Web Link Hits      1857 Supreme Court Landmark Case Dred Scott v. Sandford - C-SPAN 1857 Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sandford, in which the court sided 7-2 with slavery and declared that Dred Scott and other blacks could not be citizens of the U.S., and that Congress lacked the authority to prohibit slavery in the territories. 1102      1873 Supreme Court Landmark Case, Slaughterhouse Case - C-SPAN the 1873 U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the Slaughterhouse Cases, in which the court declined 5-4 to broadly apply the Fourteenth Amendment when New Orleans butchers unions objected to a slaughterhouse monopoly.The court ruled that the “privileges and 2826      1905 Supreme Court case Lochner v. New York - C-SPAN 1905 U.S. Supreme Court case Lochner v. New York in which the court voted 5-4 to strike down a state law restricting the number of hours that a baker could work.Instead the court held that the liberty to enter into contracts was protected by the due 2140      1919 Supreme Court case Schenck v. United States - C-SPAN 1919 U.S. Supreme Court case Schenck v. United States, in which the court unanimously ruled that the Espionage Act of 1917 was constitutional, even when used to punish speech that would be permissible in times of peace. 1399      1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education - C-SPAN 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, in which the court unanimously ruled that separate public schools were not equal, reversing the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson 7-1 decision requiring racial segregation in public facilities under the 1966      1961 Supreme Court Landmark Case Mapp v. Ohio - C-SPAN 1961 U.S. Supreme Court case Mapp v. Ohio, in which the court applied, via a 5-4 decision, Fourth Amendment protection against “unreasonable searches and seizures” to state criminal cases 2033      1966 Supreme Court case Miranda v. Arizona -C-SPAN 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case Miranda v. Arizona, in which the court ruled 5-4 that criminal suspects must be informed of their right against self-incrimination and their right to consult with an attorney before being questioned by police. 1383      1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade - C-SPAN 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, in which the court ruled 7-2 that women have a constitutional, but not absolute, right to terminate pregnancy based on the determined viability of the fetus 1633