Landmark cases of the supreme court
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Marbury v Madison | established the principle of judicial review, 1803 |
| McCulloch v Maryland | Maryland was trying to tax the national bank and Supreme Court ruled that federal law was stronger than the state law, 1918 |
| Gibbons v Ogden | Regulating interstate commerce is a power reserved to the federal government, 1824 |
| Barron v Baltimore | bill of rights only applies to federal government-not states, 1833 |
| Dred Scott v Stanford | Court decision which stated that slaves are property and have no rights, 1857 |
| US v Nixon | Supreme Court ruling that stated that there is no "absolute unqualified" presidential privilege of immunity, 1974 |
| United States v Lopez | Held that Congress had exceeded its commerce clause power by prohibiting guns on school property, 1995 |
| Clinton v New York City | Ruled that the law granting the president the line item-veto was unconstitutional, 1998 |
| Kelo v City of New London | government can take land for public use/purpose, 2005 |
| Baker v. Carr | established "one man, one vote" principle, 1962 |
| Wesberry v. Sanders | Ordered House districts to be as near equal in population as possible, 1964 |
| Buckley v. Valeo | allows candidates to spend unlimited money on their own campaigns for office, 1976 |
| Shaw v. Reno | no racial gerrymandering, 1993 |
| Bush v. Gore | Use of 14th Amendment's equal protection clause to stop the Florida recount in the election of 2000, 2000 |
| Citizens United v. FEC | ruled that corporations may spend money in order to influence election process without donating to a campaign, 2010 |
| Schenck v. US | established "clear and present danger" doctrine, 1919 |
| Dennis v. US | Ruled that first amendment doesn't apply to someone who's trying to overthrow government, 1951 |
| Tinker v. Des Moines | Students have the right to symbolic speech at school as long as it is not disruptive, 1969 |
| New York Times v. US | established prior restraint, can only use if it harms national security, 1979 |
| Miller v. California | avoided defining obscenity by holding that community standards determine obscene material, 1973 |
| Texas v. Johnson | flag burning is protected by the First Amendment, 1989 |
| Reno v. ACLU | a law that bans sending "indecent" material to minors over the Internet is unconstitutional because "indecent" is too vague and broad a term, 1997 |
| Reynolds v. US | religious duty was not a suitable defense to a criminal indictment such as polygamy, 1878 |
| West Virginia Board of Education v. Barnett | okay for the students to not salute to the American flag and say the pledge of allegiance, 1943 |
| Everson v. Board of Education | busing can be provided to religious schools, 1943 |
| Engel v. Vitale | no public school prayer, 1962 |
| Abington School District v. Schemp | declared school sponsored bible reading in public schools to be unconstitutional, 1963 |
| Lemon v. Kurtzman | Established the Lemon test, 1971 |
| Oregon v. Smith | drug use in religious ceremonies is not allowed, 1990 |
| District of Columbia v. Heller | Allowed an individual to process a firearm for private use in DC, 2008 |
| McDonald v. City of Chicago | The Second Amendment is fully applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment, 2010 |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | ruled separate but equal facilities did not violate the fourteenth amendment, 1896 |
| Brown v. Board of Education | Court ruled that seperate facilities were not equal. Instructed integration Overruled Plessy v. Furgeson, 1954 |
| Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States | Congress could use its Commerce Clause power to fight discrimination, 1964 |
| Loving v. Virginia | interracial marriage constitutional, 1967 |
| Regents of the University of California v. Bakke | State university cannot admit less qualified individuals solely because of their race, 1978 |
| Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Bd..Ed | Busing students to promote integration is constitutional, 1971 |
| Richmond v. Croson | Special program for minority is unconstitutional, 1989 |
| Adarand v. Pena | federal programs that classify people by their race to expand opportunities for minorities should be unconstitutional, 1995 |
| Gratz v. Bollinger | Struck down use of "bonus points" for race in undergrad admissions at University of Michigan, 2003 |
| Lawrence v. Texas | State law may not ban sexual relations between same-sex partners, 2003 |
| Griswold v. Connecticut | Established that there is an implied right to privacy in the U.S. Constitution, 1965 |
| Roe v. Wade | legalized abortion on the basis of a woman's right to privacy, 1973 |
| Webster v. Reproductive Health Services | allowed states to ban abortions from public hospitals and permitted doctors to test to see if fetuses were viable, 1989 |
| Planned Parenthood v. Casey | states could restrict access to abortion as long as they did not place an "undue burden" on the woman, 1992 |
| Gonzalez v. Carhart | Partial birth abortion banned, 2003 |
| Korematsu v. US | The exclusion order leading to Japanese American Internment was constitutional, 1944 |
| Wolf v. Colorado | illegally obtained evidence does not have to be excluded from trial, 1949 |
| Mapp v. Ohio | established the exclusionary rule; evidence illegally obtained cannot be used in court, 1961 |
| Gideon v. Wainwright | Right to Counsel, 1963 |
| Miranda v. Arizona | The accused must be notified of their rights before being questioned by the police, 1966 |
| Gregg v. Georgia | upheld the death penalty was NOT cruel and unusual punishment, 1976 |
| Roper v. Simmons | no death penalty for any crime committed by someone under 18, 2005 |
| Hamdi v. Rumsfeld | The Court ruled that the executive branch does not have the power to hold indefinitely a U.S. citizen without basic due process protections enforceable through judicial review, 2004 |
| Hamdan v. Rumsfeld | The president doesn't have the authority to set up war tribunals or special military commissions, 2006 |
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