Important Court Cases
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- established judicial review -the Supreme Court can review any case of a lower court
- Marbury v Madison, 1803
- states can't tax the federal gvmt (or the First National Back), "implied powers"
- McCulloch v MD, 1819
- established the supremacy of the natnl gvmt in all matters concerning interstate commmerce
- Gibbons v Ogden, 1824
- established the "religious release" idea for release from school
- Zorach v Clauson, 1952
- ruled the organized prayer in public school was unconstitutional
- Engle v Vitale, 1962
- upheld the equal access law; if you allow any non-academic clubs, you must also allow any other non-ac clubs
- Westside Community Schools v Mergens, 1990
- ruled that teachers could not be forced to teach creationism or banned from teaching evolutionism
- Edward v Aguillard, 1987
- ruled that religious seasonal displays on public property were allowed as long as the display was multi-religious
- Lynch v Donnelly, 1984
- ruled that chaplains were okay in Congress because adults are less influenced by peer pressure
- Marsh v Chambers, 1983
- caused an ultra conservative Baptist college to lose its legally exempt tax status becuse they were discriminating
- Bob Jones University v US, 1983
- established that "obscene" materials would be decided according to contemporary community standards
- Miller v CA, 1973
- established "prior restraint" - school officals are legally allowed to violate your freedom of speech and press because they can limit school published articles
- Hazelwood School District v Kuhlmeir, 1987
- upheld shield laws protecting reporters' sources
- Brazenburg v Hayes, 1972
- "symbolic speech" ruled that wearing armbands (in protest to the Vietnam war) was not disruptive in a school environment
- Tinker v Des Moines School District, 1969
- A man was put in jail for sedition for urging people not to enlist for WWI
- Schench v US, 1917
- declared "seperate but equal" okay - did not establish criteria for judging the equality of the different schools
- Plessy v Ferguson, 1896
- intergrated schools, overturned the "seperate but equal" concept
- Brown v Board of Education, 1954
- you can only seize things that are included in a warrant "searches and seizures"
- Mapp v Ohio, 1961
- established the right to "free counsel"
- Giddeon v Wainwright, 1963
- "miranda" rights established; you don't have to be your rights until they are about to question you
- Miranda v AZ, 1966
- declared captial punishment unconstitutional
- Furman v GA, 1972
- upheld a return to capital punishment (but now there was a set of steps for receiving the death penalty)
- Gregg v GA, 1976
- This man got his stomach pumped in the police search for illegal drugs - cruel and unusual
- Rachin v CA, 1969
- abortion "right to privacy" all laws prohibiting abortion were declared unconstitutional
- Roe v Wade, 1972
- "reverse discrimination" a man was denied admission because he was not a miniority - later accepted after SC ruled
- Bakke v Board of Regents U Cali, 1973