Supreme Court Cases - Law Studies

Marbury v. Madison

• The Supreme Court's Power of

  Judicial Review

• Power of Federal Government v. State Government

• the meaning of a contract and enforcing a contract

• regulation of interstate commerce

Dredd Scott v. Sanford, 1857

• The Bill of Rights and States' Rights

• Rights of Citizens During Wartime

• The Right to Freedom of Enslaved Persons

• Judicial Review

Plessy v. Ferguson

• Extending the Meaning of the Commerce Clause

• Legality of Segregation by Race

• The Right to Free Speech

• The Right to Political Radicals to Free Speech

Schenck v. United States, 1919

• Legality of Segregation by Race

• The Right to Freedom of Enslaved Persons

• The Supreme Court's Power of Judicial Review

• Wartime Freedom of Speech

Olmstead v. United States, 1928

• Evidence from Tapped Phone Lines

• The Right of Political Radicals to Free Speech

• Denial of Counsel to Defendants

• All of the answers

Powell v. Alabama, 1932

• Japanese Internment in World War II

• Flag Salute Requirement

• Denial of Right to Counsel

• Constitutionality of Minimum Wage Laws

Minersville School District v. Gobitis, 1940

• The Supreme Court's Power of Judicial Review

• Legality of Segregation by Race

• The Right of Political Radicals to Free Speech

• Flag Salute Requirement

West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 1943

• The Rights of People of Suspect Ethnic Backgrounds

• Flag Salute Requirement

• Japanese Internment in World War II

• Public Support for Non-Public Schools

Korematsu v. United States, 1944

• The Rights of People of Suspect Ethnic Backgrounds

• Public Support for Non-Public Schools

• Religious Education in Public Schools

• Rights of a Leader of the Communist Party

Dennis v. United States, 1951

• The Court's Rule in State Apportionment

• Legality of Evidence Seized by the Police

• Rights of a Leader of the Communist Party

• Right of Free Speech