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Constitution Interpretation & Judicial Review:

  • Marbury v Madison (1803)

Interstate Commerce:

  • Wickard v. Filburn (1942)

Slavery, Civil Rights, & Discrimination:

  • United States v Cinque (1841)

  • Dred Scott v Sandford (1857)

  • Ableman v. Booth (1859)

  • Plessy v Ferguson (1896)

  • Smith v Allwright (1944)

  • Korematsu v. United States(1944) (Japanese internment)

  • Brown v Board of Education Topeka KA (1954)

  • Walker v City of Birmingham (1967)

  • Frontiero v Richardson (1973)

  • Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
  • Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)
  • Ricci v. DeStefano (2009) (New Haven Firefighters)

First Amendment:

  • West Virginia v. Barnette (1943) (Pledge of Allegiance in school)

  • New York Times v. Sullivan (1964) (free press)

  • New York Times v United States (1971) (free press)

  • Buckley v. Valeo (1976) (campaign financing)
  • Texas v. Johnson (1989) (flag burning as protest)
  • McConnell v. Federal Election Commission (2003) (campaign financing)
  • Randall v. Sorrell (2006) (compaign financing)

Second Amendment:

  • United States v. Curtiss-Wright (1936)

  • United States v. Miller (1939)

  • District of Columbia v. Heller (2008)

Fourth Amendment:

  • Hudson v Michigan (2006)

Fifth Amendment:

  • Miranda v Arizona (1966) (self incrimination)

  • Kelo v New London (2005) (eminent domain)

Sixth Amendment:

  • Taylor v Louisiana (1975) (impartial jury)

 

Fourteenth Amendment (due process)

  • Allgeyer v Louisiana (1897) (due process)

  • Nebbia v New York (1934) (due process)

  • Colegrove v Green (1946) (equal protection)

  • Baker v Carr (1962) (equal protection)

  • Griswold v Connecticut (1965) (right to privacy)

  • Roe v Wade (1973) (right to privacy)

Federalism Issue:

  • McCulloch v Maryland (1819)

  • US v Lopez (1995)

  • Printz v United States (1997)

 

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