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LANDMARK SUPREME COURT CASES

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| |BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF CASE |QUESTIONS/ |OUTCOME OF CASE/SIGNIFICANCE |

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| |PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS APPOINTS PEOPLE TO HIGH POSITIONS |Presidential power ---- checks and |JUDICIAL REVIEW (where the Supreme Court can |

|Marbury v. Madison |THEN LEAVES OFFICE HOURS LATER. |balances – gave Supreme Court power. |declare laws unconstitutional). |

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| |Jefferson refuses to appoint them. | | |

|Plessy v. Ferguson |African Americans could be provided “separate but equal” public facilities. |14TH |ALLOWS SEGREGATION that is sep but = |

|1896 |SEGREGATION IS OK. | | |

|Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka,|Overturned Plessy by saying you can never have “separate but equal”. |14TH | |

|Kansas |Ends segregation in and on public grounds and begins integration in schools. | |ENDS SCHOOL SEGREGATION |

|1954 | | | |

|Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board |1965 BUSING. SEGREGATION. |14TH AMENDMENT |FEDERAL COURTS CAN TELL STATES TO END |

|of Ed | | |SEGREGATION… |

| |VERY IMPORTANT NC STATE CASE | | |

| | |Article I, section 8 – “the commerce |Gibbons wins – The Supreme Court said the |

| |Gibbons owned a ferry operation with a federal license, and Ogden had a NY license to|clause”. AND Supremacy Clause |NATIONAL GOVERNMENT REGULATES INTERSTATE |

|Gibbons v. Ogden |do the same thing. Ogden tried to shut down the Gibbons ferry, and Gibbons sued to | |COMMERCE/ |

| |the Supreme Court. | |Supremacy |

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| | |WAR POWERS, 14TH |ALLOWS FOR JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNMENT CAMPS. |

|Korematsu v. US |Japanese internment camps during WWII. | | |

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|Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. US |HOTEL REFUSED TO serve AFRICAN AMERICANS. |14TH and Civil Rights Act of 1964 |SUPREME COURT SAID THEY HAD TO ACCEPT ALL |

|1964. | | |CITIZENS -- all public facilities had to accept |

| | | |all citizens. |

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|Furman v. Georgia |GUN GOES OFF WHEN DROPPED, KILLING PERSON. Furman gets death penalty. | |DEATH PENALTY CAN BE CRUEL AND UNUSUAL IN CERTAIN|

| | |8TH, 14th |CASES. |

| | |Death penalty | |

| | | |DEATH PENALTY IN ITSELF IS NOT CRUEL AND UNUSUAL.|

| |Gregg kills two people in a robbery. Is the death penalty cruel and unusual in all | | |

|Gregg v. Georgia |cases? |8TH | |

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| | |6TH, Was retried with an attorney and |EVERYONE HAS A RIGHT TO A LAWYER – EVEN POOR |

| | |found innocent. |PEOPLE. |

|Gideon v. Wainwright |POOR GUY DIDN’T HAVE LAWYER AND WAS FOUND GUILTY. | | |

|Regents of the University of |Bakke (white guy) applies to college and is denied admission. He sues claiming |14th, Civil Rights act of 1964. |AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS OK, BUT NO QUOTAS |

|California v. Bakke |discrimination because several African Americans with lower test scores are accepted.| | |

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| |T.L.O. was a 14-year-old girl who was accused of smoking in the restroom at school. A|Did the search violate the 4th and 14th|No. STUDENTS CAN BE SEARCHED WITHOUT PROBABLE |

| |principal questioned her and searched her purse, yielding marijuana and other drug |amendments? |CAUSE ON SCHOOL GROUNDS. |

|New Jersey v. T.L.O. |items plus a list of buyers. | | |

| | |1st amendment |SCHOOLS MAY PROHIBIT VULGAR AND OFFENSIVE |

| |Student gives speech to 11-14 yr olds with sexual innuendo. | |LANGUAGE. |

|Bethel School District v. Frasier | | | |

|Tinker v. Des Moines |Students wear black arm bands to protest the Vietnam war. |1st amendment |STUDENTS MAY WEAR ARMBANDS TO PROTEST. |

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| |Students publish articles about teen pregnancy and divorced parents in the student |1st amendment |PRINCIPALS HAVE THE RIGHT TO EDIT / CENSOR |

| |newspaper. | |STUDENT SPEECH. |

|Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier | | | |

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| | |1st amendment. |FLAG BURNING IS LEGAL |

|Texas v. Johnson |Johnson burns a flag in protest. | | |

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| |Ernesto Miranda arrested for kidnapping and rape – found guilty after signed |5TH AMENDMENT – DUE PROCESS |Miranda wins. A PERSON MUST BE READ HIS RIGHTS |

| |confession. Police admitted that Miranda had not been advised of his right to an | |WHILE BEING ARRESTED. |

|Miranda v. Arizona |attorney during questioning. | | |

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| |Police search a house without a search warrant, and find pornographic materials even |4TH AMENDMENT |No. NEED A SEARCH WARRANT OR EVIDENCE CANNOT BE |

|Mapp v. Ohio |though they were looking for a fugitive. Is this evidence admissible in court? | |USED! |

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| |Dred Scott a slave -- his owner dies in a free state. Dred then sues the Supreme |Missouri Compromise because there was |Slaves were not people, but property. This is a |

| |Court for his freedom. |no 14th Amendment yet. |pro-slavery court decision. Roger B. Taney was |

|Dred Scott v. Sandford | | |Chief Justice. |

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| |Pentagon Papers (classified info.) was leaked to the NY Times. New York Times then |1st |NY Times wins 6-3. Proves freedom of the press |

| |prints information, and the United States takes them to the Supreme Court. | |since the publication did not result in the |

|NY Times v. US | | |immediate harm to the people. |

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| |Watergate audiotapes of Nixon (oops). Nixon states that "Executive Privilege" allows|Article I and II of the Constitution |Court ruled against Nixon. Took power away from |

| |him to withhold tapes from investigators. |dealing with Congress, the President, |the President and gave more authority to |

|US v. Nixon | |and Executive power. |Congress. Solidified Checks and Balances. |

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|Roe v. Wade |Roe wanted to be allowed to have an abortion but it was against Texas law. |14th and 9th. |Abortions are legal in the 1st trimester and in |

| | | |the second and third in certain circumstances |

| | | |(ie. if mother's life is at risk) |

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|McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819 |National/Federal Bank versus Maryland’s(State) right to tax the bank |Necessary and Proper Clause |Necessary and Proper to establish banks |

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|Gibbons v Ogden |When a federal and state law are in conflict, the federal law is supreme Gibbons had |Supremacy Clause |National Supremacy |

| |a federal permit for a steamboat business; Ogden had a state permit for the same | | |

| |waters. Siding with Gibbons, the Court said that, in matters of interstate commerce, | | |

| |the “Supremacy Clause” tilts the balance of power in favor of federal legislation. | | |

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|State v Mann |In 1829, Elizabeth Jones, who owned a slave named Lydia, hired her out for a year to |State Constitutional Supremacy over |Supremacy Clause |

|NC State Case |John Mann of Chowan County. Mann shot and wounded Lydia when she struggled to escape |Superior Court/local law | |

| |a whipping. Mann was found guilty of battery by a jury of twelve white men drawn from| | |

| |his community and the court (Superior Court Judge Joseph J. Daniel) imposed a five | | |

| |dollar fine. The North Carolina Supreme Court overruled the conviction on the grounds| | |

| |that slaves were the absolute property of their owners who could not be punished at | | |

| |common law unless the legislature authorized such punishment. | | |

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