Supreme Court Cases – AP Government
Unit I: Underpinnings of the Constitution
Federalism
Fletcher v. Peck (1810)
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
Heart of Atlanta Motel v. US (1964)
Katzenbach v. McClung (1964)
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel (1937)
Printz v. United States (1997)
South Dakota v. Dole (1987)
United States v. Lopez (1995)
United States v. Morrison (2000)
Unit II: Civil Liberties and Rights
Incorporation
Barron v. Baltimore (1833)
Palko v. Connecticut (1937)
Freedom of Religion
Engel v. Vitale (1962)
Everson v. Board of Education (1942)
Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)
Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe (2000)
Ten Commandments cases: McCreary County, KY v. American Ccivil Liberties Union of Kentucky and Van
Orden v. Perry (2005)
Wallace v. Jaffree (1985)
Westside Community Schools v. Mergens (1990)
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002)
Freedom of Speech and Press
Bethel School District No. 403 v. Fraser (1986)
Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier (1988)
Miller v. California (1973)
Near v. Minnesota (1931)
New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964)
New York Times Co. v. U.S. (1971)
Reno v. ACLU (1997)
Schenck v. United States (1919)
Texas v. Johnson (1989)
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969)
Freedom of Assembly and Petition
Boy Scouts of American v. Dale (2000)
NAACP v. Alabama (1958)
Due Process and the Rights of the Accused
Furman v. Georgia (1972)
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
Gitlow v. New York (1925)
Gregg v. Georgia (1976)
In Re Gault (1967)
Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
New Jersey v. T.L.O (1985)
Powell v. Alabama (1932)
Equal Protection of the Laws – Minorities
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)
Civil Rights Cases (1883)
Grutter v. Bollinger (2003) and Gratz v. Bollinger (2003)
Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections (1966)
Korematsu v. United States (1944)
Lawrence v. Texas (2003)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
Equal Protection of the Laws – Women
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992)
Reed v. Reed (1971)
Roe v. Wade (1973)
Webster v. Reproductive Health Services (1989)
Right to Die
Cruzan v. Missouri (1990)
Unit III: Political Beliefs and Behaviors of Individuals
Elections and the Media
Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
Bush v. Gore (2000)
Smith v. Allwright (1944)
Unit V: Instittutions of the National Government
Congress
Baker v. Carr (1962)
Powell v. McCormack (1969)
Shaw v. Reno (1993)
Sims v. Reynolds (1964)
US Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton (1995)
Wesberry v. Sanders 1964
The Presidency
Clinton v. New York City (1998)
Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha (1983)
United States v. Nixon (1973)
The Judiciary
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
US v. Lopez (1995)
The important task is to understand the cases and their ramifications.
Create a flipper style organizer of SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) Cases organized by unit and
topic. I will get you started on your organizer in class, then you will be on your own. The organizer is at the
end of each unit with the exception of Unit IV.
Use 3X5 index cards with the following information. Sources for the information include your textbook, the
SCOTUS website and internet searches.
SCOTUS Rubric
Category
Contains court case
name, date, chief
justice and related
Article/ Amendment/
Act
Background of Case
(explain the particulars
with all parties
involved, what led the
case to the Supreme
Court)
Relevance/outcome of
case
(what was the
outcome, how was it
reached by the court,
why was this an
important case)
Percent
Weight
10%
35
35
Contains all cases for
the unit
10
Organization
(alphabetical, date
order, etc; sections
labeled
10
Points
earned
Name
Comments