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Marbury v. Madison 1803 |
Established judicial review: the Supreme Cort's right to determine the constitutionality of laws. |
EJL. |
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Dartmouth College v. Woodward 1819 |
Contracts and properties would be sacrosanct and nearly inviolable. |
CNP. |
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McCulloch v. Maryland 1819 |
Established the supremacy of federal law over state law, confirms the constitutionality of the Second National Bank. |
ETS. |
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Charles River Bridge v Warren Bridge 1837 |
Favored economic competition over monopoly. |
FEC. |
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Commonwealth v Hunt 1842 |
Established the legality of labor unions. |
ETL. |
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Fred Scott v Sanford 1856 |
Determined that blacks cannot be citizens, determined that a slave living in a free territory was still a slave, determined that Congress could not regulate slavery in the territories (on property-grounds). |
DTB. |
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Munn v. Illinois 1877 |
Determined that states can regulate business when it is in the interest of the public good. |
DTS. |
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Please v. Ferguson 1896 |
Segregation base on race is legal, as long as a imitations are "Separate but not Equal". |
SBR. |
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Lochner v. New York 1905 |
States cannot regulate labor conditions, as such regulations violate a citizens right to make contracts. |
SCR |
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Schenck v. United States 1919 |
Speech that looses a " clear and present danger" to the welfare of the nation was not constitutionally protected. |
STP. |
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Schechter Poultry Co. v. United States 1936 |
Determined FDR's National Recovery Act to be unconstitutional because Congress gave the power to regulate industry, violating the separation of powers. |
DFDRN. |
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Korematsu v. United States 1944 |
Japanese removal during the World War Two was constitutionally because th4 wartime need to protect against espionage overruled other rights. |
JRD. |
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Brown v. Topeka Board of Education 1954 |
Segregation in public schools was illegal regardless of whether or not the accommodation were "equal". It further ordered desegregation at "all possible speed." |
SIP. |
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Roth v. United States 1957 |
Obscenity and pornography were legal and constitutionally protected speech under the 1st Amendment. |
OAP. |
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Engel v. Vitale 1962 |
School Prayer isnunconstitutional, a violation if the 1st Amendment. |
SPI. |
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Griswals v. Connecticut 1963 |
A state could not make birth control illegal, based in a "right to privacy." |
ASC. |
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Gideon v. Wainwright 1963 |
The courts must appoint a lawyer to those defendants who cannot afford one. |
TCM. |
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Miranda v. Arizona 1966 |
Suspects must be informed of their rights before they are question by police. |
SMB. |
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New York Times v. United States 1971 |
The right of the press to publish material outweighs the argument of "National Security." |
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Roe v. Wade 1973 |
Established that abortion must be legal through the end of first trimester of pregnancy. |
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