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
Wisconsin v. Yoder clause
1st Amendment Free Exercise Clause
Baker v. Carr question
Can the supreme court rule on issues of legislative districts?
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 question
4:0 for Marbury, kinda. Marbury does deserve his commision, but SCOTUS shouldn't have heard the case first
Shaw v. Reno question
Does redrawing district lines based solely on race violate the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment?
4:0 for Marbury, kinda. Marbury does deserve his commision, but SCOTUS shouldn't have heard the case first
Tinker v. Des Moines clause
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 impact
School sponsorship of religious activities violates the establishment clause
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?
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)
Baker v. Carr impact
Tinker v. Des Moines impact
students have free speech rights, symbolic speech is speech and protected
Gideon v. Wainwright impact
Guaranteed the right to an attorney for the poor or indigent in a state felony case
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
McDonald v. Chicago ruling
5:4 for McDonald, the right to bear arms applies to the states
Wisconsin v. Yoder facts
US v. Lopez question
US v. Lopez clause
Commerce 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?
5:4 for Shaw, factoring race into redistricting is unconstitutional
Marbury v. Madison question
7:2 for Roe, women have the right to an abortion
New York Times v. US impact
protected freedom of press, government cannot stop printing
Do state school segregation laws violate the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment?
Maryland tried to tax federal banks in the state, McCulloch, the chief cashier in the Baltimore branch refused to pay. the state sued. (1819)
Gideon v. Wainwright question
