Supreme+Court+Cases


 * **Salem Witch Trials 1692** - over 150 women in Salem, MA sentenced to death due to accusers caliming they practiced witch craft
 * **Marbury v. Madison 1803** - John Marshall ruled judicial review in which the court settles conflicts over constitutionally
 * **McCulloch v. Maryland 1819** **-** states can't tax the fed gov't; bank of the U.S = constitutional
 * **Cherokee Nation v. Georgia 1831** **-** Cherokees could stay; tribes were "trusted" if under federal authority
 * **Worcester v. Georgia 1832** **-** tribes were separate nations within a nation (not citizens)
 * **Commonwealth v. Hunt 1842** **-** labor unions and strikes were legal
 * **Scott v. Sanford** **1857 -** the Dredd Scott decision resulted in repeal of Missouri Compromise b/c gov't could not regulate slavery
 * **Plessy v. Ferguson 1896** **-** ruled segregation was equal "separate but equal"
 * **Schenck v. U. S. 1919** **-** anyone who protested against war could be imprisoned; ruled that 1st amendment was not always guaranteed
 * **Scottsboro Case 1931** - nine black teens arrested off an alabama train; entire white court voted guilty; supreme court -=not guilty
 * **Korematsu v. U. S. 1941** **-** legalized the Japanese concentration camps during WW2
 * **Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas 1954** **-** repealed separate but equal ruling; segregation now illegal
 * **Miranda v. Arizona 1966 -** right to remain silent during an arrest
 * **Roe v. Wade 1973** **-** legalized abortion w/in 1st 3 months of pregnancy; "right to privacy"
 * **U.S. v. Richard M. Nixon (1974)** - Nixon had to give supreme court the tapes b/c