AP Government SCOTUS Cases

Flashcards covering key vocabulary and concepts from landmark Supreme Court cases.

Plessy v. Ferguson

Enabled racial segregation over public amenities across the United States and provided a legal basis for discrimination in public facilities

Homer Plessy

Challenged the Louisiana Separate Car Act by refusing to move to a 'colored only' carriage

Korematsu v. The United States

Demonstrated that personal liberties are taken away from individuals during wartime.

Fred Korematsu

Challenged Executive Order 9066, which authorized the West Coast as a military area.

Brown v. Board of Education

Deconstructed the concept of racial segregation, allowing colored students to attend the same schools as white people.

Thurgood Marshall

Advocate representing Oliver Brown in Brown v. Board of Education

Loving v. Virginia

Determined that Virginia's anti-miscegenation law violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

New York Times Co. v. United States

Established a 'heavy presumption against prior restraint,' even in cases associated with national security.

United States v. Nixon

Established the idea that the POTUS is not exempt from criminal prosecution and subpoenas by using their executive privilege to shield them.

Roe v. Wade

Legalized women's right to an abortion within the first trimester but allowed states to impose regulations within the second and third trimester.

TLO v. New Jersey

Case impacted society by highlighting an individual’s right to privacy even at school.

Planned Parenthood v. Casey

Affirmed the Roe v. Wade decision while allowing states to place their own restrictions on abortion after viability and also making the woman and child’s health the priority.

Tinker v Des Moines Independent Community School District

Affirmed that freedom of speech is protected in public schools, so long as it is not disruptive or damaging to the learning environment.

Roper v. Simmons

Ruled that executing minors is 'cruel and unusual punishment' and prohibited by the Eighth Amendment.

District of Columbia v. Heller

Ruled that District of Columbia’s ban on registering handguns, maintaining a firearm nonfunctional or disassembled and needing a trigger lock for a firearm violated the second amendment.

Obergefell v. Hodges

Determined all states in the union should issue marriage licenses regardless of the sex or gender of the members of the couple

Trump v. Hawaii

Addressed the President's authority/limits when it comes to laws based on Immigration and Nationality laws.