Landmark Supreme Court cases
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Brown v. Board of Education: equal schooling for all
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Gideon v. Wainwright: free legal counsel
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Cherokee nation v. Georgia: Native American rights
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Clay v. United States: Muhammad Ali objects to war
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Mapp v. Ohio: evidence and search warrants
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Plessy v. Ferguson: separate but equal?
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Texas v. Johnson: the flag burning case
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The Bakke case: quotas in college admissions
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Ferrell v. Dallas I.S.D.: hairstyles in schools
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Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier: censorship in school newspapers
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Korematsu v. United States: Japanese-American internment camps
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Marbury v. Madison: powers of the Supreme Court
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Gibbons v. Ogden: controlling trade between states
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New York Times v. Sullivan: affirming freedom of the press
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Schenck v. United States: restrictions on free speech
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Vernonia School District v. Acton: drug testing in schools
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Lemon v. Kurtzman: the religion and public funds case
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Loving v. Virginia: interracial marriage
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Cipollone v. Liggett Group: suing tobacco companies
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Bush v. Gore: controversial presidential election case
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McCulloch v. Maryland: when state and federal powers conflict
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District of Columbia v. Heller: the right to bear arms case
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The Dred Scott case: slavery and citizenship
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Furman v. Georgia: the death penalty case
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New York Times v. United States: national security and censorship
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Dred Scott v. Sandford: slavery and freedom before the American Civil War
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Plessy v. Ferguson : segregation and the separate but equal policy
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Korematsu v. the United States: World War II Japanese-American internment camps
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