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100

This case desegregated public education, because schools are inherently unequal if separated by race.

Brown v Board of Education    

100

People of Japanese descent were forced into concentration camps after the attack on Pearl Harbor by FDR.

Korematsu v United States

100

This case released a man from jail because he confessed to a crime he committed and was not read his rights.

Miranda v Arizona

100

This Amish family refused to send their kids to public schools and won the case.

Wisconsin v Yoder

100

Students wore armbands to school to protest the war and were told to remove them. The court ruled in the students favor.

Tinker v Des Moines

200

This case made it so that abortion was legal and under the control of the federal government.

Roe v Wade

200

First Landmark Supreme Court Case that took place in 1805 and established judicial review.

Marbury v Madison

200

This person gave out pamphlets telling people to resist the draft. The 1st amendment can be limited.

Schenck v US

200

This family were Jehovah Witnesses and did not believe in saying the pledge of allegiance. 

West Virginia v Barnette

200

This person was arrested for burning the US flag in protest of the president, and was released because of freedom of speech and the right to protest.

Texas v Johnson

300

Told he was property and therefore not a citizen or a free man.

Dred Scott v Sandford

300

Told to get off of the whites only train car. Public facilities may be separated by race as long as they are equal.

Plessy v Ferguson

300

This case made it so that you can’t be searched without a search warrant, causing this person's case to be overturned when searched illegally.

Mapp v Ohio

300

This case created more of a separation between church and state, because this family did not want to be forced to pray in school.

Engel v Vitale

300

This person racially gerrymandered a district in North Carolina.

Shaw v Reno

400

Everyone has a right to counsel, this person was allowed a retrial because he was not provided a lawyer.

Gideon v Wainwright

400

He was arrested without a parent or guardian present and told he would serve almost 6 years in a juvenile detention center.

In re Gault

400

This case was a major turning point for publishers, NY Times won this case and was able to publish the Pentagon papers

New York Times v United States

400

This president tried to be over the law by using executive order - it didn't work

United States v Nixon

400

This senior in high school brought a gun to school and was arrested by the state, the Feds took over the case.

US v Lopez

500

Established that the Federal government could have a bank.

McCulloch v Maryland

500

States cannot create laws to overturn the government.

Baker v Carr

500

This person sued a school, saying he wasn’t accepted because he was white, and blamed it on reverse racial discrimination.

Regents of the University of California v Bakke

500

Students tried to publish articles about teen pregnancy and parental divorce in the school newspaper, and it was because freedom of press is limited in school.

Hazelwood v Kuhlmeier

500

These two candidates argued over whether the state of Florida should have a recount of votes.

Bush v Gore