US Supreme Court Cases (EOC Review)

Case which established "judicial review": the power of the Supreme Court to interpret the constitutionality of a law.

• Dred Scot v Sanford

• Marbury v Madison

• Schenck v US

• Gideon v Wainwright

Ruled that slaves were property not citizens

• Mapp v Ohio

• Gideon v Wainwright

• Dred Scot v Sanford

• Roe v Wade

Case which established that "separate but equal" was legal and did not violate the 14th amendment

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Brown v Board of Education

• Miranda v Arizona

• Roe v Wade

Case which allowed for limiting free speech in times of war IF the words uttered present a "clear and present danger."

• Dred Scot v Sanford

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Mapp v Ohio

• Schenck v US

Case which ruled that the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII did violate the Constitution.

• Schenck v US

• Marbury v madison

• Koramatsu v US

• Miranda v Arizona

Established that segregation in public schools violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. "In the field of education, the doctrine of separate but equal has no place."

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Mapp v Ohio

• Brown v Board of Education

• Roe v Wade

Ruled that evidence obtained by improper/illegal searches and seizures were inadmissable in court.

• Miranda v Arizona

• Mapp v Ohio

• Gideon v Wainwright

• Roe v Wade

The Court stated that all states must provide an attorney in all felony cases for people who could not afford one.

• Gideon v Wainwright

• Miranda v Arizona

• Mapp v Ohio

• Schenck v US

Court rules that the police must inform suspects that they have the right to remain silent , that anything they say can and will be used against them in a court of law; that they have the right to an attorney.

• Roe v Wade

• Kaminski v Godzilla

• Mapp v Ohio

• Miranda v Arizona

Ruling that states that the executive priviledge of the president was subordinate to the fair administration of criminal justice. Therefore, Nixon was forced to turn over the audiotapes to the special prosecutor.

• Negron v Bornacelli

• Plessy v Ferguson

• Bush v Gore

• US v Nixon