Shaw v. Reno question
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?
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)
McDonald v. Chicago clause
2nd Amendment right to bear arms, 14th amendment due process clause
Engel v. Vitale impact
School sponsorship of religious activities violates the establishment clause
US v. Lopez question
Under the commerce clause, does congress have the power to regulate guns near schools?
McDonald v. Chicago question
Do the plaintiffs have a right to their commissions?
Baker v. Carr clause
14th amendment equal protection clause
Extended the right of privacy to a woman's right to an abortion
Wisconsin v. Yoder facts
Did Wisconsin's requirement that all parents send their children to school at until age 16 violate the First Amendment's free exercise 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)
Baker v. Carr ruling
6:2 for Baker, SCOTUS has the power to rule on congressional districts
McCulloch v. Maryland ruling
Marbury v. Madison clause
appellate jurisdiction clause of Article III
Gideon v. Wainwright clause
6th amendment, right to an attorney
Schenck v. US impact
until it was overturned decades later, Schenck v. US was used to uphold the Espionage Act, causing many other convictions
New York Times v. US facts
New York Times v. US clause
McCulloch v. Maryland facts
Maryland tried to tax federal banks in the state, McCulloch, the chief cashier in the Baltimore branch refused to pay. the state sued. (1819)
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)
Marbury v. Madison ruling
4:0 for Marbury, kinda. Marbury does deserve his commision, but SCOTUS shouldn't have heard the case first
Brown v. Board of Education impact
overruled "sperate but equal" (from Plessy v. Ferguson) and gave legal precedent for desegregation
1st Amendment freedom of speech
Schenck v. US facts
Tinker v. Des Moines clause
free speech clause
Shaw v. Reno clause
Schenck v. US ruling
students have free speech rights, symbolic speech is speech and protected
