Author Question: In __________, a U.S. Court of Appeals held that a plan to subtract the names of white prospective ... (Read 28 times)

SO00 · **on:** Aug 12, 2018

In __________, a U.S. Court of Appeals held that a plan to subtract the names of white prospective jurors until the proportion of racial minorities in the pool matches the proportion in the population violated the equal protection rights of white jurors.

a. Purkett v. Elem (1995) c. Amadeo v. Zant (1988)
b. Avery v. Georgia (1953) d. U.S. v. Ovalle (1998)

Question 2

The Federal Tort Claims Act:

a. waives sovereign immunity and allows lawsuits against the federal government for the constitutional torts of its officers.
b. allows citizens to submit damage claims resulting from constitutional torts to a panel charged with deciding if the claim should be paid.
c. upholds the government's sovereign immunity from lawsuit.
d. only allows lawsuits against the individual officers involved.