Supreme Court Rulings

Question 1

What was Roe v Wade?

Answer 1

. Was a ruling in 1973
. It famously struck down laws criminalising the termination of pregnancies, therefore essentially de-criminalising Abortion.

Question 2

What was United States v Windsor?

Answer 2

. Heard in 2013
. It struck down part of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act.
. Under its provisions, the federal government was barred from providing benefits ( such as tax concessions ) to those same - sex couples who had been able to marry in the limited number of states of course tries that came to permit it.

Question 3

What was the refusal to hear Hollingsworth v Perry?

Answer 3

. Was when the Supreme Court declined to consider attempts to uphold proposition 8.
. Proposition 8 was a ballot initiative that had prohibited same-sex marriage in the state.

Question 4

What was Obergefell v Hodges?

Answer 4

. Occurred in 2015

. Was essentially when the court recognised a new constitutional right to marriage equality.

Question 5

What was Korematsu v Hardwick?

Answer 5

. Occurred in 1944
. Was essentially the Supreme Court upholding executive order 9066 that ordered Japanese and Japanese Americans into internment camps during WW2.

Question 6

What was Bowers v Hardwick?

Answer 6

. Occurred in 1986

. It allowed state laws to stand that criminalised consensual gay sexual relations in Bowers v Hardwick.