1st amendment freedom of press
McCulloch v. Maryland question
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)
US v. Lopez impact
limited commerce clause, lessened federal power
5:4 for Citizens United, political ads by corporations/nonprofits are protected under free speech, giving money to a campaign doesn't necessarily mean that they will be biased towards you
Marbury V. Madison impact
established judicial review
Baker v. Carr impact
Tinker v. Des Moines facts
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)
14th amendment equal protection clause
Do state school segregation laws violate the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment?
Gideon v. Wainwright impact
Baker v. Carr question
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
until it was overturned decades later, Schenck v. US was used to uphold the Espionage Act, causing many other convictions
used as precedent to declare the cap on campaign funding unconstitutional, now money=free speech
McCulloch v. Maryland facts
9:0 for Brown, school segregation violates the equal protection clause
McCulloch v. Maryland clause
overruled "sperate but equal" (from Plessy v. Ferguson) and gave legal precedent for desegregation
students have free speech rights, symbolic speech is speech and protected
McDonald v. Chicago clause
2nd Amendment right to bear arms, 14th amendment due process clause
Engel v. Vitale impact
School sponsorship of religious activities violates the establishment clause
US v. Lopez ruling
5:4 for Lopez, the state cannot regulate guns on school property under the commerce clause
Engel v. Vitale ruling
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)
Marbury v. Madison ruling
4:0 for Marbury, kinda. Marbury does deserve his commision, but SCOTUS shouldn't have heard the case first
Brown v. Board of Education clause
14th amendment equal protection clause
McDonald v. Chicago ruling
5:4 for McDonald, the right to bear arms applies to the states
5:4 for Shaw, factoring race into redistricting is unconstitutional
unanimous for Gideon, the right to an attorney applies to felony cases
