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10 Cards in this Set
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Unanimous decision declaring "separate but equal" unconstitutional.
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Brown v. Board of Education
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First case to use the "Brandeis Brief"; recognized a 10-hour workday for women laundry workers on the grounds of health and community concerns.
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Muller v. Oregon
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Declared unconstitutional a minimum wage law for women on the grounds that it denied women freedom of contract.
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Adkins v. Children's Hospital
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The Court upheld the Constitutionality of detention camps for Japanese-Americans during WWII.
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Korematsu v. U.S.
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Declared the Keating-Owen Act (a child labor act) unconstitutional on the grounds that it was an invasion of state authority.
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Hammer v. Dagenhart
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Extends to the defendant the right of counsel in all state and federal criminal trials regardless of their ability to pay.
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Gideon v. Wainwright
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The court forbade the internment of Japanese Americans born in the U.S. (Nisei).
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Ex parte Endo
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Unanimously upheld the Espionage Act of 1917 which declared that people who interfered with the war effort were subject to imprisonment; decalred that the First Amendment right to freedom of speech was not absolute; free speech could be limited if its exercise presented a "clear and present danger."
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Schenck v. U.S.
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Sometimes called "the sick chicken case." Unanimously declared the National Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional on three grounds: that the act delegated legislative power to the executive; that there was a lack of constitutional authority for such legislation; and that it sought to regulate businesses that were wholly intrastate in character.
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Schecter v. U.S.
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Declared unconstitutional a New York Act limiting the working hours of bakers due to a denial of fourteenth amendment rights.
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Lochner v. New York
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