Supreme Court Cases

Question 1

Roe v. Wade (1973)

Answer 1

legalized abortion on the basis of a woman’s right to privacy

Question 2

Brown vs. Board of Education (1954)

Answer 2

Court decision that declared state laws segregating schools to be unconstitutional. Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

Question 3

FEC vs Citizens United (2010)

Answer 3

Found that the free speech clause of the First Amendment to the Constitution prohibits the government from restricting independent expenditures for communications by nonprofit corporations, for-profit corporations, labor unions, and other associations.

Question 4

FEC vs. Wisconsin Right to Life (2007)

Answer 4

Prohibits campaign finance reform law from banning political advocacy

Question 5

Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)

Answer 5

States obligated to recognize a same-sex marriage from other states.

Question 6

Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992)

Answer 6

A case in which the Supreme Court loosened its standard for evaluating restrictions on abortion from one of “strict scrutiny” of any restraints on a “fundamental right” to one of “undue burden” that permits considerably more regulation.

Question 7

United states vs Jones (2012)

Answer 7

Attaching a GPS device to a vehicle and then using the device to monitor the vehicle’s movements constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment.

Question 8

Salinas v. Texas (2013)

Answer 8

The Fifth Amendment’s protection against self-incrimination does not protect an individual’s refusal to answer questions asked by law enforcement before he or she has been arrested or given the Miranda warning. A witness cannot invoke the privilege by simply standing mute; he or she must expressly invoke it.

Question 9

Snyder vs Phelps (2011)

Answer 9

A case that held that hate speech is constitutional and thus protected under the 1st Amendment.