AP Gov SCOTUS duel

Tinker v. Des Moines question

necessary and proper clause and supremacy clause

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?

Engel v. Vitale impact School sponsorship of religious activities violates the establishment clause

Baker v. Carr clause 14th amendment equal protection clause

US v. Lopez question Under the commerce clause, does congress have the power to regulate guns near schools?

Shaw v. Reno facts

Wisconsin v. Yoder clause 1st Amendment Free Exercise Clause

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)

Tinker v. Des Moines clause free speech clause

Engel v. Vitale facts Public schools in New York began the school day by having students to recite a nondenominational prayer each morning. Engel, a parent at the school sued the district for violating the establishment clause (1962)

Tinker v. Des Moines impact students have free speech rights, symbolic speech is speech and protected

14th amendment equal protection clause

Roe v. Wade facts Roe, a Texas resident, sought to terminate her pregnancy by abortion. Texas law prohibited abortions except to save the pregnant woman's life, Roe sued "on behalf of all women" (1973)

Tinker v. Des Moines ruling 7:2 for Tinker, symbolic speech is protected under freedom of speech, students have free speech rights

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?

US v. Lopez clause Commerce Clause

Schenck v. US ruling unanimous for US, Schenck's encouragement of draft dodging was a clear and present danger

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 impact established judicial review

Engel v. Vitale ruling 6:1 for Engel, since it was a public school, it does violate the establishment clause

Wisconsin v. Yoder ruling 7:0 for Yoder, forcing people to go to school despite a religious disagreement violated the free exercise clause

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?

Roe v. Wade impact Extended the right of privacy to a woman's right to an abortion

Gideon v. Wainwright clause 6th amendment, right to an attorney

Baker v. Carr impact establishes One Person-One Vote principle which expands the rights of minorities

Brown v. Board of Education facts

McDonald v. Chicago impact states cannot infringe on the right to bear arms

religion trumps schooling

Shaw v. Reno ruling

Roe v. Wade clause a bunch, 9th implied rights, 14th due process especially

Wisconsin v. Yoder clause 1st Amendment Free Exercise Clause

overruled "sperate but equal" (from Plessy v. Ferguson) and gave legal precedent for desegregation

Citizens United v. FEC ruling

Does the 6th Amendment's right to counsel in criminal cases extend to defendants in state courts, even in cases in which the death penalty is not at issue?

Baker v. Carr question Can the supreme court rule on issues of legislative districts?

7:2 for Roe, women have the right to an abortion

9:0 for Brown, school segregation violates the equal protection clause

Schenck v. US question

Brown v. Board of Education question

2nd Amendment right to bear arms, 14th amendment due process clause

Wisconsin v. Yoder 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)

Shaw v. Reno impact 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

Gideon v. Wainwright clause

4:0 for Marbury, kinda. Marbury does deserve his commision, but SCOTUS shouldn't have heard the case first

Marbury v. Madison ruling 4:0 for Marbury, kinda. Marbury does deserve his commision, but SCOTUS shouldn't have heard the case first

Gideon v. Wainwright facts Gideon was convicted for a felony in florida where there were no state laws protecting right to an attorney. in prison he researched law and sued citing violations of his 6th amendment rights (1963)

Roe v. Wade question

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)

Does the reading of a nondenominational prayer at the start of the school day violate the establishment clause of the First Amendment?

New York Times v. US ruling

Shaw v. Reno question Does redrawing district lines based solely on race violate the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment?

Gideon v. Wainwright ruling unanimous for Gideon, the right to an attorney applies to felony cases

Wisconsin v. Yoder question

McCulloch v. Maryland clause necessary and proper clause and supremacy clause

Shaw v. Reno clause 14th amendment equal protection clause

Marbury v. Madison question Do the plaintiffs have a right to their commissions?

Schenck v. US clause 1st Amendment freedom of speech

established supremacy of federal laws and the implied powers of congress

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