US Supreme Court cases Flashcards
2023 Students for Fair Admissions vs Harvard
Race-based affirmative action programs in civilian college admissions processes violate the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment
2013 United States vs Windsor
landmark case concerning same-sex marriage, court held that section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which denied federal recognition of same-sex marriages, was a violation of the Due Process Clause of the 5th Amendment
2022 Dobbs vs Jackson
Held that the constitution does not confer a right to abortion, overturned the 1973 Roe vs Wade ruling
2015 Obergefell vs Hodges
The Fourteenth Amendment requires a state to licence a marriage between two people of the same sex with all the accompanying rights and responsibilities and to recognize a marriage between two people of the same sex when their marriage was lawfully licensed and performed out-of-state.
2011 Snyder vs Phelps
Upheld the right to freedom of speech even if what is being said is deemed as being outrageous or offensive
2006 Hamdan vs Rumsfeld
U.S. citizen was entitled to an opportunity to contest the factual basis for his detention before a neutral decision-maker as a matter of due process, even if they were being trialled as an enemy force
2018 Carpenter vs United States
Government acquisition of cell-site records is a Fourth Amendment search, and, thus, generally requires a warrant.
2022 New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc vs Bruen
The Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to carry a handgun for self-defence in public, outside the home; firearms regulations challenged on constitutional grounds must be evaluated against the “history and tradition” of such laws in the U.S.
2010 Bond vs United States
Both individuals and states can bring a Tenth Amendment Challenge to federal law.
Congress did not have the authority to establish enforcement of overly broad federal laws
1989 Texas vs Johnson
landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held, 5–4, that burning the Flag of the United States was protected speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as doing so counts as symbolic speech and political speech
1803 Marbury vs Madison
established the precedent of judicial review
2020 Bostock vs Clayton County
United States Supreme Court civil rights decision in which the Court held that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects employees against discrimination because of sexuality
2010 Citizens United vs FEC
a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States regarding campaign finance laws and free speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
2012 Arizona vs United States
State vs federal rights
A case in which the Court found that Arizona’s state immigration provisions conflicted in part with federal immigration laws.
2008 DC vs Heller
Private citizens have the right under the Second Amendment to possess an ordinary type of weapon and use it for lawful, historically established situations such as self-defence in a home, even when there is no relationship to a local militia.
