Chose your own case!

A JUDICIAL SYSTEM INTERACTIVE GAME!

Chose your own case!

Instructions

1) Choose your case

2) Follow the “adventure” of you caseThere are options to choose to change your path

3) Make sure you make good choices, you don’t want to be named as guilty.

4) Make sure you check the vocab bank for descriptions

Have Fun!

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Roe vs. WadeBrown vs. Board of Education

Vocab

Appealed To move forward in the court system ex. State court to District

Court

Enumerated Mentioned or numbered

Decriminalize To make legal If you do this action after the decriminalization it is okay

Class action When one person gathers a large group of people to support

and join the lawsuit he or she is filing Roe vs. Wade Instructions page

Brown vs. Board of Education info

In 1950 schools in Topeka, Kansas were segregated by color. Linda Brown and her sister were forced to walk through a dangerous railroad switchyard to get to the bus stop. There was a school closer to the Browns but it was for white children only. The family felt that the segregation was in violation of the fourteenth amendment. The family took their case to court.

Which court did they go to?• State• Federal• Supreme

Brown 14th Amendment

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.This section is what the Brown family was being deprived of.

Brown vs. Board of education

Federal Court

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The Federal court decided that the segregation of schools was harmful for the colored children. Though both schools (colored and white) had the same curriculum, teachers, buildings and transportation the segregation was still legal.

The family appealed to which court?

• District • Continue with Federal• Supreme

Supreme Court

You are correct!The family argued that “separate is not equal”

The ruling

Brown vs. Board of Education ruling

The Judge of the Supreme court ruled that the segregation of schools was “un-constitutional”. This signaled the end of legalized segregation of races in US schools. It also overthrew the “separate but equal” principal set in 1896

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Federal Court

Sorry you are incorrect

Federal courts include…

•Constitutionality •Bankruptcy cases •Cases involving the laws and treaties of the U.S

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Roe vs Wade

Case information In 1969 a single woman named Normal McCovery discovered she was

pregnant with her third child. She wanted to get a legal abortion. She was denied, she brought a class action to court. She continued the case under the false identity as Jane Roe. Roe challenged the Texas state abortion law. The only exception was if the child was threatening the mother’s life. Roe’s main task was to decriminalize this law.

What type of court did this case begin in?

District Court State Court Federal Court

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District Court

You are Correct ! The district court found this argument reasonable, so

Roe appealed to the next court.

Where did she go next? State Court Continue with District Court Supreme Court

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District Court

The Roe team continued with the District court. This tier of the court found their argument invalid. They again appealed.

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Where did the case then appeal to?

• Supreme Court • Continue with District •Federal Court

Supreme Court

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This case was appealed to the Supreme court because the statue was violating the guarantee of personal liberty and the right to privacy as seen in First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments

Continue to the ruling

Roe vs. Wade Ruling

The judge ruled that in the first trimester, with the consultation of a physician any woman can terminate her pregnancy. During the second trimester, the state would determine. In the final trimester the state again would determine if an abortion would be granted.

This ruling is still under controversy

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Roe vs Wade Fourteenth amendment Section 1

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State *deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

*This is what Roe was possibly offending . This is very similar to the fifth amendment

Supreme Court

Roe vs. Wade Ninth Amendments

addresses rights of the people that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution.

This is what they used against Roe.

Supreme Court

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Roe vs. Wade Fifth Amendment

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, *nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

*This is what Roe was possibly offending . Supreme Court

Roe vs. Wade Fourth Amendment

*The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

* They considered the viability of the case because it violated the plaintiffs first amendment in this way

Supreme Court

Supreme Court

Supreme Court covers…

Anything that is a violation of the constitution

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State court

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State courts cover things including…DivorceCustodyReading of the willPersonal injury cases

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Federal Court

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Federal courts include…•Constitutionality •Bankruptcy cases •Cases involving the laws and treaties of the U.S

Try again! Return to the Case home page

District Court

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District Court covers…

Civil casesLandlord/tenant disputes Child custody Divorce

Criminal Cases TheftRobberyAssault

Roe vs. Wade First amendment

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;

*or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

* They considered the viability of the case because it violated the plaintiffs first amendment in this way

Supreme Court

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