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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 1969 Term.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The chief justice gets to assign opinion-writing duties under what conditions?
(a) When the chief justice is the senior justice.
(b) When the oldest justice is in the minority.
(c) When the chief justice is in the majority.
(d) When the chief justice wants to assign them.

2. Who appoints justices to the Supreme Court?
(a) The senate.
(b) The president.
(c) Congress.
(d) The attorney general.

3. Burger believes that Warren was more interested in results than what?
(a) Constitutional law.
(b) Legal reasoning.
(c) Constitutional enforcement.
(d) Legal enforcement.

4. Black incorporates a list of permissible actions a judge can take to deal with unruly behavior in what decision?
(a) The Rutherford case.
(b) The Allen case.
(c) The Turmond case.
(d) The Marshall case.

5. Written arguments from both sides of the case are also called what?
(a) Papers.
(b) Briefs.
(c) Arguments.
(d) Memoranda.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the court agrees to hear a case it is known as granting what?

2. The Utah Public Service Commission v. El Paso Natural Gas Co. is a case that has been bouncing around the courts for how many years?

3. When Blackmun finally makes it through all the cert petitions that are waiting his arrival on the Court, how many does he agree to grant cert for?

4. How long was Earl Warren chief justice?

5. How many justices must agree to hear a case before the case can be heard?

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