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APUSH Court Cases
Supreme Court Cases
Question | Answer |
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Marbury v. Madison | (1803 Marshall) Established constitutionality of judicial review. |
McCulloch v. Maryland | (1819 Marshall) States cannot tax fed. gov. (Bank of US constitutional) |
Dartmouth College v. Woodward | (1819 Marshall) upholds sanctity of contracts |
Gibbons v. Ogden | (1824 Marshall) Clarified commerce clause, Congressional power over interstate commerce |
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia | (1831 Marchall) Trust relationship of NA tribes under fed authority |
Commonwealth v. Hunt | (1842 Taney) Labor Unions lawful organizations and strikes legal |
Scott v. Sanford | (1857 Taney) Dred Scott an escaped slave-ruled not a citizen- had returned to Missouri but was captured. Congress no power to declare territory slave, voided Missouri Compromise of 1820. |
Plessy v. Ferguson | (1896) Legalized Segregation in publicly owned facilities on basis of "separate but equal" |
U.S. v. E.C. Knight Co. | (1895) Due to narrow interpretation of Sherman Anti-Trust Act, court undermined authority of federal government. |
Northern Securities Co. v. US | (1904) Re-established Sherman anti-trust authority of federal gov. |
Lochner v. New York | (1905) Declared unconstitutional a New York Act limiting working hours of bakers due to denial of 14th Amendment Rights |
Schenck v. US | (1919) Upheld Espionage Act of 1917, freedom of speech not absolute |
Schechter v. US | (1936) “the sick chicken case”, declared National Industrial Recovery Act (part of FDR's New Deal) unconstitutional |
Korematsu v. US | (1941) upheld detention camps for Japanese-Americans during WW II |
Brown v. Board of Ed. Topeka, Kansas | (1954 Warren) declaring “seperate but equal” unconstitutional |
Gideon v. Wainwright | (1963) allows defendant right of counsel regardless of their ability to pay |
Escobedo v. Illinois | (1964) defendant must be allowed access to a lawyer before questioning |
Miranda v. Arizona | (1966) if subjected to in-custody interrogation be advised of right of an attorney and right to remain silent |
Roe v. Wade | (1973) legalized abortion during first three months of pregnancy |
US v. Richard Nixon | (1974) rejected Nixon's claim to absolute privilege against judicial process |