AP Gov SCOTUS duel

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

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

Citizens United v. FEC ruling

Wisconsin v. Yoder facts 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)

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

Shaw v. Reno facts

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

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

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

Marbury v. Madison clause appellate jurisdiction clause of Article III

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)

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

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

states cannot infringe on the right to bear arms

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 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)

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

Citizens United v. FEC impact used as precedent to declare the cap on campaign funding unconstitutional, now money=free speech

McCulloch v. Maryland question

McDonald v. Chicago ruling 5:4 for McDonald, the right to bear arms applies to the states

New York Times v. US facts

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)

1st Amendment Establishment Clause

Marbury V. Madison impact

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

Tinker v. Des Moines impact

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)

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

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)

Engel v. Vitale impact

Tinker v. Des Moines facts

can the executive branch block the publication of classified government documents without violating the first amendment freedom of press clause?

Gideon v. Wainwright ruling

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

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?

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

Schenck v. US facts

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)

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

Gideon v. Wainwright impact Guaranteed the right to an attorney for the poor or indigent in a state felony case

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?

New York Times v. US impact protected freedom of press, government cannot stop printing

Roe v. Wade facts

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

necessary and proper clause and supremacy clause

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?

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?

Tinker v. Des Moines ruling

McDonald v. Chicago ruling 5:4 for McDonald, the right to bear arms applies to the states

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

5:4 for Shaw, factoring race into redistricting is unconstitutional

1st amendment freedom of press

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

Wisconsin v. Yoder clause

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

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

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

End this game?