ANALYZING A SUPREME COURT CASE

Using the internet as your source, write a definition for each of the following terms.

1. Concurring opinion

2. Dissenting opinion

3. Majority opinion

4. Petitioner

5. Precedent

6. Stare Decisis

7. Syllabus

8. Writ of Certiorari

Answer the following questions after you have read about your assigned case (Look below for your assignment):

1. What is the title and number of this case?

2. How did this case get to the Supreme Court?

3. On what date was this case argued? Decided?

4. How did the justices vote on this case?

5. What is the constitutional issue of this case?

6. What case was the main precedent cited, and what is the constitutional principle of this precedent?

8. What was the ruling of the court?

9. Who concurred, and why didn’t that justice join with the majority?

10. What justices joined to dissent?

11. How does the dissenting opinion view the main case precedent?

12. Simply stated, why would the dissenters reverse the majority opinion?

13. Who were the attorneys of record? (if possible to find)

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Assigned cases:

Will Fletcher v. Peck (1810)

Kayla Heart of Atlanta Motel v. US (1964)

Walker Bush v. Gore (2000)

Emiliano Baker v. Carr (1962)

Eliana Shaw v. Reno, 1993

Alanah United States v. Nixon (1973)

Ben Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004)

Jesse Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)

Elijah Gitlow v. NY (1925)

Austin Engel v. Vitale (1962)

Amanda Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)

Brendan Schenk v. United States (1919)

Ryan Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District (1969)

Karin Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier (1988)

Eliza Texas v. Johnson (1989)

Francesca Mapp v. Ohio (1961)