Shaw v. Reno question
Does redrawing district lines based solely on race violate the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment?
Baker v. Carr impact
Brown v. Board of Education question
Do state school segregation laws violate the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment?
2nd Amendment right to bear arms, 14th amendment due process clause
Baker v. Carr clause
14th amendment equal protection clause
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)
Schenck v. US ruling
unanimous for US, Schenck's encouragement of draft dodging was a clear and present danger
McDonald v. Chicago impact
states cannot infringe on the right to bear arms
Wisconsin v. Yoder 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)
Marbury v. Madison question
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)
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)
Schenck v. US question
Did Schenck's conviction under the Espionage Act for criticizing the draft violate his freedom of speech?
Citizens United v. FEC impact
used as precedent to declare the cap on campaign funding unconstitutional, now money=free speech
Tinker v. Des Moines ruling
7:2 for Tinker, symbolic speech is protected under freedom of speech, students have free speech rights
McCulloch v. Maryland impact
established supremacy of federal laws and the implied powers of congress
Guaranteed the right to an attorney for the poor or indigent in a state felony case
Shaw v. Reno clause
14th amendment equal protection clause
McCulloch v. Maryland question
Tinker v. Des Moines question
Engel v. Vitale clause
1st Amendment Establishment Clause
9:0 for Brown, school segregation violates the equal protection clause
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)
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?
McCulloch v. Maryland facts
students have free speech rights, symbolic speech is speech and protected
Roe v. Wade facts
US v. Lopez ruling
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)
