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Plessy v. Ferguson
The "separate but equal" provision of provate services mandated by state government IS constitutional under the "Equal Protection Clause" in the 14th Amendment. -
Holden v. Hardy
Laws limiting working hours in mines and smelters are a legitimate, constitutional exercise of the state police power, given the inherent danger of such work. -
Unoted States v. Wong Kim Ark
Children born in the United States generally acquire United States citizenship at birth via the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment -
Williams v. Mississippi
There is no discrimination in the state's requirements for voters to pass a literacy test and pay poll taxes, as these were applied to all voters. -
Cumming v. Richmond County Board of Education
The Richmond County tax, that only supported high schools open to white students, was not illegal. The city was allowed to determine the allocation of funds; Federal interference could only be justified if local authorities disregarded rights guaranteed by the constitution. -
Marks v Shoup
property issues -
Giles v. Harris
The Court refused to assist African Americans in Alabama who were being systematically denied the right to vote by a scheme set up by the all-white state legislature. -
Lochner v. New York
New York's regulation of the working hours of bakers was not a justifiable restriction on the right to contract freely under the 14th Amendment's guarantee of liberty -
US v. Shipp
Johnson was sentenced to death for raping a white woman. In his appeal he argued there were no blacks on the jury and his right to an attorney had been denied. While in prison in TN, this decision was made public. Sheriff Shipp should have protected the prisoner, but instead allowed a mob to come in and take Johnson to the city's Walnut Street Bridge and lynch him. -
Muller v. Oregon
Oregon's limit on the working hours of women was constitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment, because it was justified by the strong state interest in protecting women's health. Supreme Court of Oregon affirmed. -
Berea College v. Kentucky
States can legally prohibit private educational institutions chartered as corporations from admitting both black and white students. -
Welch v. Swasey
The statutes of Massachusetts, which limit the height of buildings in a certain quarter of a city, do not violate the constitution. -
Weems v. US
It is primarily notable as it pertains to the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. It is cited concerning the Constitutional meaning of "privacy" and the scope of what is to receive legal protection as “private”. This decision also discussed the political and legal relationship between the United States and the Philippines, which at that time was considered a U.S. colony -
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. US
The Standard Oil Company conspired to restrain the trade and commerce in petroleum, and to monopolize the commerce in petroleum, in violation of the Sherman Act, and was split into many smaller companies. Several individuals, including John D. Rockefeller, were fined. -
Hoke v. US
Upheld the Mann Act, but held that Congress could not regulate prostitution. Though Congress could not regulate prostitution per se—as that was strictly the province of the states—it could regulate interstate travel for purposes of prostitution or “immoral purposes.” -
Weeks v. US
The warrantless seizure of documents from a private home violated the Fourth Amendment prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures, and evidence obtained in this manner is excluded from use in federal criminal prosecutions. Western District of Missouri reversed and remanded. -
Mutual Film Corporation v. Industrial Commission of Ohio
Free speech and censorship of motion pictures. The free speech protection of the Ohio Constitution did not extend to motion pictures -
Guinn v. US
A state statute drafted in such a way as to serve no rational purpose other than to disadvantage the right of African-American citizens to vote violated the 15th Amendment. Constitutionality of Oklahoma's "Grandfather Law" used to disenfranchise African-American voters
