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Landmark Supreme Court Cases

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. Alito Elena Kagan , Clarence Thomas

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Landmark Supreme Court Cases

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  1. Landmark Supreme Court Cases By: JosselynSorto & Alex Benigno

  2. The Supreme Court Basics

  3. 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

  4. 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)

  5. 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.

  6. Brown v. Board of Education

  7. Roe v. Wade

  8. Free Exercise

  9. R.A v. City of St. Paul

  10. Wisconsin v. Yoder

  11. Church of the LukumiBabalu Aye v. City of Hialeah

  12. Privacy

  13. “Right to Privacy” in the Constitution

  14. Griswold v. Connecticut

  15. Possession of Pornography

  16. Discrimination

  17. Korematsu v. United States

  18. Loving v. Virginia

  19. Grutter v. Bollinger

  20. Webs Cited • Slides (3- • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Supreme_Court_US_2010.jpg (picture) • http://www.supremecourt.gov/about/briefoverview.aspx

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