Supreme Court Cases
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| Marbury v. Madison | show 🗑
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| McCulloch v. Maryland | show 🗑
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| show | (1824)The Supreme Court held that the power to regulate interstate commerce was granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause.
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| show | (1833)The Supreme Court decided that the Bill of Rights, specifically the Fifth Amendment's guarantee that government takings of private property for public use require just compensation. Selective Incorporation began due to this.
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| show | (1857)Ruling that stated people of African descent brought into the United States and held as slaves were not protected by the Constitution and could never be U.S. citizens.
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| show | (1896)The state of Louisiana enacted a law that required separate railway cars for blacks and whites. Plessy took a seat in a "whites only" car. He refused to move and was arrested. Set up separate but equal.
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| show | (1944)During WWII Executive order 9066 allowed the exclusion of Japanese-Americans from areas deemed critical to national defense and potentially vulnerable to espionage. The court sided with the government and decided the order was constitutional.
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| show | (1954)Declared state laws establishing seperate schools for minorities unconstitutional. It overturned Plessy v. Ferguson. Decision stated that separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.Violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14 amendment
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| show | (1960)Mapp was convicted of possessing obscene materials after an admittedly illegal police search. Declared that all evidence obtained by searches and seizures in violation of the Constitution is, by the 4 amendment, inadmissible in a state court.
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| show | (1977)Bakke applied to the medical program at this school twice and had been rejected both times due to affirmative action. The court ordered the school allow Bakke to attend, they claimed it violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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| show | (1963)Gideon was charged with a felony, when he requested a lawyer he was denied, the lawyers the court stated appointed lawyers were only for capital cases. He represented himself and lost. The Court said he had a right to a lawyer by due process.
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| show | (1965)In several cases suspects weren't given warnings of their rights at the outset of their interrogation. Set up the miranda rights.
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| show | (1964)She was convicted under a CT law which criminalized counselling, to married people on preventing conception. The 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 9th Amendments create a constitutional right to privacy in marital relations. The law was null and void.
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| show | (1971)A resident of Texas sought to terminate her pregnancy by abortion. The state law prohibited abortions except to save the pregnant woman's life. The Court held that a woman's right to in the 14th Amendment.
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| show | (1963)The arrest of MLK for perjury in Alabama intended to destroy his efforts to integrate public facilities and encourage blacks to vote. A libel action was filed against the newspaper. The case failed, b/c the 1st amendment protects all statements.
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| Engel v. Vitale | show 🗑
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| Lemon v. Kurtzman | show 🗑
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| New Jersey v. T.L.O. | show 🗑
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| show | (1975)Gregg was sentenced to death, he tried to appeal this on the lines of cruel and unusual punishment which violated the 8th and 14th amendments. The court decided this did not violate the amendments, that it may be used in extreme court cases.
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| show | (2000)Bush filed a request for review in the S.C. and sought an emergency petiton for a stay of the Florida S.C. decision because Florida ordered that the ballots from Miamidade county be recounted. The recount violated the Equal Protection Clause.
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