Outline

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Outline

• Introduction to U.S. Supreme Court
• Definitions
• Court Case
• Questions and Closing

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U.S. Supreme Court
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Justices
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Overview

• Composition and Function of the Supreme
  Court
• The U.S. Supreme Court is given power to
  interpret the U.S. States Constitution
• The U.S. Supreme Court is the highest Judicial
  Body in the United States
• The Court consists of nine Justices the Chief
  Justice of the United States and eight Associate
  Justices.
• The Court receives about 7,000 petitions every
  year. It has almost complete control over which
  cases it will hear.

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Amicus Brief

• amicus curiae
• Pronunciation \-'kyu?r-e-?i, -'ku?r-, -i-?e\
• Function noun
• Inflected Form(s)
• plural amici curiae
• Etymology
• New Latin, literally, friend of the court
• Date 1612
•  one (as a professional person or organization)
  that is not a party to a particular litigation
  but that is permitted by the court to advise it
  in respect to some matter of law that directly
  affects the case in question.

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Civil Rights

• civil rights
• civil rights
• Main Entry civil rights
• Function noun plural
• Date 1658
•  the nonpolitical rights of a citizen
  especially  the rights of personal liberty
  guaranteed to United States citizens by the 13th
  and 14th amendments to the Constitution and by
  acts of Congress

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• Civil Rights In Georgia
• Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education (1999)

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Suit/Argument

• Petitioner filed suit against respondents, a
  county school board (Board) and school officials,
  seeking damages for the sexual harassment of her
  daughter LaShonda by G. F., a fifth-grade
  classmate at a public elementary school. Among
  other things, petitioner alleged that
  respondents' deliberate indifference to G. F.'s
  persistent sexual advances toward LaShonda
  created an intimidating, hostile, offensive, and
  abusive school environment that violated Title IX
  of the Education Amendments of 1972.

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Title IX, Education Amendments of 1972

• Section 1681. Sex
• (a) Prohibition against discrimination
  exceptions. No person in the United States shall,
  on the basis of sex, be excluded from
  participation in, be denied the benefits of, or
  be subjected to discrimination under any
  education program or activity receiving Federal
  financial assistance, except that

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TITLE VII OF 1964 CIVIL RIGHTS ACT

• We The People
• Under title VII, any group or individual can try,
  and in fact is encouraged to try, to convert
  goals and grievances into questions of rights and
  of the deprivation of those rights.

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13th. Amendment

• Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary
  servitude, except as a punishment for crime
  whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,
  shall exist within the United States, or any
  place subject to their jurisdiction.
• Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce
  this article by appropriate legislation.
• http//www.nps.gov/archive/malu/documents/amend13.
  htm

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14th. 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.
• http//caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/am
  endment14/

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Citatations

• Plano, Jack C., Greenberg, Milton. The American
  Political Dictionary. Michigan Second Edition,
  1967.
• Rawle, Frances. Bouviers Law Dictionary And
  Concise Encyclopedia. Pennsylvania Third
  Revision Volume 11, 1914.
• Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education (1999).
  No. 97-843. Certiorari to the United
  
  States court of appeals
  for the eleventh circuit court. Argued January
  12, 1999--Decided May 24, 1999.
• Ginsberg, Benjamin, Lowi Theodore J., Weir,
  Margaret. We The People. New York London Sixth
  Edition. 2007.
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