MEDIA LAW TEST 1 REVIEW QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
What is common law? - Answers :principles and rules of law that derive their authority
not from legislation but from community usage and custom
In the legal citation 423 U.S. 342 (2003), the number 342 is what? - Answers :Page
number on which the report of the decision in this case begins
What is original intent? - Answers :meaning intended by Framers of the constitution
After the Supreme Court rules on a case, if a justice agrees with the result reached by
the majority of the court, but does not agree with the majority's reasoning or who wants
to emphasize a point ignored by the majority, the opinion written by that justice is known
as a(n) ________ opinion. - Answers :Concurring
Congress has the authority to abolish every federal court in the land, except for the
_____, because it's the only one specified in the Constitution. - Answers :Supreme
Court
The Supreme Court issues a writ of __________ when it is agreeing to hear the appeal
of a lower court ruling. - Answers :Certiorari
The U.S. Supreme Court applies what 'rule' when it comes to granting a petition
agreeing to hear the appeal of a lower court ruling - Answers :appellant
Is the middle finger to cops allowed? Our book says there is even a First Amendment
right to give the middle finger gesture, and if you do that to anyone from a law
enforcement officer who has irritated you, or in the process of a face to face or in the
process of a face to face and heated dispute w/ a stranger your having a disagreement
with your symbolic speech will be protected by the First amendment - Answers :true
The 2009 appellate court ruling in Plame Wilson v CIA best illustrates what point? -
Answers :Can the CIA stop former spies from classified confidential information
The John Peter Zinger Trial in 1734: - Answers :Stood as a political triumph against
sedition laws in early colonial America
They repeated these charges over and over again in a highly inflammatory manner. -
Answers :Near v Minnesota
prior speech cases need not always involve national security interests- to some
instances the government may seek a prior restraint against an individual in order to
stop the dissemination of false or fraudulent speech that subverts federal laws -
Answers :US v Bell
, Which institution has primary control over what the First amendment means today? -
Answers :Supreme Court
The opinion of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in what became recognized as the clear
and present danger test comes from what case? - Answers :Schenck v US (1919)
Virtually all American legal scholars agree that the adoption of prior restraint was
designed to be abolished prior restraint on the US and our book demonstrates that has
been successfully applied over 200 years - Answers :True
The incorporation doctrine links the Frist Amendment with what other Amendment -
Answers :The fourteenth amendment
In the case of Barber v. Dearborn Public Schools involving a T-shirt that carried a
political message, a federal judge applied the rule and precedent from which U.S.
Supreme Court decision? - Answers :Tinker v Des Moines Independent Community
School District
• In 2010, in what case did the U.S. Supreme Court declared unconstitutional a law
restricting spending by corporations on political advertising - Answers :Citizens v
Federal Elections comission
What does Chapter 3 list as as being on the American Library Association's Top 10
most challenged books for 2017? - Answers :Graduate
For time, place and manner purposes, courts have held that places created by
government to be used for expressive activities are called ______________ forums. -
Answers :Designated public forums
In 2017, the University of Florida spent more than $500,000 to prevent a ______ when
white nationalist Richard Spencer came to speak on its campus. - Answers :Protests
escalating to violence
The speech at issue in the student-expression case of Morse v. Frederick involved a
banner that read ______________ - Answers :Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier (1988)
Bethel v. Fraser (1986)
What does the ruling in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
(1969), say that is the reason administrators can legally limit First Amendment rights of
students at school? - Answers :The Court ruled in favor of the students stating students
had free speech rights as long as they were not interrupting the learning environment of
the school or infringing on the rights of others.
ANSWERS
What is common law? - Answers :principles and rules of law that derive their authority
not from legislation but from community usage and custom
In the legal citation 423 U.S. 342 (2003), the number 342 is what? - Answers :Page
number on which the report of the decision in this case begins
What is original intent? - Answers :meaning intended by Framers of the constitution
After the Supreme Court rules on a case, if a justice agrees with the result reached by
the majority of the court, but does not agree with the majority's reasoning or who wants
to emphasize a point ignored by the majority, the opinion written by that justice is known
as a(n) ________ opinion. - Answers :Concurring
Congress has the authority to abolish every federal court in the land, except for the
_____, because it's the only one specified in the Constitution. - Answers :Supreme
Court
The Supreme Court issues a writ of __________ when it is agreeing to hear the appeal
of a lower court ruling. - Answers :Certiorari
The U.S. Supreme Court applies what 'rule' when it comes to granting a petition
agreeing to hear the appeal of a lower court ruling - Answers :appellant
Is the middle finger to cops allowed? Our book says there is even a First Amendment
right to give the middle finger gesture, and if you do that to anyone from a law
enforcement officer who has irritated you, or in the process of a face to face or in the
process of a face to face and heated dispute w/ a stranger your having a disagreement
with your symbolic speech will be protected by the First amendment - Answers :true
The 2009 appellate court ruling in Plame Wilson v CIA best illustrates what point? -
Answers :Can the CIA stop former spies from classified confidential information
The John Peter Zinger Trial in 1734: - Answers :Stood as a political triumph against
sedition laws in early colonial America
They repeated these charges over and over again in a highly inflammatory manner. -
Answers :Near v Minnesota
prior speech cases need not always involve national security interests- to some
instances the government may seek a prior restraint against an individual in order to
stop the dissemination of false or fraudulent speech that subverts federal laws -
Answers :US v Bell
, Which institution has primary control over what the First amendment means today? -
Answers :Supreme Court
The opinion of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in what became recognized as the clear
and present danger test comes from what case? - Answers :Schenck v US (1919)
Virtually all American legal scholars agree that the adoption of prior restraint was
designed to be abolished prior restraint on the US and our book demonstrates that has
been successfully applied over 200 years - Answers :True
The incorporation doctrine links the Frist Amendment with what other Amendment -
Answers :The fourteenth amendment
In the case of Barber v. Dearborn Public Schools involving a T-shirt that carried a
political message, a federal judge applied the rule and precedent from which U.S.
Supreme Court decision? - Answers :Tinker v Des Moines Independent Community
School District
• In 2010, in what case did the U.S. Supreme Court declared unconstitutional a law
restricting spending by corporations on political advertising - Answers :Citizens v
Federal Elections comission
What does Chapter 3 list as as being on the American Library Association's Top 10
most challenged books for 2017? - Answers :Graduate
For time, place and manner purposes, courts have held that places created by
government to be used for expressive activities are called ______________ forums. -
Answers :Designated public forums
In 2017, the University of Florida spent more than $500,000 to prevent a ______ when
white nationalist Richard Spencer came to speak on its campus. - Answers :Protests
escalating to violence
The speech at issue in the student-expression case of Morse v. Frederick involved a
banner that read ______________ - Answers :Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier (1988)
Bethel v. Fraser (1986)
What does the ruling in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District
(1969), say that is the reason administrators can legally limit First Amendment rights of
students at school? - Answers :The Court ruled in favor of the students stating students
had free speech rights as long as they were not interrupting the learning environment of
the school or infringing on the rights of others.
