AP Government: Civil Rights & Civil Liberties
Supreme Court Case Project
Directions:
1. Research your four cases using one of the following sites:
http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/
http://www.oyez.org
http://www.streetlaw.org/en/landmark/home
2. Make one PowerPoint to present all of your cases to the class. Save your PPT as “Court Cases – T. Golibart”
3. Make sure you have taken down the critical information for your case (see below)
a. Facts of the case (Who is involved? What’s the story, briefly?)
b. Stare Decisis (What previous decision had the USSC made that may affect this case?)
c. Constitutional Question (What was the court determining?)
d. Implications (Why is this case so important? What are the potential effects?)
4. Add illustrations to show your audience what is going on and keep them interested.
5. Email your PowerPoint to me before class on the due date.
Total Points: 100
Test Grade
Due:
My Cases:
1. __________________________________________________
2. __________________________________________________
3. __________________________________________________
Landmark Supreme Court Cases
Judicial Power
Baker v. Carr (1962)
Separation of Powers/Federalism
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
Munn v. Illinois (1877)
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Co. v. Illinois (1886)
Amendment 1: Freedom of Speech
Schenck v. United States (1919)
Gitlow v. New York (1925)
Debs v. United States (1919)
Schecter Poultry Corp. v. The United States (1933)
Dennis v. United States (1951)
Yates v. United States (1957)
Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
Island Trees School District v. Pico (1982)
Bethel School District v. Fraser (1986)
Texas v. Johnson (1989)
Santa Fe Independent School District v. Newdow (2004)
Morse v. Frederick (2007) - TG
Amendment 1: Freedom of Religion
Reynolds v. US (1878)
Cantwell v. Connecticut (1940)
Engle v. Vitale (1962)
Abington v. Schempp (1963)
Epperson v. Arkansas (1968)
Church of Lukumi Babalu v. City of Hialeah (1993) - TG
Gonzales v. Oregon (2006)
Amendment 1: Freedom of the Press
Near v. Minnesota (1931)
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964)
NY Times v. United States (1971)
Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier (1988)
Amendment 1: Freedoms of Assembly and Petition
National Socialist Party of America v. Village of Skokie
(1977)
Snyder v. Phelps (2011)
Amendment 2: To Keep & Bear Arms
McDonald v. Chicago (2010)
Amendment 4: Search & Seizure
Weeks v. United States (1914)
Olmstead v. United States (1928)
Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
Katz v. United States (1961)
New Jersey v. T.L.O. (1984) - TG
Stafford v. Redding (2009)
Amendment 5: Self-incrimination; Double Jeopardy
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
Amendment 6: Rights of the Accused
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
Amendment 9: Implied Rights (rights beyond the
Constitution)
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
Roe v. Wade (1973)
Amendment 14: Civil Rights
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Brown v. Board of Ed. Topeka Kansas (1954)
Korematsu v. United States (1944)
University of California Regents v. Bakke (1976)
Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)