64735810 | Marbury v. Madison | Judicial review created: courts can void unconstitional laws | |
64735811 | McCulloch v. Maryland | National govt can est. a bank (Congress has implied powers) Maryland cannot tax the bank (supremacy clause) | |
64735812 | Gibbons v. Ogden | States cannot regulate interstate commerce (steamboat case) | |
64735813 | Dred Scot v. Sandford | Congress cannot limit slavery in federal territories Struck down MO Compromise (overturned by 14th Am.) | |
64735814 | Reynolds v. U.S. | States bans on polygamy does not violate free exercise clause | |
64735815 | Plessy v. Ferguson | Upheld segregation if seperate facilities available (railroads) | |
64735816 | Schenk v. U.S. | Est. clear + present danger test for speech (anti-war leaflets) | |
64735817 | Gitlow v. New York | 1st incorporation doctrine case, applied free speech to states | |
64735818 | NLRB v. Jones | Broadly interpreted Congress' commerce power to apply to activities that could effect interstate commerce | |
64735819 | Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka | Seperate educational facilities are inherently unequal, overturned Plessy, catalyst for civil rights movement | |
64735820 | Mapp v. Ohio | Exclusionary rule (re: tainted evidence) applied to state courts | |
64735821 | Engle v. Vitale | Public school-sponsored prayer violates establishment clause | |
64735822 | Baker v. Carr | Set "one person, one vote" rule (districts of=population) | |
64735823 | Gideon v. Wainwright | Poor defendants must be provided an attorney in state trials | |
64735824 | Griswald v. Connecticut | Established the right to privacy, struck down state anti-contraceptive law | |
64735825 | Miranda v. Arizona | Suspects must be read rights prior to interrogation | |
64735826 | Tinker v. Des Moines | Students have some constitutional rights, black arm bands to protest the war protected as symbolic speech | |
64735827 | NY Times v. US | Struck down prior restraint on "Pentagon Papers" (freed press) | |
64735828 | Lemon v. Kurtzman | Set up a 3 part test for govt aid to religion 1) secular purpose 2) neutrality 3) no excessive govt entanglement with religion | |
64735829 | Roe v. Wade | Struck down a Texas abortion ban, set up a trimester approach allowing more govt reg. of abortion as pregnancy advances | |
64735830 | U.S. v. Nixon | Ruled Nixon's claim of executive privilege was outweighed by a criminal investigation; Watergate tapes released | |
64735831 | Buckley v. Valeo | Struck down portios of the Federal Election Campaign Act such as a limit on self-financing of a campaign due to 1st Am. | |
64735832 | Gregg v. Georgia | States could resume capital punishment if states had checks on its use (automatic appeals, two phase trials, etc.) | |
64735833 | U. California v. Bakke | Struck down a med schools race-based admissions quota but upheld aff action programs that use race as a plus factor | |
64735834 | Texas v. Johnson | Ruled flag burning was protected as symbolic speech | |
64735835 | Oregon v. Smith | Free exercise of religion does not block general laws (such as a ban on peyote) that incidentally limit those practices | |
64735836 | Planned Parenthood v. Casey | State regulation of abortion (ex: waiting periods) can be const'l if it does not pose an "undue burden" on woman | |
64735837 | U.S. v. Lopez | Struck down the federal Gun Free Schools Act as exceeding Congress' commerce powers | |
64735838 | Bush v. Gore | Ended the recount process in Florida, inconsistant recount procedures among counties violated equal protection | |
64735839 | Lawrence v. Texas | Struck down state sodomy laws as a violation of privacy rts |
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