Supreme Court Cases for this unit

Incorporation

Barron v. Baltimore (1833)

*Gitlow v. New York (1925)

Near v. Minnesota (1931)

Palko v. Connecticut (1937)

Freedom of Religion: Establishment Clause

*Everson v. Board of Education (1942)

*Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)

Wallace v. Jaffree (1985)

Westside Community Schools v. Mergens (1990)

Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe (2000)

Ten Commandments cases: McCreary County, KY v. American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky and Van Orden v. Perry (2005)

Freedom of Religion: Free Exercise Clause

Reynolds v. United States (1879)

Sherbert v. Verner (1963)

Employment Division, Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. Smith (1990)

Church of the Lukuani Babalu Ave., v. City of Hialeah (1993)

Freedom of Speech and Press

*Schenck v. United States (1919)

*Gitlow v. New York (1925)

Near v. Minnesota (1931)

New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964)

*Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969)

*New York Times Co. v. U.S. (1971)

Miller v. California (1973)

Bethel School District No. 403 v. Fraser (1986)

Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier (1988)

Texas v. Johnson (1989)

Morse v. Fredeerick (2007)

Freedom of Assembly and Petition

NAACP v. Alabama (1958)

Boy Scouts of American v. Dale (2000)

2^nd Amendment rights

District of Columbia v. Heller (2008)

Due Process and the Rights of the Accused

*Mapp v. Ohio (1961)

*Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)

*Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

Death Penalty cases: Furman v. Georgia (1972) and Gregg v. Georgia (1976)

New Jersey v. T.L.O (1985)

Equal Protection of the Laws – Minorities

*Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

*Korematsu v. United States (1944)

*Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)

*Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)

Lawrence v. Texas (2003)

Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) and Gratz v. Bollinger (2003)

Equal Protection of the Laws – Women and the Rights to Privacy and Abortion

*Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)

Reed v. Reed (1971)

*Roe v. Wade (1973)

Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989)

Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992)

Gonzales v. Carhart (2007)

* indicates you should know this case by name. It is sufficient to know them by their shorthand name such as Plessy or Bakke. For the other cases, knowing them by name would be ideal, but is not required. The important task is to understand the cases and their ramifications.