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Gibbons v. Ogden   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  
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Marbury v. Madison   The case in which Marshall first asserted the right of the Supreme Court to determine  
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Brown v. Board of Education   Seperate but equal is inherently unequal  
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McCulloch v. Maryland   Established the supremacy of the national government over state governments.  
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Tinker v. Des Moines School District   Symbolic speech of students is protected by the First Amendment.  
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Gitlow v. New York   Overturned Barron v. Baltimore and incorporated the right to free speech to the states.  
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New York Times v. Sullivan   Set guidelines for winning libel suits.  
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Buckley. v. Valeo   "Reasonable restrictions" on campaign contributions are allowed, but limits on  
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Texas v. Johnson   Flag burning is a form of symbolic speech protected by the First Amendment.  
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Engel v. Vitale   New York cannot mandate a state-composed non-denominational prayer be read in schools beecause it violated the Establishment Clause.  
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Plessy v. Ferguson   Seperate but equal facilities for blacks and whites.  
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Dread Scott V. Sanford   equal protectin of the law  
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Furman v. Georgia   Capital Punishment  
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Korematsu v. United States   Presidential Powers and Duties & 15; Due Process Clause  
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United States v. Nixon   Separation of Powers, Executive Privilege  
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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  
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Flecther v. Peck   first case in which the Supreme Court ruled a state law unconstitutional  
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INS v. Chada   United States Supreme Court case ruling that the legislative veto violated the constitutional separation of powers.  
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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.  
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Loving v. Virginia   ending all race-based legal restrictions on marriage  
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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.  
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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.  
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Brandenburg v. Ohio   Extended the scope of political speech - allows virtually all political speech,unless it is demonstrably linked to immediate lawless behavior  
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Webster v. Human Resources    
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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.  
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Westberry v. Sanders   districts have to be approximately equal in population  
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Rostker v. Goldberg   Selective Service system to adopt a policy of requiring only men to register for the draft  
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Reynolds v. Sims   districts for upper houses of state legislatures seats had to be roughly equal in population.  
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Black v. Virginia   cross-burning can be a criminal offense if the intent to intimidate is proven.  
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Bowers v. Hardwick   sodomy law that criminalized oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults  
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Shaw v. Reno   redistricting based on race must be held to a standard of strict scrutiny under the equal protection clause.  
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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.  
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Martin v. PGA Tour   PGA Tour could not lawfully deny him the option to ride in a golf cart between shots  
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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  
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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.  
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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  
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Gregg v. Georgia   Death penalty does not violate cruel and unusual punishment if administered fairly  
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Roe v. Wade   abortion rights  
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Griswold v. Connecticut   marital privacy  
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Regents of the University of California v. Bakke   affirmative action in school acceptance  
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Barron v. Baltimore   a precedent on whether the United States Bill of Rights could be applied to state governments  
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Gideon v. Wainwright   right to be represented in court  
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Mapp v. Ohio   search and seizure  
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Lemon v. Kurtzman   funding for church related educational institutions  
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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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Bush v. Gore   constitutionallity of the recount  
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Schenck v. US   free speech  
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Miranda v. Arizona   police must read off your rights  
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Reynolds v. United States   religion/rights of more then one husband or wife  
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Baker v. Carr   reapportionment  
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