Landmark Supreme Court Cases

Established the precedent of judicial review

• Roe v. Wade

• Gibbons v. Ogden

• Marbury v. Madison

• Heart of Atlanta Hotel v. United States

Schools were desegregated.  Separate is unequal. Separate but equal has no place and overturned Plessy v. Ferguson

• Swann v. Charlotte- Mecklenburg School System

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Roe v. Wade

• Dobbs v. Jackson

Established that schools are only required to have “reasonable suspicion” to search students

• Engel v. Vitale

• Texas v. Johnson

• Tinker v. Des Monies

• New Jersey v. TLO

Established all accused persons are entitled to a lawyer, even if they cannot afford one.

• Mapp v. Ohio

• Gideon v. Wainwright

• Miranda v. Arizona

• In Re Gault

Established the concept of “separate but equal” in public facilities

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Marbury v. Madison

• Brady v. Betts

• McCullough v. Maryland

Established that a student does not shed his rights at the door.  Black armbands to protest the Vietnam War can be worn since they are not disruptive.

• Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier

• Bethel School District v. Fraser

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• Engel v. Vitale

Supreme Court decision that was inherent in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is a fundamental “right to privacy” that protects a pregnant woman’s choice whether to have an abortion.

• Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization

• Roe v. Wade

• Planned Parenthood v. Casey

• Griswold v. Connecticut

Supreme court decision that stated a person must be read his or her rights before being arrested.

• Dred Scott v. Sanford

• Gregg v. Georgia

• Furman v. Georgia

• Miranda v. Arizona

The Supreme Court held that distinctions drawn according to race were generally "odious to a free people" and were subject to "the most rigid scrutiny" under the Equal Protection Clause.

• Loving v. Virginia

• Korematsu v. United States

• USA v. Nixon

• Texas v. Johnson