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13 Cards in this Set
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
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Challenged segregation in public schools.
Supreme Court prohibited racial discrimination in public areas |
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Roe v. Wade
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Challenged Texan abortion law.
Supreme Court struck down law (violation of women's right to privacy) |
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Dred Scott v. Sandford
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Runaway slave wanted rights.
Supreme Court said he was considered property and not a person. Helped spread slavery to western territories. |
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McCulloch v. Maryland
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Maryland taxed federal banks.
Supreme Court used necessary and proper clause to state that the federal gov't could charter banks, Maryland couldn't tax federal gov't agencies. |
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Cohens v. Virginia
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Brothers convicted by Virginia law for selling Congress approved lottery tickets.
Supreme Court intervened in state law, said Virginia didn't have ultimate authority over federal. |
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Gibbons v. Ogden
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New York law granted specific steamboat operators exclusive privilege of service between NY and New Jersey.
Supreme Court ruled that New York didn't have power to deal with interstate commerce issues. (Only Congress could) |
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US v. E. C. Knight Company
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Government charged that the American Sugar Company was an illegal monopoly.
Supreme Court ruled that manufacturing (sugar refining) was not commerce. |
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Hammer v. Dagenhart
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Struck down 1916 federal statute barring intestate transport of good from child labor. Goods themselves not harmful, Congress only possessed authority to regulate transportation.
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Lochner v. New York
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Invalidated a New York State statute that limited the working hours of bakery employees.
Court ruled that it interfered with workers' liberty to work however many hours they wanted. |
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Carter v. Carter Coal Co.
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Congress lacked power to impose minimum wage and maximum work hour regulations on coal mines.
Blocked New Deal laws. |
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US v. Lopez
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Supreme Court struck down the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990, making it legal to carry firearm near school.
Congress authority to regulate interstate commerce didn't allow them to make this law. |
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US v. Morrison
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Court struck down portions of the Violence Against Women Act of 1994. Congress didn't have authority.
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Printz v. US
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Court declared that Congress couldn't require state and local officials to conduct background checks on people who want firearms.
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