landmark supreme court cases by: josselyn sorto & alex benigno
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Landmark Supreme
Court Cases
By: Josselyn Sorto & Alex Benigno
The Supreme Court Basics
The Nine Justices
Chief of Justice: John G. Roberts Jr.
Eight Associate Justices: Antonin Scalia, Sonia
Sotomayor, Stephen G. Breyer, Samuel
A. AlitoElena Kagan, Clarence
ThomasAnthony M. Kennedy, Ruth
Bader Ginsburg
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)
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.
Brown v. Board of Education
Roe v. Wade
Free Exercise
R.A v. City of St. Paul
Wisconsin v. Yoder
Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah
Privacy
“Right to Privacy” in the Constitution
Griswold v. Connecticut
Possession of Pornography
Discrimination
Korematsu v. United States
Loving v. Virginia
Grutter v. Bollinger
Webs Cited Slides (3-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Supreme_Court_US_2010.jpg (picture)
http://www.supremecourt.gov/about/briefoverview.aspx