D.C. v. Heller
Carpenter v. U.S.
Roper v. Simmons
Supreme Court decision making
Random trivia (if Q pertains to you you cannot answer)
100
Surprisingly, this interest group was not in favor of this case going before the Supreme Court.
What is the National Rifle Association?
100
This is how Timothy Carpenter came to the attention of law enforcement who were investigating a string of armed robberies.
What is someone narked on him?
100
This legal principle requires punishment to fit the crime and offender.
What is proportionality?
100
True or False: The Constitution is silent on the proper method of interpreting it.
What is true?
100
This person officially kicked off the Chloe attendance shaming trend.
Who is Professor Ladd?
200
In D.C. v. Heller, the Court determined that the 2nd amendment protects this.
What is the individual right to bear arms separate from militia service?
200
The question before the Court in Carpenter v. United States was whether this violated the 4th amendment.
What is the warrantless search and seizure of cell phone records (which include the location and movements of cell phone users)?
200
In the Supreme Court case Trop v. Dulles (1958), the Court established this principle for evaluating 8th amendment questions.
What is evolving standards of decency?
200
This doctrine holds that the judiciary should broadly defer to precedent and the judgment of legislatures when interpreting the Constitution.
What is judicial restraint?
200
Nick Junkin, who thinks Connecticut is the second worst state behind Nebraska, hails from here.
What is Colorado?
300
The question before the Court in D.C. v. Heller was whether these provisions of the D.C. code violated the Second amendment.
What was a restriction on the licensing of handguns and a requirement that licensed firearms kept in the home be locked or diassembled.
300
According to the Stored Communications Act, the government may require the disclosure of certain telecommunications records when "specific and articulable facts show that there are _________ to believe that the contents of a wire or electronic communication, or the records or other information sought, are relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation."
What are reasonable grounds?
300
In his dissenting opinion, Justice Antonin Scalia argued that the majority had relied too much upon this evidence in their ruling on the case.
What are international comparisons/international law?
300
This doctrine holds that the courts should develop new legal principles when judges see a compelling need, even if this action places them in conflict with precedent or the policy decisions of elected officials.
What is judicial activism?
300
This person thinks Lee Harvey Oswald was an ex- CIA operative.
Who is Ben?
400
Who said that the Second amendment is “Not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner and for whatever purpose," and that prohibitions on carrying concealed weapons is allowable, as are restrictions on “dangerous and unusual weapons.”
Who is Antonin Scalia?
400
According to this doctrine, if you voluntarily give information you lose Fourth Amendment protection.
What is third party doctrine?
400
This case, which considered whether executing the intellectually disabled was a violation of the 8th amendment, is considered a forerunner to Roper v. Simmons.
What is Atkins v. Virginia (2002)?
400
This model of decison making holds that Justices are strategic actors who realize that their ability to achieve their goals depends on a consideration of the preferences of other actors, the choices they expect others to make, and the institutional context in which they act, leading them to negotiate and compromise with one another.
What is the strategic model?
400
This person, who works/worked at a liquor store, claims they would never sell to Mack, even if he presented a government issued form of identification.
Who is Alex?
500
According to the Congressional Home Rule Act, they have the legal authority to pass legislation governing the city of Washington, D.C.
Who are the D.C. City Council and the Mayor?
500
Fill in the blanks: In his majority opinion in Katz v. United States (1967), Justice Potter Stewart famously wrote that the 4th amendment protects ______ not _____.
What are people not places?
500
These are the 4 purported purposes of punishment in the U.S. criminal justice system.
What is incapacitation, deterrence, retribution and rehabilitation?
500
Often cited in support of the attitudinal model of Supreme Court decision making, GW law professor Jeffrey Rosen famously said of this 2000 case that the Justices “did not even bother to cloak their willfulness in legal arguments intelligible to people of good faith.”
What is Bush v. Gore?
500
This person wrote the hot take praising Kid Rock's musicality and profound lyrics.
Who is Professor Quinn?