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Marbury V. Madison
Marbury brought this case to court because he thinks that people should always do what they are told by the commission. They can not sue their commissions because it's a part of their rights and the authority have the rights to deliver their commissions. -
McCulloch v. Maryland
McCulloch had brought this case to court because he refused to pay the tax to the Congress because he thinks the Congress don't have the authority to establish the bank which caused the Maryland law to unconstitutionally interfere with the Congress powers. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy brought this case to court because he says that both of the races get treated unequal causing it to violate the Amendment. The Court held that the state law was constitutional. In an opinion authored by Justice Henry Billings Brown, the majority upheld state-imposed racial segregation. Justice Brown conceded that the 14th Amendment intended to establish absolute equality for the races before the law, but held that separate treatment did not imply the inferiority of African Americans. I -
Mapp v. Ohio
Mapp had brought the case to the court because the police had search her house without a warrant. In an opinion authored by Justice Tom C. Clark, the majority brushed aside First Amendment issues and declared that all evidence obtained by searches and seizures in violation of the Fourth Amendment is inadmissible in a state court. The decision launched the Court on a troubled course of determining how and when to apply the exclusionary rule. -
Roe v. Wade
Roe had brought this case to court because Wade was trying to make abortion illegal and she thinks it shouldn't be illegal. Inherent in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is a fundamental “right to privacy” that protects a pregnant woman’s choice whether to have an abortion. However, this right is balanced against the government’s interests in protecting women's health and protecting “the potentiality of human life.” The Texas law challenged in this case violated this right.