Latino Leaders
This Mexican-American labor leader co-founded the United Farm Workers and advocated for farmworkers' rights through nonviolent protest.
Who is Cecar Chavez?
The principle that courts must follow prior decisions when ruling on similar cases.
What is stare decisis?
This law school method of teaching involves being questioned in class about assigned readings and cold calling.
What is the Socratic Method?
This Puerto Rican artist released global hit albums, often related to his homeland and the criticism of gentrification and colonialism.
Who is Bad Bunny?
This 2012 case struck down major parts of Arizona's controversial SB 1070 immigration law as unconstitutional.
What is Arizona v. United States?
The first Latina Supreme Court Justice, of Puerto Rican descent.
Who is Sonia Sotomayor?
The doctrine that allows courts to declare laws and legislation unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
What is the American Bar Association (ABA)?
This Cuban-American lawyer and TV personality presided over her own courtroom-reality show, dealing with family law and small claims disputes.
Who is Dra. Ana Maria Polo?
This 2020 Supreme Court case blocked the Trump administration's attempt to end DACA on procedural grounds.
What is Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California?
This Afro-Latina former California Supreme Court Justice later served as Vice President of the United States.
Who is Kamala Harris?
This standard required that a law be narrowly tailored to achieve a compelling government interest.
What is strict scrutiny?
This legal writing structure is commonly tested in law school exams and memo writing.
What is IRAC?
This Netflix series starring a Colombian actress tells the story of a woman laundering money for a drug cartel in Los Angeles.
What is Griselda?
This 1947 case challenged school segregation of Mexican American students in California before Brown v. Board.
What is Mendez v. Westminster?
This Dominican American became the first Latina U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
Who is Audrey Strauss?
This theory of constitutional interpretation focuses on the original public meaning of the text at the time it was adopted.
This LSAT Section that tests your ability to analyze arguments and identify assumptions is known as this.
What is Logical Reasoning?
This Panamanian artist is widely credited as one of the pioneers of early reggaeton in the 1990s.
Who is El General?
This 1973 Supreme Court case involved Mexican American plaintiffs challenging discrimination in jury selection; ultimately extending the Fourteenth Amendment to Latinos.
What is Hernandez v. Texas?
This Puerto Rican federal judge became the first Hispanic woman appointed to a U.S. District Court.
Who is Carmen Consuelo Cerezo?
This doctrine holds that federal law overrides conflicting state law.
What is preemption?
The logical fallacy that assumes that because two things occur together, one causes the other.
What is correlation vs. causation (post hoc fallacy)?
This Brazilian artist is known as the "Queen of Brazilian Pop" and the first from Brazil to win the MTV Video Music Award for Best Latin.
Who is Anitta?
This case limited Congress's ability to enforce the Voting Rights Act by striking down the coverage formula as unconstitutional.
What is Shelby County v. Holder?