C963 IMPORTANT COURT CASES 2023
This case involved the Judiciary Act of 1789. The Supreme Court declared that the law conflicted with
the U.S. Constitution, and the case established the principle of judicial review wherein the Supreme
Court has the power to declare laws passed by Congress and ...
C963 IMPORTANT COURT CASES 2023
This case involved the Judiciary Act of 1789. The Supreme Court declared that the law conflicted with
the U.S. Constitution, and the case established the principle of judicial review wherein the Supreme
Court has the power to declare laws passed by Congress and signed by the president to be
unconstitutional. Ans- Maybury vs. Madison (1803)
This case concerned the constitutionality of the Missouri Compromise, which declared that certain
states would be entirely free of slavery. A slave, who was brought by his owner into free territories and
back to Missouri, a slave state, sued claiming that his time living in free territory made him free. The
court declared that the relevant parts of the Missouri Compromise were unconstitutional, and that he
remained a slave as a result. Ans- Dred Scott vs. Stanford (1856)
When a man of mixed racial heritage, sat in a whites-only railroad car in an attempt to challenge a
Louisiana law that required railroad cars be segregated, he was arrested and convicted. The court
refused his appeal that the law was in a violation of the equal protection principle because the different
train cars were separate but equal. Ans- Plessy vs. Furguson (1896)
In the early 1980s, following an assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, laws requiring
background checks for prospective gun buyers were passed. In this case, the Supreme Court upheld the
1934 National Firearms Act's prohibition of sawed-off shotguns, largely on the basis that possession of
such a gun was not related to the goal of promoting a "well regulated militia." Ans- United States vs.
Miller (1939)
During World War II, citizens of Japanese descent living on the West Coast, whether naturalized
immigrants or Japanese Americans born in the United States, were subjected to the indignity of being
removed from their communities and interned under Executive Order 9066. When challenged, the
Supreme Court decision in this case upheld the actions of the government as a necessary precaution in a
time of war. Ans- Korematsu vs. United States ( 1944)
This case challenged the principle of "separate but equal." It was brought by students who were denied
admittance to certain public schools based exclusively on race. The unanimous decision in this case
determined that the existence of racially segregated public schools violated the equal protection clause
of the Fourteenth Amendment. Ans- Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
In this case involving the Ku Klux Klan, the Supreme Court found that only speech or writing that
constituted a direct call or plan to imminent lawless action, an illegal act in the immediate future, could
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