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| Tinker V. Des Moines | Two high school students decide to wear armbands to protest the war in Vietnam and are suspended. Court Rules that students have freedom of speech if it does not interrupt learning for others. |
| Bakke V. California | Medical student sues the state because they would not give him (a white man) a scholarship designated for black students. The Supreme Court rules that this is illegal to use race as a qualification for the state funds even if it is meant to help minorities. |
| Plessy V. Ferguson | Establishes that states may segregate people based on race as long as the facilities are equal. |
| Miranda V. Arizona | After raping and brutally beating a woman, the defendent is released because he was not informed of his constitutional rights before police questioning. Supreme Court rules that all defendents must be told their Constitutional rights before questioning. |
| Worcester V. Georgia | This ruling in favor of the Cherokee Indians said that they could not be forced from their lands. President Andrew Jackson refused to enforce the decision of the Marshall court. Later the Indians were moved to Oklahoma on the "Trial of Tears." |
| Gibbons V. Ogden | The Marshall Court rules that on issues involving interstate commerce federal law is supreme to state law. |
| Brown V. Board | The Court used judicial review to overturn the Plessy decision and said they under the 14th Amendment seperate but equal facilities were unconstitutional. |
| Marbury V. Madison | The decision in this case set up the principle of judicial review. |
| Roe V. Wade | 1972 decision establsihed a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy within the first three months. |
| Gideon V. Wainwright | Defendents must be provided with an attorney by the state at the time they are questioned, regardless of their ability to pay. |
| Dred Scott V. Sanford | The Supreme Court ruled that no state or Congress could restrict a citizen's right to own property (slaves) and that slaves had no right to bring a case before the courts. Declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional. |
| Nixon V. United States | No president may claim executive privilege to cover-up a crime or obstruct justice. The president is not above the law. |
| McCufloch V. Maryland | No state has the right to regulate and tax a federal institution. "The power to tax is the power to destroy." |
| Mapp V. Ohio | Evidence seized illegally by the police may not be used at trial against a defendant. |
| Texas V. Johnson | You cannot create a symbol of democracy that is above the right that it symbolized. This decision overturned a conviction for burning the American flag. |
| Schenck V. United States | The Court limited free speech in times at war, stating that sometimes words presented a clear and present danger. |
| Korematsu V. United States | The Court said that "pressing public necessity(i.e. war) may sometimes justify the existence of restriction which curtail the civil rights of a single racial group." |
