Just pick some sort of hot button issue like the death penalty, abortion, cases involving mistreatment of prisoners, common-law marriage, child abuse.
Or what is the significance in that most local and state judges are elected but our highest court, the Supreme Court, has judges that are appointed.
What about all of the older cases that have been overturned due to the development of DNA fingerprinting?
But for the most part you know, stuff that's in the news all the time. Because they have to pre-dumb it down for network televison it's simplified and condensed. Plus there is a lot of it to reference.