Humanities 11: Yacono and Schotz

Supreme Court Project Pathfinder

These reference sources will help you access materials for the Supreme Court Project. If you have questions about the resources, citing sources, or note taking, please contact Ms. Jansen. If you have questions about the assignment, please contact Ms. Yacono or Ms. Schotz.

Subjects and descriptions for your note cards

Subject	Description
Case facts	Information describing the case itself -- the incident, the people, the place and time, etc.
Majority opinion	Names, summaries, notes, relating to the majority opinion from the Supreme Court decision
Dissenting or minority opinion	Names, summaries, notes, relating to the dissenting opinion from the Supreme Court decision
Constitution	Articles, sections, and/or amendments being considered

Books on reserve in the St. Andrew's Library

REF 342.73 CON	Constitutional amendments: 1789 to present (Palmer)
REF 323.0973 THE	The encyclopedia of civil liberties
REF 323.1 ENC	The encyclopedia of civil rights in America
REF 347.73 PAD	Facts about the Supreme Court (Paddock)
342.73 LIV	Landmark Supreme Court Cases (Lively)
REF 347.73 SUP	The Supreme Court (Weinberg, ed.)
REF 348.73 WES	West's encyclopedia of American Law

Resources from St. Andrew's subscription databases

Try these keywords when searching online databases or free Web sites (you typically won't use capital letters when searching:

Your case's title	ex. barenblatt v. united states
The important part of the case name	ex. barenblatt
The subject of the case	civil rights
Judge delivering the majority opinion	Marshall, John
Important tip #1	When you get to an appropriate page, use the Edit—Find command in your browser to search for keywords on the page
Important tip #2	Try subject searching AND keyword searching (or full-text) for different results

All of these reference databases are available on our QuickStart page:

ABC-CLIO American Government
Ebsco: Student Reseach Center
Encyclopedia Britannica: use the version "for high school students and up"
Facts on File: American Government Online
Gale: Student Resource Center Gold
SIRS Knowledge Source

Don't neglect to look at the related links and various other links that come up for each search.

See Ms. Jansen for passwords for home use or pick up a flyer in the library.

Sites on the free Web:

(You don't need to evaluate these Web sites. However, if you use any Web site not listed, or if you click on links that take you out of these sites, you will need to complete a Web site evaluation for each that you use.)

FindLaw.com

Landmark Supreme Court Cases

OYEZ: U.S. Supreme Court multimedia

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