Supreme Court Cases – AP Government
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| Federalism Cases |Facts of the Case |Court’s Ruling (Decision) |Basis for Ruling (Decision) |
|*Fletcher v. Peck (1810) |1795: Georgia passes a land grant act, giving |Declares Georgia law (the one invalidating the land |Georgia’s act violated the ex post facto clause of the |
| |land to four companies |grant act) unconstitutional |U.S. Constitution |
| |1796: Georgia voided the law; claimed all rights | | |
| |and lands awarded to be invalid |Land had been legally passed into the hands of the | |
| |John Peck received land from this grant and sold |purchaser | |
| |some of it to Robert Fletcher |Land cannot be taken back | |
| |Fletcher sued Peck for breach of contract, |Contract cannot be invalidated | |
| |claiming Peck did not have legal title to the land| | |
| |when he sold it | | |
|*McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) | | | |
|*Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) | | | |
|*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) | | | |
| *National Federation of Independent | | | |
|Business v. Sebelius (2012) | | | |
|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) | | | |
|*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 (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. 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) | | | |
|Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) | | | |
|Equal Protection of the Laws – Women | | | |
|*Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) | | | |
|Reed v. Reed (1971) | | | |
|*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:
3/19: Federalism & Judiciary Cases
3/26: Incorporation & Freedom of Religion Cases
4/3: Freedom of Speech and Press, Freedom of Assembly & Petition Cases
4/9: Due Process, Equal Protection (both minorities and women), Right to Die Cases
4/16: Elections and Media, Congress, and Presidency Cases
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