Supreme Court Cases – AP Government



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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