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| Marbury vs. Madison | Established judical review as a precedent. Supreme Court first strike down a part of a Congressional law as unconstitutional, 1803 |
| McCulloch vs Maryland | Upheld the right of Congress to create a national bank. Extended the necessary and proper clause of the constitution, 1819 |
| Gibbons vs. Ogden | Broadly defined Congress' right to regulate interstate commerce, 1824 |
| Dred Scott vs. Sandford | Congress had no right to ban slavery from U.S. territories, 1857 |
| Plessy vs. Ferguson | Established separate but equal as judical precedent, 1896 |
| Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka | Invalidated racial segregation in schools, 1954 |
| Gideon vs. Wainwright | Guaranteed a defendant's right to legal counsel, 1963 |
| New York Times vs. Sullivan | Ruling made it difficult for public officials to bring libel charges against the press, 1964 |
| Miranda vs. Arizona | Defined the due process clause of the 14th amendment. Suspects must be informed of their rights at the time of their arrest, 1966 |
| Roe vs. Wade | 1973, legalized abortion |
| Regents of the University of California vs. Bakke | Imposed limitations on affirmative action, 1978 |
| Grutter vs. Bollinger | Considerations of race and ethnicity in admissions need to be individualized, 2003 |
| Mapp vs. Ohio | 1961 decision which clarified search and seizure. |
| Texas vs. Johnson | Symbolic speech is constitutional proteced, 1989 |
| U.S vs. Nixon | Limited the President's rights regarding executive privilege, 1974 |
| Citizens United vs The Federal Election Commission | Frrdom of speech prohibited the government from restricting independent political expenditures by non-profit corporations, 2010 |
