AP Gov SCOTUS duel

McCulloch v. Maryland impact

Under the commerce clause, does congress have the power to regulate guns near schools?

Brown v. Board of Education clause 14th amendment equal protection clause

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

Tinker v. Des Moines 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)

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)

Schenck v. US impact until it was overturned decades later, Schenck v. US was used to uphold the Espionage Act, causing many other convictions

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?

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

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 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

Tinker v. Des Moines question Does banning the wearing of armbands in public school, as a form of protest, violate the students' freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment?

Schenck v. US question Did Schenck's conviction under the Espionage Act for criticizing the draft violate his freedom of speech?

Brown v. Board of Education ruling 9:0 for Brown, school segregation violates the equal protection clause

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)

unanimous for Gideon, the right to an attorney applies to felony cases

Citizens United v. FEC ruling

Baker v. Carr impact

Wisconsin v. Yoder clause

Brown v. Board of Education impact overruled "sperate but equal" (from Plessy v. Ferguson) and gave legal precedent for desegregation

Engel v. Vitale question Does the reading of a nondenominational prayer at the start of the school day violate the establishment clause of the First Amendment?

Schenck v. US clause 1st Amendment freedom of speech

6th amendment, right to an attorney

Do state school segregation laws violate the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment?

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?

Baker v. Carr ruling

New York Times v. US facts

Roe v. Wade ruling 7:2 for Roe, women have the right to an abortion

Brown v. Board of Education impact overruled "sperate but equal" (from Plessy v. Ferguson) and gave legal precedent for desegregation

Can the supreme court rule on issues of legislative districts?

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)

School sponsorship of religious activities violates the establishment clause

Citizens United v. FEC 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)

1st Amendment Establishment Clause

Baker v. Carr ruling 6:2 for Baker, SCOTUS has the power to rule on congressional districts

Tinker v. Des Moines impact

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

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

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

religion trumps schooling

Did Schenck's conviction under the Espionage Act for criticizing the draft violate his freedom of speech?

US v. Lopez ruling

Roe v. Wade ruling 7:2 for Roe, women have the right to an abortion

Brown v. Board of Education facts

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

limited commerce clause, lessened federal power

7:2 for Tinker, symbolic speech is protected under freedom of speech, students have free speech rights

Tinker v. Des Moines facts

McCulloch v. Maryland impact established supremacy of federal laws and the implied powers of congress

New York Times v. US clause

Brown v. Board of Education question Do state school segregation laws violate the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment?

Tinker v. Des Moines clause free speech clause

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

Schenck v. US impact until it was overturned decades later, Schenck v. US was used to uphold the Espionage Act, causing many other convictions

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