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Marbury v Madison
Marbury was appointed by John Addams and then when Thomas Jefferson took office, James Madison did not give Marbury his commission. The court forced Madison to pay Marbury. It was the first time that the supreme court exercised judicial review under article 3 of the consitution. -
Dartmouth College v Woodward
Dartmouth College was being forced to become a public school. The Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to force an establishment to become private because it predated the establishment of state. -
McCulloch v Maryland
Maryland tried to protest the second bank of the United States by putting a tax on bank notes chartered in Maryland. The Supreme Court declared this unconstitutional implying that the second bank of the United States is constitutional, and favoring lose interpretation of the Constitution under cheif justice John Marshall -
Gibbons v Ogden
Men had monopolized the Hudson River steam boat service which had to do with interstate commerce. The Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate commerce was granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution. -
Dred Scott v Sandford
Dred Scott asked the court to grant him freedom because his master resided in a free state, Illinois. It made two main rulings. The first ruling was that African-Americans were not citizens, and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court. The second ruling was that the federal government had no power to regulate slavery in any territory acquired subsequent to the creation of the United States. -
Munn v. Illinois
The Munn case allowed states to regulate certain businesses within their borders, including railroads, and is commonly regarded as a milestone in the growth of federal government regulation. -
Wabash v Illinois
It was a Supreme Court decision that severely limited the rights of states to control interstate commerce. It led to the creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission. -
US v. E.C. Knight
This case is also refered to as the Sugat Trust Case. It was a supreme court case that limited the governments control on trusts and monopolies. It is famous and important because it was an example of the corporate influenced government taking a law made to restrict trusts and monopolies, and the supreme court interpreted it to break up unions and strikes. -
Plessy v Ferguson
Homer Plessy was forced to leave his train car for being one quarter black. This case determined for a long time that segregation was legal as long as it was "seperate but equal". However, segregation was never equal but they did not care. -
Lochner v NY
This case involved a New York law that limited the number of hours that a baker could work each day to ten, and limited the number of hours that a baker could work each week to 60. In the end this was rejected even though it was a very controversial decision. -
Muller v Oregon
This case was very important because it justifies both sex discrimination and usage of labor laws during the time period. The case upheld Oregon state restrictions on the working hours of women as justified by the special state interest in protecting women's health. -
Hammer v Dagenhart
Hammer v Dagenhart was a United States Supreme Court decision involving the power of Congress to enact child labor laws. It was decided that Congress does not have the power to regulate commerce of goods that are manufactured by children, and that the Keating-Owen Act of 1916 was therefore unconstitutional. -
Schenck v US
Schenk v Us was a United States Supreme Court decision that upheld the Espionage Act of 1917. In the end it concluded that a defendant did not have the right to express freedom of speech against the draft during World War I. -
Takao Ozawa v US
This was a case in which the United States Supreme Court found Takao Ozawa, a Japanese man, ineligible for naturalization under the Naturalization Act of 1906. . He did not challenge the constitutionality of the racial restrictions. Instead, he attempted to have the Japanese classified as "white." In the end it was decided that Japanese were not scene as Caucasian and there for lacking provisions in any Naturalization Act. -
Schechter v. US
This was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that invalidated regulations of the poultry industry according to the nondelegation doctrine and as an invalid use of Congress's power under the commerce clause. This was a unanimous decision that rendered the National Industrial Recovery Act, a main component of President Roosevelt's New Deal, unconstitutional. -
Korematsu v US
This case was a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order , which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship. The Court sided with the government, ruling that the exclusion order was constitutional. -
Dennis v US
The Court ruled that Dennis did not have the right under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution to exercise free speech, publication and assembly, if the exercise involved the creation of a plot to overthrow the government. -
Brown v Board
This case decided that segregation on public schools was unconstitutional because the seperate but equal factor was impossible to reach. -
Browder V Gayle
Outlawed segregation on public busses saying it was unconstituiional under the 14th ammendment. -
Miranda v Arizona
The Court held that police had make known their rights known as Miranda rights to the person otherwise the rest was invalid. It was revolutionary in changing law inforcement because small mistakes could let a guilty man walk.
