Supreme Court Cases and the Bill of Rights

This Supreme Court case established students have a first amendment right to freedom of SPEECH as long as it doesn't cause a disruption.

• Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka Kansas
• Tinker v. DesMoines
• Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier
• Gideon v Wainwright

This Supreme Court case established that all citizens have a right to an attorney (legal counsel) even if they can not afford one.

• District of Columbia v. Heller
• Tinker v. DesMoines
• Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier
• Gideon v Wainwright

School sponsorship of religious activities (teacher led / directed prayer) violates the establishment clause

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• Engel v. Vitale

• Wisconsin v. Yoder

• Schenck v. United States

Compelling Amish students to attend school past the 8th grade violates the Free Exercise Clause of the 1st Amendment

• Wisconsin v. Yoder

• Engel v. Vitale

• United States v. Lopez

• Baker v. Carr

Public school students have the right to wear black arm bands in school to protest the Vietnam war

• Wisconsin v. Yoder

• Shaw v. Reno

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• Brown v. Board of Education

Speech creating a "clear and present danger" is not protected by the 1st Amendment

• Schenck v. United States

• Roe v. Wade

• United States v. Lopez

• Engel v. Vitale

Guaranteed the right to an attorney for the poor or indigent

• Schenck v. United States

• Miranda v. Arizona

• Gideon v. Wainwright

• Marbury v. Madison

Extended the right to privacy to a woman's decision to have an abortion

• Roe v. Wade

• Griswold v. Connecticut

• Wisconsin v. Yoder

• McDonald v. Chicago

The Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms for self defense is applicable to the states

• Gideon v. Wainwright

• McDonald v. Chicago

• Roe v. Wade

• Shaw v. Reno

Race based school segregation violates the Equal Protection Clause

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Baker v. Carr

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• McCullouch v. Maryland