AP Gov SCOTUS duel

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

Shaw v. Reno clause

Gideon v. Wainwright facts

Schenck v. US impact

New York Times v. US ruling

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)

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)

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

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

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

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)

Gideon v. Wainwright ruling

US v. Lopez clause Commerce Clause

McCulloch v. Maryland question

Roe v. Wade facts

Engel v. Vitale question

Marbury v. Madison ruling

Citizens United v. FEC facts

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

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?

Do the plaintiffs have a right to their commissions?

Gideon v. Wainwright clause

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 clause

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

Citizens United v. FEC impact

Does the Texas laws banning abortions violate the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment and a woman's constitutional right to an abortion?

religion trumps schooling

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Does the Texas laws banning abortions violate the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment and a woman's constitutional right to an abortion?

Does redrawing district lines based solely on race violate the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment?

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

US v. Lopez ruling 5:4 for Lopez, the state cannot regulate guns on school property under the commerce clause

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

Schenck v. US impact

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

Engel v. Vitale question

Wisconsin v. Yoder clause

necessary and proper clause and supremacy clause

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

Citizens United v. FEC impact

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

Engel v. Vitale impact

Schenck v. US facts 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)

Extended the right of privacy to a woman's right to an abortion

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

New York Times v. US question

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

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

McDonald v. Chicago ruling

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?

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

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?

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)

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