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Marbury v. Madison
Marbury and others where appointed to government posts in the last few days of John Adams and therefore where not finalized .. Marbury invoked the act of Congress and sued for there jobs in the Supreme courts. The court decided six votes for Madison which brought up judical review. -
McCulloch v. Maryland
Maryland passed legislation to impose taxes on the bank. James W. McCulloch, the cashier of the Baltimore branch of the bank, refused to pay the tax. It was a unanimous decision that Congress could not tax the instuments of the government banks. -
Dred Scott v. Sanford
Scott traveled to Illinois with his slave owner then tried to sue for his freedom since he was in a free state. But the court ruled he was not a citizen so could not sue, and that he was once a slave and therefore always a slave. -
Korematsu v. US
After Pearl Harbor Japanese internment camps Fred Korematsu felt it was against his fifth Amendment. He was a Japanese decendent and had fought in two wars for American. He felt they were racial profiling. The court voted for the US 6 to 3. -
Brown v. Board of Education
Over turned the seperate but equal case, with tests proving separate can not be equal. The decision was a 9 to 0 vote. -
Mapp v. Ohio
Dolree Mapp was convicted of possessing obscene materials after an admittedly illegal police search of her home for a fugitive. She argued that her fouth Amendment rights had been violated and the court agreed with her. -
Engel v. Vitale
New York made prayer before schooll but it was not required. After instated ten families believed it was unconstiutional and Engal won the case. -
Miranda v. Arizona
Charged with rape and kidnapping the police officers questioning him did not inform him of his Fith Amendment right against self-incrimination, or of his Sixth Amendment right to the assistance of anattorney. -
Tinker v. DesMoines/o
Wore arm bands to school that symbolized there views against the Vietnam War until school officals supsended them from school for the arm bands. The court decided it violated the students first Amendment, freedom of speech. -
Lemon v. Kurtzman
Penn. and Rhode Island paying for religous based school. This is there the Lemon test came into effect. The Lemon test was three questions, is the government premotting one religon over the others. if the government is to entangled , and are the purposes secular or religous? Yes they were violating the first Amendment. -
Roe v. Wade
Roe, wished to terminate her pregnancy by abortion, but the state of Texas only allowed abortion only to save the mothers life. Although the court decided that the case was violating Roes fourtheenth Amendment. -
UC v. Bakke
A white student with higher test scores got denied entrance to the school because the school has a quota of 60 minorities out of every 100 students. The Supreme court ruled in facor of the student, but could not admit him into the school. -
Jersey v. TLO
A student (TLO) was accused of smoking, but denied it. The principle then decided to search her purse. He found a pipe, rolling paper, and marijuana money and a list of students who owed TLO money. The Supreme court decided that the search was unreasonable. -
Clinton v. New York
The court decided that the Presidents ability to line veto a bill violated the Presentment clasue of Article 1
