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Supreme Court Cases Test

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Held that segregated schools were inherently unequal so that the principle of "separate but equal" was unconstitutional
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Ruled that a state could not ban the use of contraceptives because that would violate citizens' right to privacy
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This decision declared the NRA unconstitutional
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The Court ruled that the right to privacy protected a woman's decision whether or not to have an abortion
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Held that poor defendants were entitled to free legal counsel
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1886 ruling that states could only limit intrastate commerce, not interstate commerce; thus a state could not outlaw different rates for long and short haul railroad traffic; led to the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
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Ruled that before those accused of a crime can be interviewed by the police, they must be informed of their rights
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Ruled that the government could not exercise prior restraint to prevent the publication of the Pentagon Papers
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Declared that affirmative-action programs with racial quotas are unconstitutional
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Stated that states cannot interfere with free speech thus incorporating the right of freedom of speech into the Fourteenth Amendment
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First significant case under the Sherman Antitrust Act; Court ruled that monopoly control of manufacturing was not the same as control of commerce so the Sherman Antitrust Act did not apply
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This case upheld the Wagner Act and the right of collective bargaining; expanded the use of the Commerce Clause to labor issues
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Miranda v. Arizona
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Griswold v. Connecticut
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Roe v. Wade
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Gitlow v. New York
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Wabash case
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University of California v. Bakke
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Schecter v. US
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Brown v. Board of Education
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Gideon V. Wainwright
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New York Times v. US
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US v. E.C. Knight Co.
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NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel
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Denied a writ of habeas corpus for a union leader's arrest for disobeying an injunction under the Sherman Antitrust Act
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The Court's first major First Amendment decision, it sustained the Espionage Act and found that free speech can be constrained if it created a "Clear and present danger."
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The Court ruled in 1877 that states could regulate commerce, in this case, a grain elevator
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Established the principle of separate but equal for different facilities that segregated the races such as railway cars
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The Court ruled that arbitrarily drawn federal districts violated voters' constitutional rights and established the principle of "one man, one vote"
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Court ruled in 1875 that suffrage was not a right of citizenship so it was not unconstitutional to deprive a woman of the right to vote
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Cases in 1883 that narrowed civil rights guaranteed by the 14th Amendment; said that blacks were protected against state action to limit their rights but not against individual actions; declared the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional
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Held that the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII was constitutional
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This case established that states could limit women's working hours; Louis Brandeis argued the case using a brief that made use of sociological data
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First trustbusting suit under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act

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