top 30 supreme court cases

- established the principle of judicial review
- stregthen power of judicial
- by giving s.c authority to declare acts unconst

-Confirmed right of Congress to utilize implied powerd to carry out enumerated powers
- validated supremacy of nat gov over state, declaring state cannot interfere with or tax activities of fed gov.

- stregthen power of fed gov to regualte interstate commerce
- established commerce clause as key for xpansion of fed power

- struck down state-sponserd prayer in public school
- ruled reagents prayer unconst violate establishment clause

- struck down state fund for priv religous schls.
- sate aid to church schls meet 3test. 1) purpse of aid clearly secular.2) gov action cnt adv nor inhibit relig. 3) gov cnt foster an entanglment btween gov and religion.

-banned polygamy
- distinguished btwen relig belifes prtcted by Free exercise clasue, and relig prac that may be restricted
- ruled relig prac cant make an act legal tht was already illegal

- Banned use of illegal drugs in relig ceremonies
- ruled gov can act whn relig prac violate criminal laws

-ruled free speach can be limited whn presents "clear and preasent danger"
- condit undr which pub authrties cn limit free spch

- ruled tht pub officals cant win a suit for defamation, unlss is made w/ "actual malice"
-"actual malice" stndrd to prmote "uninhibited, robust, wide open" pub debate

- ruled obscenity not const prtectd free speech
- created "prevailing community standards"rule requiring a considertion of wrk as whole

- prtected some frms of symbolic speech
- ruled students dont "shed their const rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate."
- const rights apply in school

- ruled that flag burning is a form of symbolic speech protected by 1st amendment

- ruled that the BoR CANT be applied to the states

- establlished precedent for the doctrine of selective incorporation
- ths extendng most requiremnts of BoR to states

- extended EXLUSIONARY RULE, to states
- illustrated selective incorp thrgh the DUE PROCESS CLAUSE of 14th amend

- established exlusionary rule in FEDERAL CASES
- prohibited evidence obtained illegally from bieng admitted in court

- ruled 6th amend(right to council) prvsions applies to accused of major crimes under state laws
- 6th amend applied to states thrgh DUE PROCESS CLAUSE of 14th amend

- ruled plice must inform crimnal suspcts of const rights before QUESTIONING suspects after arrest
- police must read Miranda rules to crimnal suspects

- ruled African americans not citezens, thus could not petition in S.C court
- overturned by 14th amend

- upheld jim crow laws, segragation
- "seperate but equal" public facilities for african americans

- ruled African americans not citezens, thus could not petition in S.C court
- overturned by 14th amend

- racially segregated schools violated equal protection clasue of 14th amend
- reversed principle of plessy v ferguson

- orderd medical schll to admti Bakke
- medical school strict quota denied Bakke the equall protct 14th
- race could be used as ONE FACTOR among others for admittance

- upheld affirmative action policy
- upheld Bakke ruling tht race could be a consideration, but QUOTAS ARE ILLGAL

- ruled that a CT law criminilizing the use of contraceptives violated the right to marital privacy
- important precedent for Roe v. Wade

- ruled that decision to obtain abortion is protected by right to privacy implied by BoR

- ruled that judicial brnch of gov cna rule on matters of legislative apportionment
- "one person, one vote"
- orderd state legis districts be as equall as possible

- "one person, one vote" in drawging congressional districts
- tirggerd widespread redistricting that gave cities and suburbs greatr represen in Congress

- upheld the consttionality of the relocation of Jap americans as a wartime necessity
- viewed as a flagrant violation of civil liberties

- ruled no Constitional gurantee of UNQUALIFIEd EXECUTIVE PRIVLAGE

- upheld federal limits on campaign contributions
- strck down FEC act limiting amount of money indiv can contribute to campaign
- ruled spending money on ones camp. prtcted as freedom of speech
-complicated congrssional efforts to enact signif campain finance reform