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Important Court Cases

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






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






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






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






5. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional






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






7. You can burn the flag






8. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






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






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






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






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






13. Separate but equal for races






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






15. Extended exclusionary rule to the states






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act






26. All state governments must provide an attorney in all cases for those who can't afford one - powerful repudiation of Betts v Brady






27. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






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






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






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






31. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






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






33. 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






34. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional






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






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






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






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






39. States did not have power to tax the national bank - reinforces supremacy clause






40. Separate is not equal






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






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






43. African Americans denied right to vote in primaries = violate fifteenth amendment






44. Gave states more power to regulate abortion






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






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






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. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional






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







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