Landmark Supreme Court Cases

No one is above the law...not even the president.

• Bush v. Gore

• Marbury v. Madison

• Miranda v. Arizona

• U.S. v. Nixon

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 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 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 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

This ruling held that evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment protection against "unreasonable searches and seizures" must be excluded from criminal prosecutions in state courts, as well as federal courts.

• Mapp v. Ohio, 1961

• Miranda v. Arizona, 1966

• McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819

• Marbury v. Madison, 1803

This landmark ruling held that basis for the exercise of judicial review of Federal statutes by the United States Supreme Court under Article Three of the United States Constitution is legal.

• McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819

• Marbury v. Madison, 1803

• Miranda v. Arizona, 1966

• New Jersey v. TLO, 1985

This fundamental case established the following two principles: that the Constitution grants to Congress implied powers for implementing the Constitution's express powers, in order to create a functional national government, and that state action may not impede valid constitutional exercises of power by the Federal government.

• Miranda v. Arizona, 1966

• New Jersey v. TLO, 1985

• McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819

• Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896