Supreme Court cases

This ruling explicitly outlawed racial segregation of public education facilities (legal establishment of separate government-run schools for blacks and whites), ruling so on the grounds that the doctrine of "separate but equal" public education could never truly provide black Americans with facilities of the same standards available to white Americans

• Brown vs Board of Ed

• Escobedo vs ILL

• Dred Scott vs Sanford

• Gregg vs Georgia

This ruling gave a school district had the constitutional authority to limit a student’s (Frasier) speech because of the educational authority that is given to schools by the tenth amendment.

• Brown vs Board of Education

• Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier

• Bethel School District vs Frasier

• Mapp v. Ohio

This ruling said that people of African descent, whether or not they were slaves, could never be citizens of the United States, and that Congress had no authority to prohibit slavery in federal territories.

• Brown vs Board of Ed

• Gibbons v. Ogden

• Furman v. Georgia

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

This ruling determined that it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and require its recitation in public schools, even when it is non-denominational and students may excuse themselves from participation.

• Engle v. Vitale

• Gibbons v. Ogden

• Furman v. Georgia

• Escobedo v. Illinois

This ruling held that criminal suspects have a right to

counsel during police interrogations. indigent criminal defendants had a right to be provided counsel at trial.

• Furman v. Georgia, 1972

• Gregg v. Georgia

• Escobedo v. Illinois, 1964 or Gideon v. Wainwright, 1863

This ruling ruled on the requirement for a degree of consistency in the application of the death penalty. The Court consolidated Jackson v. Georgia and Branch v.

Texas with the Furman decision, and thus also invalidated the death penalty for rape

• Gregg v. Georgia, 1976

• Gideon v. Wainwright, 1863

• Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824

• Furman v. Georgia, 1972

This ruling held that the power to regulate interstate navigation was reserved to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.

• Gideon v. Wainwright, 1863

• Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824

• Gregg v. Georgia, 1976

• Abington v. Schempp, 1963

This ruling reaffirmed the Supreme Court's commitment to the continued use of the death penalty in the United States

• Gregg v. Georgia, 1976

• Abington v. Schempp, 1963

• In re Gault, 1966

• Hazelwood School

  District v. Kuhlmeier,

This ruling held that public school curricular student newspapers that have not been established as forums for student expression are subject to a lower level of First Amendment protection than independent student expression or newspapers established (by policy or practice) as forums for student expression.

• In re Gault, 1966

• Korematsu v. United States, 1944

• Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier, 1988

• Mapp v. Ohio, 1961

This ruling affirmed the government’s decision regarding the Japanese American Internment during World War II and found that it was not unconstitutional.

• McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819

• Mapp v. Ohio, 1961

• Marbury v. Madison, 1803

• Korematsu v. United States, 1944