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Important Court Cases

Subject : law
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1. Legitimate use of eminent domain - town wanting to buy private land and turn it over to private developers






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






3. Secular rather than religious purpose? neither promote nor discourage religion? avoid 'excessive entanglement?'






4. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded






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






6. Gave states more power to regulate abortion






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






8. Established national abortion guidelines by extending inferred right of privacy from Griswold






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






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






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






12. Established exclusionary rule






13. 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






14. 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






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






16. Race-based affirmative action was permissible so long as it was in the service of creating greater diversity






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






18. 'Bad Tendency Doctrine -' speech restricted if it has tendency to lead to illegal actions; selectively incorporated freedom of speech to states






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






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






21. Prohibited states from banning teaching of evolution in public schools






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






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






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






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






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






27. Selectively incorporates freedom of the press - prevents prior restraint -state injunctions to prevent publication unconstitutional






28. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






29. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional






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






31. Clear and present danger (yelling fire) - Holmes






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






33. BSA could expel any homosexual member they wanted because of first amendment right of expressive association






34. Right to privacy






35. Established judicial review






36. Ordered house districts to be near as equal as possible - enshrined principal of 'one man - one vote.'






37. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional






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






39. Cities could legitimately require parade permits in the interest of pubic order (Jehovah's Witnesses march w/out permit)






40. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act






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






42. Libel and obscenity not protected by first amendment - so three-part obscenity test established






43. States cannot set term limits on members of congress






44. Separate is not equal






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






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






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






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






49. 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






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






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