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1. Banned presidential use of a line=item veto as a violation of legislative powers.
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Powell v Alabama 1932
Clinton v New York 1998
Miranda v Arizona 1966
2. 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
Near v Minnesota 1931
Olmstead v US 1928
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Schenck v US 1919
3. Clear and present danger (yelling fire) - Holmes
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Engel v Vitale 1962
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Schenck v US 1919
4. Overturned Olmstead - warrants were required to listen in on phone conversation
Katz v US 1967
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Clinton v New York 1998
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
5. Citizens of Japanese descent could be interned and deprived of basic constitutional rights due to executive order
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Korematsu v US 1944
Oregon v Elstad 1985
6. Forbids state-mandated bible reading
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Baker v Carr 1962
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
7. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Olmstead v US 1928
8. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Marbury v Madison 1803
US v Eichman 1990
Roe v Wade 1973
9. FCRA mandated that places of public accommodation are prohibited from discrimination against blacks
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Marbury v Madison 1803
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Weeks v US 1914
10. Ordered house districts to be near as equal as possible - enshrined principal of 'one man - one vote.'
Katz v US 1967
Clinton v New York 1998
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
11. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited
Katz v US 1967
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Texas v Johnson 1989
12. Separate but equal for races
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
Gregg v Georgia 1976
13. African Americans denied right to vote in primaries = violate fifteenth amendment
Virginia v Black 2002
Smith v Allwright 1944
Furman v Georgia 1972
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
14. Commerce clause of the constitution does not give congress the power to regulate guns near state operated schools
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
United States v Lopez 1995
Kelo v New London 2005
Roe v Wade 1973
15. States can regulate abortion but not with regulations that impose an 'undue burden' on women
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Schenck v US 1919
Dennis v US 1951
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
16. Separate is not equal
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
17. No such thing as executive privilege in criminal cases - but definitely at other times
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Miranda v Arizona 1966
US v Nixon 1974
18. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional
United States v Lopez 1995
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Virginia v Black 2002
19. All defendants must be informed of legal rights before they are arrested
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Gregg v Georgia 1976
Miranda v Arizona 1966
20. 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
US v Nixon 1974
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
21. All state governments must provide an attorney in all cases for those who can't afford one - powerful repudiation of Betts v Brady
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Schenck v US 1919
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
22. Secular rather than religious purpose? neither promote nor discourage religion? avoid 'excessive entanglement?'
Schenck v US 1919
Furman v Georgia 1972
Gregg v Georgia 1976
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
23. Established exclusionary rule
Weeks v US 1914
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Schenck v US 1919
Miranda v Arizona 1966
24. Not libel when they thought it was true at the time of printing
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Weeks v US 1914
Near v Minnesota 1931
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
25. Extended exclusionary rule to the states
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Katz v US 1967
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Mapp v Ohio 1961
26. 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
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
US v Eichman 1990
Buckley v Baleo 1976
27. Executive efforts to prevent publication forbidden (Ellsburg & Vietnam)
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
New York Times v US 1971
Betts v Brady 1942
28. Florida recount in 2000 election was a violation of fourteenth amendment's equal protection clause
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Smith v Allwright 1944
US v Nixon 1974
Bush v Gore 2000
29. 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
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Miller v California 1973
30. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
31. School district can suspend students for lewd or indecent speech
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Weeks v US 1914
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
32. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Baker v Carr 1962
33. Race cannot be sole or predominant factor in redrawing legislative district boundaries (1982 VRA wants them to do that - though)
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
34. States did not have power to tax the national bank - reinforces supremacy clause
Gregg v Georgia 1976
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Schenck v US 1919
Engel v Vitale 1962
35. Established national abortion guidelines by extending inferred right of privacy from Griswold
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Roe v Wade 1973
Marbury v Madison 1803
36. Parents may remove children from public school for religious reasons
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Miranda v Arizona 1966
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
37. You can burn the flag
Texas v Johnson 1989
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Lawrence v Texas 2003
38. Right to privacy
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Buckley v Baleo 1976
39. Confessions given immediately before rights are given means the confession is still admissible
Engel v Vitale 1962
United States v Lopez 1995
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
40. States cannot set term limits on members of congress
Olmstead v US 1928
Miranda v Arizona 1966
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
41. Threw out undergraduate system of selection - generally upheld Bakke
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
42. Prohibited state-sponsored recitation of prayer in public schools
Olmstead v US 1928
Engel v Vitale 1962
Smith v Allwright 1944
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
43. 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
Engel v Vitale 1962
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Gitlow v NY 1925
44. First time court overturned state law on constitutional grounds.
Roe v Wade 1973
Olmstead v US 1928
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Fletcher v Peck 1810
45. State govs must provide counsel in cases involving the death penalty to those who can't afford it
Powell v Alabama 1932
US v Eichman 1990
Clinton v New York 1998
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
46. States not allowed to prevent or punish inflammatory speech unless it will lead to imminent lawless action
Baker v Carr 1962
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Kelo v New London 2005
47. Established judicial review
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Marbury v Madison 1803
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
48. 'Bad Tendency Doctrine -' speech restricted if it has tendency to lead to illegal actions; selectively incorporated freedom of speech to states
US v Eichman 1990
Olmstead v US 1928
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Gitlow v NY 1925
49. BSA could expel any homosexual member they wanted because of first amendment right of expressive association
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Powell v Alabama 1932
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
50. Cities could legitimately require parade permits in the interest of pubic order (Jehovah's Witnesses march w/out permit)
Schenck v US 1919
Miller v California 1973
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Bush v Gore 2000
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