AP Flashcards

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