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Marbury v. Madison Background: Impact: Creates Judicial Review Constitution: Makes the Judicial Branch have more power over other two branches.
McCullough v. Maryland State taxing Federal Bank Impact: National Supremacy Const.:Ability to tax and spend - Fight over national/state
Gibbons v. Ogden Impact: Interstate Commerce Const.: Commerce Clause of the Constitution gives power to Congress.
Barron v. Baltimore Impact: State Governments not affected by first 10 amendments. Const.: Fifth Amendment of taking public property for gov. purpose requires just compensation does not apply to state gov.s
Dred Scott v. Sandford Impact: Slavery Const.: African Americans were not citizens and could not have land because of the Property Clause. So the Missouri Compromise still applied. However, The Due Process Clause of the fifth amendment makes it illegal to free slaves.
Plessy v. Ferguson Impact: Discrimination Const.: "seperate but equal" + Constitutional due to the Equal Protection Clause
Schneck v. US Impact: Clear and Present Danger Clause Const.: Upheld Espionage Act of 1917, and that there was no freedom of speech resisting the draft.
Korematsu v. United States Impact: Japanese Internment was Const. Const.: Need to protect espionage was more important than Korematsu's rights. Later overturned.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Impact: Seperate but Equal overturned. Const.: Segregation of students in public schools violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, because separate facilities are unequal.
Mapp v. Ohio Impact: Search and Seizure Const.: The Fourth Amendment against unreasonable searches and seizures excludes unconstitutionally obtained evidence from use in criminal prosecutions.
Buckley v. Valeo Impact: Federal Limits on spending money to help campaign. Const.: Freedom of Speech in Const. protects the spending of money to influence elections.
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke Impact: Quota Systems based on race are unconstitutional. Const. :Title VI of the civil rights statute prohibits racial discrimination in any institution that receives federal funding.
Gideon v. Wainwright Impact: State courts are required under the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution to provide counsel in criminal cases for defendants who are unable to afford their own attorneys. Const.: The Fourteenth Amendment applies the sixth amendment to the states.
Miranda v. Arizona Impact: People are now read their Miranda rights when being arrested. Const.: The Fifth Amendment requires officials to inform people of their rights when in the hands of the government to remain silent and to obtain an attorney.
Griswold v. Connecticut Impact: There is a right of marital privacy. Const.: Privacy is protected in the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause and also in the Bill of Rights.
Roe v. Wade Impact: Women now have the right to have an abortion. Const.: Due Process Clause applies to a woman's right to privacy to have an abortion.
Baker v. Carr The redistricting of state legislative districts is not a political question, and thus is justiciable by the federal courts. Const.: Egual Representation
Gitlow v. New York Impact: Advocating the violent overthrow of the government through the dissemination of Communist pamphlets = illegal. Const.: The Fourteenth Amendment and First Amendment don't protect certain freedom's of speech.
New York Times v. Sullivan Impact: Actual malice standard has to be met before press reports about public officials or public figures-can be considered to be defamation and libel. Const.: First Amendement and Fourteenth Amendment, free speech.
Engel v. Vitale Impact:Government-directed prayer in public is not ok. Const.: The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, even if the prayer is denominationally neutral and students may remain silent or be excused from the classroom during its recitation.
Lemon v. Kurtzman
New Jersey v. T.L.O.
Gregg v. Georgia
U.S. v. Nixon
Bush v. Gore
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