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Supreme Court Landmark Cases #2
Term | Definition |
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Gave citizens the right to sue a state. South Carolina resident sued Georgia. | Chisholm v. Georgia |
Chisholm v. Georgia undone by this Amendment prohibiting individuals from bringing a lawsuit against a state in most instances | Eleventh (11th) States Immunity |
Steamboat from NY to NJ--federal permit trumped state-granted monopoly | Gibbons v. Ogden |
"When private property is devoted to public use, it is subject to public regulation." (Government regulation of businesses.) | Munn v. Illinois |
Involved limiting working hours for female employees could be done to protect the health of female workers; led to judicial justification of sex discrimination in legislation | Muller v. Oregon |
The most stringent protection of free speech does not protect from shouting 'fire' in a theatre. | Schenck v. US |
Georgia sued for goods not paid for from American Revolution | Chisholm v. Georgia |
Struck down Connecticut's law banning the use of contraception | Griswold v. Connecticut |
Planned Parenthood of Connecticut in violation of outlaw of contraception | Griswold v. Connecticut |
"the freedom to marry, or not marry, a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State" | Loving v. Virginia |
Virginia couple married in Washington DC arrested when return to Virginia. (White man and woman who is African-American and Native American) | Loving v. Virginia |
two men charged with homosexual conduct against state law of Texas | Lawrence v. Texas |
14th Amendment protects a person's "liberty" to engage in consensual homosexual activity and struck down Texas state law banning it | Lawrence v. Texas |
Involved a man arrested for passing out literature urging readers to resist the draft (1919) | Schenck v. US |
Upheld an law setting maximum rates for grain storage in Illinois (regulating business) | Munn v. Illinois |
Laundry owner fined for violating limited working hours for female employees. | Muller v. Oregon |