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1 Landmark Supreme Court Cases By: Josselyn Sorto & 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 Lukumi Babalu 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Supreme_Court_US_2010.jpg  http://www.supremecourt.gov/about/briefoverview.aspx http://www.supremecourt.gov/about/briefoverview.aspx


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