Weaver v. Graham

Target entity: Weaver v. Graham
Context triple: [Ex Post Facto Clause, interpretedIn, Weaver v. Graham]

• A. Stone v. Graham
  Stone v. Graham is a 1980 U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Burger Court struck down a Kentucky law requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms as a violation of the Establishment Clause.
• B. Strader v. Graham
  Strader v. Graham was an 1851 U.S. Supreme Court case that limited the reach of free-state laws over enslaved people who had traveled into free territory, foreshadowing the reasoning later used in Dred Scott v. Sandford.
• C. Ingraham v. Wright
  Ingraham v. Wright is a 1977 U.S. Supreme Court decision that held the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment does not apply to corporal punishment in public schools and that due process does not require a prior hearing before such discipline is imposed.
• D. Gebhart v. Belton
  Gebhart v. Belton was a landmark Delaware school segregation case whose rulings in favor of Black students became one of the four consolidated cases decided in Brown v. Board of Education, contributing to the Supreme Court’s rejection of “separate but equal” in public education.
• E. Bolling v. Sharpe
  Bolling v. Sharpe is a 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case that held racial segregation in Washington, D.C. public schools unconstitutional under the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Weaver v. Graham
Target entity description: Weaver v. Graham is a 1981 U.S. Supreme Court case that clarified the scope of the Constitution’s Ex Post Facto Clause by holding that retroactive reductions in prison good-time credits violate the prohibition on ex post facto laws.

• A. Stone v. Graham
  Stone v. Graham is a 1980 U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Burger Court struck down a Kentucky law requiring the posting of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms as a violation of the Establishment Clause.
• B. Strader v. Graham
  Strader v. Graham was an 1851 U.S. Supreme Court case that limited the reach of free-state laws over enslaved people who had traveled into free territory, foreshadowing the reasoning later used in Dred Scott v. Sandford.
• C. Ingraham v. Wright
  Ingraham v. Wright is a 1977 U.S. Supreme Court decision that held the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment does not apply to corporal punishment in public schools and that due process does not require a prior hearing before such discipline is imposed.
• D. Gebhart v. Belton
  Gebhart v. Belton was a landmark Delaware school segregation case whose rulings in favor of Black students became one of the four consolidated cases decided in Brown v. Board of Education, contributing to the Supreme Court’s rejection of “separate but equal” in public education.
• E. Bolling v. Sharpe
  Bolling v. Sharpe is a 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case that held racial segregation in Washington, D.C. public schools unconstitutional under the Fifth Amendment’s Due Process Clause.
• F. None of above. chosen