Supreme Court Cases - APUSH

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Court Cases to review for the AP US History Exam

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The Slaughterhouse cases (1873)

emphasized the distinct character of federal and state citizenship

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Munn v. Illinois (1877)

states may set rates for grain storage, and private property dedicated to public use is subject to government regulation

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Wabash, St. Louis. and Pacific Railway Co. v. Illinois (1886)

individual states had no power to regulate interstate commerce

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United States v. E.C. Knight Company (1888)

Sherman Anti-Trust Act does not apply to a trust that refined over 90% of the sugar sold in the US; later eroded by other decisions

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Pollock v. Farmers Loan and Trust Company (1895)

declared the first federal income tax law unconsitutional

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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

announced the acceptance of the doctrine of “separate but equal”

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Insular Cases (1901)

territories gained in the Spanish American War were no longer to be considered “foreign countries” but neither were they assumed to be part of the US; as territories they were ruled by Congress

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Northern Securities Company v. US (1904)

A holding company formed for the express purpose of limited competition is guilty of restraint of trade and in violation of the federal anti trust acts

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Lochner v. New York (1905)

overturned a law limiting the number of hours a company may require a worker to work; said it infringed on the freedom of contracts

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Muller v. Oregon (1908)

upheld an Oregon law limiting the number of hours women could be employed in industry; to safeguard their childbearing ability

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Bunting v. Oregon (1917)

extended the above ruling to include all industrial workers (10 hour day); overturned Lochner v. New York

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Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918)

overturned a law banning products made by child labor from being sold in interstate commerce; reversed in 1941 in US v. Darby Lumber Company

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Schechter v. United States (1919)

freedom of speech may be curtailed if exercising that right posed a “clear and present danger” to others or to the state

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Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States (1935)

declared the NIRA (National Industry Recovery Act) unconstituitonal

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US v. Butler (1936)

declared the Agricultural Adjustment Act unconstitutional

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Smith v. Allwright (1944)

overruled practices like the “all-white” primary in choosing state and national officials

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Korematsu v. US (1944)

upheld the 1942 removal of Japanese-Americans to relocation centers in inland camps; declared within the combined war powers of Congress

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Sweatt v. Painter (1950)

held that intangible factors may be considered in determining whether professional education programs are comparable under the separate but equal doctrine

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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954, 1955)

overturned the “separate but equal” ruling in Plessy; mandated that segregated facilities be eliminated “with all deliberate speed'“

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Guinn v. United States (1915)

Court struck down Oklahoma’s “grandfather’s clause”

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