Supreme Court Cases

1803- it established the idea of “judicial review” for the federal court systems.  (The right for the courts to decide the constitutionality of a law or treaty)

• Korematsu v. U.S.
• Marbury v. Madison 
• Dred Scott v. Sanford
• Mueller v. Oregon 

1819- associated with the system of federalism (seperate and shared powers of state and federal government) gave Congress the right to “implied powers”.  (Constitution has some room for interpretation.)

• Brown v. Board of Education 
• Schenck v. United States
• McCulloch v. Maryland
• Marbury v. Madison 

1857- legalized slavery in the territories and declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional

• Dred Scott v. Sandford
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Korematsu v. United States
• Brown v. Board of Education 

1919- freedom of speech can be denied when there is a “clear and present danger”

• Marbury v. Madison 
• Schenck v. United States
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Brown v. Board of Education 

1944- declared that the government had the right to keep Japanese Americans in internment camps due to the idea of “national security threat”

• Korematsu v. United States
• Dred Scott v. Sandford
• Marbury v. Madison 
• Plessy v. Ferguson

1896- established “separate but equal” by which segregation became legal as long as the facilities for each race w

• Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
• McCulloch v. Maryland
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Brown v. Board of Education 

1954- declared segregation in public schools as unconstitutional (overturned Plessy v. Ferguson)

• Schenck v. United States
• Brown v. Board of Education 
• Plessy v. Ferguson 
• Korematsu v. United States

1971- declared that busing students was an acceptable way to achieve school integration

• Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg Board of Education 
• Plessy v. Ferguson 
• Korematsu v. United States 
• Brown v. Board of Education 

Supreme Court protected First Amendment Rights  when students in Iowa were suspended from school for wearing black arm bands to protest Vietnam War.

• Nixon v. United States
• Tinker v. Des Moines
• Wisconsin v. Yoder
• Plessy v. Ferguson 

U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Wisconsin state law that required Amish children at attend school beyond grade 8, they stated that it violated parents' freedom of religion. 

• Tinker v. Des Moines
• Wisconsin v. Yoder
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Virginia v. Loving