US v. Lopez clause
Commerce Clause
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
14th amendment equal protection clause
Marbury V. Madison impact
established judicial review
Roe v. Wade ruling
7:2 for Roe, women have the right to an abortion
US v. Lopez facts
Lopez, a senior brought a gun to his public high school, illegal under the federal Gun Free School Zones Act. He was arrested and tried in federal court. He sued saying that regulation on state property (schools) was state business. (1995)
Brown v. Board of Education impact
Tinker v. Des Moines ruling
7:2 for Tinker, symbolic speech is protected under freedom of speech, students have free speech rights
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
Brown v. Board of Education ruling
9:0 for Brown, school segregation violates the equal protection clause
McCulloch v. Maryland impact
Gideon v. Wainwright ruling
Engel v. Vitale impact
Baker v. Carr clause
14th amendment equal protection clause
McDonald v. Chicago impact
states cannot infringe on the right to bear arms
Baker v. Carr ruling
Engel v. Vitale clause
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)
Shaw v. Reno ruling
5:4 for Shaw, factoring race into redistricting is unconstitutional
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)
Roe v. Wade question
Does the Texas laws banning abortions violate the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment and a woman's constitutional right to an abortion?
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)
Can the supreme court rule on issues of legislative districts?
Gideon v. Wainwright impact
Guaranteed the right to an attorney for the poor or indigent in a state felony case
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)
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)
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?
religion trumps schooling
Marbury v. Madison clause
appellate jurisdiction clause of Article III
Shaw v. Reno impact
