Who was the First African American Supreme Court Justice?

In this landmark case a slave sued for his freedom after being brought into a free territory, it was eventually ruled that he was personal property therefore could not sue

landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of abortion. the Court ruled 7–2 that a right to privacy under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman's decision to have an abortion,

A series of cases to determine the status of newly acquired territories under the Treaty of Paris

The first U.S. Supreme Court ruling to deal with homosexuality and the first to address free speech rights with respect to homosexuality taking place in 1958.

Who was the First Woman to be appointed to the Supreme Court?

Justified "Separate but equal" in the early 19th century

In this case the Supreme Court invalidated the Comstock law on the grounds that it violated the "right to marital privacy", establishing the basis for the right to privacy in intimate practices.

landmark United States Supreme Court decision establishing that the U.S. court system has the authority to decide whether foreign nationals (non-U.S. citizens) held in Guantanamo Bay were wrongfully imprisoned.

The Court struck down the sodomy law in Texas and, by extension, invalidated sodomy laws in 13 other states, making same-sex sexual activity legal in every U.S. state and territory

He served as the 14th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, from 1953 to 1969, wrote the opinion for a unanimous court in Brown v. Board of Education.

Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson and influenced the Civil Rights act of 1964 as well as the Voting Rights Act of 1965

This case argued that an Idaho law favoring men over women was a violation of the 14th amendment.

United States Supreme Court case in which the Court recognized the power of the government to detain enemy combatants, including U.S. citizens, but ruled that detainees who are U.S. citizens must have the rights of due process, and the ability to challeng

United States Supreme Court decision, overturned in 2003, that upheld the constitutionality of a Georgia sodomy law criminalizing oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults when applied to homosexuals.

President George W. Bush nominated him as Chief Justice of the United States, and he took his seat September 29, 2005.

This case upheld protections under the 13th amendment for anyone to buy property regardless of race and whether or not the property is private

United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, an employer may not, in the absence of business necessity, refuse to hire women with pre-school-age children while hiring men with such children

United States Supreme Court case involving principles of both governmental regulation of business and the supremacy of the executive branch of the federal government to conduct foreign affairs. The Supreme Court concluded not only that foreign affairs pow

United States Supreme Court held that restricting U.S. federal interpretation of "marriage" and "spouse" to apply only to heterosexual unions

Fifteenth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
(1969-1986), In United States v. Nixon (1974) he ordered President Nixon, then struggling with the Watergate scandal, to release White House tape recordings to the special prosecutor.

This case made it illegal to deny someone property due to race

Unanimously, the Supreme Court upheld an Oregon state law limiting women to working no more than ten hours a day (which was not the case for men). This ruling was negative in that it expressed an opinion of inequality between men and women. Claiming that

Name the years in which the Insular Cases took place

In another setback to the gay-rights movement, the Court ruled 5–4, that the Boy Scouts of America have a constitutional right to ban gays because the organization's opposition to homosexuality as part of its "expressive message."