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1793 Chisholm v. Georgia
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1803 Marbury v. Madison
Established the doctrine of judicial review, the power of the federal courts to declare legislative and executive acts unconstitutional.
In the Judiciary Act of 1789, Congress gave the Supreme Court the authority to issue certain judicial writs. The Constitution did not give the Court this power. Because the Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land, the Court held that any contradictory congressional Act is without force. The ability of federal courts to declare legislative and executive actions unconstitutional is known as judicial review.
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1819 McCulloch v. Maryland
The Constitution gives the federal government certain implied powers.
government's ability to grant charters without explicit constitutional sanction. The Supreme Court held that the tax unconstitutionally interfered with federal supremacy and ruled that the Constitution gives the federal government certain implied powers.
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1824 Gibbons v Ogden
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1832 Prigg v. Pennsylvania
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1833 Barron v. Baltimore
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1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford
Dred Scott, a slave, was purchased in Missouri and then brought to Illinois, a non-slave state. He later moved with his owner to present-day Minnesota, where slavery was prohibited, and then back to Missouri. When his owner died, Scott sued claiming he was no longer enslaved because he had become free after living in a free state. The Supreme Court decided that Scott was not a “citizen of the state” so it had no jurisdiction in the matter. The majority opinion also stated that Scott was not a free man.
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1859 Ableman v. Booth
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1861 Ex parte Merryman
Suspension of Habeas Corpus by Executive Order During the Civil war by Abraham Lincoln
At the outset of the Civil War (War of the Rebellion) President Abraham Lincoln unilaterally suspended Habeas Corpus. Chief Justice Roger Taney acting as Circuit Court Judge granted a Writ of Habeas Corpus. Note: Not a Supreme Court case.
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1869 Ex Parte McCardle
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1870 Hepburn v. Griswold
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1871 Knox v. Lee
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1873 The Slaughter-House Cases
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1873 Bradwell v. Illinois
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1875 United States v. Cruikshank
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1880 Strauder v. West Virginia
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1883 The Civil Rights Cases
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1886 Yick Wo v. Hopkins
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1890 Hans v. State of Louisiana
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1895 United States v. E.C. Knight Co.
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1896 Plessy v. Ferguson
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1903 Champion v. Ames
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1905 Jacobson v. Massachusetts
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1905 Lochner v. New York
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1908 Muller v. Oregon
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1917 Buchanan v. Warley
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1918 Hammer v. Dagenhart
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1919 Debs v. United States
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1919 Abrams v. United States
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1919 Schenck v. United States
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1922 Pennsylvania Coal Company v. Mahon
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1923 Meyer v. Nebraska
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1923 Adkins v. Children's Hospital
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1925 Gitlow v. People of the State of New York
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1925 Pierce v. Society of Sisters
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1927 Buck v. Bell
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1931 O'Gorman & Young, Inc. v Hartford Fire Insurance Company
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1931 Stromberg v. California
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1934 Nebbia v. New York
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1935 Schlecter Poultry Corp. v. United States
Schlecter Poultry Default HL
Schlecter Poultry Default Pub Note
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1937 NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp
This Public Headline Default
This Public Note Default
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1937 West Coast Hotel v. Parrish
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1938 United States v. Carolene Products
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1941 United States v. Darby
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1942 Wickard v. Filburn
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1944 Korematsu v. United States
Upheld the exclusion of Japanese Americans from the West Coast Military Area during World War II.
The Court held that the need to protect against espionage by Japan outweighed the rights of Americans of Japanese descent.
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1952 Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company v. Sawyer
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1953 Brown v. Allen
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1954 Brown v. Board of Education
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1954 Bolling v. Sharpe
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1955 Williamson v. Lee Optical
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1958 Cooper v. Aaron
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1963 Sherbert v. Verner
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1964 Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States
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1964 Katzenbach v. McClung
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1964 New York Times Company v. Sullivan
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1965 Griswold v. Connecticut
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1967 Loving v. Virginia
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1968 United States v. O'Brien
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1973 Frontiero v. Richardson
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1973 Roe v. Wade
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1976 Craig v. Boren
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1976 Buckley v. Valeo
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1976 Stone v. Powell
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1977 Wainwright v. Sykes
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1978 Penn Central Transportation Company v. New York
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1978 Regents of University of California v. Bakke
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1985 City of Cleburne v. Cleburne Living Center, Inc.
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1988 Morrison v. Olson
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1989 Texas v. Johnson
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1990 Employment Division v. Smith
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1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey
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1992 R.A.V. v. City of St. Paul
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1992 New York v. United States
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1993 Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye v. City of Hialeah
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1995 United States v. Lopez
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1996 United States v. Virginia
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1996 Romer v. Evans
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1996 Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida
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1997 South Dakota v. Dole
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1997 Printz v. United States
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1997 City of Boerne v. Flores
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1997 United States v. Flores
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2000 United States v. Morrison
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2001 INS v. St. Cyr
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2001 Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama v. Garrett
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2003 Lawrence v. Texas
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2003 McConnell v. Federal Election Commission
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2003 Grutter v. Bollinger
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2003 Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs
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2003 Gratz v. Bollinger
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2004 Hamdi v. Rumsfeld
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2005 Gonzales v. Raich
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2005 McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky
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2005 Van Orden v. Perry
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2005 Kelo v. City of New London
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2007 Crater v. Galaza
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2008 District of Columbia v. Heller
District of Columbia v. Heller was the first time in several decades that the Supreme Court interpreted the words of the Second Amendment. The case involved a ban on handguns in the home. It also involved two aspects of an ongoing debate: first, the debate over gun violence and its causes; and second, the debate over “originalism” and whether the Court can sensibly interpret the Constitution with the meaning its words would have had when its provisions were adopted. (courtesy National Constitution Center)
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2008 Boumediene v. Bush
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2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
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2010 United States v. Stevens
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2010 McDonald v. City of Chicago
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2011 Snyder v. Phelps
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2011 Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association
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2012 NFIB v. Sebelius
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2013 United States v. Windsor
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2013 Fisher v. University of Texas I
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2014 NLRB v. Noel Canning
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2014 Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores
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2015 Obergefell v. Hodges
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2016 Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt
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2016 Fisher v. University of Texas II
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2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the court held that the Constitution of the United States does not confer a right to abortion. The court's decision overruled both Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), giving individual states the full power to regulate any aspect of abortion not protected by federal law.
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2022 New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen
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