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Sep. 30th, 2008 03:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rivkaFollowing up on an interesting conversation in ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fairoriana's journal, I'm curious about what people know and/or remember about U.S. Supreme Court decisions.
Before clicking through, please see how many U.S. Supreme Court decisions you can name off the top of your head.
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fairoriana's journal, I'm curious about what people know and/or remember about U.S. Supreme Court decisions. Before clicking through, please see how many U.S. Supreme Court decisions you can name off the top of your head.
[Poll #1269935]
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Date: 2008-09-30 11:35 pm (UTC)Like Rivka, I am also impressed; I'm a lawyer and I didn't recognize _Buck_.
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Date: 2008-10-01 12:51 am (UTC)It was such an awful case. The lawyer supposedly representing Carrie Buck had close ties to the institution that wanted to sterilize her, and supported the eugenic movement. The main "proof" of her "feeblemindedness" was that she'd had an illegitimate child. And the child - who was just a baby at the time - was declared to be mentally subnormal based on essentially no evidence whatsoever.
That was enough for the courts to conclude that "three generations of imbeciles is enough," and they ordered Buck sterilized against her will. The supposedly imbecilic baby incidentally grew up totally normal, earning As in school.
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Date: 2008-10-02 08:44 pm (UTC)