Landmark Case
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The Cherokee Nation Cases
Significant CaseThe lawsuits that forced the examination of the relationship between law and politics, particularly with respect to the Supreme Court’s ability to enforce its judgment during the early years of the Republic
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New York Times Company v. Sullivan
Significant CaseThe Supreme Court decision that arose during the Civil Rights Movement and protected freedom of the press
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Loving v. Virginia
Significant CaseThe Supreme Court decision upholding equal protection and due process in regard to interracial marriage
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Incorporating Rights
EraDuring the 1950s and 1960s, Supreme Court decisions addressed issues involving individual rights in the civil rights movement, the apportionment of voting, police procedures, and the scope of state power in areas such as birth control and school prayer.
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Hernandez v. Texas
Significant CaseThe Supreme Court case that recognized Mexican Americans as an independent racial group entitled to Fourteenth Amendment protections
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Griswold v. Connecticut
Significant CaseThe first Supreme Court case linking reproduction to the right to privacy
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Fletcher v. Peck
Significant CaseThe first time the Supreme Court declared a state law unconstitutional and a formative decision interpreting the Commerce Clause.
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Brown as the Beginning
Significant CaseThe landmark Supreme Court decision that declared public school segregation unconstitutional and led to wider civil rights victories in the 1960s.
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Browder v. Gayle
Significant CaseThe Supreme Court’s affirmation of a district court decision to outlaw segregated bussing in Montgomery, Alabama that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
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Barron v. Baltimore
Significant CaseJohn Marshall’s last opinion which addressed the existing parameters of federalism in relation to the states.
