
Friends of the court who try to influence Supreme Court
Who are lobbyists?
400
Let the decision stand
What is stare decisis?
400
This group confirms justices and can determine the amount of justices
Who is Congress or Senate?
400
Supreme Court does not have this tool-- an unchallenged decision
What is advisory opinion?
400
Changed how police do their job
What is Miranda vs AZ?
500
Written court decision
What is opinion?
500
Court will not this case of a person who broke a law before it was a law
What is ex post facto?
500
This lacking ability can hurt the Supreme Court's work as in the Trail of Tears
What is lack of enforcement?
500
The foundation of all decisions
What is law?
500
Overturned Olmstead vs US decision on wire tapping
What is Katz vs US?
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