Brown v. Board of Education impactoverruled "sperate but equal" (from Plessy v. Ferguson) and gave legal precedent for desegregation
Tinker v. Des Moines impactstudents have free speech rights, symbolic speech is speech and protected
Tinker v. Des Moines questionDoes 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 questionDid Schenck's conviction under the Espionage Act for criticizing the draft violate his freedom of speech?
Roe v. Wade ruling
Schenck v. US clause1st Amendment freedom of speech
Engel v. Vitale clause1st Amendment Establishment Clause
Tinker v. Des Moines facts
McDonald v. Chicago ruling5:4 for McDonald, the right to bear arms applies to the states
can the executive branch block the publication of classified government documents without violating the first amendment freedom of press clause?
Shaw v. Reno questionDoes redrawing district lines based solely on race violate the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment?
Can the supreme court rule on issues of legislative districts?
New York Times v. US factsThe 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)
McCulloch v. Maryland clausenecessary and proper clause and supremacy clause
New York Times v. US impact
Citizens United v. FEC impactused as precedent to declare the cap on campaign funding unconstitutional, now money=free speech
New York Times v. US clause1st amendment freedom of press
Schenck v. US rulingunanimous for US, Schenck's encouragement of draft dodging was a clear and present danger
Brown v. Board of Education clause
McCulloch v. Maryland factsMaryland tried to tax federal banks in the state, McCulloch, the chief cashier in the Baltimore branch refused to pay. the state sued. (1819)
Marbury v. Madison ruling4:0 for Marbury, kinda. Marbury does deserve his commision, but SCOTUS shouldn't have heard the case first
Marbury v. Madison clauseappellate jurisdiction clause of Article III
Baker v. Carr ruling
Tinker v. Des Moines clausefree speech clause
Under the commerce clause, does congress have the power to regulate guns near schools?
Citizens United v. FEC questionDoes 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?
Engel v. Vitale factsPublic 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 ruling7:2 for Roe, women have the right to an abortion
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Baker v. Carr impactestablishes One Person-One Vote principle which expands the rights of minorities
Baker v. Carr ruling6:2 for Baker, SCOTUS has the power to rule on congressional districts
US v. Lopez clauseCommerce Clause
Roe v. Wade questionDoes the Texas laws banning abortions violate the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment and a woman's constitutional right to an abortion?
Extended the right of privacy to a woman's right to an abortion
Engel v. Vitale clause
Shaw v. Reno clause14th amendment equal protection clause
Gideon v. Wainwright rulingunanimous for Gideon, the right to an attorney applies to felony cases
Brown v. Board of Education factsBrown 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
Tinker v. Des Moines question
Guaranteed the right to an attorney for the poor or indigent in a state felony case
McCulloch v. Maryland questionDoes the federal government have implied powers?
Shaw v. Reno factsIn 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)
established judicial review
McDonald v. Chicago clause2nd Amendment right to bear arms, 14th amendment due process clause
New York Times v. US ruling6:3 for NYTimes, except in the case of a Clear and Present danger the US government does not have the power of prior restraint over the press
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)
14th amendment equal protection clause
1st Amendment freedom of speech
1st Amendment freedom of speech
New York Times v. US clause
7:2 for Tinker, symbolic speech is protected under freedom of speech, students have free speech rights
Wisconsin v. Yoder ruling7:0 for Yoder, forcing people to go to school despite a religious disagreement violated the free exercise clause
Marbury v. Madison questionDo the plaintiffs have a right to their commissions?
Gideon v. Wainwright questionDoes 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?
Shaw v. Reno question
Wisconsin v. Yoder clause
Citizens United v. FEC factsBCRA 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)
Schenck v. US factsDuring 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)