AP Gov Court Cases

Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

Ended school segregation

Dennis v. United States (1951)

Communist advocacy limits free speech

Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

Denied citizenship to enslaved people

Hustler Magazine v. Falwell (1988)

Protected parody speech

Engel v. Vitale (1962)

Banned school prayer

Bush v. Gore (2000)

Decided the 2000 presidential election

Furman v. Georgia (1972)

Temporarily halted the death penalty

Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health (2022)

Overturned Roe v. Wade

Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)

Federal power over interstate commerce

Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)

Right to a lawyer for all

Gregg v. Georgia (1976)

Reinstated the death penalty

Mapp v. Ohio (1961)

Exclusionary rule for illegal searches

Korematsu v. United States (1944)

Upheld Japanese-American internment

Marbury v. Madison (1803)

Established judicial review

McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

Strengthened federal power, "necessary and proper" clause

Miller v. California (1973)

Defined obscenity limits

Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

Required Miranda rights warning

Sheppard v. Maxwell (1966)

Ensured fair trials despite media

Citizens United v. FEC (2010)

Unlimited political spending by corporations

United States v. Windsor (2013)

Struck down DOMA, supported same-sex marriage

Roe v. Wade (1973)

Legalized abortion (overturned in 2022)

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

"Separate but equal" doctrine

Baker v. Carr (1962)

Enabled redistricting challenges in court

Schenck v. United States (1919)

Free speech limits during wartime

Texas v. Johnson (1989)

Protected flag burning as free speech

Betts v. Brady (1942)

Denied right to counsel in some cases (overturned by Gideon)

Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)

Protected student free speech

New Jersey v. T.L.O. (1985)

Limited student search protections

West Virginia v. Barnette (1943)

Protected against forced flag salutes

Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)

Protected speech unless inciting imminent lawless action