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Important Court Cases
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1. Libel and obscenity not protected by first amendment - so three-part obscenity test established
Miller v California 1973
Baker v Carr 1962
Betts v Brady 1942
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
2. Fed can limit speech that doesn't lead to action (upholding Smith Act - which made it a crime to support any communist organization)
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Dennis v US 1951
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
3. Separate but equal for races
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Oregon v Elstad 1985
4. Any defendant who asked for a lawyer had to have one granted to him - or any confession after that point is inadmissible
Virginia v Black 2002
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
5. Federal courts = final authority on creation of house districts
Baker v Carr 1962
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Korematsu v US 1944
Gregg v Georgia 1976
6. States not allowed to prevent or punish inflammatory speech unless it will lead to imminent lawless action
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Olmstead v US 1928
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
7. No such thing as executive privilege in criminal cases - but definitely at other times
US v Nixon 1974
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
8. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional
Schenck v US 1919
Smith v Allwright 1944
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Olmstead v US 1928
9. 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
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Korematsu v US 1944
10. Students don't 'shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door -' Iowa students suspended for wearing armbands to protest Vietnam war
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Roe v Wade 1973
Miller v California 1973
11. Prohibited states from banning teaching of evolution in public schools
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Gitlow v NY 1925
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Virginia v Black 2002
12. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
13. Cities could legitimately require parade permits in the interest of pubic order (Jehovah's Witnesses march w/out permit)
Marbury v Madison 1803
Olmstead v US 1928
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
14. Halt to all death penalty punishments in nation until a less arbitrary method of sentencing was found
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Furman v Georgia 1972
Dennis v US 1951
Fletcher v Peck 1810
15. Executive efforts to prevent publication forbidden (Ellsburg & Vietnam)
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
New York Times v US 1971
US v Eichman 1990
16. Parents may remove children from public school for religious reasons
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Roe v Wade 1973
17. Commerce clause of the constitution does not give congress the power to regulate guns near state operated schools
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
United States v Lopez 1995
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Engel v Vitale 1962
18. States did not have power to tax the national bank - reinforces supremacy clause
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Betts v Brady 1942
19. States cannot set term limits on members of congress
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
20. 'Bad Tendency Doctrine -' speech restricted if it has tendency to lead to illegal actions; selectively incorporated freedom of speech to states
Gitlow v NY 1925
Marbury v Madison 1803
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
21. Demonstrations near schools that disrupted classes could be legally banned
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
22. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional
Weeks v US 1914
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Miranda v Arizona 1966
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
23. Legitimate use of eminent domain - town wanting to buy private land and turn it over to private developers
Gitlow v NY 1925
Betts v Brady 1942
Kelo v New London 2005
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
24. Separate is not equal
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Bush v Gore 2000
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Barron v Baltimore 1819
25. Clear and present danger (yelling fire) - Holmes
Dennis v US 1951
Schenck v US 1919
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Furman v Georgia 1972
26. Race cannot be sole or predominant factor in redrawing legislative district boundaries (1982 VRA wants them to do that - though)
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Bush v Gore 2000
27. State prohibition of consensual sodomy in private is unreasonable invasion of privacy
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Miller v California 1973
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Bush v Gore 2000
28. You can burn the flag
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Texas v Johnson 1989
Betts v Brady 1942
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
29. Citizens of Japanese descent could be interned and deprived of basic constitutional rights due to executive order
Engel v Vitale 1962
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Korematsu v US 1944
Fletcher v Peck 1810
30. Intentional infliction of emotional distress was permissible First Amendment speech as long as it was about a public official - and no one would actually think it was fact
US v Nixon 1974
Miller v California 1973
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Olmstead v US 1928
31. Banned presidential use of a line=item veto as a violation of legislative powers.
Dennis v US 1951
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Clinton v New York 1998
32. Overruled Powell - state govs do not have to provide lawyers to indigent defendants in capital cases
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Betts v Brady 1942
Schenck v US 1919
Marbury v Madison 1803
33. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Virginia v Black 2002
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
34. Race-based affirmative action was permissible so long as it was in the service of creating greater diversity
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Gregg v Georgia 1976
35. NC makes mandatory punishment for certain crimes - deemed unconstitutional
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
36. Selectively incorporates freedom of the press - prevents prior restraint -state injunctions to prevent publication unconstitutional
Near v Minnesota 1931
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Virginia v Black 2002
37. 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
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Roe v Wade 1973
38. All defendants must be informed of legal rights before they are arrested
Marbury v Madison 1803
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Miranda v Arizona 1966
39. Not libel when they thought it was true at the time of printing
United States v Lopez 1995
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Texas v Johnson 1989
Mapp v Ohio 1961
40. Florida recount in 2000 election was a violation of fourteenth amendment's equal protection clause
Schenck v US 1919
Roe v Wade 1973
Bush v Gore 2000
Miller v California 1973
41. All state governments must provide an attorney in all cases for those who can't afford one - powerful repudiation of Betts v Brady
Near v Minnesota 1931
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Dennis v US 1951
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
42. Established judicial review
Marbury v Madison 1803
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Olmstead v US 1928
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
43. States can regulate abortion but not with regulations that impose an 'undue burden' on women
Virginia v Black 2002
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Texas v Johnson 1989
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
44. Extended exclusionary rule to the states
Virginia v Black 2002
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Texas v Johnson 1989
Mapp v Ohio 1961
45. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Engel v Vitale 1962
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
46. State govs must provide counsel in cases involving the death penalty to those who can't afford it
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Engel v Vitale 1962
Powell v Alabama 1932
Kelo v New London 2005
47. Confessions given immediately before rights are given means the confession is still admissible
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
48. Overturned Olmstead - warrants were required to listen in on phone conversation
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Katz v US 1967
Engel v Vitale 1962
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
49. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded
Gregg v Georgia 1976
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Engel v Vitale 1962
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
50. Mandated 21-year-old drinking age (if you don't feds will take away all federal highway funds
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Wesberry v Sanders 1963