How do supporters of incorporation through the privileges and immunities clause argue
this clause specific makes rights apply to states?
Answer:
*a. varies
According to the “loss of liberty rule” established in Argesinger v. Hamlin, what
indigent defendants are eligible for counsel at the government’s expense?
Should the Court look to other jurisdictions (within or outside the U.S.) when it makes
decisions? Why or why not?
Answer:
*a. varies
How did the Voting Rights Act determine which states would be covered by the Act?
What is the process a police officer must use to obtain a search warrant? What is the
key to obtaining one?
What is SEC Rule 144A and its potential impact on the private placement market?
Answer:Answer Varies
How, if at all, did Hustler change the standard for proving libel?
How did the Court’s view of who is a public figure change from Rosenbloom to Gertz
and Firestone?
Which definition of community standards is more intuitive, the one set out in Jacobellis
or the one set out in Miller? Why?
Give three reasons why the Court turned back to a more conservative approach to the
First Amendment in the early 1950s?
Why did Justice Harlan concur in Gideon? Do you find his argument about Betts
convincing? Why or why not?
In Griswold v. Connecticut, Justice Douglas said the Bill of Rights has “penumbras,”
and used these penumbras to support the right to privacy. What did he mean by
“penumbras,” and what are two areas of the Bill of Rights he pointed to as evidence of a
right to privacy?