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Important Court Cases

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






2. NY could not grant steamship company monopoly - increased federal power over interstate commerce






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






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






5. Executive efforts to prevent publication forbidden (Ellsburg & Vietnam)






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






7. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act






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






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






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






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






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






13. Selectively incorporates freedom of the press - prevents prior restraint -state injunctions to prevent publication unconstitutional






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






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






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






17. State prohibition of consensual sodomy in private is unreasonable invasion of privacy






18. 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






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






20. Separate is not equal






21. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional






22. Forbids state-mandated bible reading






23. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






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






25. Established judicial review






26. Established exclusionary rule






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






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






29. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional






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






31. Mandated 21-year-old drinking age (if you don't feds will take away all federal highway funds






32. 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






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






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






35. Right to privacy






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






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






38. All defendants must be informed of legal rights before they are arrested






39. NC makes mandatory punishment for certain crimes - deemed unconstitutional






40. BSA could expel any homosexual member they wanted because of first amendment right of expressive association






41. You can burn the flag






42. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






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






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






45. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional






46. First time court overturned state law on constitutional grounds.






47. Gave states more power to regulate abortion






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






49. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded






50. Prohibited state-sponsored recitation of prayer in public schools