Wisconsin v. Yoder clause
1st Amendment Free Exercise Clause
free speech clause
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)
Citizens United v. FEC clause
1st Amendment freedom of speech
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
New York Times v. US clause
Brown v. Board of Education ruling
9:0 for Brown, school segregation violates the equal protection clause
Do state school segregation laws violate the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment?
Tinker v. Des Moines ruling
7:2 for Tinker, symbolic speech is protected under freedom of speech, students have free speech rights
Citizens United v. FEC impact
Brown v. Board of Education clause
14th amendment equal protection clause
Schenck v. US question
Tinker v. Des Moines impact
students have free speech rights, symbolic speech is speech and protected
Schenck v. US clause
Roe v. Wade impact
Extended the right of privacy to a woman's right to an abortion
Roe v. Wade 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)
Gideon v. Wainwright ruling
unanimous for Gideon, the right to an attorney applies to felony cases
Baker v. Carr impact
establishes One Person-One Vote principle which expands the rights of minorities
Brown v. Board of Education impact
overruled "sperate but equal" (from Plessy v. Ferguson) and gave legal precedent for desegregation
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?
US v. Lopez ruling
New York Times v. US impact
protected freedom of press, government cannot stop printing
Schenck v. US impact
until it was overturned decades later, Schenck v. US was used to uphold the Espionage Act, causing many other convictions
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)
Marbury v. Madison clause
appellate jurisdiction clause of Article III
Gideon v. Wainwright question
Marbury v. Madison ruling
4:0 for Marbury, kinda. Marbury does deserve his commision, but SCOTUS shouldn't have heard the case first
Marbury v. Madison question
Do the plaintiffs have a right to their commissions?
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
