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PBHS Supreme Crt
PBHS Supreme Court Landmark Cases
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Established federal bank that cannot be taxed | McCulloch V Maryland |
| Separate but equal | Plessy V Ferguson |
| Legalized abortion (1st trimester) | Roe V Wade |
| Overturned separate but equal | Brown V Board of Education of Topeka KS |
| Judicial Review | Marbury V Madison |
| Reapportionment of electoral districts (Tennessee) | Baker V Carr |
| Court must provide legal representation/an attorney (Florida pool hall) | Gideon V Wainwright |
| Fed. govt did NOT have the right to regulate child labor | Hammer V Dagenhart |
| overturned Hammer v Dagenhart and upheld Fair Labor Standards Act in 1941 | U.S. v Darby Lumber Co. |
| First time a state law was declared unconstitutional (that legislature cannot repeal a sale) | Fletcher v Peck |
| Lincoln suspended writ of habeas corpus | Ex Parte Merryman |
| habeas corpus | "you have the body" |
| Must be informed of rights when investigated for crime | Miranda v Arizona |
| Held that though Dred Scott, a slave, had lived in a free territory with his master, he was still his masters property, and not a citizen of the US | Dred Scott v Sanford |
| Held that martial law must be confined to "the theater of active military operations" and that civilians could not be tried in military courts if civil courts remained operational | Ex parte Milligan |
| Held that Congress has the authority to regulate all interstate commerce | Gibbons v Ogden |
| Held that the federal rule excluding the use of illegally obtained evidence in criminal trials should be applied to the states | Mapp v Ohio |
| Held that obscenity is not protected under the First Amendment | Roth v United States |
| Held that WWI limits on free speech did not violate the 1st Amendment if the speech in question presented "clear and present danger" | Schenk v United States |
| Dissolved John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Test | Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v United States |
| Held that secret tape recordings made in the office of President Nixon were subject to subpoena for the Watergate trial | United States v Nixon |
| Held that a university may consider race and ethnic background in considering applicants for admission, but may not establish fixed quotas | University of California v Bakke |
| Federal regulation of interstate commerce trumps state regulation | Gibbons V Ogden |
| "One man, one vote" | Baker V Carr and Reynolds v Sims |
| U.S. v Darby Lumber Co upheld this act | Fair Labor Standards Act of 1941 |
| Pres. _____ appointed the 42 ______ judges but Pres. ______ held up their _______ leading Chief Justice ______ to establish ________ in the case ______ | Adams, midnight judges, Jefferson, commissions, John Marshall, judicial review, Marbury v Madison |
| First man appointed as Chief Justice | John Jay |
| This man formulated the "clear and present danger test" | Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr |
| Claimed that the First Amendment does not protect a person who falsely shouts fire in a theater | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr |
| phrase associated with Schenk v U.S. | "clear and present danger" |
| Electoral districts must be roughly equal in population | Reynolds V Sims |
| "the power to tax implied the power to destroy" | McCulloch v Maryland |
| John Marshall ruled that a state tax on a branch of the Bank of the United States was unconstitutional. | McCulloch v. Maryland |
| This case involved land speculators on Yazoo tribal lands in Georgia. | Fletcher v. Peck |
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