1. Paper Preparation Solo
Famous Cases
We are redlining.
Head the paper.
Title your paper.
Please label the left side Ben’s Case and the right side Savana’s Case.
We’ll answer five questions about each case.
Design name: Slice
Color Variant: Yellow

2. Famous Cases (SS.7.C.3.12)
- by the end of this lesson, you should be able to:
analyze a real-life Supreme Court case
evaluate the effect of landmark cases on everyday life
explain the importance of judicial review
criticize a faulty opinion

3. Five Questions, Ben’s Case
Please copy down this question: 1. What right are we talking about? What right did Ben claim was being violated? Write the answer on Ben’s side.

4. Five Questions, Ben’s Case
Please copy down this question: 2. How is the right limited? Free speech isn’t always available. Write down what speech is not allowed in Ben’s case.

5. Five Questions, Ben’s Case
Please copy down this question: 3. Which case was used as precedent? When deciding this case, the justices looked at a previous case to see how they handled the situation in the past. Write down the case they referenced.

6. Five Questions, Ben’s Case
Please copy down this question: 4. What factors are used from the precedent case? In Tinker v. Des Moines, the court determined that speech could be banned under certain circumstances. Write down the 2 circumstances.

7. Five Questions, Ben’s Case
5. What happened in the precedent case? Summarize Tinker in one sentence, including WHO, WHAT, and WHY.

8. Today’s Listening: Savana’s Case
Savana Redding’s school principal heard Savana had been giving pills to other students. He talked to Savana, and then ordered the school nurse and a female school employee to search Savana. They told Savana to take off her outer clothing and shake out her underwear. They didn’t find any pills.

9. Today’s Listening: Savana’s Case
The Fourth Amendment protects people from “unreasonable searches.” Nobody argued that what happened to Savana was not a search. But the Constitution puts a limit on the right to not be searched: it only protects people from unreasonable searches.

10. Today’s Listening: Savana’s Case
How does the Court know when a search is unreasonable? It looks for a similar case that was already decided, called a precedent case. A precedent case usually gives factors that must be considered in future cases.

11. Today’s Listening: Savana’s Case
To decide Savana’s case, the Court looked at a case called New Jersey v. T.L.O., where a school was allowed to search a high school student’s purse after she was caught smoking. In the T.L.O. case, the Supreme Court had said that whether a search in school is unreasonable depends on two factors:

12. Today’s Listening: Savana’s Case
1) whether the school had good reason to believe the search needed to be done
2) whether the search went too far
Using these two factors, the Court decided that the school did have a good reason to believe they should search Savana, but that a strip search went too far.

13. Five Questions, Savana’s Case
1. What right are we talking about? What right did Savana claim was being violated? Write the answer on Savana’s side.

14. Five Questions, Savana’s Case
2. How is the right limited? Nothing protects you from all searches. Write down what kind of search is not allowed in Savana’s case.

15. Five Questions, Savana’s Case
3. Which case was used as precedent? When deciding this case, the justices looked at a previous case to see how they handled the situation in the past. Write down the case they referenced.

16. Five Questions, Savana’s Case
4. What factors are used from the precedent case? In New Jersey v. T.L.O., the court determined that searches in school were allowed under certain circumstances. Write down the 2 circumstances.

17. Five Questions, Savana’s Case
5. What happened in the precedent case? Summarize the T.L.O. case in one sentence, including WHO, WHAT, and WHY.

18. Today’s Notes: Famous Cases
Please turn to the back of your paper. We are going to look into seven famous Supreme Court cases and evaluate the effect they have had on your life. Readers will be selected based on the seven highest grades in the class.

19. So and So v. Whoever (199X)
This is the description of the case. Nothing will be underlined, so whoever reads will need to stand up and underline what they think our notes should be. We will have a question to answer. It won’t appear until the reader has returned to her/his seat after underlining something on the board.

20. How does this case protect your rights?
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
This case said the Supreme Court and other courts have the power to decide whether something is unconstitutional. Because of this case, courts can strike down government actions that violate the Constitution.
How does this case protect your rights?

21. If this were still law, what could the government require you to do?
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
This case said it was constitutional for places like schools, buses and restaurants to keep people of different races apart, as long as the services offered were “equal.” For example, it was okay to make black and white people ride on separate train cars.
If this were still law, what could the government require you to do?

22. How does this case change your options in school?
Meyer v. Nebraska (1923)
This case said it’s unconstitutional for a state to ban the teaching of foreign languages.
How does this case change your options in school?

23. Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
This case overruled Plessy v. Ferguson by saying it’s unconstitutional for the government to require students of different races to go to different schools. The Court said separate schools for students of different races are not equal.
How does this case affect your quality of education?

24. How does this case protect your rights?
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
This case said that people accused of a crime must be given a lawyer even if they cannot afford one. It’s unconstitutional to deny them a lawyer just because they’re poor.
How does this case protect your rights?

25. How does this case affect you at school?
Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
This case said it’s unconstitutional to deny students the right to free speech at school, unless the students’ speech disrupts school activities.
How does this case affect you at school?

26. How does this case affect your rights in school?
New Jersey v. T.L.O. (1985)
This case said it’s unconstitutional for principals and teachers to search students and their belongings, unless:
1) there is a good reason
(like safety and discipline) and
2) the search doesn’t go too far.
How does this case affect your rights in school?