“[L]awyers in criminal courts are necessities, not luxuries. The right of one charged with crime to counsel may not be deemed fundamental and essential to fair trials in some countries, but it is in ours. From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair trials before impartial tribunals in which every defendant stands equal before the law. This noble ideal cannot be realized if the poor man charged with crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him.” – Justice Harlan
Understanding Supreme Opinions

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Mary Corrigan
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Hazelwood v Kuhlmeier
Gideon v Wainwright
Bush v Gore
Marbury v Madison
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
“[N]either the doctrine of separation of powers, nor the need for confidentiality of high-level communications, without more, can sustain an absolute, unqualified Presidential privilege of immunity from judicial process under all circumstances.” – Justice Burger
Bush v Gore
Marbury v Madison
US v Nixon
Miranda v Arizona
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
“It suffices to say that the issuance of the stay suggests that a majority of the Court, while not deciding the issues presented, believe that the petitioner has a substantial probability of success. The issue is not, as the dissent puts it, whether "counting every legally cast vote can constitute irreparable harm." One of the principal issues in the appeal we have accepted is precisely whether the votes that have been ordered to be counted are, under a reasonable interpretation of Florida law, "legally cast vote[s]." – Justice Scalia
Bush v Gore
Marbury v Madison
US v Nixon
Plessy v Ferguson
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
“The powers of the legislature are defined and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken or forgotten, the constitution is written. ... Certainly, all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void… It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.” – Justice Marshall
Marbury v Madison
Bush v Nixon
Brown v Board of Education
In re Gault
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
“We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other "tangible" factors may be equal, deprive the children of the minority group of equal educational opportunities?... To separate [children] from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely to ever be undone.” – Justice Warren
Plessy v Ferguson
Tinker v Des Moines
In re Gault
Brown v Board of Education
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
“The person in custody must, prior to interrogation, be clearly informed that he has the right to remain silent, and that anything he says will be used against him in court; he must be clearly informed that he has the right to consult with a lawyer and to have the lawyer with him during interrogation, and that, if he is indigent, a lawyer will be appointed to represent him” – Justice Warren
Miranda v Arizona
In re Gault
Hazelwood v Kuhlmeier
DC v Heller
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
“[S]pecial problems may arise with respect to waiver of the privilege by or on behalf of children, and . . . there may well be some differences in technique -- but not in principle -- depending upon the age of the child and the presence and competence of parents. . . . If counsel was not present for some permissible reason when an admission was obtained, the greatest care must be taken to assure that the admission was voluntary. . . ." – argument of the court
In re Gault
Hazelwood v Kuhlmeier
Tinker v Des Moines
Brown v Board of Education
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