Supreme+Court+Cases


 * 1803, //Marbury v. Madison//- established judicial review, power of the Supreme Court to judge constitutionality of legislation.
 * //Scott v. Sanford -// Also known as the Dred Scott decision, declared African Americans not able to obtain citizenship.
 * //1973, Roe v. Wade - Roe sued District Attorney Wade (TX), because the law that declared abortion illegal went against the 1, 4, 5 9, 14th Amendments. The Supreme Courts agreed with Roe and declared all state laws prohibiting abortion in the first trimester invalid.//
 * //1954, Brown v. Board of Education -// Courts decided that the "separate but equal" ideology was against the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, this desegregated schools.
 * //`832, Georgia v. Worcester -// Worcester sued the state of Georgia, claiming that they had no right to regulte activites on Cherokee Nation land. The Supreme Courts agreed with Worcester.
 * //1831, Cherokee Nation v. Georgia -// Cherokee Nation sued the state, claiming they could not forcefully remove Cherokees from their land. ruled in favor of Georgia.
 * //1896, Plessy v. Ferguson -// Plessy was arrested for sitting in a white rail road car in 1892, he took his case to court claiming it went against the 14th Amendment. The courts upheld their separate but equal idea, and said that as long as the carts had equal liberties then segregation was okay.
 * //1925, The State of Tennessee v. Scopes -// Scopes was tried for teaching evolution in schools. The courts claimed that he was not guilty, there was no right way to teach a belief like such - a trial of theology.
 * //1944, Korematsu v. U.S. -// Korematsu was arrested for avoiding following executive orders of being sent to internment camps established after Pearl Harbor. The courts agreed with th government that the protection of the country was more important than those of individual Japanese-Americans.
 * //1930-1950, Scottsboro Trials -// A group of black teenage boys were accused of raping two women. Without any evidence, the boys were convicted. Through retrials, it took 20 years to get some - but not all of the boys out of prison. By the time their names were cleared, they had already served their sentence.
 * //1974, U.S. v. Nixon -// Prosecutor in the case requested President Nixon's tapes of his meetings, due to his incomplete compliance, the case was taken to court. There the Supreme Court decided that executive privilege was not limitless, and the tapes were released.
 * //1966, Miranda v. Arizona -// Miranda was fought guilty of a crime, but the police of Arizona never told him of his 5th amendment right against self-incrimination and his 6th amendment right to an attorney. His attorney argued, and Congress agreed that his confession should be excluded from the trial.
 * //1978, Regents of U. of CA v. Bakke -// Bakke sued the U of CA for excluding him based on race, when under the special admissions program, people with lower grades than him were accepted. Congress found that he was correct, and the race was a permissible criteria.
 * //1819, McCulloch v. Maryland// - national bank employee refused to pay the yearly tax to all banks created outside of the state, congress declared that Maryland had no right to tax the national bank and that they had implied powers to create it.