Does redrawing district lines based solely on race violate the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment?
Roe v. Wade 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)
1st Amendment Establishment Clause
Brown v. Board of Education ruling
New York Times v. US question
can the executive branch block the publication of classified government documents without violating the first amendment freedom of press clause?
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?
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)
Roe v. Wade clause
a bunch, 9th implied rights, 14th due process especially
Under the commerce clause, does congress have the power to regulate guns near schools?
McDonald v. Chicago clause
McDonald v. Chicago impact
Marbury v. Madison ruling
4:0 for Marbury, kinda. Marbury does deserve his commision, but SCOTUS shouldn't have heard the case first
6th amendment, right to an attorney
established judicial review
Engel v. Vitale question
Gideon v. Wainwright impact
Guaranteed the right to an attorney for the poor or indigent in a state felony case
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
US v. Lopez facts
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)
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)
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?
Do the plaintiffs have a right to their commissions?
Baker v. Carr question
Can the supreme court rule on issues of legislative districts?
Tinker v. Des Moines ruling
7:2 for Tinker, symbolic speech is protected under freedom of speech, students have free speech rights
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)
Does the Texas laws banning abortions violate the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment and a woman's constitutional right to an abortion?
Citizens United v. FEC clause
1st Amendment freedom of speech
