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Review of Important Supreme Court Cases

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Held that Congress could regulate labor relations in a factory; extended interpretation of Commerce clause   NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel  
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In this case the Court held that the police must inform suspects that they have the right to remain silent, that anything they say may be used against them, and that they have the right to counsel before the police may begin to question them   Miranda v. Arizona  
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In this case, the Supreme Court suspended capital punishment in all the states because the Court said that the procedures being used to enforce the death penalty were not being fairly applied   Furman v. Georgia  
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Established the Court's power of judicial review   Marbury v. Madison  
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This case established that the state must provide attorneys for poor defendants.   Gideon v. Wainwright  
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This case made it clear that the Fourth Amendment applied to the states and so local law enforcement officers needed a warrant to search a suspect's home   Mapp v. Ohio  
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This case established the criteria that the Supreme Court would use to judge if a law violated freedom of religion. This case involved the state trying to provide textbooks and paying teacher salaries for religious schools   Lemon v. Kurtzman  
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In this case, the Court approved procedures for determining if a guilty defendant should receive the death penalty. After this case, the suspension of capital punishment ended.   Gregg v. Georgia  
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Established that it was constitutional to establish a Natl. Bank; used the elastic clause   McCulloch v. Maryland  
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Held that the fed. govt. could not require state and local police to enforce a fed. law w/o providing money and state acceptance of that fed. support   Printz v. U.S.  
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Said a state could not pass a law that impaired contracts or land titles acquired in good faith; first time that the Sup. Ct. said a state law was unconstitutional   Fletcher v. Peck  
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Held that the fed. license outweighed a state navigational license; showed the fed. govt. was supreme in issues of interstate commerce   Gibbons v. Ogden  
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