1968/Held public aid to religious schools to be constitutional
1988/The Court held that 'student newspapers' and 'drama productions' are not protected by 1st Amendment
2010/Incorporated the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms applicable to the states
1964/Held that public officials must prove actual acts of malice to win a libel case
1895/Held that an income tax was a direct tax in violation of the constitution, later negated by the Sixteenth Amendment
1964/The Court decided that states were required to 'honest and good faith' efforts to construct districts as nearly of equal population as practicable
1957/The court held that obscenity is not 'within the area of constitutionally protected speech or press'
1980/Made requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in each public school classroom unconstitutional
1786/Not US Supreme Ct case/RI Supreme Court decision about paper currency/one of the most important cases that established the precedent for the doctrine of judicial review
1936/Ruled that the Agricultural Adjustment Act was a violation of the 10th Amendment
2012/This case was a major decison in favor of privacy and personal rights, as the court decided that police agencies needed a warrant to attach a GPS to a suspect's vehicle
1976/The Court held that citizens have no right to privacy in their bank records
1976/Upheld a North Carolina law that made death penalty required for all convicted first-degree murderers
1810/first case in which the Supreme Court ruled a state law unconstitutional/hinted that Native Americans did not hold title to their own lands
1973/overturned Georgia abortion law that permitted abortion only in cases of rape, severe fetal deformity, or the possibility of severe or fatal injury to the mother
1992/5 Pennsylvania state regulations on abortion were challenged/one was invalidated & four were upheld/could have but did not overturn Roe v. Wade
1990/it is acceptable to require 'clear and convincing evidence' of a patient's wishes for removal of life support/led to creation of advance health directives
2008/upheld the constitutionality of a particular method of lethal injection used for capital punishment
1993/redistricting based on race (racial gerrymandering) must be held to a standard of strict scrutiny under the equal protection clause
2008/held that an Indiana law requiring voters to provide photo IDs did not violate the Constitution of the United States
1931/ruled that a Minnesota law that targeted publishers of 'malicious' or 'scandalous' newspapers violated the First Amendment (as applied through Fourteenth Amendment)
2003/Court struck down sodomy law/overturned Bowers v. Hardwick (1986)
1841/Court authorized Africans who had been taken as slaves to be allowed to return to Africa after they siezed ship but were later captured by US
2009/Court ruled in favor of 18 New Haven, CT firefighters after city invalidated test scores for promotion b/c no black firefighters passed test
2013/Court ruled that section 4(b) of Voting Rights Act regarding changes to voting laws was out of date/effectively eliminated section 5 as well
1956/Court agrees w/lower court ruling that bus segregation was unconstitutional by 14th Amendment/ordered AL buses to desegregate/ended Montgomery Bus Boycott
1995/Court ruling that limited Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause/student charged for bringing handgun to school under Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990
1832/Court ruling that stated that the federal government was the sole authority to deal with Indian nations/foundation of tribal sovereignty in US
1918/Court ruled that Congress could not regulate child labor laws for manufacturing that never entered interstate commerce/overruled by US v. Darby Lumber Co in 1941
1941/Court upheld the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 giving Congress power to regulate employment conditions/overturned Hammer v. Dagenhart/confirmed legality of minimum wage law
1842/Mass Supreme Court rules that labor unions are legal & workers have the right to strike
1873/1st Court interpretation of recently enacted 14th Amendment/consolidation of 3 similar cases/held that Amendment didn't apply to state citizenship
1821/Noted for Court assertion of its right to review state supreme court decisions in criminal law cases when defendent claims Constitutional rights were violated
2006/Court ruled Bush administration didn't have authority to set up military tribunals to try combatants at Guantanamo b/c they didn't comply w/Unif. Code of Military Justice
1962/Court ruled that it does have jurisdiction over redistricting issues/defendent unsuccessfully argued that it was a 'political question' & not under Court jurisdiction
1967/Civil rights decision of the United States Supreme Court which invalidated laws prohibiting interracial marriage/reversed Pace v. Alabama
1970/Court ruled Congress could set voter age requirements for federal but not state elections/state filing suit didn't want to lower voting age to 18
2001/Court ruled that disabled golfer must be allowed to ride in a golf cart between shots
2006/Court found school district's enrollment plan unconstitutional under Equal Protection clause of 14th Amendment due to racial issues/plan was all schools between 15-50% black
1927/Court ruled state statute permitting forced sterilization of the unfit, including the mentally disabled didn't violate Due Process clause/written by Holmes/never overturned
1974/Court ruled that desegregation couldn't require students to move across school-district lines
1875/Court upheld Missouri state court ruling that refused to allow a woman to register to vote b/c MO law only allowed men to vote/overturned by 19th Amendment
2015/Court ruled town sign ordinance that restricted a church putting up a sign on Sundays was unconstitutional/restricted advertising religious services more than political ads
1919/Court upheld 1918 Amendment to 1917 Espionage Act (called Sedition Act)/criminalized urging the cutting of war materials production (WW1)/used Clear & Present Danger standard
1987/Court ruled that teaching of creation science in public schools along w/evolution was unconstitutional b/c of religious connotations
1968/Court invalidated an Arkansas statute prohibiting the teaching of evolution in public schools
1986/Court upheld Georgia sodomy law/police officer Torick entered person's home w/warrant for public drinking/saw homosexual act & arrested
1967/Court held that juveniles accused of crimes in a delinquency proceeding must be afforded many of the same due process rights as adults/written by Fortas
1837/ MA payed a company to build a bridge to connect Boston and Cambridge/ MA then sanctioned another company to build the Warren Bridge, which was close to Charles
The Original company sued and won under chief justice Roger Taney. Said that Massachusetts had violated its contract with them.
1819, dealt w/ constitutionality of NY creating Bankruptcy laws and retroactively applying them (Ex Post Facto). NY lost under chief justice Marshall.
1861/Chief Justice Taney ruled that the President cannot suspend habeas corpus/only Congress can/Lincoln ignored ruling
1984/Court held that administrative agencies should be given deference in interpreting ambiguous statutes so long as their interpretation is reasonable
2011/Court reversed 9th Circuit decision/rejected class action lawsuit brought by plaintiff & 1.6 million other women claiming gender discrimination at large retailer
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