Landmark US Supreme Court Cases
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brianl8814 on March 13, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
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 Marbury V. Madison | The 1803 case in which Chief Justice John Marshall and his associates first asserted the right of the Supreme Court to determine the meaning of the U.S. Constitution. The decision established the Court's power of judicial review over acts of Congress, (the Judiciary Act of 1789). |
| Mculloch V. Maryland | 1819, state tax on the Second Bank of the US was unconstitutional, and a national bank is implied by the 'necessary and proper' clause of the Constitution. Federal law/state law |
| Gibbons V. Ogden | This case involved New York trying to grant a monopoly on waterborne trade between New York and New Jersey. Judge Marshal, of the Supreme Court, sternly reminded the state of New York that the Constitution gives Congress alone the control of interstate commerce. Marshal's decision, in 1824, was a major blow on states' rights. |
| Plessy V. Furguson | Court case in which the Supreme Court declared that segregation--as long as it was "seperate but equal"--was constitutional |
| Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka | Kansas,1954 - The Supreme Court overruled Plessy v. Ferguson, declared that racially segregated facilities are inherently unequal and ordered all public schools desegregated. |
| The Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc V. U.S. | 1964; Motel refused to except blacks. Court ruled the Civil rights act of 1964 was constitutional and that congress could use its power to regulate commerce within states to do away with racial segregation and discrimination. |
| Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education | In this 1971 Supreme Court Decision, the court ruled that, even though the schools in the district worked out to be only minimally integrated because of the full black or white neighborhood, the schools had to be intergraded based on the percentage of blacks in the whole district, meaning that blacks had to be bussed over great distances to integrate schools that naturally sat in all white neighborhoods. This cause a great push-back from middle America, who saw the end of the neighborhood school |
| Korematsu v. U.S. | 1944 Supreme Court case where the Supreme Court upheld the order providing for the relocation of Japanese Americans. It was not until 1988 that Congress formally apologized and agreed to pay $20,000 2 each survivor |
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