The two cases most relating to school prayer are Engel v. Vitale (1962) and
Abington Township School District v. Schempp (1963). The first case originated in NY and ruled that the school board could not require students to the recite a prayer they had written. Such required recitation was a form of state-mandated religion.
The second case, filed by a Unitarian couple in Philadelphia, ruled that required school-sponsored reading of The Bible or the Lord's prayer was illegal.
University California vs. Bakke or the bakke case
Katz v. United States
The Supreme Court of the United States found that the Judiciary Act of 1789 was unconstitutional. It was the first case declared to be so and was known as Marbury vs. Madison.
The Brown vs Board of Education court case occurred four years after Sweatt vs Painter court case. In the Brown case, laws establishing racial segregation were deemed unconstitutional. In the Sweatt case, one man sued due to not being accepted into a law school based on the color of his skin.
It allowed the Supreme Court to overrule an unconstitutional law.
Wallace v. Jaffree, 472 US 38 (1985)It was a 1985 US Supreme Court decision arising out of an Alabama case challenging the states establishment of a one minute silent prayer period at the beginning of each school day. The one minute prayer was ruled unconstitutional.
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Public school segregation was unconstitutional.
Madeline Murray O'Hair's efforts to remove organized prayer from public schools were successful with the Supreme Court case of Engel v. Vitale in 1962, which ruled that state-sponsored prayer in public schools was unconstitutional.
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Loving v. Virginia was the 1967 U.S. Supreme Court case that ruled that state laws prohibiting interracial marriage were unconstitutional.
Redistricting was not declared unconstitutional in the 1963 case Gray v. Sanders. It was after that.
University California vs. Bakke or the bakke case
University California vs. Bakke or the bakke case
Brown vs. The Board of Education ruled that separate but equal was unconstitutional.
After the Dread Scott case the Supreme Court declared the Missouri Compromise of 1820 unconstitutional