court cases 38-40

Question 1

webster v reproductive health

Answer 1

summary: Missouri put in restrictive laws on abortion. Public employees and facilities were to not help abortions happen unless it was to save a woman’s life. Encouragement and counseling was prohibited. Physician were to perform viability test to all women after their twentieth week of pregnancy.
constitution: 4th amendment
resolution: The court compromised and said there were to be no abortions after the second trimester unless the mothers life was in danger.

Question 2

United States v Lopez

Answer 2

summary: Lopez carried a concealed weapon to his high school and got convicted because of the gun-free school zones act of 1990.
constitution: commerce clause of the constitution
resolution: the law is unconstitutional and has nothing to do with “commerce”.

Question 3

obergfell v hodges

Answer 3

summary: groups of same-sex couples sued their relevant state agencies challenging the constitutionality of those states refusal to recognize same-sex marriages.
constitution: 4th ammendment
resolution: the 4th amendment guarantees the right to marry as a fundamental right it protects and that applies to same-sex marriage.