Supreme Court Cases

A liberal Supreme Court 1953-1969

Expanded individual rights, voting rights, and freedom of speech

• Hernandez v. Texas 1953

• • • The Warren Court

• Mapp v. Ohio 1961

• The Truman Show

Mexican Americans qualify to equal protection under the 14th Amendment and

can't be excluded from jury duty

• Gideon v. Wainwright 1963

• Mapp v. Ohio 1961

• Hernandez v. Texas 1953

• Escobedo v. Illinois 1964

“Exclusionary Rule”

Evidence obtained illegally can’t be used in trial

• Hernandez v. Texas 1953

  
  

• Escobedo v. Illinois 1964

• Sweatt v. Painter 1950

• Mapp v. Ohio 1961

Requires criminal courts to provide a free lawyer to those who can’t afford one

• Gideon v. Wainwright 1963

• Mapp v. Ohio 1961

• Escobedo v. Illinois 1964

• Sweatt v. Painter 1950

An accused person has the right to have a lawyer present during police questioning

• Gideon v. Wainwright 1963

• Escobedo v. Illinois 1964

• Sweatt v. Painter 1950

• Tinker v. Des Moines 1969

University Law schools must admit African-Americans

Even if separate black schools exist

• Tinker v. Des Moines 1969

  
  

• Wisconsin v. Yoder 1972

• Sweatt v. Painter 1950

• Escobedo v. Illinois 1964

Students suspended for wearing black armbands in protest of the Vietnam War

• Wisconsin v. Yoder 1972

• Plessy v. Ferguson 1896

• Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka 1954

• Tinker v. Des Moines 1969

Amish children could not be forced to attend school past the 8th grade

Based on Freedom of Religion

• Wisconsin v. Yoder 1972

• Plessy v. Ferguson 1896

• Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka 1954

• Tinker v. Des Moines 1969

Racial segregation laws did not violate the 14th Amendment

Under the doctrine “separate but equal” services

• Tinker v. Des Moines 1969

• Plessy v. Ferguson 1896

  
  

• Ended Racial Segregation in public schools

• Wisconsin v. Yoder 1972

Ended racial segregation in public schools

• Wisconsin v. Yoder 1972

• Tinker v. Des Moines 1969

• Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka 1954

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  Plessy v. Ferguson 1896