Supreme+Court+Cases


 * 1803 - //Marbury v. Madison// : repealed Judiciary Act & voided act of Congress for one of the first times with the use of judiciary review
 * 1810 - //Flethcher v. Peck// : land grant = a valid contract that couldn't be repealed
 * 1819 - //Dartmouth College v. Woodward// : federal review of state court decisions = constitutional
 * 1819 - //McCulloch v. Maryland// : states couldn't tax US Bank
 * 1823 - //Johnson v. McIntosh// : only federal government could buy/take tribal land
 * 1824 - //Gibbons v. Ogden// : Congress got greater power in regulating interstate commerce
 * 1832 - //Worchester v. Georgia// : only federal government could give US citizens access to Cherokee country
 * 1837 - //Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge// : states had right to amend contracts for well-being of community --> reflected Jacksonian democratic ideal of expanding economic opportunity
 * 1842 - //Commonwealth v. Hunt// : unions + strikes = legal
 * 1842 - //Prigg v. Pennsylvania// : state enforcement of 1793 fugitive slave return law was not necessary
 * 1857 - //Dred Scott v. Sandford// : blacks weren't citizens so they couldn't sue, nor did they have any rights under the Constitution, & Missouri Compromise = unconsitutional --> Congress had no authority to pass laws depriving slave property in territories
 * 1896 - //Plessy v. Ferguson// : "separate but equal" - legalized segregation in schools
 * (not supreme court) 1925 Scopes Monkey trial : isolated/excluded fundamentalists
 * 1931 Scottsboro case : 9 black teenagers arrested for falsely-accused rape, & along w/ help of NAACP they were eventually able to gain freedom
 * 1944 //Korematsu v. U.S.// : allowed Japanese internment
 * 1954 //Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka// : called out for desegregation in schools & overruled //Plessy v. Ferguson// decision
 * 1973 //Roe v. Wade// : allowed abortion during the 1st trimester of pregnancy
 * 1962 //Baker v. Carr// : reapportioned electoral districts so that all citizens' votes have equal weight, strengthening voting power of ethnic groups in cities
 * 1978 //Bakke v. Board of Regents of California// : upheld principle of affirmative action
 * 1974 //United States v. Richard M. Nixon// : after Watergate scandal, Nixon was ordered to relinquish tapes claiming he was innocent & then influenced impeachment, although Nixon resigned instead