McDonald v. Chicago clause
Gideon v. Wainwright clause
6th amendment, right to an attorney
Citizens United v. FEC impact
used as precedent to declare the cap on campaign funding unconstitutional, now money=free speech
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?
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 clause
Guaranteed the right to an attorney for the poor or indigent in a state felony case
US v. Lopez clause
Wisconsin v. Yoder clause
Tinker v. Des Moines clause
Marbury v. Madison ruling
4:0 for Marbury, kinda. Marbury does deserve his commision, but SCOTUS shouldn't have heard the case first
students have free speech rights, symbolic speech is speech and protected
Brown v. Board of Education question
Schenck v. US impact
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 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
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)
Roe v. Wade ruling
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)
Brown v. Board of Education clause
14th amendment equal protection clause
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)
Wisconsin v. Yoder facts
McCulloch v. Maryland question
Tinker v. Des Moines ruling
7:2 for Tinker, symbolic speech is protected under freedom of speech, students have free speech rights
McDonald v. Chicago ruling
5:4 for McDonald, the right to bear arms applies to the states
overruled "sperate but equal" (from Plessy v. Ferguson) and gave legal precedent for desegregation
Marbury V. Madison impact
Baker v. Carr clause
14th amendment equal protection clause
Engel v. Vitale question
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)
