Constitution
The 2008 Heller 'trial' before SCOTUS stemmed from a 2nd amendment dispute in what city?
What is Washington, D.C.
Term describes race & racism being an integral part of U.S. legal history
What is systemic or institutional racism?
This legal doctrine in colonial, revolutionary era and antebellum America held that a married woman’s legal identity was absorbed into her husband’s
What is coverture?
Trials in 18th century England relied on one of these words that start with an 'M' to protect the law's hegemony
What is Mercy or Majesty?
It may take another one of these to generate significant change in a criminal justice system, like it did for New Orleans
What is a hurricane?
This term defines an older view of the law in general, and the Constitution in particular, that interprets law & judicial decision making solely based on precedent and past laws
What is positivism or stare decisis?
Term refers to someone with multiple categories of identity
What is intersectionality?
What decade were women able to be on juries in all states in the U.S.?
What is the 1970s?
What are narratives?
If you're accused of a crime and are a very popular social influencer or celebrity, this judge is your man
Who is Judge Katz?
The power of courts to declare laws unconstitutional is known by this term
What is judicial review?
Passed in 1868, this amendment guaranteed equal protection under the law and birthright citizenship
What is the 14th amendment?
This 1848 gathering marked a significant step toward white women's legal equality, especially regarding suffrage
What is the Seneca Falls Convention?
The legal term for questioning potential jurors for bias before trial
What is voir dire?
If you go before this Cleveland courthouse judge for a crime, you better hope you're a white male who knows how to suck up and doesn't have daddy issues
Who is Judge Gaul?
In Worcester v. Georgia (1832), the Supreme Court ruled in favor of this group, asserting their sovereignty over state law
Who are the Cherokee Nation?
Scholars argue that the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) of the 1970s, by increasing funding these departments across the nation, helped trigger the era of mass incarceration.
What are police departments?
In one of the spectacular trials of the early 20th century Harry Thaw killed Stanford White for one of these reasons.
What is jealousy or honor?
This term, from the field of literature, explains how jury members may interpret a legal dispute or law from the past through what they know about the law in the present
What is intertextuality?
This phrase describes the advantages of very wealthy individuals as well as large institutions & organizations in comparison to most people in the U.S.
What is the Haves and Have Nots?
This SCOTUS decision followed on the heels of Brown v Board, and stated that integration would occur "with all deliberate speed."
What is Brown v Board II?
This landmark legislation, signed in 1964, outlawed segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination
What is the Civil Rights Act?
This amendment enabled whom to vote in 1920?
Who are white women?
This 1735 trial of a New York printer for libel helped establish the principle that juries would examine all the facts of a case
What is the trial of John Peter Zenger?
Because few U.S. students in the future will be able to read cursive & thus not be able to interpret the court clerk's handwriting in the Boston case we examined, the United States is indeed doomed, unlike this Black woman who was on trial in 1663
Who is Zipporah?