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Important Court Cases
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1. Prohibited state-sponsored recitation of prayer in public schools
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Engel v Vitale 1962
Katz v US 1967
Virginia v Black 2002
2. School district can suspend students for lewd or indecent speech
US v Nixon 1974
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
3. States not allowed to prevent or punish inflammatory speech unless it will lead to imminent lawless action
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Smith v Allwright 1944
4. Not libel when they thought it was true at the time of printing
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
5. Banned presidential use of a line=item veto as a violation of legislative powers.
Smith v Allwright 1944
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Clinton v New York 1998
6. Protesters have substantially fewer assembly rights in malls and other private establishments
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
New York Times v US 1971
Korematsu v US 1944
7. First time court overturned state law on constitutional grounds.
Gitlow v NY 1925
Marbury v Madison 1803
Furman v Georgia 1972
Fletcher v Peck 1810
8. Overturned Olmstead - warrants were required to listen in on phone conversation
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Katz v US 1967
Near v Minnesota 1931
Betts v Brady 1942
9. Threw out undergraduate system of selection - generally upheld Bakke
Near v Minnesota 1931
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
10. Mandated 21-year-old drinking age (if you don't feds will take away all federal highway funds
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Gregg v Georgia 1976
11. Demonstrations near schools that disrupted classes could be legally banned
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
12. Any defendant who asked for a lawyer had to have one granted to him - or any confession after that point is inadmissible
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Virginia v Black 2002
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Dennis v US 1951
13. Commerce clause of the constitution does not give congress the power to regulate guns near state operated schools
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Oregon v Elstad 1985
United States v Lopez 1995
14. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses
New York Times v US 1971
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
15. Race cannot be sole or predominant factor in redrawing legislative district boundaries (1982 VRA wants them to do that - though)
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
16. Established exclusionary rule
Weeks v US 1914
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
17. Citizens of Japanese descent could be interned and deprived of basic constitutional rights due to executive order
Korematsu v US 1944
Powell v Alabama 1932
US v Eichman 1990
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
18. State govs must provide counsel in cases involving the death penalty to those who can't afford it
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Kelo v New London 2005
Powell v Alabama 1932
Katz v US 1967
19. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded
New York Times v US 1971
Gregg v Georgia 1976
Powell v Alabama 1932
Marbury v Madison 1803
20. Established judicial review
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Marbury v Madison 1803
Schenck v US 1919
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
21. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
22. Executive efforts to prevent publication forbidden (Ellsburg & Vietnam)
New York Times v US 1971
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Texas v Johnson 1989
23. All defendants must be informed of legal rights before they are arrested
Miranda v Arizona 1966
Miller v California 1973
Olmstead v US 1928
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
24. Peaceable assembly for lawful discussion cannot be made a crime - selectively incorporated right to lawful assembly to all state governments
Engel v Vitale 1962
Near v Minnesota 1931
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
New York Times v US 1971
25. Overruled Powell - state govs do not have to provide lawyers to indigent defendants in capital cases
Betts v Brady 1942
Texas v Johnson 1989
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
26. Confessions given immediately before rights are given means the confession is still admissible
Smith v Allwright 1944
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Oregon v Elstad 1985
27. Forbids state-mandated bible reading
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
28. Parents may remove children from public school for religious reasons
Baker v Carr 1962
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
29. FCRA mandated that places of public accommodation are prohibited from discrimination against blacks
Betts v Brady 1942
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
30. Gave states more power to regulate abortion
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Gregg v Georgia 1976
Furman v Georgia 1972
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
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
US v Nixon 1974
New York Times v US 1971
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
32. State prohibition of consensual sodomy in private is unreasonable invasion of privacy
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Marbury v Madison 1803
Bush v Gore 2000
Lawrence v Texas 2003
33. NC makes mandatory punishment for certain crimes - deemed unconstitutional
Betts v Brady 1942
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
34. Separate is not equal
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Clinton v New York 1998
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Engel v Vitale 1962
35. Legitimate use of eminent domain - town wanting to buy private land and turn it over to private developers
Mapp v Ohio 1961
Kelo v New London 2005
Powell v Alabama 1932
Roe v Wade 1973
36. Fed can limit speech that doesn't lead to action (upholding Smith Act - which made it a crime to support any communist organization)
US v Nixon 1974
Weeks v US 1914
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Dennis v US 1951
37. Federal courts = final authority on creation of house districts
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Baker v Carr 1962
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Engel v Vitale 1962
38. Florida recount in 2000 election was a violation of fourteenth amendment's equal protection clause
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Bush v Gore 2000
Oregon v Elstad 1985
39. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional
Virginia v Black 2002
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Betts v Brady 1942
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
40. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Betts v Brady 1942
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
41. States can regulate abortion but not with regulations that impose an 'undue burden' on women
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Roe v Wade 1973
42. Separate but equal for races
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
43. Students don't 'shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door -' Iowa students suspended for wearing armbands to protest Vietnam war
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Engel v Vitale 1962
Olmstead v US 1928
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
44. Halt to all death penalty punishments in nation until a less arbitrary method of sentencing was found
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Furman v Georgia 1972
Powell v Alabama 1932
45. NY could not grant steamship company monopoly - increased federal power over interstate commerce
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Smith v Allwright 1944
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
46. No such thing as executive privilege in criminal cases - but definitely at other times
US v Nixon 1974
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Furman v Georgia 1972
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
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Barron v Baltimore 1819
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
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
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Engel v Vitale 1962
49. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Olmstead v US 1928
Fletcher v Peck 1810
50. You can burn the flag
Texas v Johnson 1989
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986