Essay:25 Worst Court Decisions

(All decisions are by the U.S. Supreme Court except where noted; rulings overturned by the court system are not included.)

1. Roe v. Wade (and Doe v. Bolton)
2. Dred Scott v. Sanford
3. Goodridge v. Department of Public Health (Mass. Sup. Ct. 2003)
4. Engel v. Vitale
5. Buck v. Bell
6. U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton
7. Stone v. Graham
8. Stenberg v. Carhart
9. Roper v. Simmons
10. Kelo v. City of New London
11. Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971) (Used to justify eliminating religion from governmental activities, per the First Amendment.)
12. Romer v. Evans
13. Lawrence v. Texas (2003) (Struck down sodomy laws, allowing immoral conduct.)
14. Lee v. Weisman (1992)
15. Epperson v. Arkansas (1968) (forced evolution to be indoctrinated in public schools)
16. Edwards v. Aguillard (1987) (banned Creation Science from Public schools)
17. Wickard v. Filburn (1942) (no right to grow wheat on your own land)
18. Baker v. Carr (1962) (one man one vote)
19. Cooper v. Aaron (1958) (judicial supremacy)
20. Missouri v. Jenkins (1985) (upheld 1990) (ordering tax increase for school)
21. Montoy v. Kansas (Kan. Sup. Ct. 2005) (order tax increase for school)
22. Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
23. United States v. Callender (upheld the Sedition Act)
24. Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) (Created a "right to privacy" not present in the Constitution which has been used to justify abortion and sodomy.)