The case that later overturned Plessy v. Ferguson

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

The case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and ruled that “separate but equal” facilities were not constitutional

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

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SCOTUS Cases

YGK These US Supreme Court Cases: Parts I and II

Question	Answer
The Supreme Court case that established the "separate but equal" doctrine	Plessy v. Ferguson
The Justice who wrote the opinion for Plessy v. Ferguson	Henry B. Brown
The Chief Justice during Plessy v. Ferguson	Melville Fuller
The vote count for Plessy v. Ferguson	7–1
The year Plessy v. Ferguson was decided	1896
The plaintiff in Plessy v. Ferguson, legally classified as an “octoroon”	Homer Plessy
The Louisiana judge whom Plessy sued	John Ferguson
The Justice who issued a famous dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson claiming “Our constitution is color-blind”	John Marshall Harlan
The case that later overturned Plessy v. Ferguson	Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
The case that established the principle of judicial review	Marbury v. Madison
The Chief Justice for Marbury v. Madison	John Marshall
The vote count for Marbury v. Madison	4–0
The year Marbury v. Madison was decided	1803
The President on his final day in office in 1801 who signed commissions for 42 federal judges	John Adams
The "midnight judge" appointee who sued to force the delivery of his commission	William Marbury
The Secretary of State whom Marbury sued	James Madison
The act that the court ruled conflicted with the Constitution and was therefore void in Marbury v. Madison	Judiciary Act of 1789
The case that legalized abortion in the first trimester	Roe v. Wade
The Justice who wrote the opinion for Roe v. Wade	Harry Blackmun
The Chief Justice during Roe v. Wade	Warren Burger
The vote count for Roe v. Wade	7–2
The year Roe v. Wade was decided	1973
The alias used by Norma McCorvey, a rape victim who sued for the right to an abortion	Jane Roe
The Dallas County attorney sued by Jane Roe	Henry Wade
The 1965 case that began the recognition of a “right to privacy” used in Roe v. Wade	Griswold v. Connecticut
The attorney who pressured Norma McCorvey into filing the Roe v. Wade case (according to McCorvey)	Sarah Weddington
The case that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and ruled that “separate but equal” facilities were not constitutional	Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
The Chief Justice for Brown v. Board of Education	Earl Warren
The vote count for Brown v. Board of Education	9–0
The year Brown v. Board of Education was decided	1954
The third grader on whose behalf the suit was filed in Brown v. Board of Education	Linda Brown
The future Supreme Court Justice who argued the case for Linda Brown	Thurgood Marshall
The 1955 case that followed Brown v. Board of Education that required desegregation proceed “with all deliberate speed”	Brown II (implied by context)
The case that ruled the federal government had the right to establish the Bank of the United States	McCulloch v. Maryland
The Chief Justice for McCulloch v. Maryland	John Marshall
The vote count for McCulloch v. Maryland	9–0
The year McCulloch v. Maryland was decided	1819
The Baltimore cashier whom Maryland sued for refusing to pay taxes on an out-of-state bank	James McCulloch
The Chief Justice who wrote "the power to tax was the power to destroy" in the McCulloch v. Maryland opinion	John Marshall
The case that made reapportionment issues justiciable before remanding the case to a lower court	Baker v. Carr
The Justice who wrote the opinion for Baker v. Carr	William J. Brennan Jr.
The Chief Justice during Baker v. Carr	Earl Warren
The vote count for Baker v. Carr	6–2
The year Baker v. Carr was decided	1962
The Tennessee citizen who sued the Tennessee secretary of state over gerrymandered electoral districts	Charles W. Baker
The Tennessee secretary of state who argued reapportionment was a political matter	Joe Carr
The case two years after Baker v. Carr that mandated the principle of “one man, one vote”	Reynolds v. Sims
The case that required appointed counsel in all trials (overruling Betts v. Brady)	Gideon v. Wainwright
The Justice who wrote the opinion for Gideon v. Wainwright	Hugo Black
The Chief Justice during Gideon v. Wainwright	Earl Warren
The vote count for Gideon v. Wainwright	9–0
The year Gideon v. Wainwright was decided	1963
The person accused of breaking into a pool hall in Florida who sued for the right to an attorney	Clarence Earl Gideon
The director of the corrections office whom Gideon sued	Louie Wainwright
The name of the book that the Gideon v. Wainwright case is the subject of	Gideon’s Trumpet
The case that ruled the federal government did not have the right to regulate child labor via the Keating-Owen Act	Hammer v. Dagenhart
The Justice who wrote the opinion for Hammer v. Dagenhart	William R. Day
The Chief Justice during Hammer v. Dagenhart	Edward Douglass White
The vote count for Hammer v. Dagenhart	5–4
The year Hammer v. Dagenhart was decided	1918
The U.S. attorney in Charlotte sued by Roland Dagenhart	W. C. Hammer
The plaintiff whose two sons would be put out of work by the Keating-Owen Act	Roland Dagenhart
The Justice who wrote a notable dissent focusing on the lack of proper state regulation in Hammer v. Dagenhart	Oliver Wendell Holmes
The 1941 case that overturned Hammer v. Dagenhart and upheld the Fair Labor Standards Act	U.S. v. Darby Lumber Company
The case where the Supreme Court held that the state legislature did not have the power to repeal a corrupt land sale	Fletcher v. Peck
The Chief Justice for Fletcher v. Peck	John Marshall
The vote count for Fletcher v. Peck	6–0
The year Fletcher v. Peck was decided	1810
The river along which the Georgia legislature corruptly sold land in 1795	Yazoo River
The person who sold land to Robert Fletcher, who then sued him for not having clear title	John Peck
The person who sued John Peck claiming he did not have clear title to the Yazoo land	Robert Fletcher
The earliest case in which the Supreme Court struck down a state law	Fletcher v. Peck
The federal court case (not a Supreme Court case) heard by Chief Justice Roger Taney while “circuit-riding”	Ex Parte Merryman
The Chief Justice who heard the case Ex Parte Merryman in 1861	Roger Taney
Lieutenant of the Maryland cavalry who took an active role in evicting Union soldiers from Maryland	John Merryman
The President who declared a secret suspension of the writ of habeas corpus and had Merryman arrested	Abraham Lincoln
The Chief Justice whose ruling that the president acted unconstitutionally was simply ignored by Lincoln	Roger Taney
The case where the Supreme Court held that Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution gave citizens the right to sue a state	Chisholm v. Georgia
The Chief Justice for Chisholm v. Georgia	John Jay
The vote count for Chisholm v. Georgia	4–1
The year Chisholm v. Georgia was decided	1793
The executor of Robert Farquhar's estate who sued the state of Georgia	Alexander Chisholm
The state that claimed sovereign immunity protected it from Chisholm’s suit	Georgia
The amendment that specifically prohibited U.S. or foreign citizens from filing a lawsuit against a state as a result of this ruling	Eleventh Amendment
The case that established that Congress’ interstate regulatory power under the Commerce Clause had “no limitations other than are prescribed in the Constitution”	Gibbons v. Ogden
The Chief Justice for Gibbons v. Ogden	John Marshall
The vote count for Gibbons v. Ogden	6–0
The year Gibbons v. Ogden was decided	1824
The person who had a monopoly license under New York law to ferry people between NY and NJ	Aaron Ogden
The person who received a federal permit to run a steamboat business that challenged Aaron Ogden's monopoly	Thomas Gibbons
The clause under which Congress's interstate regulatory power was affirmed	Commerce Clause
The case where the Supreme Court ruled that no African-American was a citizen of the United States and lacked standing to sue	Dred Scott v. Sandford
The Chief Justice for Dred Scott v. Sandford	Roger Taney
The vote count for Dred Scott v. Sandford	7–2
The year Dred Scott v. Sandford was decided	1857
The slave who sued for his freedom after living in Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory (both free territories)	Dred Scott
The owner whom Dred Scott sued	John Sanford
The compromise found by the Court to be unconstitutional because Congress lacked authority to prohibit slavery in new territories	Missouri Compromise
The case that upheld a state law setting maximum rates for grain storage	Munn v. Illinois
The Chief Justice for Munn v. Illinois	Morrison Waite
The vote count for Munn v. Illinois	7–2
The year Munn v. Illinois was decided	1877
The owner of Chicago grain elevators who charged oppressively high fees	Ira Munn
The state whose legislature passed a law setting maximum rates for grain storage	Illinois
The Chief Justice who proclaimed that “when private property is devoted to a public use, it is subject to public regulation”	Morrison Waite
The case that upheld an Oregon law limiting the working hours of female employees based on scientific evidence of harm	Muller v. Oregon
The Justice who wrote the opinion for Muller v. Oregon	David Brewer
The Chief Justice during Muller v. Oregon	Melville Fuller
The vote count for Muller v. Oregon	9–0
The year Muller v. Oregon was decided	1908
The Oregon laundry owner who was fined for violating the law limiting female working hours	Curt Muller
The future Supreme Court Justice who argued on behalf of Oregon, using scientific evidence	Louis Brandeis
The case that created the “clear and present danger” test for free speech limitations	Schenck v. United States
The Justice who wrote the opinion for Schenck v. United States	Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The Chief Justice during Schenck v. United States	Edward White
The vote count for Schenck v. United States	9–0
The year Schenck v. United States was decided	1919
The Socialist who opposed conscription and distributed literature urging readers to resist the draft	Charles Schenck
The Act under which Charles Schenck was charged for attempting to inhibit recruitment	Espionage Act of 1917
The Justice who wrote that “falsely shouting ‘fire’ in a theatre” is not protected speech	Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
The case that established a Constitutional right to privacy for married couples regarding the use of contraception	Griswold v. Connecticut
The Justice who wrote the opinion for Griswold v. Connecticut	William O. Douglas
The Chief Justice during Griswold v. Connecticut	Earl Warren
The vote count for Griswold v. Connecticut	7–2
The year Griswold v. Connecticut was decided	1965
The directors of the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut charged with violating the 1879 contraception ban	Estelle Griswold and Lee Buxton
The Justice who held that “specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras” and “emanations” creating a right to privacy	William O. Douglas
The case that required police to inform suspects of their Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights during interrogation	Miranda v. Arizona
The Chief Justice who wrote the opinion for Miranda v. Arizona	Earl Warren
The vote count for Miranda v. Arizona	5–4
The year Miranda v. Arizona was decided	1966
The person arrested by Phoenix police who confessed to crimes without being informed of his rights	Ernesto Miranda
The iconic warnings required by the ruling (clue is "warnings required")	Miranda warnings
The case that struck down anti-miscegenation laws (like Virginia’s Racial Integrity Act of 1924) as unconstitutional	Loving v. Virginia
The Chief Justice for Loving v. Virginia	Earl Warren
The vote count for Loving v. Virginia	9–0
The year Loving v. Virginia was decided	1967
The white man who married Mildred Jeter in D.C. and was arrested under Virginia's anti-miscegenation law	Richard Loving
The woman of African-American and Native American heritage who married Richard Loving	Mildred Jeter
The Chief Justice who wrote that “the freedom to marry... a person of another race resides with the individual and cannot be infringed by the State”	Earl Warren
The case that held the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause protected a person’s “liberty” to engage in consensual homosexual activity	Lawrence v. Texas
The Justice who wrote the opinion for Lawrence v. Texas	Anthony Kennedy
The Chief Justice during Lawrence v. Texas	William Rehnquist
The vote count for Lawrence v. Texas	6–3
The year Lawrence v. Texas was decided	2003
The man found by police in his apartment having sex with another man (Tyron Gardner) and charged with homosexual conduct	John Lawrence
The case from 1986 that Lawrence v. Texas overturned (which had upheld a similar Georgia law)	Bowers v. Hardwick

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