Educational Cases
This court case involved race-based school segregation, which violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
4. BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION (1954)
Involving the Pentagon Papers, this case reinforced freedom of the press and ruled against prior restraint, even for national security concerns.
What is 9. NEW YORK TIMES CO. V. UNITED STATES (1971)
This case ruled that the 6th Amendment right to counsel applies to defendants in state felony cases
What is 7. GIDEON V. WAINWRIGHT (1963)
This 2010 Supreme Court case used the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause to apply the Second Amendment's right to bear arms for self-defense to state and local governments.
What is 13. MCDONALD V. CHICAGO (2010)
In which landmark Supreme Court case did students wearing black armbands to protest the Vietnam War.
What is 8. TINKER V. DES MOINES INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (1969)
This court case limited students' expression during the Vietnam War, violating the First Amendment.
8. TINKER V. DES MOINES INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (1969)
This case expanded First Amendment protections to political spending by corporations and unions
What is 14. CITIZENS UNITED V. FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION (2010)
This case allowed federal courts to hear redistricting cases, holding that such disputes could be justiciable under the Equal Protection Clause
What is 5. BAKER V. CARR (1962)
Based on the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause, this Supreme Court case addressed voter dilution resulting from Tennessee's failure to redraw legislative districts for 60 years.
What is 5. BAKER V. CARR (1962)
This case challenged the U.S. government’s tolerance of segregation, declaring that race-based school segregation violated the Equal Protection Clause.
What is 4. BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION (1954)
The First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause was cited in this case to exempt Amish parents from a state compulsory education law past the eighth grade.
10. WISCONSIN V. YODER (1972)
This case protected students right to wear black armbands in protest of the Vietnam War under the First Amendment
What is 8. TINKER V. DES MOINES INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (1969)
This case overturned Plessy v. Furguson and declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
What is 4. BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION (1954)
The 1963 Supreme Court ruling stated that the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of a right to counsel applies to defendants in state courts, requiring states to provide attorneys for indigent defendants in felony cases.
What is 7. GIDEON V. WAINWRIGHT (1963)
In this World War I-era case, the Court ruled that speech posing a “clear and present danger” was not protected, siding with the government's effort to restrict anti-draft leaflets.
What is 3. SCHENCK V. UNITED STATES (1919)
In this 1962 case, the Supreme Court ruled that even a nondenominational prayer written by school officials was unconstitutional for use in public schools.
6. ENGEL V. VITALE (1962)
This case ruled that speech creating a “clear and present danger” is not protected under the First Amendment.
What is 3. SCHENCK V. UNITED STATES (1919)
This case established the supremacy of the U.S. Constitution and federal laws over state laws in a dispute about a national bank
What is 2. MCCULLOCH V. MARYLAND (1819)
The court ruled that this 1993 case's oddly-shaped district was so unusual that it could only be explained as an effort to segregate voters by race, violating the Equal Protection Clause.
What is 11. SHAW V. RENO (1993)
This 1995 Supreme Court case found that a federal law banning guns in school zones was an unconstitutional overreach of Congress's power under the Commerce Clause, marking a limit on federal authority.
What is 12. UNITED STATES V. LOPEZ (1995)
What is the Supreme Court case that determined Congress exceeded its power under the Commerce Clause by making the possession of a gun in a school zone a federal crime?
12. UNITED STATES V. LOPEZ (1995)
In this case, the Court struck down school-sponsored prayer, citing a violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.
NGEL V. VITALE (1962)
This landmark case established judicial review, empowering the Supreme Court to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional
What is 1. MARBURY V. MADISON (1803)
In this landmark 1819 case, the Supreme Court affirmed that Congress had implied powers to create a national bank and ruled that a state could not tax it, establishing the supremacy of federal law over state law.
What is 2. MCCULLOCH V. MARYLAND (1819)
This landmark 2010 Supreme Court case established that corporations and unions have a First Amendment right to spend unlimited funds on independent political broadcasts to influence elections, leading to the rise of Super PACs (independent expenditure-only political committees).
What is 14. CITIZENS UNITED V. FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION (2010)