Supreme Court Cases

Question 0

The decision stems from the yazoo land cases, 1803, and upholds the sanctity of contracts

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Fletcher v. Peck

1810 Marshall

Question 1

Court established its role as the arbiter of the constitutionality of federal laws, the principle is known as judicial review

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Marbury v. Madison

Marshall 1803

Question 2

The court ruled that states cannot text the federal government example the bank of the United States the phrase the power to tax is the power to destroy confirmed constitutionality of the bank of United States

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McCulloch V Maryland

1819 Marshall

Question 3

New Hampshire had attempted to take over Dartmouth college by revising its colonial charger the court ruled that the charger was protected under the contract clause of the United States Constitution upholds sanctity of contracts

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Dartmouth college the Woodward

1819 Marshall

Question 4

Clarified the commerce clause and affirm congressional power over interstate

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Gibbons v Ogden

1824 Marshall

Question 5

The conditions of the Indians in relation to the United States is perhaps unlike that of any two people in existence chief justice John Marshall wrote the relation to the United States resembles that of award to his guardian they were domestic dependent nation established a trust relationship with the tribes direct federal authority

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Cherokee nation v Georgia

1831 Marshall

Question 6

Establish tribal autonomy within their boundaries example tribes were distinct political communities having territorial boundaries within their authority is exclusive

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Worcester v Georgia

1832 Marshall

Question 7

Speaking Fayerweather Divided Court, Chief Justice Taney ruled that Dred Scott was noncitizen and had no standing in court Scott’s residence in a free state and territory have not made in three since he returned to Missouri Congress had no power to prohibit slavery in a territory based on the Fifth Amendment right of the person to be secure from seizure of property that’s avoiding the Missouri compromise of 1820

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Scott v Sanford

1857 Taney

Question 8

Will that a civilian cannot be tried in military courts while civil courts are available

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EX parte Milligan

1866

Question 9

A single decision on a group of cases with similar legal problems legalize segregation with regard to private property

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Civil rights cases of 1883

Question 10

Legalize segregation in publicly owned facilities on the basis of separate but equal

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Plessy V Ferguson

1896

Question 11

Confirm the right of the federal government to place tariffs on good entering the US from US territories on the grounds that the Constitution does not follow the flag

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Insular cases downes v. Bidwell 1901

Question 12

Reestablish the authority of the federal government to fight monopolies under the Sherman antitrust act

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Northern securities Company v US

1904

Question 13

Declared unconstitutional and New York act limiting the working hours of Baker’s due to a denial of the 14th amendment right

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Lochner v. New York

1905

Question 14

First case to use the brandeis brief recognize a 10 hour workday for women laundry workers on the grounds of health and community concerns

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Muller v Oregon

1908

Question 15

Unanimously upheld the espionage act of 1917 which declared that people who interfered with the war effort were subject to imprisonment declared that the first amendment right to freedom of speech was not absolute free-speech could be limited if its exercise presented a clear and present danger

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Schenk v. US

1919

Question 16

Celeste called the sick chicken case unanimously declared national industrial recovery act unconstitutional on three grounds that the act delegated legislative power the executive that there is a lack of constitutional authority for such legislation that it’s sought to regulate businesses that were wholly interstate in character

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Schechter v. US 1936

Question 17

The court upheld the constitutionality of detention camps for Japanese-Americans during World War II

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Korematsu v. US 1941

Question 18

Court forbade the internment of Japanese-Americans born in the US

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Ex parte endo 1944

Question 19

Unanimous decision declaring separate but equal unconstitutional

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Brown V Board of Education of Topeka Kansas

1954 Warren

Question 20

Extends to the defendant the right of council and all state and federal criminal trials regardless of their ability to pay

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Gideon V Wainwright 1963

Question 21

Ruled that the defendants must be allowed access to a lawyer before questioning by police

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Escobedo v. Illinois

1964

Question 22

Court rules but those subjected to in custody interrogation be advised of their constitutional right to an attorney and Their right to remain silent

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Miranda v. Arizona 1966

Question 23

Course legalized abortion by ruling that State laws could not restricted during the first three months of pregnancy based on the fourth amendment rights of a person to be secure in their persons

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Roe V Wade 1973

Question 24

Course rejected Richard Nixon’s claim to absolutely unqualified privilege against any judicial processes

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US V Richard Nixon 1974

Question 25

Ambiguous ruling by badly devised court that dealt with affirmative action programs that use race as the basis of selecting participants. The court general affirmative upheld the action but with a 4/4/1 split. very weak decision

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Bakke v. Regents of the University of California 1978