Tinker v. Des Moines impact
students have free speech rights, symbolic speech is speech and protected
Wisconsin v. Yoder clause
Schenck v. US clause
Schenck v. US ruling
unanimous for US, Schenck's encouragement of draft dodging was a clear and present danger
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?
Engel v. Vitale clause
1st Amendment Establishment Clause
Gideon v. Wainwright question
US v. Lopez ruling
5:4 for Lopez, the state cannot regulate guns on school property under the commerce clause
Does redrawing district lines based solely on race violate the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment?
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)
Brown v. Board of Education question
Do state school segregation laws violate the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment?
Marbury v. Madison question
Do the plaintiffs have a right to their commissions?
Citizens United v. FEC facts
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?
McDonald v. Chicago impact
states cannot infringe on the right to bear arms
Brown v. Board of Education impact
overruled "sperate but equal" (from Plessy v. Ferguson) and gave legal precedent for desegregation
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?
claims of racial redistricting must be held to a standard of strict scrutiny. laws that results in classification by race must have a compelling state interest or a clear 14th amendment violation
US v. Lopez clause
Commerce Clause
Brown v. Board of Education ruling
9:0 for Brown, school segregation violates the 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)
limited commerce clause, lessened federal power
7:2 for Tinker, symbolic speech is protected under freedom of speech, students have free speech rights
Baker v. Carr clause
14th amendment equal protection clause
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)
Schenck v. US question
14th amendment equal protection clause
Roe v. Wade 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)
McCulloch v. Maryland question
Does the federal government have implied powers?
