Supreme Court meme

[ellid]

Blame this one on celandineb.

As was demonstrated in an interview with Katie Couric, Sarah Palin is unable to name any Supreme Court Case other than Roe v. Wade.

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 pick:

Marbury v. Madison, wherein the great Chief Justice John Marshall struck down a group of last minute political appointments and established the principal of judicial review.

Comments

[harpnfiddle.livejournal.com]

That would require thinking, and after a 12 hour workday only one or two of my brain cells are still firing. I took care of Justice Douglas in his dotage. Does that count?

[ellid.livejournal.com]

Sure!

[nicolaa5.livejournal.com]

I picked one of only a couple I didn't even have to look up, that being Brown v. Board of Education.

I've posted on my own lj, which is about 3/4 Canadian in readership.

Let's see if a bunch of foreigners can do better than Palin :-)

[ladymorgana13.livejournal.com]

oh, how apropos!

[ednama.livejournal.com]

Girl, I am SO snatching this meme! ^^

I'll use Boy Scout of America vs. Dale. The one even the French heard about. ^^

[shalandara.livejournal.com]

Great pick! I must admit I can think of more older ones than newer ones, but that's becuase of my history major influence and not concentrating on anything past 1900!

Griswold vs. the State of Connecticut (1967)

[tena524.livejournal.com]

Griswold is one of the decisions cited in Roe, so perhaps cheating a bit. It's the one that a) legalized birth control and b) introduced the right to privacy, stating that medical decisions were between a woman and her doctor.