Supreme Court Cases Flashcards
What 1954 case ended school segregation
Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka
What 1963 case held that indigent defendants, even in state cases, have a right to legal counsel (6th amendment)
Gideon vs. Wainwright
What 1965 case rule that a state unconstitutionally interfered with privacy in a marriage when it prohibited the use of contraceptives
Griswold vs. Connecticut
What 1966 case under due process that subjects must be informed they have the right to remain silent
Miranda vs. Arizona
What 1973 case ruled a fetus is not a person?
Roe vs. Wade; Doe vs Bolton
What 1967 case struck down all laws banning interracial marriage?
Loving vs Virginia
What 1803 case established the peer of judiciary review?
Marbury vs. Madison
What 1896 case established the doctrine “separate but equal”?
Plessy vs. Ferguson (overturned by Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954)
What was Bowers v Hardwick
Homosexuality - right for gays to engage in sodomy was not Constitutional. Upheld a Georgia law in 1986
What was Bowers v Hardwick
Homosexuality - right for gays to engage in sodomy was not Constitutional. Upheld a Georgia law in 1986
What was Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Birth Control- protects right to marital privacy. State cannot ban access to birth control
Mapp vs Ohio 1961
Illegal searches. Evidence seized in an illegal search cannot be used.
McCullough vs. Maryland (1819)
Federalism - right of national government to establish a Federal Bank
Miranda vs. Arizona 1966
Criminal rights.
New York Times vs. Sullivan 1964
Defamation - plaintiff must prove allegations false and printed with actual malice
