This court case was significant because it questioned whether the 5th amendment denied states right to take private property for public use without compensation.
What is Barron v. Baltimore?
100
The definition of civil rights.
What is protections form unreasonable discrimination by government and private entities.
100
The minimum number of Supreme Court justices that has served at one time
What is six?
100
These are guaranteed by the Sixth amendment.
What is right to counsel, speedy trial, impartial jury trial, etc.
200
A court case in which the judiciary could not enforce it's decision.
What is INS v. Chadha or Brown v. Board of Education
200
These four statutes have no been incorporated.
What are quartering soldiers, grand jury indictment, jury trial, and excessive bail.
200
The claims and test that pertain to strict scrutiny.
What is race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, and narrowly tailored to meet compelling government interests.
200
This is what the court considers when hearing a case on appeal.
What is the application of the law.
200
The term for a defendant deciding to represent himself.
What is proceeding pro se?
300
The two concepts we try to balance in the judicial system.
What are independence and accountability?
300
When the court requires compelling proof of harm to be caused by publication in order to allow censorship before publication
What is prior restraint?
300
Examples of inequality during the Jim Crow era.
What are poll taxes, literacy tests, the grandfather clause, white primaries, Jim Crow laws.
300
This happens during the oral argument stage of cases heard before the Supreme Court.
What is judges asking questions not answered in the briefs.
300
The current wage gap between men and women.
What is 23 cents?
400
Documents submitted to the Supreme Court by people who are interested in the outcome of a case, but are not directly involved.
What are amicus curiae briefs?
400
These for questions make up the Sherbert Test.
What is
Sincere religious belief?
Substantial burden?
Compelling government interest?
Least restrictive means?
400
This court case got a unanimous vote and overturned Plessy v. Ferguson.
What is Brown v. Board of Education
400
In this court case, the Supreme Court found that states could restrict sexual behavior not related to procreation.
What is Bowers v. Hardwick?
400
Supreme Court case that ruled a person who commits murder when under the age of 18 could not be executed for his crimes.
What is Roper v. Simmons?
500
The two ways a case can move into the Federal court system.
What are diversity jurisdiction and federal question jurisdiction.
500
Cases in which the death penalty is unconstitutional (at least 3).
What is cases pertaining to minors, the mentally retarded (IQ under 70), the criminally insane, cases not resulting in the victims death.
500
These cases upheld the Civl Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 respectively.
What are Heart of Atlanta Hotel v. US and South Carolina v. Katzenbach.
500
The court case that established the Trimester Test.
What is Roe v. Wade?
500
This act extended naturalization rights to whites and blacks. It made no mention of other people of color.