Landmark Supreme Court Cases

This case ruled that laws banning interracial marriage are unconstitutional and are protected by the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment

• Snyder v Phelps

• Mapp v Ohio

• Schenck v U.S.

• Loving v Virginia

Which case said that the right to privacy included access to birth control?

• Gregg v. Georgia

• Miranda v. Arizona

• Roe v. Wade

• Griswald v. Connecticut

This case said that VMI must admit female students into the military academy.

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• U.S. v. Virginia

• Gideon v. Wainwright

• Loving v. Virginia

This case protects those who stage a protest at the funeral of a military service member from being sued.

• Snyder v Phelps

• Mapp v Ohio

• Schenck v U.S.

• Loving v Virginia

Which case said that evidence seized in an illegal search is inadmissible and created the "exclusionary rule"?

• Mapp v. Ohio

• Tinker v. DesMoines

• United States v. Nixon

• Marbury v Madison

In this case, the Court said that “The right of the people to keep and bear Arms” applies to state and local governments as well as to the federal government.

• Mapp v. Ohio

• Tinker v. DesMoines

• Schenck v. US

• McDonald v. Chicago

This case upheld an executive order which increased Presidential war powers

• In re Gault

• Korematsu v. U.S.

• Roe v. Wade

• US v Nixon

Which Supreme Court case established students have a first amendment right to freedom of SPEECH as long as it doesn't cause a disruption?

• Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka Kansas
• Tinker v. DesMoines
• Vernonia School District v. Acton

• Gideon v Wainwright

Which Supreme Court decision states that schools do NOT need a search warrant before searching a student's belongings?

• Tinker v. Des Moines

• NJ v. TLO

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Miranda v. Arizona

Because of this case, you now sit in a classroom with people from many different racial and ethnic backgrounds:

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Marbury v. Madison

• Griswold v. Connecticut

• Brown v. Board of Education