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=**Activity**= Students look up some of these important Supreme Court decisions and create a poster. 1. Partners or own your own – each partnership chooses 2 cases from below (actually, they will be assigned) 2. Each partnership: a. Find, read, and discuss the case. The Internet has each of the cases (try [|www.FindLaw.com] or

...OR research them in library. //If you find a great site that should be added to our wiki, let us know. We would be glad to add it!//
//** The Library has some GREAT databases that will work for this project: **//

SIRS: Includes SIRS Discoverer, Researcher, __//Government Reporter//__ and Renaissance Researcher. Gale: Includes __//Criminal Justice Collection//__ (access to 150 //journals//**) and** //__U.S. History Collection__// (provides well-rounded coverage of both the current thinking and events in US History, as well as scholarly work being established in the field. This compilation of journals provides robust and balanced coverage of this field, useful both to the novice historian as well as to the advanced academic researcher.)

//**Be SURE to compile your sources in your Noodletools accounts. If you need help with your username and password, see the library staff.**//

b. Write a summary of the case on the poster. It should include the facts of the case, the main issue, the decision of the court, the court's reasoning, and what the dissenting justices said. c. Include in your poster how each of you think the case should have been decided and why.

// Schenck v. U.S. // (1919). Congress passed laws during World War I against distributing material that would interfere with the war effort. Charles Schenck, general secretary of the American Socialist Party, was convicted under this law for distributing leaflets urging draft-age men not "submit to intimidation" but to "petition for repeal" of the draft law. // New York Times v. Sullivan // (1964). During the civil rights era, the //New York Times// printed an ad asking for donations to help peaceful protesters at Alabama State College. L.B. Sullivan, police commissioner of Montgomery, sued the //Times// for libel saying that the ad had false material that damaged his reputation. // New York Times Co. v. U.S. // (1971). During the Vietnam War, the New York Times received a top-secret Defense Department 7,000-page history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. It started publishing excerpts, and the government sued to have the newspaper stop publishing the excerpts. // Yates v. U.S. // (1957). In 1939 with World War II looming, Congress passed the Smith Act, which made it a crime to advocate overthrowing the government by violence. In the 1950s, 14 leaders of the American Communist Party were convicted under the Smith Act.
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