Warren Court
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The Warren Court was the activist U.S. Supreme Court led by Chief Justice Earl Warren from 1953 to 1969. The Justices who voted consistently with Warren were William Brennan, Hugo Black, William O. Douglas and Abe Fortas, who formed a powerful five-person majority capable of deciding any case regardless of what how other Justices held.
The Warren Court found many new rights not expressly in the U.S. Constitution. Among other important Warren Court decisions were the following:
- Miranda v. Arizona (established strict standards for how suspects had to be treated)
- Engel v. Vitale (limited mandatory school prayer in public schools)
- Griswold v. Connecticut (established a right to privacy for married couples)
- Brown v. Board of Education (reversed the "separate but equal" decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson)
- Berman v. Parker (allowed the taking by government of private property for private use)
- Cooper v. Aaron (established judicial activism, or judicial supremacy)