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Important Court Cases

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






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






3. Established exclusionary rule






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






5. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act






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






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






8. 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






9. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional






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






11. 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






12. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited






13. You can burn the flag






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






15. Commerce clause of the constitution does not give congress the power to regulate guns near state operated schools






16. Race-based affirmative action was permissible so long as it was in the service of creating greater diversity






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






18. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional






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






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






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






22. Established judicial review






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






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






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






26. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses






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






28. States cannot set term limits on members of congress






29. 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






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






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






32. Libel and obscenity not protected by first amendment - so three-part obscenity test established






33. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






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






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






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






37. Legitimate use of eminent domain - town wanting to buy private land and turn it over to private developers






38. Separate is not equal






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






40. School district can suspend students for lewd or indecent speech






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






42. FCRA mandated that places of public accommodation are prohibited from discrimination against blacks






43. 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






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






45. Demonstrations near schools that disrupted classes could be legally banned






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






47. Forbids state-mandated bible reading






48. Not libel when they thought it was true at the time of printing






49. Extended exclusionary rule to the states






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







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