Supreme Court Cases

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  • Marbury V. Madison

    A Supreme Court case that established the principle of judicial review in the United States, meaning the American courts have the power to strike down laws and statutes they find that violates the constitution.

  • McCulloch V. Maryland

    U.S. Supreme Court decision that defined the scope of the U.S. Congress's legislative power and how it relates to the powers of American state legislatures.

  • Gibbons V. Ogden

    Decision by the Supreme Court of the United States which held that the power to regulate interstate commerce, which is granted to the U.S. Congress by the commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution, encompasses the power to regulate navigation.

  • Dred Scott V. Sanford

    Decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that held the U.S. Constitution did not extend American citizenship to people of black African descent, and thus they could not enjoy the rights and privileges the Constitution conferred upon American citizens.

  • Plessy V. Ferguson

    A Supreme Court decision ruling that racial segregation laws did not violate the U.S. Constitution as long as the facilities for each race were equal in equality.

  • Brown V. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

    A Supreme Court decision by the U.S. which ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in equality.

  • Mapp V. Ohio

    A decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the court ruled that the exclusionary rule, which prosecutors from using evidence in court that was obtained by violating the Fourth Amendment, applies not only to the federal government, but also to the state governments.

  • Roe V. Wade

    In Roe V. Wade, the Supreme court decided that the right to privacy implied in the 14th amendment protected abortion as a fundamental right. However, the government, retained the power to regulate or restrict abortion access depending on the stage of pregnancy.

  • United States V. Nixon

    A decision of the Supreme Court of the U.S. in which the court unanimously ordered President Richard Nixon to deliver tape recordings and other subpoenaed materials related to the Watergate scandal to a federal district court.

  • Texas V. Johnson

    A decision by the Supreme Court of the U.S. in which the court held, 5-4, that burning the flag of the United States was protected speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as doing so counts as symbolic speech and political speech.6