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APUSH Cases
Major Supreme Court decisions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| First Instance in which a law passes by congres was declared unconstitutional | Marbury v Madison |
| Expanded power of court by giving it right to overturn acts of congress | Marbury v Madison |
| Secretary of State James Madison refused to seat four judicial appointees | Marbury v Madison |
| Right of congress to create a bank of the United states | McCulloch v Maryland |
| Advanced the doctrine of implied powers | McCulloch v Maryland |
| John Marshall "sanction laws reflecting letter and spirit of constitution" | McCulloch v Maryland |
| Congress right to regulate interstate commerce | Gibbons v Odgen |
| Federal jurisdiction over Indian affairs is absolute | Worchester v Georgia |
| Labor unions are not illegal provided methods are peaceful and honorable | Commonwealth v Hunt |
| Intensified national debate over slavery | Dred Scott v Sandford |
| Blacks are not citizens and cannot sue in federal court | Dred Scott v Sandford |
| Roger B Taney declared congress had no right to ban slavery from US territories | Dred Scott v Sandford |
| Private property dedicated to public use is subject to government regulation | Munn v Illinois (Granger Cases) |
| States may set rates for grain storage | Munn v Illinois (Granger Cases) |
| Limited state's control over railroads states no longer had power to regulate interstate commerce | Wabash etc. v Illinois |
| Sherman Antitrust act did not apply to EC Knight sugar refining company because restraint in manufacturing was not the same as restraint in trade | United States v E C Knight Company |
| Equal but seperate was not a violation of the 14th amendment | Plessy v Ferguson |
| Paved way for Jim Crow laws | Plessy v Ferguson |
| Overturned a law limiting the number of hours a company may require a worker to work. Felt law infringed on freedom of contracts | Lochner v New York |
| Upheld law limiting number of hours that females could work in industry to protect their childbearing abilities | Muller v Oregon |
| Freedom of speech may be curtailed if the exercising that right poses a clear and present danger to others | Schneck v United States |
| FDR's New deal law (NIRA) was unconstitutional (struck down Blue Eagle National Recovery Admin.) | Schecter Poultry Corporation v United States |
| Upheld 1942 removal of Japanese Americans to concentration camps (war powers of congress) | Korematsu v United States |
| Intangible factors may be considered in determining whether programs are indeed equal under "seperate but equal" education | Sweatt v Painter |
| "In the field of public education, the doctrine of seperate but equal has no place" | Brown v Board of Education of Topeka |
| seperate eduacational facilities are inherently unequal | Brown v Board of Education of Topeka |
| Ended prayer in public schools | Engel v Vitale |
| Defendant's right to legal counsel | Gideon v Wrainwright |
| Overturned felony conviction after failure of state to provide legal counsel | Gideon v Wrainwright |
| Police may not use information from prosecution that was obtained form someone not first advised of his right to legal counsel | Escobedo v Illinois |
| Protection offered to the press by the first amendment:cannot charge the press unless proof it was printed maliciously and with reckless disregard for the truth | New York Times v Sullivan |
| Criminal suspects must be warned of thier rights before they are questioned by the police | Miranda v Arizona |
| Dissolve a legal injunction against new york times restraining if from publishing the pentagon papers that revealed decades of us govt invlovement in vietnam | New York Times v United States |
| Nullified the death penalty in the US for being unequally applied | Furman v Georgia |
| Legalized abortion(right to privacy) | Roe v Wade |
| Declared president's right of executive privilege could not be invoked in cases involving criminal activity | US v Richard Nixon |
| Imposed limitations on affirmative action to ensure that providing greater rights to the minorities did not come at the expense of the rights of the majority | Regents of the University of california v Bakke |
| Ordered presidential vote recount to cease in Florida (hanging chads violation of equal protection 14th amendment) | Bush v Gore |
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