Supreme Court Cases Study Set | Political Science Flashcards

Mapp v. Ohio

prevented unreasonable searches and seizures with warrant

Marbury v. Madison

Prohibited the racial segregation of children in public schools

Dred Scott v. Sanford

Slaves are property, African Americans were not and could never be citizens of the us

Plessy v. Ferguson

Segregation laws were not unconstitutional

Schneck v. U.S.

freedom of speech could be restricted if clearly dangerous

Korematsu v. United States

Uphold the exclusion of Japanese Americans from the West Coast

Brown v. Board

No segregation in schools

Baker v. Carr

Apportionment cases are justiciable

Engel v. Vitale

School sponsored prayer violates the first amendment

Gideon v. Wainwright

Every citizen is able to appoint a lawyer on their behalf

Miranda v. Arizona

Ruled that an arrested individual is entitled to rights against self-discrimination and to an attorney

Tinker v. Des Moines

Students nor teachers "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate"

New York Times v. United States:

Defended the First Amendment Right of free press against prior restraint by the government

Wisconsin v. Yoder

Amish people, individual liberty to worship freely outweighed the states interest in forcing students to attend school

Roe v. Wade

Protects a pregnant women liberty to have an abortion

United States v. Nixon

president could not deny court ordered crime scene items

Regents of University of California v. Bakke

Colleges can't deny applicants based solely on race

Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier

Schools may restrict was is on school newspaper if not have been published on public forums

Texas v. Johnson

Burning the flag is apart of free speech of the first amendment

Shaw v. Reno

Redistricting based on race must be held to a standard of strict scrutiny

U.S. v. Lopez

Delegates certain powers to States and certain powers to the federal government

Bush v. Gore

Recount of votes

District of Columbia v. Heller

second amendment guarantees an individual right to posses firearms

McDonald v. Chicago

The second amendment applies to state and local governments as well as to the federal government

Citizens United v. FEC

political spending by companies the government pays for