Download Important Supreme Court Cases

Important Supreme Court Cases
Give the date and then summarize the facts, issues, decision and rationale for each of the following:
1. Marbury v Madison
2. McCulloch v Maryland
3. Gibbons v Ogden
4. Dred Scott
5. Plessy v Ferguson
6. Barron v Baltimore - Bill of Rights applies only to federal courts (1833)
7. Gitlow v New York – applies Bof R to states with 1st amendment free speech
8. Engle v Vitale – school prayer
9. Near v Minnesota 1931 – freedom of press applied to states
10. Abington School District v Schempp school prayer
11. Epperson v Arkansas – 1968 establishment clause, teaching creationism
12. Lemon v Kurtzman – lemon - religion test 3 parts
13. Lee v Weisman 1992 – clergy men may not offer prayer at school functions
14. Schenck v United States – free speech can be limited
15. Chaplinsky v New Hampshire – fighting words
16. Roth v United States – obscenity not protected speech
17. New York Times v Sullivan free speech is protected except when with malice
18. Tinker v DesMoines free speech - armbands
19. New York Times v United States – freedom of press
20. Texas v Johnson – flag burning
21. Dejonge v Oregon – 1937 – freedom of assembly – rt to form communist party
22. Coates v Cincininati – 3 or more assembling on the sidewalk law – unconstitutional 1971
23. Collins v Smith – Skokie case 1977
24. United States v Miller – gun control, 1939 - unclear
25. Mapp v Ohio, Wolf v Colorado – exclusionary rule
26. Griswald v Conneticut – privacy rts
27. Katz v United States – wiretapping not allowed w/o warrant
28. Roe v Wade
29. Ex Parte Milligan - =1866 – military tribunals cannot be used when civilian cts are operating
30. Escobedo v Illinois
31. Gideon v Wainright
32. Miranda v Arizona
33. Richmond Newspapers, Inc v Virginia – can’t close trials to papers, etc
34. Stack v Boyle – bail can’t be excessive
35. Gregg v Georgia
36. Furman v Georgia
37. Cruzan v Missouri Department of Health
38. Reynolds v US – can’t break law because of religion
39. Weeks v US – exclusionary rule
40. Powell v Alabama 1932 – rt to atty in capital cases
41. Endo v US, Korematsu v US
42. Baker v Carr – one man one vote – federal congressional districts
43. Reynolds v Sims - state legislative districts have to be equal
44. Wesberry v Sander - s state congressional districts 1964
45. Heart of Atlanta Motel v US
46. Sheppard V Maxwell – fair trial
47. Regents of Univ of CA v Bakke
48. New Jersey v TLO
49. Hazelwood School District v Kuhlmeier
50. Shaw v Reno 1993 – redistricting for racial equality must be w/strict scrutiny