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| 9806343283 | Roe v. Wade | (1973) legalized abortion on the basis of a woman's right to privacy | 0 | |
| 9806346045 | Mapp v. Ohio | Evidence illegally gathered by the police may not be used in a criminal trial. EXCLUSIONARY RULE | 1 | |
| 9806348868 | BCRA | Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act; banned soft money | 2 | |
| 9806355524 | Engel v. Vitale | banned formal prayer in schools, goverment whould not make any religion the 'official' religion. | 3 | |
| 9806362866 | Schenck v. US | Can limit free speech when there is a "clear and present danger" | 4 | |
| 9806367025 | Regents of California v. Bakke | Race can not be the only factor in college admissions, there can be no quotas. | 5 | |
| 9806371170 | Plessy v. Ferguson | Separate but equal | 6 | |
| 9806373976 | Dred Scott | United States slave who sued for liberty after living in a non-slave state. He was considered PROPERTY. | 7 | |
| 9806382229 | Miranda v. Arizona | The accused must be notified of their rights before being questioned by the police | 8 | |
| 9806385410 | Gideon v. Wainright | ordered states to provide lawyers for those unable to afford them in criminal proceedings | 9 | |
| 9806391827 | Wesberry v. Sanders | Ordered House CONGRESSIONAL districts to be as near equal in population as possible | 10 | |
| 9806399370 | Fairness Doctrine | A principle that formerly obligated broadcasters to present both sides of an issue | 11 | |
| 9806414956 | Brown v. Board of Ed | Overturned Plessy, rules segregation is unconstitutional | 12 | |
| 9806418080 | Simpson Mazzoli Act | You must document the citizenship of employees | 13 | |
| 9806426658 | Baker v. Carr | One man, one vote Ordered state legislative districts to be as near equal as possible in population | 14 | |
| 9806435942 | Marbury v Madison | Established judicial review | 15 | |
| 9806435943 | US v. Nixon | Holds that executive privilege does not extend to criminal cases | 16 | |
| 9806443223 | Texas v Johnson | Ruled that flag burning is a form of symbolic speech protected by the First Amendment. 1989 | 17 | |
| 9806445438 | Oregon v. Smith | declared that free exercise of religion does not include illegal drug use | 18 | |
| 9806448545 | Shaw v. Reno | Gerrymandering to create a majority-minority 12th district in NC is unconstitutional | 19 | |
| 9806453148 | Korematsu v. US | California was right to intern Japanese-Americans in camps during crisis of World War II | 20 | |
| 9806459256 | McCulloch v. Maryland | Supreme Court ruling (1819) confirming the supremacy of national over state government | 21 | |
| 9806463561 | Citizens United | Political spending is a form of protected speech under 1st amendments/ United States Supreme Court decision that permits almost unlimited spending by the "Super PACs". | 22 | |
| 9806473344 | Lemon v. Kurtzman | Struck down state funding for private religious schools | 23 | |
| 9806477217 | Tinker v. Des Moines | Students have the right to symbolic speech at school as long as it is not disruptive | 24 | |
| 9806480937 | Morse v. Frederick | schools can prohibit students from displaying messages that promote illegal drug use/ Bong Hits 4 Jesus | 25 | |
| 9806487995 | Griswold v. Connecticut | Established that there is an implied right to privacy in the U.S. Constitution/ upheld marital privacy & contraceptive counseling | 26 | |
| 9806495935 | Miller v California | Holds that community standards determine what obscenity is | 27 | |
| 9806501140 | Reynolds v. US | Involving bigamy, the Court decided that illegal acts cannot be defended by "religious duty" | 28 | |
| 9806506071 | Free Exercise | Congress cannot pass laws that ban freedom of worship | 29 | |
| 9806509436 | Establishment Clause | Clause in the First Amendment that says the government may not establish an official religion. | 30 | |
| 9806513264 | Abington School District v. Schempp | (1963) Prayer in classrooms was determined to be in violation of the First Amendment. | 31 | |
| 9806518206 | Wisconsin v. Yoder | Amish children do not have to go to school until they are 16---they may stop after the 8th grade | 32 | |
| 9806518207 | Libel | A written defamation of a person's character, reputation, business, or property rights. | 33 | |
| 9806522116 | Slander | Spoken defamation | 34 | |
| 9806532504 | NY Times v. US | Reaffirmed no prior restraint, Pentagon Papers [Free Speech] | 35 | |
| 9806547869 | NY Times v Sullivan | Actual malice/ Public figures must prove malicious intent to convict in slander/libel cases. | 36 | |
| 9806561490 | Gibbons v Ogden | Regulating interstate commerce is a power reserved to the federal government | 37 | |
| 9806561491 | Buckley v Valeo | Candidates can use as much of their own money on their own campaigns. | 38 |
