Landmark Supreme

Court Cases

By: Josselyn Sorto & Alex Benigno

The Supreme Court Basics

The Nine Justices

Chief of Justice: John G. Roberts Jr.

Eight Associate Justices: Antonin Scalia, Sonia

Sotomayor, Stephen G. Breyer, Samuel

A. AlitoElena Kagan, Clarence

ThomasAnthony M. Kennedy, Ruth

Bader Ginsburg

Supreme Court’s jurisdictional power

The Judicial power shall extend to all cases, in Law and Equality the court shall have appellate jurisdiction

(both to law and fact)

What is a “writ of certiorari”?

“to be informed,” order from an appellate

court to a lower court to send the records for a specified case under

review.

Brown v. Board of Education

Roe v. Wade

Free Exercise

R.A v. City of St. Paul

Wisconsin v. Yoder

Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah

Privacy

“Right to Privacy” in the Constitution

Griswold v. Connecticut

Possession of Pornography

Discrimination

Korematsu v. United States

Loving v. Virginia

Grutter v. Bollinger

Webs Cited Slides (3-

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http://www.supremecourt.gov/about/briefoverview.aspx