1.1. Protection of contracts to corporate charters
1.2. The president of Dartmouth College deposed of its trustees, leading the New Hampshire legislature to force the college to become a public institution
2. McCulloch v. Maryland
2.1. States could not hamper the exercise of national interests
2.2. The state of Maryland attempted to delay the operation of a branch of the second banks by imposed taxes on all notes
3. Marbury v. Madison
3.1. Asserted Judicial Power
3.2. In 1801 Congress passed a law granting the president a chance to appoint 42 justices of peace in D.C.
4. Gibbons v. Ogden
4.1. The court broaden the meaning of interstate commerce, extending federal authority
4.2. Livingston and Fulton were given navigation privileges on all waters in the states jurisdiction for 20 years. Ogden tried to defy the monopoly by purchasing the license from Livingston and Fulton
5. Fletcher V. Peck
5.1. Extended courts power to review state laws
5.2. Fletcher bought land from Peck while the 1785 act was still in force. Fletcher sued Peck stating that Peck didn't have a clear title when he sold it.
6. Dred Scott v. Sanford
6.1. Rights of the state and rights of citizens
6.2. In 1857 Taney read an opinion that declared African Americans were not and could not be citizens, the Missouri Compromise was not constitutional, and Congress could not stop slavery
7. Plessy v. Ferguson
7.1. Established the separate but equal doctorine
7.2. In 1896 the law required that all railroads operating in the state of Louisiana must provide separate cars for both African American and White People
8. Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States
8.1. Proposed to increase the number of supreme court justices
8.2. Rendered the National Industrial Recovery Act Unconstituional
9. Scheuck v. United States
9.1. Holmes insisted that the court had departed from the standard he had crafted for them.
9.2. Established the "clear and present danger" in free speech
10. Debs v. United States
10.1. Upheld the contempt conviction of labor leader Eugene V. Debs who had disobeyed an order to call off strike against a railroad company
10.2. Upheld the Espionage Act of 1917
11. Brown v. Board of Education
11.1. This case over turned Plessy v. Ferguson; declared state laws that black and white schools but be kept apart
11.2. Established the separate but equal doctrine
12. United States v. E.C. Knight and Co.
12.1. EC Knight and CO was effected by the Anti-Trust Act, which controlled transportation and industry to reduce monopolization
12.2. The act was constitutional but did not apply to manufacturing
13. Lochner v. New York
13.1. The State's right to limit bakery workers hours to 10 per day
13.2. "Liberty of Contract" was implicit in the fourteenth amendment
14. Roe v. Wade
14.1. Set the conditions in which a woman could legally obtain an abortion
