Famous Supreme Court

Cases
By Sierra Casper, Lauren
Howell, and Riley Cushing

Dred Scott v. Sandford

Dred Scott was suing Sandford for his
freedom.
His master moved from Missouri to
Illinois ,a free state, then back to
Missouri.
He sued in Missouri courts for
freedom, claiming that because he
resided in a free state, he was free
everywhere.

Dred Scott v. Sandford

When he lost in the

state court he
appealed his case to
the supreme court.

Dred Scott v. Sandford

7 out of the 9 justices at the time
had been appointed by pro slavery
presidents from the south.
5 of these owned slaves themselves.
The chief justice Roger B. Taney
owned slaves and wrote the majority
of opinion.

Dred Scott v. Sandford

He went to the court and lost in June
of 1857 because of a technicality, he
couldnt prove that he was owned by
Emerson's wife.
In the second trial he lost because
the court said that because he was a
slave, and classified as property and
not a citizen, then he was not
affected by the laws of Illinois saying
that there were no slaves there.

Bush v. Gore
Is the 2000 presidential election
president Bush ran against Gore.
The election was close and Gore
asked for a recount of the votes in
florida.

Bush v. Gore
Gore requested the supreme court
order a manual recount.
The court had 2 questions to answer
in the case. Were the manual
recounts constitutional.
If the recounts were, what is the
remedy?

Bush v. gore
In the court Theodore Olson
represented Bush.
David Boies represented Gore.

Bush v. Gore
Seven justices agreed that there was
an equal protection clause violation
is using different standards of
counting in different counties.
Five justices agreed that December
12th was the deadline Florida had
established for recounts.

US v. Nixon
This case was a impeachment case,
and was against president Nixon.
The senate accused Nixon of
withholding information that they
believed crucial to the case.

US v. Nixon
The courts question was whether the
president has the right to safeguard
certain information using his
executive privilege entirely from
judicial review.
The court was impeaching him for
the accusation of stealing certain
documents from the opposite parties
offices.

US v. Nixon
The court was requesting certain
recordings of conversations in the
oval office, the presidents
headquarters.
The president refused to give them
up, using the executive order.

US v. Nixon
The court said that he could not hold
information from the trial because
they had both a search warrant and
they had a good a proper cause.
The court ordered him to release the
tapes and shortly afterwards Nixon
resigned.

Korematsu v. US
During the second world war the
president ordered all Americans of
Japanese decent to be put into
camps to isolate them and prevent
them from giving information to
Japan.
They were very worried about this
because Japan had just bombed Pearl
Harbor and they feared that the
Japanese Americans would rebel or

Korematsu v. US
Korematsu, who lived in California,
refused to move and was arrested by
the army.
He sued the us government, claiming
that they could not detain him
because he was a citizen of the US.

Korematsu v. US
The Supreme court ruled that they could
detain anyone in a time of a emergency in
crisis for the safety of the country.
The opponents of the courts decision that
they could detain him claimed that because
he was a citizen, he was loyal to the country.
They claimed that he had committed no
crime other than being near the place where
he was born and all of his life, he had lived.