Supreme court cases

Which Supreme Court case held that state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students were unconstitutional?

Brown v. Board of education

Which Supreme Court case held that people of African descent who were brought to the U.S. and held as slaves (and their descendents) were not U.S. citizens and were not protected by the Constitution?

Dred Scott v. Sanford

Which Supreme Court case held that the Commerce Clause grants Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce?

Gibbons v. Ogden

Which Supreme Court case held that Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II, was Constitutional?

Korematsu v. United States

Which Supreme Court case established the basis for the exercise of judicial review under Article III of the Constitution?

Marbury v. Madison

Which Supreme Court case established that the Constitution grants implied powers to Congress which can be used to implement the Constitutions's express powers?

McCulloh v. Maryland

Which Supreme Court case established that police must advise criminal suspects of their Constitutional rights before questioning them?

Miranda v. Arizona

Which Supreme Court case established that a public official suing for defamation must prove that the statement was made with "actual malice"?

New York v. Sullivan

Which Supreme Court case upheld state laws requiring racial segregation at public facilities under the "separate but equal" doctrine?

Plessy v. Ferguson

Which Supreme Court case held that state laws criminalizing abortion violate a right to privacy that is implied by the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment?

Roe v. Wade

Which Supreme court case reaffirmed that obscene material is not protected by the First Amendment and also redefined the Constitutional test for determining what constitutes obscene material?

Roth v. us

Which Supreme Court case held that the act of burning a flag is protected speech under the First Amendment?

Texas v. Johnson

Which Supreme Court case held that the reapportionment of state legislative districts is not a "political question", making it possible for federal courts to intervene in and to decide redistricting cases?

baker v. carr

Which Supreme Court case held that it is unconstitutional for state officials to write an official school prayer and to encourage students to recite it?

engel v. vitale

Which Supreme Court case held that state courts are required by the Fourteenth Amendment to provide counsel to defendents in criminal cases, extending this Sixth Amendment requirement on the federal government to the states?

gideon v. wainright

Which Supreme Court case held that a narrowly tailored use of race in student admission decisions is permissible in order to obtain the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body?

grutter v. bollinger

Which Supreme Court case held that if the government uses eminent domain to take land from one private owner and give it to another private owner, in order promote economic development, that this constitutes a permissible public use under the 5th Amendment?

kelo v. city of new london

Which Supreme Court case established that evidence obtained by unreasonable searches and seizures, in violation of the Fourth Amendment, may not be used in state courts for state law criminal prosecutions?

mapp v. ohio

Which Supreme Court case held that the First Amendment right to free speech doesn't protect speech that presents a "clear and present danger"?

shneck v. united states

Which Supreme Court case held that the President cannot use executive privlege to withhold evidence that is relevant in a criminal trial?

united states v. nixon