Court Cases

Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)

-Slaves were property

-African-Americans are not citizens

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

-Separate but equal

Schneck v U.S (1919)

-Clear and present danger in speech

Korematsu v U.S (1944)

-Japanse internment was constitutional

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

-Overturns Plessy vs. Ferguson

Mapp v. Ohio (1961)

-Citizens are protected against unreasonable search

Engel v. Vitale (1962)

-Prayer in public school is unconstitutional

Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)

-Defendents too poor to get a lawyer must be provided one by the state

Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

-Right to remain silent

Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)

-Free speech as long as it is not disrupting

NYT v. U.S (1971)

-Allowed to publish Pentagon Papers because it did not pose a clear and present danger

Roe v. Wade (1973)

-Right to abortion

University of Cali. Regents v. Bakke (1978)

-Affirmative action programs are constitutional

New Jersey v. TLO (1985)

-Only need reasonable suspicion to search students

Marbury v. Madison (1803)

-Established judicial review

McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

-Elastic Clause

Schecter Poultry Corp v. U.S (1935)

-NIRA (New Deals National Industry Recovery) unconstitutional

U.S v. Nixon (1974)

-President is not above the law

Bush v. Gore (2000)

-Violated 14th Amendment

-Bush won presidency