AP Gov SCOTUS duel

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

Gideon v. Wainwright facts

Tinker v. Des Moines question

Baker v. Carr question

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

McDonald v. Chicago clause

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?

Citizens United v. FEC facts BCRA law banned Citizens United from showing an ad they made casting Hilary Clinton in a negative light calling it "electioneering" and thus against the BCRA. Citizens United appealed that the ad fell under their right to free speech and thus the BCRA was unconstitutional (2010)

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

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

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

New York Times v. US impact

Shaw v. Reno ruling 5:4 for Shaw, factoring race into redistricting is unconstitutional

Citizens United v. FEC clause

New York Times v. US question

Does the federal government have implied powers?

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

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?

established supremacy of federal laws and the implied powers of congress

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)

Citizens United v. FEC impact

Marbury v. Madison question

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

Roe v. Wade facts

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

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

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

Roe v. Wade clause

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Gideon v. Wainwright facts

students have free speech rights, symbolic speech is speech and protected

Tinker v. Des Moines clause free speech clause

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)

14th amendment equal protection clause

Wisconsin v. Yoder facts

McDonald v. Chicago impact

Citizens United v. FEC clause 1st Amendment freedom of speech

Engel v. Vitale clause 1st Amendment Establishment Clause

Baker v. Carr clause 14th amendment equal protection clause

US v. Lopez clause Commerce Clause

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

New York Times v. US clause 1st amendment freedom of press

Marbury v. Madison clause

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

US v. Lopez impact limited commerce clause, lessened federal power

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)

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

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

Gideon v. Wainwright question 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?

protected freedom of press, government cannot stop printing

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

McDonald v. Chicago facts The Chicago system for obtaining gun permits was so annoying that it was almost impossible to obtain one. McDonald sued Chicago for violating his 2nd amendment rights (2010)

End this game?