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Marbury v. Madison

Loving v. Virginia

Miranda v. Arizona

Korematsu v. United States

Dred Scott v. Sanford

Schenck v. United States

Tinker v. Des Moines

Brown v. Board of Education

Texas v. Johnson

Plessy v. Ferguson

In this case, the Supreme Court struck down a Virginia law banning interracial marriage.

Freedom of speech case in which the court held that burning the American Flag as political protest is a form of symbolic speech protected by the First Amendment.

Gave us the principle of Judicial Review and established the checks and balances system.

Ruling declared that people of African descent were not citizens but property even if traveling to a free state. Would be overturned by the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.

Said that separate but equal facilities were equal and would later be overturned by Brown v. Board of Education.

The Court held that if police do not inform people they arrest about their constitutional rights, then their confessions may not be used at trial. Miranda Rights

Defined "pure speech" and "symbolic speech" and were protected by the 1st Amendment. The decision state, "...it can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freed of speech or expression at the school house gate..."

Freedom of speech could be limited during times of war. The government does not violate the 1st amendment when it restricts expressions that would create a "clear and present danger".

Ruled that the forced internment camps of Japanese Americans during World War II authorized by Executive Order 9066 was a constitutional exercise of government power during a time of emergency.

Segregation in public schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment. Separate but equal was not equal. Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson