APUSH Supreme Court Cases example #39228

1973 All state laws prohibiting abortions were made unconstitutional based on a woman's right to privacy

1972 Death penalty is unconstitutional unless fairly applied

1964 Upholds Civil Rights Act of 1964, which is broken when an African American customer is denied service at a motel

1963 All people charged with a felony must be provided legal counsel

1964 Police must honor a person's request to have an attorney present during interrogation

1966 Determines the rights of an arrested person

1962 Opens court for numerous voting suits

1962 Ruled that State Sponsored prayer of any type is unconstitutional because it goes against the First Amendment's establishment of the religion clause

1954 Rules separate inherently unequal and instructs states to integrate

1978 Bans racial quotas

1857 Defined slaves as property and rules the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional because the Federal Government does not have the rights to limit slavery in the territories because slaves are property

1824 Congress may regulate interstate commerce

1908 Reenforces the constitutionality an Oregon law that limits women to ten hour work days in factories and laundries

1819 Determines that no state can control a federal government agency

1944 Upholds the idea that the government's need to protect against espionage outweighs a person's rights

1886 States have no power to regulate interstate commerce

1919 Determines that speech may be suppressed if it creates a clear and present danger

1901-1905 Determines that people living in American territories are not necessarily subject to the rights of a U.S. citizen

1837 A reversal of Dartmouth College v. Woodward. This case determines that a contract could be broken to benefit the general welfare

1803 Establishes judicial review

1819 Reaffirms the power of contracts by stating that a contract can not be arbitrarily changed without the consent of both parties

1896 Establishes "separate, but equal"

1810 Reaffirms the sanctity of contracts by validating an original contract in Georgia that offered extensive land grants, despite the issue's associated corruption

1873 Determines that the federal government is under no obligation to protect the "privileges and immunities" of citizens of a particular state against arbitrary actions by that state's government