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Important Court Cases
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1. No such thing as executive privilege in criminal cases - but definitely at other times
Olmstead v US 1928
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Roe v Wade 1973
US v Nixon 1974
2. Mandated 21-year-old drinking age (if you don't feds will take away all federal highway funds
Powell v Alabama 1932
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
South Dakota v Dole 1987
3. All defendants must be informed of legal rights before they are arrested
Miranda v Arizona 1966
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Furman v Georgia 1972
4. Federal courts = final authority on creation of house districts
Gitlow v NY 1925
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Baker v Carr 1962
5. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
6. Prohibited state-sponsored recitation of prayer in public schools
South Dakota v Dole 1987
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Engel v Vitale 1962
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
7. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded
Gregg v Georgia 1976
Marbury v Madison 1803
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
8. States did not have power to tax the national bank - reinforces supremacy clause
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
9. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
Virginia v Black 2002
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
10. Race-based affirmative action was permissible so long as it was in the service of creating greater diversity
Roe v Wade 1973
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
11. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
12. Citizens of Japanese descent could be interned and deprived of basic constitutional rights due to executive order
Texas v Johnson 1989
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Korematsu v US 1944
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
13. 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
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Marbury v Madison 1803
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
14. Threw out undergraduate system of selection - generally upheld Bakke
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Betts v Brady 1942
Engel v Vitale 1962
Buckley v Baleo 1976
15. Legitimate use of eminent domain - town wanting to buy private land and turn it over to private developers
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Kelo v New London 2005
Olmstead v US 1928
US v Eichman 1990
16. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
US v Eichman 1990
Lemon v Kurtzman 1971
17. Established national abortion guidelines by extending inferred right of privacy from Griswold
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Gitlow v NY 1925
Roe v Wade 1973
18. Ordered house districts to be near as equal as possible - enshrined principal of 'one man - one vote.'
Baker v Carr 1962
Roe v Wade 1973
Miranda v Arizona 1966
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
19. Right to privacy
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Miller v California 1973
Olmstead v US 1928
20. Established exclusionary rule
Gregg v Georgia 1976
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Weeks v US 1914
21. Overturned Olmstead - warrants were required to listen in on phone conversation
Katz v US 1967
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Gitlow v NY 1925
22. Libel and obscenity not protected by first amendment - so three-part obscenity test established
Marbury v Madison 1803
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Miller v California 1973
23. 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
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Buckley v Baleo 1976
United States v Lopez 1995
24. School district can suspend students for lewd or indecent speech
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Virginia v Black 2002
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
25. Florida recount in 2000 election was a violation of fourteenth amendment's equal protection clause
Bush v Gore 2000
Baker v Carr 1962
Grutter & Gratz v Bollinger 2003
Clinton v New York 1998
26. 'Bad Tendency Doctrine -' speech restricted if it has tendency to lead to illegal actions; selectively incorporated freedom of speech to states
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Mapp v Ohio 1961
Gitlow v NY 1925
27. Selectively incorporates freedom of the press - prevents prior restraint -state injunctions to prevent publication unconstitutional
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Dennis v US 1951
Baker v Carr 1962
Near v Minnesota 1931
28. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
29. 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
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Texas v Johnson 1989
Fletcher v Peck 1810
30. NC makes mandatory punishment for certain crimes - deemed unconstitutional
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Korematsu v US 1944
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Gitlow v NY 1925
31. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional
Virginia v Black 2002
Schenck v US 1919
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
32. States can regulate abortion but not with regulations that impose an 'undue burden' on women
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Katz v US 1967
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
33. Gave states more power to regulate abortion
Near v Minnesota 1931
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Clinton v New York 1998
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
34. Separate is not equal
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Roe v Wade 1973
Virginia v Black 2002
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
35. Extended exclusionary rule to the states
Powell v Alabama 1932
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
Mapp v Ohio 1961
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
36. Confessions given immediately before rights are given means the confession is still admissible
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
37. Halt to all death penalty punishments in nation until a less arbitrary method of sentencing was found
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Furman v Georgia 1972
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
38. Prohibited states from banning teaching of evolution in public schools
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Schenck v US 1919
South Dakota v Dole 1987
39. Established judicial review
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Marbury v Madison 1803
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Mapp v Ohio 1961
40. State govs must provide counsel in cases involving the death penalty to those who can't afford it
Olmstead v US 1928
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
Powell v Alabama 1932
Engel v Vitale 1962
41. 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
Katz v US 1967
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
42. Banned presidential use of a line=item veto as a violation of legislative powers.
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Clinton v New York 1998
Marbury v Madison 1803
43. NY could not grant steamship company monopoly - increased federal power over interstate commerce
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
44. Parents may remove children from public school for religious reasons
Baker v Carr 1962
Roe v Wade 1973
Texas v Johnson 1989
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
45. Fed can limit speech that doesn't lead to action (upholding Smith Act - which made it a crime to support any communist organization)
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Dennis v US 1951
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
46. Protesters have substantially fewer assembly rights in malls and other private establishments
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Korematsu v US 1944
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
47. States not allowed to prevent or punish inflammatory speech unless it will lead to imminent lawless action
Kelo v New London 2005
Mapp v Ohio 1961
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
48. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional
Olmstead v US 1928
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Texas v Johnson 1989
Furman v Georgia 1972
49. Students don't 'shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door -' Iowa students suspended for wearing armbands to protest Vietnam war
Olmstead v US 1928
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
US v Nixon 1974
South Dakota v Dole 1987
50. State prohibition of consensual sodomy in private is unreasonable invasion of privacy
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819