United States Supreme Court Assignment:

Due Friday, October 19, 2007

Dr. Jack Heller: Composition Class

Submit to R.E. Kaehr for Grading on the Above Date or Earlier

 

The purpose of this assignment is to help you gather the sources you will need to complete your research paper analyzing a Supreme Court case. This assignment will be graded on the preciseness with which its instructions are met. At the same time, it will begin your actual research. As you do the assignment, you may need change to make copies. There is nothing unusual about having minor expenses in a college-level research project.

1) Finding the case itself: You should already know your case's volume number. If you do not, then you can find its number online. Your search result may give you a number like this: 493 (1989) 337. The first number, 493, will be the volume number containing your case. The second number may be confusing; the Supreme Court's term traditionally begins on October 1st of any year. 1989 would be the year the court term began on October 1st, however, decisions made well into 1990 will appear in volumes dated 1989. The third number is the page number in the volume where you will find your case.

Your first task is to find your case in its volume. When you have found it, make a good photocopy of the case's first page, and answer the questions on the assignment answer sheet. You will use this as you work on the rest of this assignment, and you will submit it as the first page of your work.

**More than one student will be using some volumes. As soon as you are finished with this task, return the volume to its proper place in the shelves. Volumes being used by several students will be put on library reserve after Spring Break.

2) Finding a newspaper article: You may find as many as three kinds of newspaper articles on your case: news reports, editorials, and excerpts from the court decision. Most common are news reports. These are useful for giving a simplified explanation of what the Supreme Court has decided. Editorials are useful for presenting the ongoing arguments about the Court's decision. Editorials may appear as long as a month after the court's decision. Finally, for major decisions, newsppapers will sometimes print excerpts from the court decisions themselves. These may help you know which sections of the decisions are thought to be newsworthy. However, these excerpts are from the same decisions that you will find in your case volumes, and all material you use from the decisions must come from those volumes. As long as you meet the other source requirements and as long as you avoid duplication, you may use several newspaper articles. To find these, search from the date of the decision to two days later.

Many newspapers are searchable from the Westlaw Campus Research database. Use that database to find a newspaper article of more than 500 words about you case. Print the article to submit with this assignment.

 

 

 

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All written answers should be on this page. Then neatly staple this page to the top of the additional pages you are asked to submit.

 

1) What is the title of your case? In what volume of United States Reports is you case printed? On what date was your case decided? The photocopy of the first page of your case decision should be the first attachment to this page.

 

2) Locate a newspaper article dealing with your case. The printed copy of your newspaper article should be the second attachment to this page.

 

3) Locate a book from another library (Indiana) dealing with your case. Print and submit the confirmation form that you sent for the book through ILL.

 

4) Locate a journal article dealing with your case. Print and submit the confirmation form that you sent for the journal article through ILL.

 

5) What are the search engine and search terms you used to locate a web site relevant to your case? Be sure your Internet source is not simply an online publication of the court decision of itself. Be sure also that it is not from an online encyclopedia. (10 points off if these are your Internet sources.) The printed copy of your online source should be the fifth attachment to this page.

 

Gain extra points: For an additional 5 points, find, print, and attach an editorial article about the decision of your case. Explain how you found this editorial.

 

 

 

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Epstein, Lee, 1958- The Supreme Court compendium : data, decisions, and developments / 1994 Book Huntington University Library / Reference: 347.7326 S959

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