Georgia's legislature repealed an earlier land grant once it came out that the grant had been bought with bribes. In Fletcher v. Peck (1810) the Supreme Court struck the repeal down. What did the ruling hold?

Worcester v. Georgia (1832) decided the case of a missionary jailed for living in Cherokee territory without a license from the state. What did the Court hold?

Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) ruled against an enslaved man who sued for his freedom after his owner took him to live in a free state and a free territory. What did the Court hold?

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) reviewed Louisiana's Separate Car Act after Homer Plessy was arrested for sitting in a car reserved for white passengers. What rule did the Court announce?

In Munn v. Illinois (1877) the Court upheld an Illinois law that set the maximum rates Chicago grain elevators could charge farmers for storage. What did the decision hold?

Gitlow v. New York (1925) upheld a socialist's conviction under a state criminal anarchy law, yet the decision is remembered for a step it took along the way. What was that step?

A unanimous Court in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (1935) ruled against the government over the live poultry code written under the National Industrial Recovery Act. What did it hold?

Korematsu v. United States (1944) reviewed the wartime order that excluded Japanese Americans from the West Coast. What did the Court hold?

Engel v. Vitale (1962) considered a short prayer that New York's Board of Regents had written for public schools to say at the start of each day. What did the Court hold?

Miranda v. Arizona (1966) threw out a confession taken during a two-hour interrogation of a suspect who had never been told his rights. What did the ruling require of police?

New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964) overturned a libel judgment won by an Alabama police commissioner over an advertisement that contained some false statements. What did the Court hold?

United States v. Nixon (1974) decided whether the President had to hand taped Oval Office conversations to a special prosecutor. What did the unanimous Court hold?

Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972) reviewed fines imposed on Amish parents who would not send their children to high school. What did the Court hold?

New Jersey v. T.L.O. (1985) reviewed an assistant principal's search of a student's purse after she was caught smoking in a school lavatory. What did the Court hold?

Maryland taxed the notes issued by a branch of the national bank, and the branch's cashier refused to pay. In 1819 a unanimous Court held that Congress could charter the bank and that the state could not tax it. Which case is this?

New York granted one company a monopoly on steamboat traffic in its waters, and a rival ran boats under a federal coasting license. In 1824 the Court ruled for the federal licensee. Which case is this?

In 1831 the Cherokee asked the Supreme Court to block Georgia's laws, suing as a foreign nation. The Court refused to take the case, describing them instead as a domestic dependent nation. Which case is this?

Louisiana handed one company a monopoly over slaughtering in New Orleans, and rival butchers argued the Fourteenth Amendment protected their trade. In 1873 the Court read its privileges or immunities clause very narrowly. Which case is this?

The government sued under the Sherman Antitrust Act to break up a combination that controlled nearly all sugar refining in the country. In 1895 the Court held the Act did not reach it, because refining is manufacturing. Which case is this?

A cook born in San Francisco to Chinese parents was refused re-entry to the country after a visit to China. In 1898 the Court held he had been a citizen from the moment of his birth. Which case is this?

New York limited bakery employees to ten hours a day and sixty a week. In 1905 the Court struck the limit down as an interference with the freedom of employer and employee to contract. Which case is this?

Parents in several states challenged laws that assigned Black and white children to separate public schools. In 1954 a unanimous Court held the practice unconstitutional under the Equal Protection Clause. Which case is this?

A Florida man charged with breaking into a poolroom asked the trial judge for a lawyer and was told the state supplied one only in capital cases. In 1963 the Supreme Court ruled for him. Which case is this?

Cleveland police forced their way into a woman's home without a warrant and found material that was used to convict her. In 1961 the Court held that the evidence could not be used in a state court. Which case is this?

During the Korean War the President ordered the Secretary of Commerce to take over the nation's steel mills to head off a strike. In 1952 the Court held the seizure unlawful. Which case is this?

With Florida's electoral votes still undecided, the Court held in December 2000 that the state's manual recount had no uniform standard and stopped it, leaving the certified result in place. Which case is this?

Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969) held that a state may punish advocacy of force only where it is directed to inciting imminent lawless action and is likely to produce it. Which earlier ruling did the Court expressly overrule?

West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish (1937) upheld Washington's minimum wage law for women by a vote of 5-4, and in doing so expressly overruled one of its own earlier decisions. Which one?

Tennessee had not redrawn its legislative districts since 1901, and voters in the growing cities sued. Baker v. Carr (1962) let the suit go forward in federal court. What did that change?

A motel in downtown Atlanta that refused Black guests challenged Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and a unanimous Court upheld the law that December. Which power of Congress did the ruling rest on?

Shelby County v. Holder (2013) struck down the formula in Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act that decided which states and counties were covered by it. What did that change in practice?

Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022) upheld a Mississippi law banning most abortions after fifteen weeks and returned the question to elected lawmakers. Which precedents did it overrule?

In Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (2023) the Court held that the admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina violated the Equal Protection Clause. What practice did the ruling end?

Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) decided cases brought by same-sex couples from four states that would not marry them or recognize their marriages. What did the ruling require of every state?

Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway Co. v. Illinois (1886) held that Illinois could not regulate the rates a railroad charged on shipments crossing state lines. What did Congress do about it the next year?

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010) struck down limits on independent political spending and overruled Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce. What did the ruling allow?

Chief Justice John Marshall wrote in 1803 that 'It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.' Which case produced that line?

A 1969 opinion said that students and teachers do not 'shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.' The case grew out of black armbands worn to protest the Vietnam War. Which case is it?

Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote in 1964 that 'Legislators represent people, not trees or acres,' in a ruling that both houses of a state legislature must be apportioned by population. Which case is it?

An 1866 opinion freeing an Indiana civilian sentenced to death by a military commission said the jury trial guarantee 'was intended for a state of war, as well as a state of peace.' Which case is it?