Finshaggy
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I have been studying Supreme Court decisions for 6 years now (Even cases from when America was British Colonies), to beat my Religious case in Texas, so I thought I would share some important ones with everyone.
First, here is how Law works. The Constitution is the Foundational document, it sets up the Courts' existence, the President's existence, and the Congress' existence. Congress writes laws, and the Courts interpret them using the Constitution, or overturn them outright. And they use documents such as the Federalist Papers and other Papers written by the signers of the Constitution to find out what it means (What is a Search, what is Property?,etc.). And since they have been doing this for 300 years, they use older cases in order to help make decisions in new cases, and the newer the old Case is the better (And usually the old cases are in the new cases, since judges used them to help interpret the newer cases). This is called Case Law. In order of importance, first is what is written in the Constitution, then is Case Law, and the Laws written by Congress come last, but they all have to be used together.
So here are some cases people here should know.
Florida v. Jardines, 569 U.S. 1 (2013)
In this case a dog was used to determine if Marijuana was in a house, but the case was dismissed because they had no warrant to bring a dog onto the property.
Kyllo v. United States, 533 U.S. 27 (2001)
This case was about Infrared/Thermal Imaging, etc. and it was decided that using new Technology like that is a search and requires a warrant.
Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents, 403 U.S. 388 (1971)
This case was about Heroine possession but created what is called the "Fruit of the Poisonous Tree Doctrine", which basically is about keeping loose cannon cops in check.
First, here is how Law works. The Constitution is the Foundational document, it sets up the Courts' existence, the President's existence, and the Congress' existence. Congress writes laws, and the Courts interpret them using the Constitution, or overturn them outright. And they use documents such as the Federalist Papers and other Papers written by the signers of the Constitution to find out what it means (What is a Search, what is Property?,etc.). And since they have been doing this for 300 years, they use older cases in order to help make decisions in new cases, and the newer the old Case is the better (And usually the old cases are in the new cases, since judges used them to help interpret the newer cases). This is called Case Law. In order of importance, first is what is written in the Constitution, then is Case Law, and the Laws written by Congress come last, but they all have to be used together.
So here are some cases people here should know.
Florida v. Jardines, 569 U.S. 1 (2013)
In this case a dog was used to determine if Marijuana was in a house, but the case was dismissed because they had no warrant to bring a dog onto the property.
Kyllo v. United States, 533 U.S. 27 (2001)
This case was about Infrared/Thermal Imaging, etc. and it was decided that using new Technology like that is a search and requires a warrant.
Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents, 403 U.S. 388 (1971)
This case was about Heroine possession but created what is called the "Fruit of the Poisonous Tree Doctrine", which basically is about keeping loose cannon cops in check.
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