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15 Supreme Court Cases You Need To Know

1. Marbury v. Madison (1803) (deep dive video)

2. McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) (brief video, deep dive video, article)

3. Schenck v. United States (1919) (article)

4. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) (deep dive video)

5. Baker v. Carr (1961) (deep dive video)

6. Engel v. Vitale (1962) (article)

7. Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) (article)

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

9. New York Times Company v. United States (1971) (article)

10. Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972) (article)

11. Roe v. Wade (1973) (deep dive video)

12. Shaw v. Reno (1993) (article)

13. United States v. Lopez (1995) (video, article)

14. McDonald v. Chicago (2010) (deep dive video)

15. Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010) (brief video, deep dive video)

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Supreme Court Cases Resources

1. Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942)

2. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

3. Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

4. District of Columbia v. Heller (2008)

5. Escobedo v. Illinois (1964)

6. Furman v. Georgia (1972)

7. Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)

8. Gitlow v. New York (1925)

9. Gregg v. Georgia (1976)

10. Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (1964)

11. Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)

12. McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

13. Mapp v. Ohio (1961)

14. Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

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

16. Nix v. Williams (1984)

17. United States v. Leon (1984)

18. Arizona v. Evans (1995)

19. Maryland v. Garrsion (1987)

19. Texas v. Johnson (1989)

20. Olmstead v. United States (1928)

21. Katz v. United States (1967)

22. California v. Acevedo (1991)

23. Wyoming v. Houghton (1999)

24. Florida v. J.L. (2000)

25. Minnesota v. Carter (1999)

26. Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier (1988)

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REQUIRED Supreme Court Cases SUMMARY

The above Supreme Court cases YOU SHOULD KNOW will be used to compare and contrast the cases that are REQUIRED to KNOW. The SHOULD KNOW CASES (SKC) will always be given to you on the test with full description/ explanation but, the REQUIRED TO KNOW CASES (RTKC) will not have explanations--YOU MUST KNOW THEM