AP Gov SCOTUS duel

For religious reasons Amish families refused to send their children to high school citing a religious exemption, violating a Wisconsin law and were fined. They sued the state for violating their freedom of religion (1972)

McDonald v. Chicago question

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

Gideon v. Wainwright question

Engel v. Vitale impact

Shaw v. Reno question

Wisconsin v. Yoder question

establishes One Person-One Vote principle which expands the rights of minorities

Can the supreme court rule on issues of legislative districts?

Shaw v. Reno clause 14th amendment equal protection clause

Baker v. Carr facts 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)

McDonald v. Chicago impact

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

Citizens United v. FEC clause

Marbury v. Madison clause

Baker v. Carr ruling

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)

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

Roe, a Texas resident, sought to terminate her pregnancy by abortion. Texas law prohibited abortions except to save the pregnant woman's life, Roe sued "on behalf of all women" (1973)

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

Schenck v. US question

In an attempt to create an additional legislative district with a majority of African-American voters, the state of North Carolina created a district connecting pockets of minority voters by nothing more than the width of the freeway. Shaw, a republican from NC, sued the US Attorney General who had forced the changes on 14th amendment violations (1993)

Brown v. Board of Education clause 14th amendment equal protection clause

McCulloch v. Maryland 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)

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)

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

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

Wisconsin v. Yoder impact

Citizens United v. FEC question

Tinker v. Des Moines clause free speech clause

New York Times v. US clause

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

Wisconsin v. Yoder clause 1st Amendment Free Exercise Clause

Roe v. Wade facts Roe, a Texas resident, sought to terminate her pregnancy by abortion. Texas law prohibited abortions except to save the pregnant woman's life, Roe sued "on behalf of all women" (1973)

Engel v. Vitale facts

Gideon v. Wainwright impact

Gideon v. Wainwright ruling

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

Marbury V. Madison impact

Baker v. Carr question

US v. Lopez ruling

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

McDonald v. Chicago impact states cannot infringe on the right to bear arms

14th amendment equal protection clause

Brown v. Board of Education ruling

Wisconsin v. Yoder facts For religious reasons Amish families refused to send their children to high school citing a religious exemption, violating a Wisconsin law and were fined. They sued the state for violating their freedom of religion (1972)

Tinker v. Des Moines clause free speech clause

Baker v. Carr clause 14th amendment equal protection clause

McDonald v. Chicago facts The Chicago system for obtaining gun permits was so annoying that it was almost impossible to obtain one. McDonald sued Chicago for violating his 2nd amendment rights (2010)

US v. Lopez question Under the commerce clause, does congress have the power to regulate guns near schools?

1st Amendment Establishment Clause

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

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

Citizens United v. FEC question

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)

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

Baker v. Carr impact

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

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