SCOTUS Cases

Question 1

Marbury v. Madison (1803)

Answer 1

• Article III (judicial branch)
• established judicial review

Question 2

McCulloch v Maryland (1819)

Answer 2

• Supremacy Clause
• established the BUS

Question 3

Schenk v. United States (1919)

Answer 3

• Schenk sent out letters to try to stop men from enlisting into the draft
• “clear and present” danger established ( no longer applies)
• impeded gov’t actions

Question 4

baker v. carr (1962)

Answer 4

• Equal protections clause of 14A
• TNs districts were uneven
• SCOTUS strikes down TNs lines

Question 4

Brown v. Board of Ed. Topeka (1954)

Answer 4

• states that separating children based on race was unconstitutional
• Equal protections of the 14A

Question 5

Engel v. vitale (1962)

Answer 5

• enforced prayer on students before school

Question 6

Gideon v. wainwright (1963)

Answer 6

• right to counsel
• Gideon couldn’t afford a lawyer
• he studied law in jail (thought he was entitled to one)
• ruling: All cases you can be provided a lawyer –> selectively incorporated

Question 7

New York Times Company v. United States (1971)

Answer 7

• 1A Free press
• the exec. branch tried to supress a story coming out about sensative gov’t info
• NY times leaked the classified documents
• gov’t lost

Question 7

Tinker v. des moines independent community school district (1969)

Answer 7

• 1A (speech)
• is symbolic speech protected under the 1A?
• students wore armbands to school snd the district didn’t like it
• ruled that symbolic speech is protected

Question 8

Wisconsin v Yoder (1972)

Answer 8

• Free exercise clause of 1A
• Amish parents refused to send their kids to school past the 8th grade
• schools wanted till at least 16
• can’t force kids to go to school when it impacts religious beliefs

Question 9

McDonald v. Chicago (2010)

Answer 9

• 2A + 14A (14A= important)
• Chicago passed a law banning owning guns
• violated right to bear arms
• sided with Mcdonald

Question 10

Shaw v. reno (1993)

Answer 10

• 14A equal protection clause
• C had racially gerrymandered an interstate highway
• along the highway was a heavily black population
• RULING: racial gerrymandering is unconstitutional

Question 10

United states v. Lopez (1995)

Answer 10

• lopex brought a gun to school to sell it
• RULING: struck down the congress law that forbade guns on school grounds
• RULING PT.2: not interstate commerce