Supreme Court Cases Trivia
Test your legal standing and see if you can pass the bar—or at least avoid being held in contempt by the ghost of John Marshall.
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
Which landmark 1954 decision unanimously ruled that "separate but equal" public schools violated the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause?
Brown v. Board of Education
Which 1803 landmark case, sparked by a dispute over an undelivered commission, established the Supreme Court's power of judicial review?
Marbury v. Madison
Which 1969 ruling famously stated that students do not "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate"?
Tinker v. Des Moines
Which 1995 decision involving a ban on guns in school zones was the first since the New Deal to limit Congress’s power under the Commerce Clause?
U.S. v. Lopez
Which lone dissenting justice famously wrote that "our Constitution is color-blind" in the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson?
John Marshall Harlan