United States v Nixon (1974)
Case The Watergate scandal began after President Richard Nixon started an investigative team in his administration known as the “Plumbers.” The Plumbers’ first purpose was
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Buck v Bell (1927)
Case Throughout the Progressive Era, enthusiasm for eugenics was growing. Eugenicists believed that by eliminating hereditary defects, the general population would strengthen. Prior to Harry
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Case Leading up to the Dred Scott decision, a changing America was plagued with the issue of how to handle slavery, a backward and heinous
Pottawatomie v. Earls (2001)
Case The war on drugs started in the ‘70s, but drug use in teens was still a major problem in the late 1990s. Pottawatomie County
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Case The Reconstruction Era ended with the Compromise of 1877, which allowed for Southern Democrats to regain control of the South. During the Reconstruction Era,
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
Case In 1963, the police took Ernesto Miranda in for questioning concerning a kidnapping and rape case. Miranda was identified as the perpetrator in a
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
Case In 1879, a Connecticut law banned the use of contraceptives and established punishment for anyone who assisted in providing contraception. The law became more
Phillips v. Martin Marietta Corporation (1971)
Case Ida Phillips was a wife and mother of seven children living in Orlando, Florida. She worked as a waitress while helping to raise her
Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)
Case In June of 2015, 13 states in the United States had still not legalized same-sex marriage. Four of those states were Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky,
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Case The United States government has a long history of laws banning miscegenation, which is marriage or procreation between people of different races. Forty-one states
