The Supreme Court broadly interpreted the clause in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution giving Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce, encompassing virtually every form of commercial activity
Marbury v. Madison
The case in which Marshall first asserted the right of the Supreme Court to determine
Brown v. Board of Education
Seperate but equal is inherently unequal
McCulloch v. Maryland
Established the supremacy of the national government over state governments.
Tinker v. Des Moines School District
Symbolic speech of students is protected by the First Amendment.
Gitlow v. New York
Overturned Barron v. Baltimore and incorporated the right to free speech to the states.
New York Times v. Sullivan
Set guidelines for winning libel suits.
Buckley. v. Valeo
"Reasonable restrictions" on campaign contributions are allowed, but limits on
Texas v. Johnson
Flag burning is a form of symbolic speech protected by the First Amendment.
Engel v. Vitale
New York cannot mandate a state-composed non-denominational prayer be read in schools beecause it violated the Establishment Clause.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Seperate but equal facilities for blacks and whites.
Dread Scott V. Sanford
equal protectin of the law
Furman v. Georgia
Capital Punishment
Korematsu v. United States
Presidential Powers and Duties & 15; Due Process Clause
United States v. Nixon
Separation of Powers, Executive Privilege
Shepard v. Univ. of Wyoming
prompted calls for new legislation addressing hate crime, urged particularly by those who believed that Shepard was targeted on the basis of his sexual orientation. Under current United States federal law and Wyoming state law, crimes committed on the bas
Flecther v. Peck
first case in which the Supreme Court ruled a state law unconstitutional
INS v. Chada
United States Supreme Court case ruling that the legislative veto violated the constitutional separation of powers.
Clinton v. NYC
Struck down the line-item veto. The line-item veto unconstitutionally gavepresident "the unilateral power to change the text of duly enacted statutes.
Loving v. Virginia
ending all race-based legal restrictions on marriage
Heart of Atlanta Motel v. U.S
Defined hotels, restaurants, etc, as interstate commerce because they serveinterstate travellers, and are therefore required to follow federal law oninterstate commerce. The hotel was no longer allowed to discriminate on thebasis of race.
New York Times v. U.S
The government may not restrict the press from publishing what is labeled as"classified information" if the materials will not cause an inevitable, direct, andimmediate event imperiling the safety of American forces.
Brandenburg v. Ohio
Extended the scope of political speech - allows virtually all political speech,unless it is demonstrably linked to immediate lawless behavior
Webster v. Human Resources
Escabedo v. Illinois
If the miranda right is not ready to a person or persons being taken intocustody, then due process is violated. In this case a man was not informed ofhis right to remain silent before being questioned by the police and was deniedthe right to counsel.
Westberry v. Sanders
districts have to be approximately equal in population
Rostker v. Goldberg
Selective Service system to adopt a policy of requiring only men to register for the draft
Reynolds v. Sims
districts for upper houses of state legislatures seats had to be roughly equal in population.
Black v. Virginia
cross-burning can be a criminal offense if the intent to intimidate is proven.
Bowers v. Hardwick
sodomy law that criminalized oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults
Shaw v. Reno
redistricting based on race must be held to a standard of strict scrutiny under the equal protection clause.
Romero v. Evans
prevented any city, town or county in the state from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect homosexual citizens from discrimination on the basis of their sexual orientation.
Martin v. PGA Tour
PGA Tour could not lawfully deny him the option to ride in a golf cart between shots
Bradwell v. State of Illinois
Myra Bradwell's efforts to gain admission to the Illinois bar resulted in a Supreme Court decision. Bradwell had married a lawyer and read the law with her husband. In 1869 she passed the Illinois bar examination but was refused admission to the bar. She
Civil Rights cases of 1883
The decision held that Congress lacked the constitutional authority under the enforcement provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment to outlaw racial discrimination by private individuals and organizations, rather than state and local governments.
City of Ricmond v. J. A Croson Co.
the city council of Richmond's minority set-aside program, giving preference to minority business enterprises (MBE) in the awarding of municipal contracts, was unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause
Gregg v. Georgia
Death penalty does not violate cruel and unusual punishment if administered fairly
Roe v. Wade
abortion rights
Griswold v. Connecticut
marital privacy
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
affirmative action in school acceptance
Barron v. Baltimore
a precedent on whether the United States Bill of Rights could be applied to state governments
Gideon v. Wainwright
right to be represented in court
Mapp v. Ohio
search and seizure
Lemon v. Kurtzman
funding for church related educational institutions
Boy Scouts of America v. Dale
The boy scouts were allowed to dismiss a leader after learning that he wasgay, holding that freedom of association outweighed the New Jersey antidiscrimination statute.
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