Glossary

  • Disbarred

    revoking one’s license to practice law

  • Disparity

    a difference in level or treatment, especially one that is seen as unfair.

  • Dissent

    When a Justice does not agree with the majority vote on a case.

  • Dissent

    A formal written expression by a justice who has a different point of view on major or minor issues in a case that rejects the result reached by the majority.

  • Dissenting Opinion

    A formal written expression by a justice who has a different point of view on major or minor issues in a case that rejects the result reached by the majority.

  • District courts

    A court that conducts trials of cases.

  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

    Leader of the nonviolence movement in Civil Rights.

  • Draftee

    A person who is involuntarily enlisted in military service.

  • Due Process

    Fair treatment through the normal judicial system.

  • Due Process Clause

    a provision in both the Fifth (applies to federal government) and Fourteenth Amendments (applies to states) that guarantees individuals protection of the right to notice and being heard when they may be deprived of life, liberty, or property; protections against equal protection violation, and the protection of fundamental rights.