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Important Court Cases

Subject : law
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1. Prohibited state-sponsored recitation of prayer in public schools






2. School district can suspend students for lewd or indecent speech






3. States not allowed to prevent or punish inflammatory speech unless it will lead to imminent lawless action






4. Not libel when they thought it was true at the time of printing






5. Banned presidential use of a line=item veto as a violation of legislative powers.






6. Protesters have substantially fewer assembly rights in malls and other private establishments






7. First time court overturned state law on constitutional grounds.






8. Overturned Olmstead - warrants were required to listen in on phone conversation






9. Threw out undergraduate system of selection - generally upheld Bakke






10. Mandated 21-year-old drinking age (if you don't feds will take away all federal highway funds






11. Demonstrations near schools that disrupted classes could be legally banned






12. Any defendant who asked for a lawyer had to have one granted to him - or any confession after that point is inadmissible






13. Commerce clause of the constitution does not give congress the power to regulate guns near state operated schools






14. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






15. Race cannot be sole or predominant factor in redrawing legislative district boundaries (1982 VRA wants them to do that - though)






16. Established exclusionary rule






17. Citizens of Japanese descent could be interned and deprived of basic constitutional rights due to executive order






18. State govs must provide counsel in cases involving the death penalty to those who can't afford it






19. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded






20. Established judicial review






21. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






22. Executive efforts to prevent publication forbidden (Ellsburg & Vietnam)






23. All defendants must be informed of legal rights before they are arrested






24. Peaceable assembly for lawful discussion cannot be made a crime - selectively incorporated right to lawful assembly to all state governments






25. Overruled Powell - state govs do not have to provide lawyers to indigent defendants in capital cases






26. Confessions given immediately before rights are given means the confession is still admissible






27. Forbids state-mandated bible reading






28. Parents may remove children from public school for religious reasons






29. FCRA mandated that places of public accommodation are prohibited from discrimination against blacks






30. Gave states more power to regulate abortion






31. Court rebuffed an attempt by state of New Hampshire to take control of Dartmouth by holding that Dartmouth's corporate charter was qualified as a contract between private parties






32. State prohibition of consensual sodomy in private is unreasonable invasion of privacy






33. NC makes mandatory punishment for certain crimes - deemed unconstitutional






34. Separate is not equal






35. Legitimate use of eminent domain - town wanting to buy private land and turn it over to private developers






36. Fed can limit speech that doesn't lead to action (upholding Smith Act - which made it a crime to support any communist organization)






37. Federal courts = final authority on creation of house districts






38. Florida recount in 2000 election was a violation of fourteenth amendment's equal protection clause






39. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional






40. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






41. States can regulate abortion but not with regulations that impose an 'undue burden' on women






42. Separate but equal for races






43. Students don't 'shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door -' Iowa students suspended for wearing armbands to protest Vietnam war






44. Halt to all death penalty punishments in nation until a less arbitrary method of sentencing was found






45. NY could not grant steamship company monopoly - increased federal power over interstate commerce






46. No such thing as executive privilege in criminal cases - but definitely at other times






47. Helped states to engage in eminent domain - said that fifth amendment right to take private property for public use is legal for states without eminent domain






48. Giving money to political campaign = free speech - so wealthy people can now spend as much of their own money as they want if they choose to run for federal office






49. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional






50. You can burn the flag