SUPREME COURT DECISIONS

ESSENTIAL QUESTION

• What is the purpose of the Supreme Court?

JUDICIAL REVIEW

• Courts can decide if laws follow the U.S Constitituion.

APPEALS COURT

• The Supreme Court hears cases that have been decided in lower courts.

OPINIONS

• The decisions of the Supreme Court.• Can change their minds later.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION

• How do people get on the Supreme Court?

PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS

• President names person to a lifetime position on the Supreme Court, U.S Senate approves.

• Supreme Court Justices do not face elections.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION

• What are some important Supreme Court decisions?

WORCESTER V. GEORGIA

• Indian Removal Act is unconstitutional.• Pres. Jackson removed Indians anyway.

SCOTT V. SANFORD

• Slaves considered property, not people.• May have led to U.S Civil War.

GIBBONS V. OGDEN

• Federal law is more important than state law.• Allowed enforcement of 1964 Civil Rights Act.

KOREMATSU V. UNITED STATES

• Legal to send Japanese to interment camps.• National security more important than

individual rights.

TINKER V. DES MOINES

• Students’ arm bands are a legal form of free speech- do not violate a dress code.

TERRY V. OHIO

• Police may ‘frisk’ for weapons at any time with “reasonable suspicion”.

BAKKE V. U OF CALI.

• Colleges may consider race as part of affirmative action in application acceptances.

RILEY V. CALIFORNIA

• Police may search and seize property without a warrant if the prove ‘probable cause’.

TLO V. NEW JERSEY

• School officials may search a locker without a search warrant.

MIRANDA V. ARIZONA

• Police must read rights before questioning.• Right to remain silent, right to a lawyer.

GIDEON V. WAINWRIGHT

• If accused person can’t afford a lawyer, one will be appointed by the courts.

• Public Defenders Office.

ROE V. WADE

• Abortion is legal in first trimester.