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PBHS Supreme Court Landmark Cases

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Established federal bank that cannot be taxed   McCulloch V Maryland  
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Separate but equal   Plessy V Ferguson  
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Legalized abortion (1st trimester)   Roe V Wade  
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Overturned separate but equal   Brown V Board of Education of Topeka KS  
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Judicial Review   Marbury V Madison  
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Reapportionment of electoral districts (Tennessee)   Baker V Carr  
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Court must provide legal representation/an attorney (Florida pool hall)   Gideon V Wainwright  
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Fed. govt did NOT have the right to regulate child labor   Hammer V Dagenhart  
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overturned Hammer v Dagenhart and upheld Fair Labor Standards Act in 1941   U.S. v Darby Lumber Co.  
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First time a state law was declared unconstitutional (that legislature cannot repeal a sale)   Fletcher v Peck  
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Lincoln suspended writ of habeas corpus   Ex Parte Merryman  
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habeas corpus   "you have the body"  
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Must be informed of rights when investigated for crime   Miranda v Arizona  
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Held that though Dred Scott, a slave, had lived in a free territory with his master, he was still his masters property, and not a citizen of the US   Dred Scott v Sanford  
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Held that martial law must be confined to "the theater of active military operations" and that civilians could not be tried in military courts if civil courts remained operational   Ex parte Milligan  
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Held that Congress has the authority to regulate all interstate commerce   Gibbons v Ogden  
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Held that the federal rule excluding the use of illegally obtained evidence in criminal trials should be applied to the states   Mapp v Ohio  
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Held that obscenity is not protected under the First Amendment   Roth v United States  
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Held that WWI limits on free speech did not violate the 1st Amendment if the speech in question presented "clear and present danger"   Schenk v United States  
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Dissolved John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Test   Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v United States  
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Held that secret tape recordings made in the office of President Nixon were subject to subpoena for the Watergate trial   United States v Nixon  
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Held that a university may consider race and ethnic background in considering applicants for admission, but may not establish fixed quotas   University of California v Bakke  
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Federal regulation of interstate commerce trumps state regulation   Gibbons V Ogden  
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"One man, one vote"   Baker V Carr and Reynolds v Sims  
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U.S. v Darby Lumber Co upheld this act   Fair Labor Standards Act of 1941  
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Pres. _____ appointed the 42 ______ judges but Pres. ______ held up their _______ leading Chief Justice ______ to establish ________ in the case ______   Adams, midnight judges, Jefferson, commissions, John Marshall, judicial review, Marbury v Madison  
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First man appointed as Chief Justice   John Jay  
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This man formulated the "clear and present danger test"   Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr  
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Claimed that the First Amendment does not protect a person who falsely shouts fire in a theater   Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr  
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phrase associated with Schenk v U.S.   "clear and present danger"  
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Electoral districts must be roughly equal in population   Reynolds V Sims  
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"the power to tax implied the power to destroy"   McCulloch v Maryland  
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John Marshall ruled that a state tax on a branch of the Bank of the United States was unconstitutional.   McCulloch v. Maryland  
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This case involved land speculators on Yazoo tribal lands in Georgia.   Fletcher v. Peck  
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