Bond v. Floyd

Glossary

• amici a reference to amici curiae briefs, or “friends of the court” briefs filed by people who are not directly involved in the case but have an interest in supporting one side or the other
• burning draft cards a common, public way of opposing the Vietnam War in the 1960s
• cold war the state of tension between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and its satellite states in the decades following World War II
• declaratory judgment a judge's statement about someone's rights
• Idiots a clinical term used at the time to refer to a particular class of mentally disabled persons
• injunctive relief a court order requiring someone to do something or refrain from doing something
• pro forma from the Latin for “as a matter of form,” used to describe something done in a perfunctory or purely formal way
• procedural due process the legal doctrine that ensures fairness in the application of rules, laws, and regulations
• Samuel Young Samuel Younge, Jr., a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and a Tuskegee Institute student killed in January 1966 for using the segregated bathroom at a Tuskegee gas station
• Selective Service laws the military draft, including the obligation to register for the draft
• SNCC an acronym for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, pronounced “snick”
• substantive due process the legal doctrine that ensures that the fundamental rights of people are protected in the outcome of a case
• Viet Cong a name derived from Vietnamese for “Vietnamese Communist” and referring to the National Liberation Front, which fought the United States and the South Vietnamese government in the Vietnam War