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1. Libel and obscenity not protected by first amendment - so three-part obscenity test established
Furman v Georgia 1972
Miller v California 1973
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Baker v Carr 1962
2. 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
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Barron v Baltimore 1819
3. All defendants must be informed of legal rights before they are arrested
Clinton v New York 1998
Gitlow v NY 1925
Miranda v Arizona 1966
Betts v Brady 1942
4. Prohibited state-sponsored recitation of prayer in public schools
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Engel v Vitale 1962
Miller v California 1973
5. Separate is not equal
Olmstead v US 1928
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
6. States did not have power to tax the national bank - reinforces supremacy clause
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
7. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Powell v Alabama 1932
Clinton v New York 1998
8. Race-based affirmative action was permissible so long as it was in the service of creating greater diversity
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Betts v Brady 1942
Miranda v Arizona 1966
9. 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
Bush v Gore 2000
US v Nixon 1974
Katz v US 1967
10. Federal courts = final authority on creation of house districts
Weeks v US 1914
Near v Minnesota 1931
Baker v Carr 1962
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
11. Demonstrations near schools that disrupted classes could be legally banned
Schenck v US 1919
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
12. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Olmstead v US 1928
Bush v Gore 2000
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
13. Established exclusionary rule
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Clinton v New York 1998
Weeks v US 1914
14. Executive efforts to prevent publication forbidden (Ellsburg & Vietnam)
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Texas v Johnson 1989
New York Times v US 1971
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
15. Any defendant who asked for a lawyer had to have one granted to him - or any confession after that point is inadmissible
Texas v Johnson 1989
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Gregg v Georgia 1976
Weeks v US 1914
16. Extended exclusionary rule to the states
United States v Lopez 1995
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Mapp v Ohio 1961
Barron v Baltimore 1819
17. BSA could expel any homosexual member they wanted because of first amendment right of expressive association
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Bush v Gore 2000
US v Nixon 1974
Gregg v Georgia 1976
18. Ordered house districts to be near as equal as possible - enshrined principal of 'one man - one vote.'
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Marbury v Madison 1803
19. Confessions given immediately before rights are given means the confession is still admissible
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Oregon v Elstad 1985
20. Overruled Powell - state govs do not have to provide lawyers to indigent defendants in capital cases
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Betts v Brady 1942
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
21. Selectively incorporates freedom of the press - prevents prior restraint -state injunctions to prevent publication unconstitutional
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Near v Minnesota 1931
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
22. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
23. Students don't 'shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door -' Iowa students suspended for wearing armbands to protest Vietnam war
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Smith v Allwright 1944
24. 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
US v Nixon 1974
Olmstead v US 1928
25. FCRA mandated that places of public accommodation are prohibited from discrimination against blacks
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Furman v Georgia 1972
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Olmstead v US 1928
26. Established national abortion guidelines by extending inferred right of privacy from Griswold
US v Eichman 1990
Roe v Wade 1973
Fletcher v Peck 1810
US v Nixon 1974
27. No such thing as executive privilege in criminal cases - but definitely at other times
US v Eichman 1990
US v Nixon 1974
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
28. State govs must provide counsel in cases involving the death penalty to those who can't afford it
Powell v Alabama 1932
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
29. All state governments must provide an attorney in all cases for those who can't afford one - powerful repudiation of Betts v Brady
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Weeks v US 1914
Katz v US 1967
30. Not libel when they thought it was true at the time of printing
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Miranda v Arizona 1966
Korematsu v US 1944
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
31. States cannot set term limits on members of congress
Clinton v New York 1998
Texas v Johnson 1989
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
32. Overturned Olmstead - warrants were required to listen in on phone conversation
Katz v US 1967
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
33. Cities could legitimately require parade permits in the interest of pubic order (Jehovah's Witnesses march w/out permit)
US v Eichman 1990
Mapp v Ohio 1961
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Weeks v US 1914
34. You can burn the flag
Engel v Vitale 1962
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
Texas v Johnson 1989
US v Eichman 1990
35. Florida recount in 2000 election was a violation of fourteenth amendment's equal protection clause
Dennis v US 1951
United States v Lopez 1995
Bush v Gore 2000
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
36. State prohibition of consensual sodomy in private is unreasonable invasion of privacy
Lawrence v Texas 2003
United States v Lopez 1995
Clinton v New York 1998
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
37. Forbids state-mandated bible reading
US v Nixon 1974
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Schenck v US 1919
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
38. Secular rather than religious purpose? neither promote nor discourage religion? avoid 'excessive entanglement?'
Dennis v US 1951
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
39. States not allowed to prevent or punish inflammatory speech unless it will lead to imminent lawless action
Texas v Johnson 1989
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Clinton v New York 1998
40. Protesters have substantially fewer assembly rights in malls and other private establishments
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
41. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional
Virginia v Black 2002
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Katz v US 1967
Marbury v Madison 1803
42. Established judicial review
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Marbury v Madison 1803
Kelo v New London 2005
43. Gave states more power to regulate abortion
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
Miller v California 1973
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
44. 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
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Betts v Brady 1942
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
45. Parents may remove children from public school for religious reasons
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Virginia v Black 2002
46. Mandated 21-year-old drinking age (if you don't feds will take away all federal highway funds
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Gregg v Georgia 1976
Miller v California 1973
Smith v Allwright 1944
47. Prohibited states from banning teaching of evolution in public schools
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
48. NC makes mandatory punishment for certain crimes - deemed unconstitutional
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Gitlow v NY 1925
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
49. Right to privacy
US v Nixon 1974
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
50. NY could not grant steamship company monopoly - increased federal power over interstate commerce
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
Betts v Brady 1942
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