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[mamculuna]

(Meme from zoethe)

Sarah Palin managed to get Roe v. Wade, but was stumped when asked to name any other Supreme Court decisions. In the spirit of remembering that there is more to law than that one case, I am participating in this meme.

The Rules: Post info about ONE Supreme Court decision, modern or historic to your lj. (Any decision, as long as it's not Roe v. Wade.) For those who see this on your f-list, take the meme to your OWN lj to spread the fun.

My own is Brown v Board of Education of Topeka.

Comments

[anneth.livejournal.com]

Bush v. Gore!

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

I hate to declare a winner and then take it back, but that may be it.

[pecosbill.livejournal.com]

Dred Scott

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Really a major one--maybe the biggest of all?

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

I did this one -- good choice. Brown is famous -- and I live about 50 miles from Topeka.

I picked one a lot more obscure -- but important because of its repercussions.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Tell us again--what's yours?

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

Thor Power Tool Company v. Commissioner

It's a tax case with wide-ranging implications.

[erinbow.livejournal.com]

Including whether you can remander books -- good choice! Plus it's got a cool name!

[usedtobeljs]

I confess I looked up the spelling, but I knew the case --

Boumediene v. Bush.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

ooh, Biggie! I hate to see that here...

[jrelkins.livejournal.com]

Brown v. Board of Education was the first that came to mind (before I saw you took it!), so I went with Miranda v. Arizona.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Good one! Amazing that Palin didn't have these ready to mind.

[atpolittlebit.livejournal.com]

US v Nixon.

[maeve-rigan.livejournal.com]

To be honest, I must admit that without googling, I'm stumped after Roe v. Wade and Brown v. Board of Ed. (I didn't even remember it was Topeka). Most of the others cited in comments do sound familiar, now that you mention them, so I'm not TOTALLY clueless. OTOH, I'm not running for Vice-Pres. of the USA, and I'm not even involved professionally in politics or constitutional law, so no one cares whether I can reel off Supreme Court decisions at the drop of a journalist. But yes, I do expect a bit more savvy from anyone who hopes to be heading up my government.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

I'll bet you know some that you don't realize, like Miranda (from every cop show on TV).

[erinbow.livejournal.com]

And then there's Madison vs. ,er, someone else starting with an M. Mabury? A very early case that decided that the court had the power to weigh laws against the constitution and strike them down if unconstitutional. Or, to put it another way, decided that Congress could not make unconstitutional laws.

I probably woulda froze if someone asked me to cite cases by name on national TV, though as a news junkie I could have told you that the court recently decided that, say, the right to bear arms was not connected to service in a militia, or that even foreign nationals have the right to challenge their detention in the courts. Coming up with the actual citations -- whole different thing.

But then, I'm not a politician. And I am not running for vice president.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Without googling, I'm saying Madison v Marbury. A really big deal, I think. And I think Palin could have gotten by with just the substance, like you mention with the guns. I'm sure there was a certain amount of brain freeze, but yeah, she should know a lot more than I do!

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

The other way around -- Marbury vs Madison. The other one from history class was Plessy vs Ferguson -- that is the separate-but-equal ruling that Brown overrode.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

And Dred Scott!

[anomster.livejournal.com]

Dang. Someone got Miranda before me. And I was thinking of Marbury vs. Madison, but I only had a vague idea of what it was. So, since the original q. was about Supreme Court decisions Palin disagreed with, I'll name 1 that I disagree with (& I sure hope Palin would). Well, I had to Google it, & I found out it was actually 4 different decisions (http://www.cis.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1982/3/82.03.01.x.html) (~1/3 of the way down), the ones that said the US gov't. had the right to relocate US citizens of Japanese ancestry during WW II.

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Now that was an evil one. Or those were.