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Landmark Supreme Court Cases By: Josselyn Sorto & Alex Benigno
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The Supreme Court Basics
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The Nine Justices Chief of Justice: John G. Roberts Jr. Eight Associate Justices: Antonin Scalia, Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen G. Breyer, Samuel A. Alito Elena Kagan, Clarence Thomas Anthony M. Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Supreme Court’s jurisdictional power The Judicial power shall extend to all cases, in Law and Equality the court shall have appellate jurisdiction (both to law and fact)
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What is a “writ of certiorari”? “to be informed,” order from an appellate court to a lower court to send the records for a specified case under review.
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Brown v. Board of Education
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Roe v. Wade
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Free Exercise
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R.A v. City of St. Paul
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Wisconsin v. Yoder
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Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah
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Privacy
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“Right to Privacy” in the Constitution
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Griswold v. Connecticut
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Possession of Pornography
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Discrimination
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Korematsu v. United States
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Loving v. Virginia
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Grutter v. Bollinger
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