Unit :The Supreme Court Created by Mackenzie Lewis, Whitney Alvarado, and Megan Berger
Vocab Supreme Court Cases Fun Facts Supreme Court Justices Misc. 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500
What is Majority Opinion?
Answer: What is the official opinion in the court
What is Concurring Opinion?
Answer: What is Agrees with the majority, but for different reasons.
What is Dissenting Opinion?
Answer: What is disagrees with Majority Opinion.
What is the Writ of Certiorari?
Answer: What is directing a lower court to send up the record in a given case for its review.
What is Certificate?
Answer: What is a process used when a lower court is not clear about procedure or the rule of law that should apply to a case.
Describe the Dred Scott v. Sanford case?
Answer: Slave moved to free state in North Answer: Slave moved to free state in North. Moved back to slave state, but he wanted his freedom because he was in a free state.
What did the case of Gideon v. Wainright guarantee?
Answer: What is guarantees states to provide defense attorneys to criminal defendants charged with serious offenses who cannot afford lawyers themselves.
Who was the girl in the Brown v. Board of Education case?
Answer: What is Linda Carol Brown
What did the US v. Nixon case rule?
Answer: President cannot use Executive Privilege in a case Answer: President cannot use Executive Privilege in a case. The President is not above the law.
What year did the US v. Nixon case occur?
Answer: What is 1972
What is the Supreme Court?
Answer: What is - “Highest court in the land” - “The court of last resort” - Only court created in the constitution
What is a power of the Supreme Court?
What is the power of Judicial Review
In the process of a case reaching the Supreme Court, can certain levels be skipped?
Answer: What is yes, often levels are skipped
In the supreme court, about how many cases are heard per year?
Answer: What is around 20-120
How does a the Court Pick the cases it will hear?
Answer: What is the rule of four: 4/9 judges have to agree to see a case for it to be heard
How long do Supreme Court Justices serve?
Answer: What is life
What are three ways that Supreme Court Justices leave office?
Answer: What is retire, die, or be impeached
How are federal and Supreme Court judges chosen?
Answer: What is the Judicial Selection Process
Who was the first female Supreme Court Justice?
Answer: Who is Sandra Day O’Connor
How old is the oldest supreme court justice in the US?
Answer: Who is John Roberts
Describe the TLO case
Answer: - What is a girl was accused of smoking cigarettes in the bathroom, and when they searched her, they found cigarettes, but also Marijuana. -Schools have the right to search and confiscate illegal material.
What is one reason that the Court picks a case?
Answer: What is when they believe the constitution may have been violated.
What case was the first asserted power of judicial review?
Answer: What is Marbury v. Madison
How many men and women are in the 8 Associate Justices?
Answer: What is 5 men and 3 women
Why is the Mapp v. Ohio case important?
Answer: You can not search and seize without a warrant (Exclusionary Rule)