Maryland tried to tax federal banks in the state, McCulloch, the chief cashier in the Baltimore branch refused to pay. the state sued. (1819)
Marbury v. Madison question
Do the plaintiffs have a right to their commissions?
Brown v. Board of Education question
Do state school segregation laws violate the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment?
Gideon v. Wainwright question
New York Times v. US question
New York Times v. US clause
1st amendment freedom of press
New York Times v. US facts
The Nixon administration attempted to prevent several newspapers from publishing materials belonging to a classified Defense Department study, known as the Pentagon Papers, detailing US actions in Vietnam. The president argued that prior restraint was necessary to protect national security. NYTimes sued on 1st amendment grounds (1971)
5:4 for McDonald, the right to bear arms applies to the states
Citizens United v. FEC impact
Did Wisconsin's requirement that all parents send their children to school at until age 16 violate the First Amendment's free exercise clause?
US v. Lopez clause
Commerce Clause
McCulloch v. Maryland clause
necessary and proper clause and supremacy 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?
Shaw v. Reno ruling
5:4 for Shaw, factoring race into redistricting is unconstitutional
states cannot infringe on the right to bear arms
Brown v. Board of Education ruling
9:0 for Brown, school segregation violates the equal protection clause
US v. Lopez question
Marbury v. Madison clause
appellate jurisdiction clause of Article III
Brown v. Board of Education impact
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)
Engel v. Vitale impact
Citizens United v. FEC clause
1st Amendment freedom of speech
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 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)
Does the federal government have implied powers?
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)
Baker v. Carr question
4:0 for Marbury, kinda. Marbury does deserve his commision, but SCOTUS shouldn't have heard the case first
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)
14th amendment equal protection clause
