Right to Privacy (Cases)
The 1973 Supreme Court case which established national abortion guidelines by extending the inferred right of privacy from Griswold v. Connecticut.
What is Roe v. Wade?
The 1954 Supreme Court case which ruled the doctrine of "separate but equal" to be unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
The 1944 Supreme Court case which ruled that American citizens of Japanese descent could be interned and deprived of basic constitutional rights due to executive order.
What is Korematsu v. United States?
The 1963 act that made it illegal to base an employee's pay on race, gender, religion, or national origin.
What is the Equal Pay Act of 1963?
The 1990 act that requires businesses with more than twenty-four employees to make their offices accessible to the disabled. it also requires public transportation, new offices, hotels, and restaurants to be wheelchair-accessible whenever feasible. it mandated the development of wider telephone services for the hearing-impaired.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990?
The 1992 Supreme Court case in which a Pennsylvania law that would have required a woman to notify her husband before getting an abortion was thrown out. states can regulate abortion but not with regulations that impose an "undue burden" upon women.
What is Planned Parenthood v. Casey?
The 1896 Supreme Court case which allowed "separate but equal" facilities based on race.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The 1803 Supreme Court case which established judicial review- the Supreme Court's power to strike down acts of United States Congress which conflict with the Constitution.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
The 1964 act that increased the rights of blacks and other minorities, but also gave the federal government greater means of enforcing the law. the law banned discrimination in public accommodations and also prohibited discrimination in hiring based on color and gender.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
The 1967 act that prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of age. the law makes an exception for jobs in which age is essential to job performance.
What is the Age Discrimination Act of 1967?
The 2003 Supreme Court case which explicitly overruled Bowers saying that consensual sexual conduct was part of the liberty protected under the Fourteenth Amendment.
What is Lawrence v. Texas?
The 1978 Supreme Court case which stated that quotas requiring a certain percentage of minorities violated the Fourteenth Amendment.
What is Regents of the University of California v. Bakke?
The 1925 Supreme Court case that held that speech could be restricted even if it has only a tendency to lead to illegal action. began the process of selective incorporation.
What is Gitlow v. New York?
A 1965 act which is designed to counteract voting discrimination in the South. it allowed the federal government to step into any state or country in which less than 50% of the population was registered to vote, or in areas that used literacy tests to prevent voting.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1965?
The 1988 act increased its potency by allowing the government to cut off all funding to schools that violate the law
What is the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1988?
The 1965 Supreme Court case which noted that amendments like the Third, Fourth, and Ninth all cast "penumbras and emanations" which showed that the Founders really had intended for a right to privacy all along.
What is Griswold v. Connecticut?
The 2003 Supreme Court cases which determined that undergraduate school did so by giving minority applicants a large boost in the undergraduate system of election.
What is Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger?
The 1974 Supreme Court case in which Congress claimed that there was no such thing as executive privilege. the court disagreed and allowed for executive privilege. but they forbid its usage in criminal cases, which meant that Nixon ultimately did have to turn over the tapes.
What is United States v. Nixon?
A 1991 act that limited the abilities of job applicants and employees to bring suit against employers with discriminatory hiring practice; it eased those restrictions.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1991?
The 1982 act that requires states to create children congressional districts with minority majorities in order to increase minority representation in the House of Representatives.
What is the Voting Rights Act of 1982?
The 1989 Supreme Court case which gave states more power to regulate abortion.
What is Webster v. Reproductive Health Service?
The 1964 Supreme Court case which determined that the Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 mandated that places of public accommodation are prohibited from discrimination against African Americans.
What is Heart of Atlanta Motel Inc. v. United States?
The 1819 Supreme Court case which established a precedent of federal courts using judicial review to strike down congressional legislation.
The 1875 act that banned discrimination in hotels restaurants, and railroad cars, as well as banned discrimination in selection for jury duty. the act was declared unconstitutional in 1883.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
The 2009 act that closed a loophole that limited suits on discriminatory pay based on the timing of the issuance of the first discriminatory paycheck. allows suits based on any discriminatory paycheck.
What is the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009?