Supreme+Court+Cases


 * **1803 - Marbury v. Madison** - established judicial review - power of the Supreme Court to judge constitutionality of legislation.
 * Scott vs Stanford (Dred Scott decision)
 * **Roe vs. Wade - 1973-** A supreme court decision in which Jane Roe and her two attorneys sued District Attorney Henry Wade of Dallas at the time. Her issue was to legalize abortion, after being sexually abused, and was pregnant with her third child. The Supreme Court decided that her right for abortion was in the 1st, 4th, 5th, 9th, and 14th amendments, and it also fell in her right to privacy. Roe won, and legalized abortion, and the right of privacy.
 * **Brown vs. the Board of Education - 1954 -** This Supreme Court Decision desegregated all schools. It was in the belief that the separation of race in a school is unconstitutional. The idea that "separate, but equal" isn't really constitutional at all. It was segregation. Segregation deprived children with equal educational opportunities.
 * **Georgia vs. Worcester - 1832 -** Samuel Worcester sues the state of Georgia claiming that the regulation of activities on Cherokee land was far from fair. The supreme court agreed on authorized regulations. Samuel Worcester gained the support of the Supreme Court and they ruled in his favor.
 * **Plessy vs. Ferguson - 1896 -** It is the famous separate, but equal ideology clause. It was directed for whites and blacks.
 * **Scopes Trial:** The Scopes Monkey Trial was the first ever trial broadcasted on television. It was a trial regarding the ideology of Creation vs. Evolution. The idea of Darwin's beliefs over others.
 * **Scottsboro Trial**
 * **Salem Witch Trials**
 * **Segreagation of Schools**
 * **US vs Nixon**