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Important Court Cases

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1. Established judicial review






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






3. Established exclusionary rule






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






5. Separate but equal for races






6. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'






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






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






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






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






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






12. Confessions given immediately before rights are given means the confession is still admissible






13. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act






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






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






16. 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






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






18. Secular rather than religious purpose? neither promote nor discourage religion? avoid 'excessive entanglement?'






19. Right to privacy






20. States cannot set term limits on members of congress






21. 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






22. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional






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






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






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






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






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






28. Florida recount in 2000 election was a violation of fourteenth amendment's equal protection clause






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






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






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






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






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






34. Extended exclusionary rule to the states






35. Forbids state-mandated bible reading






36. Gave states more power to regulate abortion






37. Separate is not equal






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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







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