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SCOTUS/Palin meme

From celandineb, who saw it elsewhere.

As was demonstrated in an interview with Katie Couric, Sarah Palin is unable to name any Supreme Court Case other than Roe v. Wade.

(Even in secondary schools, US history classes teach about landmark Supreme Court cases. Palin's ignorance appalls me more than I can express.)

So. The meme: Post info about ONE Supreme Court decision, modern or historic, to your LJ to spread the knowledge. Any decision, as long as it's not Roe v. Wade. Or comment here with one.

My first thought? Brown v. Board of Education (of somewhere in Kansas, I think), which declared segregation illegal. This was a direct contravention of an early SCOTUS decision, although I can't remember the name of that particular case.

ETA: From Wikipedia's entry:

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court, which overturned earlier rulings going back to Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, by declaring that state laws that established separate public schools for black and white students denied black children equal educational opportunities. Handed down on May 17, 1954, the Warren Court's unanimous (9-0) decision stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." As a result, de jure racial segregation was ruled a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. This victory paved the way for integration and the civil rights movement.

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JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, WHO CHECKS THE SCIENCE ON CSI: NEW YORK?

Thallium 201? Has a half life measured in HOURS. Checking a corpse years old? You'd detect zero Tl-201. (Although you could probably detect plenty of mercury, which is the product of the decay.)

Also? Thallium is toxic as shit, so it's likely that someone would die of thallium poisoning outright before they ever died of radiation poisoning.