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37 Cards in this Set
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Mabury v Madison |
- 1803 - Case that established the power of the SCOTUS to strike down laws |
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Plessy v Ferguson |
- 1896 - Case that established state racial segregation - Separate but equal |
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Korematsu v United States |
- 1944 - Japanese internment camps were legal |
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Brown v Board |
- 1954 - Overturned separate but equal |
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Trop v Dulles |
- 1958 - The government could not revoke citizenship as a punishment |
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Katzenbach v McClung |
- 1964 - Within the power of Congress to forbid racial discrimination as a burden to interstate commerce - Under the Commerce Clause |
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Reed v Reed |
- 1971 - Administrators of estate cannot be named in a way that discriminates on the basis on sex |
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Roe v Wade |
- 1973 - Legalisation of abortion under the presumed right to privacy |
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United States v Nixon |
- 1974 - Ruling against President Nixon, ordering him to deliver tape recordings and other materials to the court - Limit on executive privilege |
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National Socialist Party of America v Village of Skokie |
- 1977 - National Socialist Party was allowed to march and display the swastika under the protection of the First Amendment |
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Texas v Johnson |
- 1989 - Struck down laws that prohibited the desecration of the American flag first - Protected under the first amendment |
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US v Lopez |
- 1995 - Congress could not limit guns on school premises - A right they had claimed under the Commerce Clause |
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US v Morrison |
- 2000 - Struck down the Violence Against Women Act as Congress didn't have the power to pass it under the Commerce Clause or the 14th Amendment |
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Bush v Gore |
- 2000 - Decided that the Florida counting of the Presidential election violated the 14 Amendment and there wasn't time to change it |
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Stenberg v Carhart |
- 2000 - Struck down a law that made performing a partial-birth abortion illegal in Nebraska, with doctors risking their licences - Violated the Due Process of the Constitution - As established by Roe v Wade |
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Atkins v Virginia |
- 2002 - Unconstitutional to execute people with intellectual disabilities - Under the 8th Amendment - States can define who is disabled |
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Ring v Arizona |
- 2002 - Requires a jury trial to sentence to death - Under the 6th Amendment |
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Gratz v Bollinger
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- 2003 - University of Michigan's predetermined point allocation that gave 20 points to minorities was unconstitutional |
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Lawrence v Texas |
- 2003 - Made same-sex sexual activity legal, striking down laws in 14 states - On the basis of the 14th Amendment |
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Roper v Simmons |
- 2005 - Unconstitutional to be executed for crimes committed under the age of 18 |
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Gonzales v Raich |
- 2005 - Congress may criminalize the production and use of home-grown cannabis even against the wishes of states - Commerce clause |
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Hamdan v Rumsfeld |
- 2006 - Found Bush's military commissions to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay violated the Geneva Convention and the Uniform Code of Military Justice |
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Gonzales v Carhart |
- 2007 - Upheld Congress's right to ban partial birth abortions - Found that it didn't impose an undue burden |
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DC v Heller |
- 2008 - Struck down a law that banned handguns and placed severe restriction on shotguns, a law passed in |
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Boumediene v Bush |
- 2008 - Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have the right to the writ of habeas corpus under the Consitution and Military Commissions Act of 2006 was unconstitutional |
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McDonald v Chicago |
- 2010 - The right of an individual to keep and bear arms is incorporated by the Due Process Claus of the 14th Amendment |
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Citizens United v FEC |
- 2010 - Freedom of speech is prohibits the government from restricting independent political expenditures by a nonprofit corporation |
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Snyder v Phelps |
- 2011 - Speech on a public sidewalk, about a public issue, cannot be liable for a tort of emotional distress |
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NFIB v Sebelius |
- 2012 - Upheld the power of Congress to enact most of Obamacare |
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Arizona v United States |
- 2012 - Support our law enforcement and safe neighbourhoods act was found to be partially preempted by federal law ` |
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US v Windsor |
- 2013 - Unconstitutional for Congress to interpret marriage and spouse to apply only to opposite-sex unions - Under the fifth amendment |
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Hollingsworth v Perry |
- 2013 - Legalised same-sex marriage in California - Violated equal protection under the law |
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Shelby v Holder |
- 2013 - Ruled that parts of the Voting Rights Act was unconstitutional, specifically the section on coverage formula which required federal approval of voting laws |
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RIley v California |
- 2014 - Warrantless search and seizure of digital contents of a cell phone was unconstitutional |
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Holt v Hobbs |
- 2015 - Arkansas prison policy which prohibited a Muslim prisoner from growing a short beard in accordance with his religious beliefs - Violation of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act |
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Obergefell v Hodges |
- 2015 - There is a fundamental right to marry, for same-sex couples - Under the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause |
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EEOC v Abercrombie and Fitch Stores |
- 2015 - A Muslim was refused a job because she wore a headscarf, which conflicted the dress code |
