Major Decisions of the Warren Court
1954
·
Brown
v. Board of Education of
Topeka rejects the separate-but-equal concept and outlaws segregation in public
education.
1957
·
Watkins
v. U.S. restricts Congress’s
investigatory power to matters directly pertinent to pending legislation.
·
Yates
v. U.S. limits
prosecutions under the Smith Act to the advocacy of concrete revolutionary
action and disallows prosecutions for the preaching of revolutionary doctrine.
1962
·
Baker
v. Carr holds that
the federal courts possess jurisdiction over state apportionment systems to
ensure that the votes of all citizens carry equal weight.
·
Engel
v. Vitale prohibits
prayer in the public schools.
1963
·
Abington
v. Schempp bans Bible
reading in the public schools.
·
Gideon
v. Wainwright requires
states to provide attorneys at public expense for indigent defendants in felony
cases.
·
Jacobellis
v. Ohio extends
constitutional protection to all sexually explicit material that has any
“literary or scientific or artistic value.”
1964
·
New
York Times Co. v. Sullivan
expands the constitutional protection of the press against libel suits by
public figures.
·
Wesberry
v. Sanders and Reynolds
v. Sims hold that the only standard of apportionment for state
legislatures and congressional districts is “one man, one vote.”
1966
·
Miranda
v. Arizona requires
police to advise a suspect of his or her constitutional right to remain silent
and to have a counsel present during interrogation.
1967
·
Loving
v. Virginia strikes
down state antimiscegenation laws, which prohibit marriage between persons of different
races.
1968
·
Katzenbach
v. Morgan upholds
federal legislation outlawing state requirements that a prospective voter must
demonstrate literacy in English.
·
Green
v. County School Board of
New Kent County extends the Brown ruling to require the assignment
of pupils on the basis of race, to end segregation.
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