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| Question | Answer |
| Revernd J.A. Delaine | minister and prinicipal |
| Harry briggs | He attends the Scotts Branch School & walks to school each day 5 miles |
| Thurgood Marshall | attorney for the black parents in the South Carolina Supreme Court Case AGANIST segregated schools |
| John W. Davis | lawer for South Carolina |
| Eral Warren | Cheif justace of the Supreme Court |
| 14 amendment | one of the the Civil War Amendments; defined US citizenship and guarantees "equal protection under the laws" |
| De jure Segregation | segregation established by law. For example Jim Crow laws |
| De Facto segregation | latin phrase that means " by fact" segregation that occurred NOT by law but a result of tradition |
| Jim Crow Laws | segregation laws in the South |
| Original Jurisdiction | the authority of a court to hear a case for the first time |
| Appellate Jurisditction | the authority of a court of a court to hear a case APPEALED from a lower court |
| legal brief | a written document explanining the position of one side or the other in a case |
| Majority opinion | a statment that prestents the views of one side or the other in a case |
| Dissenting opinion | a statment ritten by a supreme Court justice who disagrees with the majority opinion, presenting is or her own opinion |
| "stare decisis" | principle followed by judges and the Supreme Court justice who diagrees with the majority opinion presenting his or her own opinion |
| Precedent | a ruling that is used as the basisi for judicial decisions in a later, similar case |
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