Question

Plz answer if you already took the test Which is the BEST description of the Supreme Court's ruling in Bush v. Gore?

A) The Court declared George Bush the winner of the 2000 election because he received more popular votes than Al Gore.
B) The Court held that Al Gore should have been elected President because he received more popular votes than George Bush.
C) The Court ruled that a manual recount of all votes from the District of Columbia would have to take place before the election could be certified.
D) The Court ruled that election recounts in Florida were being conducted in a manner that violated the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution, and therefore had to stop.
The Supreme Court case of Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier (1988) dealt with what issue?
A) the right to prayer in schools
B) free lunches in public schools
C) preventing students from carrying firearms
D) regulating the content of student newspapers
This 1967 Supreme Court ruling held that juveniles accused of delinquent acts have many of the same rights afforded to adults under the 6th and 14th Amendments.
A) in re Gault
B) Roe v. Wade
C) Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier
D) Brown v. Board of Education

Answer 1

Florida Supreme Court reversed and remanded. Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000), was a decision of the United States Supreme Court that settled a recount dispute in Florida's 2000 presidential election. The ruling was issued on December 12, 2000.

Hazelwood School District et al. v. Kuhlmeier et al., 484 U.S. 260 (1988), was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that held that public school curricular student newspapers that have not been established as forums for student expression are subject to a lower level of First Amendment protection than independent student expression or newspapers established (by policy or practice) as forums for student expression.

In re Gault, 387 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that held that juveniles accused of crimes in a delinquency proceeding must be afforded many of the same due process rights as adults, such as the right to timely notification of the charges, the right to confront witnesses, the right against self-incrimination, and the right to counsel. The court's opinion was written by Justice Abe Fortas, a noted proponent of children's rights.