Amazing, an intelligent meme

[morgaina]

The Rules: Post info about ONE Supreme Court decision, modern or historic to your lj. (Any decision, as long as it's not Roe v. Wade.) For those who see this on your f-list, take the meme to your OWN lj to spread the fun. (If you wish, of course.)"

Board of Education of Kiryas Joel Village School District v. Grumet, 512 U.S. 687 (1994), Justice David Souter, writing for the majority, concluded that "government should not prefer one religion to another, or religion to irreligion".

I'm not a Souter fan, but this works for me :-)

Comments

[jjjlllvvv.livejournal.com]

What an odd meme. The only supreme court decision I've read is Commun. for Non-Violence v. Reid. All about exciting copyright issues, and which I think the supreme court got right, but then I've only read their side of the story. Course it doesn't matter what I think. So what's the point of this meme?

[copper-oxide.livejournal.com]

I think all memes are odd. (ie Because you like shirts the color green this means you are a leader, you will change the world, and are probably a redhead):-D

I will *guess* this one started when Katie Couric asked Sarah Palin if there was a Supreme Court Decision she disagreed with.

[jjjlllvvv.livejournal.com]

Makes sense, but I'm a bit sympathetic with Palin on this one, not that I think much of her as a candidate. Apart from Roe v. Wade, I bet most people don't know many case names for supreme court decisions off the top of their heads. I had to google the one I wrote about, and while I can remember the gist of some decisions, the case names just don't stick.

[copper-oxide.livejournal.com]

The three biggies that come to my mind without looking anything up is Roe v Wade, Brown v Board of Ed., & Miranda v Arizona. Which is probably about typical for most people.

As I thought of it more about the point of the meme (meme's have a point?) is perhaps to get people to look up decisions or to read the decisions other people on their f-list wrote about to widen their knowledge??? As usual, I don't know for certain.

edited for clarity