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11th Grade
05/08/2008

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Marbury v Madison
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1803- doctrine of judicial review is established
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Fletcher v Peck
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1810 - upheld the validity of contracts (with reference to land grants)
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McCulloch v Maryland
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1819- Congress could charter a bank under the "necessary and proper" clause of the constitution.
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Gibbon v Ogden
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1824- the federal government has the authority to regulate interstate commerce.
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Dred Scott v Sanford
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1857 Congress cannot prohibit slavery in the territories; blacks are not citizens.
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Ex Parte Merryman
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1861- a person could not be denied of writ of habeas corpus if arrested; Lincoln maintained such denial was proper if public safety was threatened.
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Ex Parte Milligan
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1866- military tribunals cannot try civilians, even during wartime in areas where civil courts are open.
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Munn v Illinois or the Granger Cases
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1877- states may set rates for grain storage; private property dedicated to public use is subject to government regulation.
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Plessy v Ferguson
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1896- announced the acceptance of the doctrine "seperate but equal"
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Insular Cases
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1901- territories gained in the Spanish American War were no longer to be considered "foreign countries" but neither were they assumed to be a part of the US; as territories they were ruled by Congress.
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Lochner v New York
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1905- overturned a law limiting the number of hours a company may require a worker to work; said it infringed on the freedom of contracts.
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Muller v Oregon
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1908- upheld an Oregon law limiting the # of hours women could be employed in industry; to safeguard their childbearing ability.
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Schenck v United States
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1919- freedom of speech may be curtailed if exercising that right posed a "clear and present danger" to others or to the state.
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Korematsu v US
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1914- upheld the 1942 removal of Japanese-Americans to relocation centers in inland camps; declared within the combined war powers of Congress.
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Brown v Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
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1954, 1955- overturned the "seperate bu equal" ruling in Plessy; mandated that segregated facilities be eliminated "with all deliberate speed."
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Baker v Carr
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1962- allowed the question of reapportionment to be brought up in federal courts.
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