Supreme court cases Government Exam

Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School Distric

Which Supreme Court case defined the constitutional rights of public school students?

New York Times v. Sullivan

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

Mapp v. Ohio

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?

Miranda v. Arizona

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

McCulloch v. Maryland

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

Marbury v. Madison*

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

Korematsu v. United States

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

Grutter v. Bollinger

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?

Kelo v. City of New London

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?

Engel v. Vitale

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?

Dred Scott v. Sandford

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?

Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

Which Supreme Court case held that race based quota systems in education violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution?

Reynolds v. United States

Which Supreme Court case held that religious duty is not a legitimate defense to a criminal indictment?

Gideon v. Wainwright

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?

Roe v. Wade*

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?

Brown v. Board of Education

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

Gibbons v. Ogden

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

Schenck v. United States

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

United States v. Nixon

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

Texas v. Johnson

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

Baker v. Carr

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?

Griswold v. Connecticut

Which Supreme Court case invalidated a state law prohibiting the use of contraceptives on the grounds that the law violated the right to marital privacy?

Lemon v. Kurtzman

Which Supreme Court case struck down state funding for religious schools?

Plessy v. Ferguson*

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

Roth v. United States

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?