AP Gov Court Cases

Gitlow v New York

A state may forbid both speech and publication if they have a tendency to result in action dangerous to public security, even though such utterances create no clear and present danger.

Plessy v Ferguson

Equal but separate accommodations for whites and blacks imposed by Louisiana do not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Brown v Board of Education (II)

The Brown (1) decision shall be implemented "with all deliberate speed".

Roe v Wade

The Constitution embraces a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy by abortion.

Wisconsin v Yoder

The Court held that individual's interests in the free exercise of religion under the First Amendment outweighed the State's interests in compelling school attendance beyond the eighth grade.

Citizens United v Federal Election Commission

The First Amendment protects the right to free speech, despite the speaker's corporate identity.

McDonald v Chicago

The Fourteenth Amendment makes the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms for the purpose of self-defense applicable to the states.

Schenck v United States

The Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment does not shield advocacy urging conduct deemed unlawful under the Espionage Act.

Marbury v Madison

The Judiciary Act of 1789 conflicted with the U.S. Constitution and was therefore null and void. (Established Judicial Review)

New York Times v United States

The Nixon administration's efforts to prevent the publication of what it termed "classified information" violated the First Amendment.

McCulloch v Maryland

The Second Bank of the United States could not be taxed.

Gideon v Wainwright

The Sixth Amendment's right to counsel in criminal cases extends to felony defendants in state courts.

United States v Lopez

The possession of a gun in a local school zone is not an economic activity that might, through repetition elsewhere, have a substantial effect on interstate commerce.

Engel v Vitale

The reading of a nondenominational prayer at the start of the school day violates the "establishment of religion" clause of the First Amendment.

Shaw v Reno

North Carolina residents' claim, that the State created a racially gerrymandered district, raised a valid constitutional issue under the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.

Buckley v Valeo

Restrictions on individual contributions to political campaigns and candidates did not violate the First Amendment.

Brown v Board of Education (I)

Separate but equal educational facilities for racial minorities is inherently unequal violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Baker v Carr

State reapportionment claims are justiciable in federal court.

Tinker v Des Moines

Students do not lose their First Amendment rights to freedom of speech when they step onto school property.