Supreme Court Cases Word Scramble

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Question	Answer
The Court ruled that arbitrarily drawn federal districts violated voters' constitutional rights and established the principle of "one man, one vote"	Baker v. Carr
Court ruled in 1875 that suffrage was not a right of citizenship so it was not unconstitutional to deprive a woman of the right to vote	Minor v. Happersett
Cases in 1883 that narrowed civil rights guaranteed by the 14th Amendment; said that blacks were protected against state action to limit their rights but not against individual actions; declared the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional	Civil Rights Cases
Ruled that the government could not exercise prior restraint to prevent the publication of the Pentagon Papers	New York Times v. US
1886 ruling that states could only limit intrastate commerce, not interstate commerce; thus a state could not outlaw different rates for long and short haul railroad traffic; led to the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887	Wabash case
Held that poor defendants were entitled to free legal counsel	Gideon V. Wainwright
Established the principle of separate but equal for different facilities that segregated the races such as railway cars	Plessy v. Ferguson
This case upheld the Wagner Act and the right of collective bargaining; expanded the use of the Commerce Clause to labor issues	NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel
This decision declared the NRA unconstitutional	Schecter v. US
First significant case under the Sherman Antitrust Act; Court ruled that monopoly control of manufacturing was not the same as control of commerce so the Sherman Antitrust Act did not apply	US v. E.C. Knight Co.
Stated that states cannot interfere with free speech thus incorporating the right of freedom of speech into the Fourteenth Amendment	Gitlow v. New York
The Court ruled in 1877 that states could regulate commerce, in this case, a grain elevator	Munn v. Illinois
The Court ruled that the right to privacy protected a woman's decision whether or not to have an abortion	Roe v. Wade
This case established that states could limit women's working hours; Louis Brandeis argued the case using a brief that made use of sociological data	Muller v. Oregon
The Court's first major First Amendment decision, it sustained the Espionage Act and found that free speech can be constrained if it created a "Clear and present danger."	Schenck v. US
First trustbusting suit under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act	Northern Securities Case
Ruled that a state could not ban the use of contraceptives because that would violate citizens' right to privacy	Griswold v. Connecticut
Denied a writ of habeas corpus for a union leader's arrest for disobeying an injunction under the Sherman Antitrust Act	In re Debs
Held that the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII was constitutional	Korematsu v. US
Ruled that before those accused of a crime can be interviewed by the police, they must be informed of their rights	Miranda v. Arizona
Declared that affirmative-action programs with racial quotas are unconstitutional	University of California v. Bakke
Held that segregated schools were inherently unequal so that the principle of "separate but equal" was unconstitutional	Brown v. Board of Education

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