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Flashcards by Brett Sasser, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Brett Sasser
almost 10 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Briggs vs Elliot | A man that works at the school takes the school superintendent to court over the unequal and biased Harryschool system |
| Harry Brigs | The boy that walks 5 miles |
| Thurgood Marshall | attorney for the black parents in the south Carolina court case |
| The lawsuit | lawsuit listed the differences between the white schools |
| 14th amendment | one of the civil war amendments (equal protection under the laws) |
| de jure segregation | segregation established by law |
| de facto segregation | latin phrase that means by fact segregation that occurred by tradition |
| Jim crow laws | segregation laws |
| Original jurisdiction | authority of a court to hear a case |
| Appellate jurisdiction | authority of a court to hear a case appealed |
| Legal brief | a paper explaining the position of both sides |
| Majority opinion | a statement that presents the views of the majority of the supreme court |
| Dissenting opinion | a statement written by a supreme court who disagrees with the majority opinion |
| stare decisis | principle followed by judges and the supreme court |
| Precedent | a ruling that is used as the basis for a decision in a similar case |
| Due process of laws | means fair and equal treatment in a court of law |
| Dred scott v sanford | case of a slave named dred scott |
| Plessy v Ferguson | a man that who purchased a ticket for a white bus |
| Brown v Board | banned segregation in public schools |
| Briggs v Elliot | case that called segregated schools |
| Korematsu v us | during WWII Japanese Americans living on the west coast were moved to camps |
| University of California | Supreme court case on affirmative action |
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