81. Mapp v. Ohio
Mapp v. Ohio (1961) was a landmark United States Supreme Court case regarding the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution as it relates to criminal procedure. The Court held that evidence that was obtained in violation of the ...
82. Antonin Scalia
Supreme Court Justice: Antonin Scalia Antonin Scalia is an American jurist and a current Justice of the United States Supreme. As the current longest-serving justice on the Supreme Court, Justice Scalia is the Senior Associate Justice. He was appointed to ...
83. Gideon v. Wainwright
Gideon v. Wainwright
(1963) is a landmark Supreme Court decision in which the court
held that, based on the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, all
defendants in criminal cases must be appointed counsel if they cannot afford
their own ...
84. Importance of Precedence
The Supreme Court has been given the highest appellate power of any court of law in the United States, but beyond that function it has emerged it has an effective source of new reform, based largely on the status accorded to judicial precedence. In recent Amer ...
85. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Supreme Court Justice: Ruth Bader GinsburgRuth Bader Ginsburg is a current Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed to office by President Bill Clinton and then took the oath of office on August 10, 1993. Ginsberg ...
86. Anthony Kennedy
Supreme Court Justice: Anthony KennedyAnthony McLeod Kennedy is current Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and was appointed in 1988 by President Ronald Reagan. After the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor, Justice Kennedy is often the swing vote on ma ...
87. Does The SC Review Enough Cases
The U.S. Supreme Court, the highest judicial body in the United States, was designed and structured to not only be the leader of Federal judiciary proceedings, but to be the third tier of power, overseeing the legislative and executive branches of government. ...
88. Dred Scott v. Sandford
The Dred Scott case was an important Supreme Court decision written by Chief
Justice Roger B. Taney that
has several key elements. First, the Dred Scott decision ruled that slaves and
their descendants (even those not born into slavery) were not p ...
89. Earl Warren
Supreme Court Justice: Earl WarrenEarl Warren was the fourteenth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He was born on March 19, 1891 in Los Angeles, California. Earl Warren grew up in Bakersfield, California and attended Kern County High School. He went on to at ...
90. Roger B. Taney
Supreme Court Justice: Roger B. TaneyRoger B. Taney was the fifth Chief Justice in the Supreme Court between 1836 till his death in 1864. He was born on March 17, 1777 and received a basic education from many private tutors. Roger B. Taney entered Dickinson Co ...