AP Gov SCOTUS Landmark Cases

Court-enforced redistricting based on the principle of "one-person-one-vote" ensured that urban constituencies were represented proportionally equal to rural area constituents.

• Engle v Viale (1962)

• McDonald v Chicago (2010)

• Tinker v Des Moines (1965)

• Baker v Carr (1961)

Prohibited state-sponsored recitation of prayer in public schools by virtue of 1st Amendments establishment clause and the 14th Amendments due process clause.

• Wisconsin v Yoder

• Engle v Vitale

• Brown v Board of Education

• Roe v Wade

Overruled Plessy v Ferguson's "separate but equal" doctrine and would eventually lead to the desegregation of schools across the South.

• Engle v Vitale (1962)

• Citizens United v FEC 2010

• Brown v Board of Education (1954)

• Roe v Wade (1973)

Ordered states to provide lawyers for those unable to afford them in criminal proceedings. Warren Courts judicial activism in criminal rights.

• Gideon v Wainwright (1963)

• Tinker v Des Moines (1965)

• Wisconsin v Yoder (1972)

• Schenck v US (1919)

A decision by the United States Supreme Court holding that independent expenditures are free speech protected by the 1st Amendment and so cannot be limited by federal law. Leads to the creation of the SuperPACs & massive rise in amount of third party electioneering.

• Marbury v Madison (1803)

• US v Lopez (1994)

• Citizens United v FEC (2010)

• New York Times v United States (1971)

A landmark [1] U.S. Supreme Court case that established the principle of judicial review in the United States, meaning that American courts have the power to strike down laws, statutes, and some government actions that they find to violate the Constitution of the United States .

• Schenck v US (1919)

• McCullock v Maryland (1819)

• Baker v Carr (1961)

• Marbury v Madison (1803)

The First Amendment, as applied through the Fourteenth, did not permit public schools to punish a student for wearing a black armband as an anti-war protest, absent any evidence that the rule was necessary to avoid substantial interference with school discipline or the rights of others.

• Roe v Wade (1973)

• Tinker v Des Moines (1965)

• US v Lopez (1994)

• Wisconsin v Yoder (1972)

The 1990 Gun-Free School Zones Act forbidding individuals from knowingly carrying a gun in a school zone is unconstitutional because it exceeds the Powerades of Congress to legislate under the Commerce Clause.

• Baker v Carr (1961)

• Citizens United v FEC 2010

• Gideon v Wainwright (1963)

• US v Lopez (1994)

Allows limits to speech based on the "clear and present danger" principle.

• Engel v Vitale (1962)

• Schenck v US 1919

• US v Lopez (1994)

• McDonald v Chicago (2010)

Government can almost never use prior restraint since the Court held that executive efforts to prevent the publication of Nixon's classified information violated the 1st Amendment and Free Press.

• New York Times v United States (1971)

• McCulloch v Maryland (1971)

• McDonald v Chicago (2010)

• Citizens United v FEC (2010)