Supreme Court Cases to Know (1801-1835) The Marshall Court: Power of the Federal Government: (1803) Marbury v.

Madison (1819) McCulloch v. Maryland (1831) Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1832) Worcester v. Georgia Others (1857) Dred Scott v. Sandford (1896) Plessy v. Ferguson (1919) Schenck v. United States (1944) Korematsu v. United States = = = = Chief Justice Roger B. Taney decides that slaves are not citizens and cannot sue in court; slaves are property and can be taken to any state. Means that Congressional compromises were unconstitutional: all states are slave states. Upholds segregation (Jim Crow laws) and allows separate but equal facilities. Speech is not protected by the 1st Amendment if it poses a clear and present danger. Upholds Executive Order 9066 (which sent 110,000 Japanese-Americans to internment camps during WWII). Korematsu is overturned in 1982 because federal officials had suppressed evidence that vindicated JapaneseAmericans; US apologized and made a $20,000 payment to each internee. (1953-1969) The Warren Court: Civil Rights and the Rights of the Accused: (1954) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1961) Mapp v. Ohio (1962) Engel v. Vitale (1963) Gideon v. Wainwright (1964) New York Times v. Sullivan (1964) Escobedo v. Illinois (1965) Griswold v. Connecticut (1966) Miranda v. Arizona (1969) Tinker v. Des Moines (1971) New York Times v. United States (1973) Roe v. Wade (2000) Gore v. Bush = = = = = = = = = = = = Overturns Plessy v. Ferguson; separate facilities are inherently unequal; forces integration and repeal of Jim Crow laws Excludes evidence obtained illegally. Prayer in public school is unconstitutional. Government must provide defense lawyers to felony defendants who are too poor to hire attorneys. Protects publication of false statements about public officials if they are made without malice. Police must comply with arrested persons wish to consult attorney and have attorney to present during questioning. Right to privacy (contraceptives). Suspects must have their rights read to them. Gives students constitutional rights at school. Nixon did not have enough evidence to prevent the publication of the Pentagon Papers. Right to abortion. Denied Gore ballot recount in Florida because there was no state-wide standard for a manual recount. = = = = Judicial Review: Supreme Court can declare laws unconstitutional. Prohibits states from taxing the federal government. Cherokee Nation: domestic dependent nation under guardianship of federal government, not subject to state. Cherokee Nation is sovereign: all dealings with it fall under federal jurisdiction and state laws have no force on tribal lands. President Andrew Jackson ignores previous treaties with the Cherokee, as well as this ruling.

and United States v. Washington Post Co.