AP Gov SCOTUS duel

Wisconsin v. Yoder clause 1st Amendment Free Exercise Clause

In Tennessee district boundaries were not being redrawn despite unequal spread of voters. Baker, a Tennessee citizen, sued on the grounds that the district lines made rural votes worth more than urban ones. (1962)

Shaw v. Reno impact

Schenck v. US facts During World War I, Schenck, secretary of the socialist party, mailed a pamphlets to draftees declaring that the Thirteenth Amendment prohibition against involuntary servitude meant that the draft was unconstitutional. He was charged with violation of the Espionage Act and sued saying that he was just exercising free speech (1919)

Gideon v. Wainwright question

McCulloch v. Maryland clause

Marbury v. Madison clause appellate jurisdiction clause of Article III

Marbury V. Madison impact established judicial review

14th amendment equal protection clause

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?

students have free speech rights, symbolic speech is speech and protected

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)

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

Brown v. Board of Education impact overruled "sperate but equal" (from Plessy v. Ferguson) and gave legal precedent for desegregation

Tinker v. Des Moines ruling 7:2 for Tinker, symbolic speech is protected under freedom of speech, students have free speech rights

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

McCulloch v. Maryland question

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

9:0 for Brown, school segregation violates the equal protection clause

New York Times v. US ruling

6:2 for Baker, SCOTUS has the power to rule on congressional districts

Baker v. Carr question Can the supreme court rule on issues of legislative districts?

McCulloch v. Maryland ruling

McDonald v. Chicago impact

Tinker v. Des Moines clause free speech clause

Marbury v. Madison question

McDonald v. Chicago question Does the 2nd Amendment apply to state and local governments through the 14th Amendment's due process clause and thus prevent states from banning gun ownership?

Engel v. Vitale question Does the reading of a nondenominational prayer at the start of the school day violate the establishment clause of the First Amendment?

Schenck v. US 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)

14th amendment equal protection clause

McDonald v. Chicago impact

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 question Does the reading of a nondenominational prayer at the start of the school day violate the establishment clause of the First Amendment?

Roe v. Wade question Does the Texas laws banning abortions violate the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment and a woman's constitutional right to an abortion?

appellate jurisdiction clause of Article III

6:2 for Baker, SCOTUS has the power to rule on congressional districts

Do the plaintiffs have a right to their commissions?

New York Times v. US ruling

US v. Lopez clause Commerce Clause

US v. Lopez facts

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

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

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

Brown v. Board of Education ruling

Engel v. Vitale clause

McCulloch v. Maryland question

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

New York Times v. US question

Wisconsin v. Yoder ruling

Shaw v. Reno impact claims of racial redistricting must be held to a standard of strict scrutiny. laws that results in classification by race must have a compelling state interest or a clear 14th amendment violation

students have free speech rights, symbolic speech is speech and protected

McCulloch v. Maryland clause

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

Engel v. Vitale impact

Brown v. Board of Education impact

Gideon v. Wainwright question Does the 6th Amendment's right to counsel in criminal cases extend to defendants in state courts, even in cases in which the death penalty is not at issue?

Shaw v. Reno clause 14th amendment equal protection clause

5:4 for Shaw, factoring race into redistricting is unconstitutional

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