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| 11627792224 | Precedent | Legal example---usually the Court follows these | 0 | |
| 11627796135 | Affirm | Appeals court thinks the lower court's decision was correct | 1 | |
| 11627799475 | Appeal | The appeals court looks at/reviews the trial court record to make sure no mistakes were made | 2 | |
| 11627805942 | Jurisdiction | Who has the power to try a case (state, federal) | 3 | |
| 11627809748 | Concurring opinions | Agree with the decision (majority opinion) but not the reasoning used. | 4 | |
| 11627819246 | Plaintiff | Person who brings the case forward (If I wanted to sue someone, I would be the plaintiff) | 5 | |
| 11627826693 | Dissenting opinion | Disagree with the majority (In a 5-4 decision, 4 are the dissenters) | 6 | |
| 11627832716 | Docket | List of cases to be heard. | 7 | |
| 11627835850 | Civil rights | Positive acts of government to make sure people are treated equally. | 8 | |
| 11627840390 | Civil liberties | Rights bequeathed to us by the Constitution (Bill of Rights). | 9 | |
| 11627849053 | Free exercise | 1st Amendment, religion, Congress shall not prohibit the free exercise (of religion). | 10 | |
| 11627853471 | Obscenity | Something that could be considered crude, vulgar, inappropriate according to community standards (what's acceptable in Las Vegas is not probably acceptable in Hinsdale). | 11 | |
| 11627859030 | Exclusionary rule | Illegally obtained evidence cannot be used against you in a court of law; 4th amendment; Mapp v. Ohio (looking for fugitive, found other stuff, let her go because didn't have a warrant for the other stuff). | 12 | |
| 11627862953 | Due process Clause | 14th Amendment; birthright citizenship, cannot deny a person life, liberty, or property without following the law. | 13 | |
| 11627868638 | Prior restraint | Newspapers can't be prevented from printing stuff just because the government does not like it; 1st Amendment---Nixon tried to prevent the NYT and the WP from printing materials about the Vietnam War which the government did not want the people to know about. | 14 | |
| 11627876393 | Obergefell v. Hodges | Legalized same sex marriage in America; 14th Amendment | 15 | |
| 11627880413 | Slander | spoken untruths that are harmful to someone's reputation | 16 | |
| 11627885563 | Libel | A written defamation of a person's character, reputation, business, or property rights. | 17 | |
| 11627894084 | Title IX | A law; any educational facility prek-college that receives federal funds has to provide equal educational and extracurricular opportunities to boys and girls; girls' sports is what it had the biggest impact on. | 18 | |
| 11627898772 | Marbury v. Madison | Established judicial review. | 19 |
