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Civics &
EconJEOPARDY
The Judicial system
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The Supreme Court
Landmark cases
NC judicial sys.
The Constitution
Terms
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What is appellate jurisdiction ?
Jurisdiction under which most of the High Court’s cases are heard
What are oral arguments?
The part of a case in which the justices listen to the lawyers present their cases
What is a dissenting opinion?
The written explanation of those justices that did not vote with the majority in a
ruling
What is judicial review?
The power to declare acts of government unconstitutional
The first African American Supreme Court justice
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Ruling that required all arrested persons to be informed of their rights
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
Evidence obtained from an illegal search cannot be used in court
What is Mapp v. Ohio?
Legalized abortion based on right to privacy protected in the fourth amendment
What is Roe v. Wade?
Daily Double
Established the Supreme Court’s power of judicial review
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Applied right to counsel to state law
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
Has original jurisdiction for criminal trials in North Carolina
What is district court?
Results when a decision in district court is appealed
What is a trial de novo [new trial]?
The highest court in North Carolina
What is the Supreme Court of North Carolina?
Usually the first legal officer to confront the arrested suspect
Who is the magistrate?
Deals with criminal cases involving under aged defendants
What is juvenile court?
Orders a lower court to send records of a trial for the justices to review
What is a writ of certiorari?
The Supreme Court’s calendar of cases
What is the docket?
Accepted set of procedures that protects a persons rights to life, liberty and property
What is due process?
The Court’s decision to send the case back down to the lower court
What is to remand?
Establishes a pattern for further court rulings
What is a precedent?
Establishes the Supreme Court and federal judicial branch
What is Article III of the Constitution?
What is needed for a president’s judicial appointment to be confirmed
What is Senate approval?
The term of office for a federal judge or Supreme Court justice
What is life [or, “during good behavior”]?
Congress’s constitutional check on the power of the Supreme Court
What is impeachment?
Part of government that created courts below the Supreme Court, such as the
district courts and courts of appeal
What is Congress?
Forbids government from establishing or encouraging an particular religion
What is the establishment clause of the First Amendment?
Daily Double
Known as the Due Process Amendment; used by federal courts to apply Bill of
Rights protections to state law.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
Law that ended segregation in public facilities and hiring practices
What is affirmative action?
Programs that attempt to make up for past discrimination by giving advantages to
minorities
What is Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg County
Board of Education?
Based on the Brown v. Board decision, it was a local case which ordered students to be bused to balance
racial populations in schools
FINAL JEOPARDY
CATEGORY
Civil Rights
Ruling and practice overturned by the Brown v. Board of Education
decision
What was Plessy v. Ferguson and “separate but equal”?
