AP Gov SCOTUS duel

Brown v. Board of Education question Do state school segregation laws violate the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment?

unanimous for US, Schenck's encouragement of draft dodging was a clear and present danger

Gideon v. Wainwright facts Gideon was convicted for a felony in florida where there were no state laws protecting right to an attorney. in prison he researched law and sued citing violations of his 6th amendment rights (1963)

Engel v. Vitale clause 1st Amendment Establishment Clause

Roe v. Wade impact Extended the right of privacy to a woman's right to an abortion

Citizens United v. FEC impact

Wisconsin v. Yoder clause

US v. Lopez clause Commerce Clause

US v. Lopez facts Lopez, a senior brought a gun to his public high school, illegal under the federal Gun Free School Zones Act. He was arrested and tried in federal court. He sued saying that regulation on state property (schools) was state business. (1995)

McCulloch v. Maryland clause necessary and proper clause and supremacy clause

Shaw v. Reno ruling

Public schools in New York began the school day by having students to recite a nondenominational prayer each morning. Engel, a parent at the school sued the district for violating the establishment clause (1962)

Baker v. Carr impact

Marbury V. Madison impact established judicial review

overruled "sperate but equal" (from Plessy v. Ferguson) and gave legal precedent for desegregation

New York Times v. US ruling 6:3 for NYTimes, except in the case of a Clear and Present danger the US government does not have the power of prior restraint over the press

McCulloch v. Maryland ruling

Brown v. Board of Education facts Brown was a student at a Topeka school. She had to travel much farther to the nearest black school than she would to the white one. With support from the NAACP Brown sued (1954

Citizens United v. FEC clause 1st Amendment freedom of speech

McCulloch v. Maryland impact

Shaw v. Reno clause 14th amendment equal protection clause

6th amendment, right to an attorney

Does banning the wearing of armbands in public school, as a form of protest, violate the students' freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment?

McDonald v. Chicago facts

14th amendment equal protection clause

Baker v. Carr ruling 6:2 for Baker, SCOTUS has the power to rule on congressional districts

Tinker v. Des Moines facts

Marbury v. Madison question Do the plaintiffs have a right to their commissions?

unanimous for Gideon, the right to an attorney applies to felony cases

1st Amendment freedom of speech

14th amendment equal protection clause

Tinker v. Des Moines impact students have free speech rights, symbolic speech is speech and protected

Engel v. Vitale impact

unanimous for US, Schenck's encouragement of draft dodging was a clear and present danger

New York Times v. US facts

Baker v. Carr impact establishes One Person-One Vote principle which expands the rights of minorities

Shaw v. Reno impact

Under the commerce clause, does congress have the power to regulate guns near schools?

Citizens United v. FEC ruling

can the executive branch block the publication of classified government documents without violating the first amendment freedom of press clause?

Brown was a student at a Topeka school. She had to travel much farther to the nearest black school than she would to the white one. With support from the NAACP Brown sued (1954

Tinker v. Des Moines question Does banning the wearing of armbands in public school, as a form of protest, violate the students' freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment?

Baker v. Carr question

Citizens United v. FEC question Does a law that limits the ability of corporations and labor unions to spend their own money to advocate the election or defeat of a candidate violate the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech?

Tinker v. Des Moines facts Students were suspended for wearing black armbands as a symbol to protest the Vietnam War after being told that wearing the armbands would result in punishment. Their parents sued the school system for violating the students right to free speech (1969)

Marbury v. Madison question Do the plaintiffs have a right to their commissions?

Gideon v. Wainwright clause 6th amendment, right to an attorney

Marbury v. Madison ruling 4:0 for Marbury, kinda. Marbury does deserve his commision, but SCOTUS shouldn't have heard the case first

protected freedom of press, government cannot stop printing

Brown v. Board of Education question Do state school segregation laws violate the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment?

7:2 for Roe, women have the right to an abortion

unanimous for Gideon, the right to an attorney applies to felony cases

Roe v. Wade clause a bunch, 9th implied rights, 14th due process especially

5:4 for Lopez, the state cannot regulate guns on school property under the commerce clause

Marbury V. Madison impact established judicial review

used as precedent to declare the cap on campaign funding unconstitutional, now money=free speech

Wisconsin v. Yoder facts

Maryland tried to tax federal banks in the state, McCulloch, the chief cashier in the Baltimore branch refused to pay. the state sued. (1819)

until it was overturned decades later, Schenck v. US was used to uphold the Espionage Act, causing many other convictions

End this game?