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Supreme Court Cases – AP Government
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Cornell University Law School: http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/search/
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Oyez: http://www.oyez.org/
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When all else fails, google the case…
Federalism Cases
Facts of the Case
Court’s Ruling (Decision)
Basis for Ruling (Decision)
*Fletcher v. Peck (1810)  1795: Georgia passes a land  Declares Georgia law (the one
 Georgia’s act violated the ex post
grant act, giving land to four
invalidating the land grant act)
facto clause of the U.S.
companies
unconstitutional
Constitution
 1796: Georgia voided the law;
claimed all rights and lands
awarded to be invalid
 John Peck received land from  Land had been legally passed into
the hands of the purchaser
this grant and sold some of it to
Robert Fletcher
 Land cannot be taken back
 Fletcher sued Peck for breach  Contract cannot be invalidated
of contract, claiming Peck did
not have legal title to the land
when he sold it
*McCulloch v. Maryland
(1819)
*Gibbons v. Ogden
(1824)
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*National Labor
Relations Board v. Jones
& Laughlin Steel (1937)
*Heart of Atlanta Motel
v. US (1964)
Katzenbach v. McClung
(1964)
South Dakota v. Dole
(1987)
*United States v. Lopez
(1995)
*Printz v. United States
(1997)
*United States v.
Morrison (2000)
Elections and the Media
Smith v. Allwright (1944)
*Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Citizens United v. Federal
Elections Commission
(2010)
Congress
*Baker v. Carr (1962)
Wesberry v. Sanders 1964
*Shaw v. Reno (1993)
US Term Limits, Inc. v.
Thornton (1995)
Powell v. McCormack
(1969)
Sims v. Reynolds (1964)
The Presidency
*Clinton v. New York City
(1998)
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*United States v. Nixon
(1973)
Immigration and
Naturalization Service v.
Chadha (1983)
The Judiciary
*Marbury v. Madison
(1803)
*McCulloch v. Maryland
(1819)
*Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
*Dred Scott v. Sanford
(1857)
Incorporation
Barron v. Baltimore
(1833)
*Gitlow v. New York
(1925)
Near v. Minnesota (1931)
Palko v. Connecticut
(1937)
*Everson v. Board of
Education (1942)
Freedom of Religion
*Everson v. Board of
Education (1942)
Engel v. Vitale (1962)
*Lemon v. Kurtzman
(1971)
Wallace v. Jaffree (1985)
Westside Community
Schools v. Mergens
(1990)
Santa Fe Independent
School District v. Doe
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(2000)
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris
(2002)
Ten Commandments
cases: McCreary County,
KY v. American Civil
Liberties Union of
Kentucky and Van Orden
v. Perry (2005)
Freedom of Speech and
Press
*Schenck v. United States
(1919)
*Gitlow v. New York
(1925)
*Near v. Minnesota (1931)
New York Times Co. v.
Sullivan (1964)
*Tinker v. Des Moines
Independent Community
School District (1969)
New York Times Co. v.
U.S. (1971)
Miller v. California (1973)
Bethel School District No.
403 v. Fraser (1986)
Hazelwood School District
v. Kuhlmeier (1988)
Texas v. Johnson (1989)
Reno v. ACLU (1997)
Freedom of Assembly
and Petition
*NAACP v. Alabama
(1958)
Boy Scouts of American v.
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Dale (2000)
Due Process and the
Rights of the Accused
*Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
*Gideon v. Wainwright
(1963)
*Miranda v. Arizona
(1966)
Furman v. Georgia (1972)
Gregg v. Georgia (1976)
New Jersey v. T.L.O
(1985)
Equal Protection of the
Laws – Minorities
Civil Rights Cases (1883)
*Plessy v. Ferguson
(1896)
*Korematsu v. United
States (1944)
*Brown v. Board of
Education of Topeka
(1954)
*Regents of the University
of California v. Bakke
(1978)
Lawrence v. Texas (2003)
Grutter v. Bollinger
(2003) and Gratz v.
Bollinger (2003)
Equal Protection of the
Laws – Women
*Griswold v. Connecticut
(1965)
Reed v. Reed (1971)
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*Roe v. Wade (1973)
Webster v. Reproductive
Health Services (1989)
Planned Parenthood v.
Casey (1992)
Right to Die
Cruzan v. Missouri (1990)
Case Due Dates:
3/16: Federalism & Judiciary Cases
3/23: Incorporation & Freedom of Religion Cases
4/6: Freedom of Speech and Press, Freedom of Assembly & Petition Cases
4/13: Due Process, Equal Protection (both minorities and women), Right to Die Cases
4/20: Elections and Media, Congress, and Presidency Cases
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