AP Gov SCOTUS duel

Shaw v. Reno facts 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)

religion trumps schooling

7:0 for Yoder, forcing people to go to school despite a religious disagreement violated the free exercise clause

Citizens United v. FEC question

Gideon v. Wainwright ruling

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

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

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?

Wisconsin v. Yoder clause 1st Amendment Free Exercise Clause

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

Wisconsin v. Yoder question Did Wisconsin's requirement that all parents send their children to school at until age 16 violate the First Amendment's free exercise clause?

McCulloch v. Maryland impact

Guaranteed the right to an attorney for the poor or indigent in a state felony case

Brown v. Board of Education facts

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)

Citizens United v. FEC facts BCRA law banned Citizens United from showing an ad they made casting Hilary Clinton in a negative light calling it "electioneering" and thus against the BCRA. Citizens United appealed that the ad fell under their right to free speech and thus the BCRA was unconstitutional (2010)

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

Roe v. Wade facts

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

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

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

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

Commerce Clause

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

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

14th amendment equal protection clause

1st Amendment freedom of speech

Citizens United v. FEC impact used as precedent to declare the cap on campaign funding unconstitutional, now money=free speech

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

Schenck v. US ruling

Did Wisconsin's requirement that all parents send their children to school at until age 16 violate the First Amendment's free exercise clause?

New York Times v. US question can the executive branch block the publication of classified government documents without violating the first amendment freedom of press clause?

Brown v. Board of Education ruling 9:0 for Brown, school segregation violates the equal protection clause

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

McCulloch v. Maryland question Does the federal government have implied powers?

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

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

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)

US v. Lopez facts

limited commerce clause, lessened federal power

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

Shaw v. Reno ruling 5:4 for Shaw, factoring race into redistricting is unconstitutional

Did Schenck's conviction under the Espionage Act for criticizing the draft violate his freedom of speech?

Shaw v. Reno clause

established supremacy of federal laws and the implied powers of congress

Baker v. Carr 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)

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

McDonald v. Chicago clause 2nd Amendment right to bear arms, 14th amendment due process clause

Baker v. Carr question

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?

Baker v. Carr ruling

Gideon v. Wainwright 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)

Schenck v. US clause 1st Amendment freedom of speech

Baker v. Carr clause

7:0 for Yoder, forcing people to go to school despite a religious disagreement violated the free exercise clause

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