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Supreme Court Cases
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Marbury v. Madison | (1803) Judicial Review and the Constitution is the Highest Law |
| McCollough v. Maryland | (1819) The federal level of the goverment could not be taxed by a lower level |
| Gibbons v. Ogden | (1824) The fact that New York was being inconsistanct in their liscencing of steam boats transporting people across the river and that the Federal Government was supreme |
| Barron v. Baltimore | (1833) The Fifth Amendment only applies to limit the federal government and does not limit the state governments |
| Dred Scott v. Sandford | (1856) Dred Scott was not a United States Citizen therefore he could not sue in federal court and no decendant could be a United States Citizen |
| Plessy v. Ferguson | (1895) The state law of racial segeration was within constitutional boundaries and the decision was based on the seperate but equal doctrine |
| Schenck v. US | (1918) Saying something depends on how they are being used and during wartime something that could be said during peacetime may not be said |
| Korematsu v. United States | (1944) This decison ruled that the protection of America was more important that the protection personal liberties at the time |
| Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka | (1952) The Seperate But Equal is unequal and the seperation of schools must stop and all schools need to be intergrated |
| Mapp v. Ohio | (1960) This case said that any evidence that was attained illegaly is not valid in the court of law and is admissible evidence meaning it can not be used. |
| Buckley v. Valeo | (1975) The court found that limiting the amount of money that can be spent on a single candidates election process was not a violation of the First Amendment but found that limiting the amount of money given to a family was against the First Amendment |
| Regents of the University of California v. Bakke | (1977) The use of racial quotas for the admitance of students to schools was in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and therefor the school must admit Bakke into the school and furthered civil rights. |
| Gideon v. Wainright | (1962) The court ruled in favor of Gideon because under the Fourteenth Amendment the Sixth Amendment applied to the state level as well and Gideon diserved an attorney. |
| Miranda v. Arizona | (1965) Miranda was asked questions during an interrigatoin without being read his rights before he was interrigated and that in not reading the rights Miranda was self incriminating himself and he had the right not to do so. |
| Griswold v. Connecticut | (1964) Griswold was running a practice with married couples to practice safe sex and in doing so Connecticut charged them and the Supreme Court ruled that under the 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 9th amendment it created a new protectoin of privacy. |
| Roe v. Wade | (1971) Roe wanted to terminate her pregancy an under Texas law that could not be done unless it was to protect the female's life. The court ruled in favor of Roe upholding their Griswold outcome with the right of privacy. |
| Baker v. Carr | (1960) Baker saw that a 1901 law in Tennessee for the apportion of seets in the state's general assembly was being ignored and the court ruled in favor of Baker because when it came down to constitutional issues it was the judicial's land. |
| Gitlow v. New York | (1922) Gitlow was passing out pamphlets that was calling for the overthrow of the government and then claimed that because nothing was coming of them that he could not be tried and the courts agreed with him because there was no threat to the security. |
| New York Times v. Sullivan | (1963) The New York Times published something about Martin Luther King being arrested in order to vote for Sullivan and Sullivan claimed that it was slander and under the First Amendment the Court ruled in favor of Times because the slander was not malice |
| Engel v. Vitale | (1961) A school was using prayer everyday before school started and New York said that it was unconstitutional and they were right because the Court ruled in favor of them and started eliminating religion in school. |
| Lemon v. Kurtzman | (1970) This case started the Lemon test which makes sure that money given to private schools to make sure that the money was not being used for religion purposes. |
| New Jersey v. T.L.O | (1983) A fourteen year old was found smoking on school grounds and was found with a bag of marijuana and when she tried to get out of it the Court ruled that New Jersey was correct and schools could search with probable cause. |
| Gregg v. Georgia | (1975) Gregg was found guilty of murder and robbery and was sentenced to death. The court upheld the death sentence and was not cruel and unusual punishment. |
| U.S. v. Nixon | (1974) After Watergate happened footage of the White House was requested and Nixon refused to give the footage over and the court ruled in favor of america that the tapes needed to be turned over for investigation. |
| Bush v. Gore | (2000) Gore wanted a recount of votes in Florida and Bush said that there could not be a recount of the votes and the Supreme Court agreed with that announcement. |
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