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This newly minted Supreme Court Justice gave the commencement address for the BU Law class of 2023
Who is Kentaji Brown Jackson?
This recent case overturned Roe v. Wade and established five factors that should be used to revisit other cases
What is Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health?
A penny, Mount Rushmore, and Lincoln Memorial
What are things with Abraham Lincoln's head?
What is a Pisces-Icee?
The color of this fruit is aptly described by its own name
What is an orange?
There are this many justices on the Supreme Court
What is nine?
Attorneys in this case presented psychological research to overturn the precedent of "separate but equal", and caused schools around the country to desegregate
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Fish, Phelps, and Capybaras
What are things that swim?
Cells spreading rapidly in the body and one of Santa's reindeer
What is a Cancer-Prancer?
This popular energy drink supposedly gives you wings
What is Redbull?
This constitutional article describes the powers of the judiciary
What is Article III?
(Fun fact: also the shortest article)
This case established the principle of Judicial Review
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Referee, Trains, Flo-Rida
What are things that whistle?
A balanced individual with a striped friend featured in the children's movie "Madagascar" voiced by Chris Rock
What is a Libra-Zebra?
What a snub! Greta Gerwig did not receive a Best Director nomination at the Oscars for her Summer blockbuster based on a doll with this legal name
Who is Barbara Millicent Roberts?
(will also accept Barbara)
This Latin phrase is used when a higher court agrees to review a case and examine the decision of a lower court
What is Writ of Certiorari?
(will also accept Writ of Cert, or Cert)
This establishment clause case dealt with prayer in public school
What is Engel v. Vitale?
Rivers, Fires, Lions
What are things that roar?
Represented by the king of the jungle and the destination for the 2016 Olympic Games.
What is Leo-Rio?
The Four Corners is the only spot in the world where you can simultaneously stand in which four U.S. states?
What are Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah?
The current justices released a Code of Conduct in November 2023, most likely in response to controversy surrounding this justice and their friend
Who is Clarence Thomas?
Who is Harlan Crow?
(fun fact: Crow has a garden filled with statues of dictators, and owns Hitler's original paintings)
This case was the first to use selective incorporation, a principle which applies protections in the Constitution to state law through the equal protection clause in the 14th Amendment
(bonus points if you know which right was incorporated in this case)
What is Gitlow v. New York?
(fun fact: some rights have not been incorporated, such as the 6th, 7th, and 8th Amendments which deal with treatment of criminals)
Cookies, Walls, Empires
What are things that crumble?
A new breed of dinosaur whose name means "bull lizard"
What is a Taurus-asaurus?
Shockingly, you have no muscles in this appendage which is arguably the most used part of your body
What is the finger?
(fun fact: their function is entirely controlled by muscles in your palms and arms)