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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
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Gitlow v NY 1925
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
2. Separate but equal for races
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
Texas v Johnson 1989
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
3. BSA could expel any homosexual member they wanted because of first amendment right of expressive association
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Clinton v New York 1998
Roe v Wade 1973
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
4. Executive efforts to prevent publication forbidden (Ellsburg & Vietnam)
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
New York Times v US 1971
Near v Minnesota 1931
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
5. Protesters have substantially fewer assembly rights in malls and other private establishments
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
6. Demonstrations near schools that disrupted classes could be legally banned
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Bush v Gore 2000
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
7. Not libel when they thought it was true at the time of printing
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Marbury v Madison 1803
8. Established judicial review
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Korematsu v US 1944
Marbury v Madison 1803
Roe v Wade 1973
9. You can burn the flag
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
Texas v Johnson 1989
Near v Minnesota 1931
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
10. Forbids execution of defendants who are mentally retarded
Korematsu v US 1944
McCulloch v Maryland 1819
Bush v Gore 2000
Gregg v Georgia 1976
11. Selectively incorporates freedom of the press - prevents prior restraint -state injunctions to prevent publication unconstitutional
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Near v Minnesota 1931
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
12. Separate is not equal
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Olmstead v US 1928
Near v Minnesota 1931
Brown v Board of Education of Topeka 1954
13. NY could not grant steamship company monopoly - increased federal power over interstate commerce
New York Times v US 1971
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Olmstead v US 1928
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
14. Gave states more power to regulate abortion
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Webster v Reproductive Health Services 1987
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
15. 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
Furman v Georgia 1972
Bethel School district v Fraser 1986
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Katz v US 1967
16. States cannot set term limits on members of congress
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Korematsu v US 1944
Smith v Allwright 1944
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
17. All defendants must be informed of legal rights before they are arrested
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
Kelo v New London 2005
Miranda v Arizona 1966
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
18. Overruled Powell - state govs do not have to provide lawyers to indigent defendants in capital cases
Betts v Brady 1942
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
US v Eichman 1990
Miller v California 1973
19. Clear and present danger (yelling fire) - Holmes
Roe v Wade 1973
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
US Term Limits v Thornton 1995
Schenck v US 1919
20. Overturned Olmstead - warrants were required to listen in on phone conversation
Weeks v US 1914
Engel v Vitale 1962
US v Nixon 1974
Katz v US 1967
21. Mandated 21-year-old drinking age (if you don't feds will take away all federal highway funds
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Roe v Wade 1973
United States v Lopez 1995
Weeks v US 1914
22. All state governments must provide an attorney in all cases for those who can't afford one - powerful repudiation of Betts v Brady
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
23. Strikes by labor unions are constitutional
United States v Lopez 1995
Thornhill v Alabama 1940
Weeks v US 1914
South Dakota v Dole 1987
24. Fighting words - certain offensive types of speech prohibited
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
Schenck v US 1919
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Miller v California 1973
25. NC makes mandatory punishment for certain crimes - deemed unconstitutional
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Katz v US 1967
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
Smith v Allwright 1944
26. States can regulate abortion but not with regulations that impose an 'undue burden' on women
Planned Parenthood v Casey 1992
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
27. Florida recount in 2000 election was a violation of fourteenth amendment's equal protection clause
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Bush v Gore 2000
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
28. Students don't 'shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse door -' Iowa students suspended for wearing armbands to protest Vietnam war
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
29. States not allowed to prevent or punish inflammatory speech unless it will lead to imminent lawless action
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
New York Times v Sullivan 1964
Brandenburg v Ohio 1969
30. Invalidated 1989 Flag Protection Act
Gitlow v NY 1925
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
US v Eichman 1990
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
31. Cross burning = 'fighting words' = unconstitutional
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
Virginia v Black 2002
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
32. Banned presidential use of a line=item veto as a violation of legislative powers.
Gitlow v NY 1925
Barron v Baltimore 1819
Clinton v New York 1998
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
33. Fed can limit speech that doesn't lead to action (upholding Smith Act - which made it a crime to support any communist organization)
Roe v Wade 1973
Dennis v US 1951
New York Times v US 1971
Baker v Carr 1962
34. Halt to all death penalty punishments in nation until a less arbitrary method of sentencing was found
Virginia v Black 2002
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Heart of Atlanta Motel v US 1964
Furman v Georgia 1972
35. Parents may remove children from public school for religious reasons
Marbury v Madison 1803
Lawrence v Texas 2003
Kelo v New London 2005
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
36. Established national abortion guidelines by extending inferred right of privacy from Griswold
South Dakota v Dole 1987
Roe v Wade 1973
Gitlow v NY 1925
Gibbons v Ogden 1824
37. Race-based affirmative action was permissible so long as it was in the service of creating greater diversity
Gitlow v NY 1925
Baker v Carr 1962
Texas v Johnson 1989
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
38. Forbids state-mandated bible reading
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Katz v US 1967
Grayned v City of rockford 1972
Abington School District v Schempp 1963
39. Race cannot be sole or predominant factor in redrawing legislative district boundaries (1982 VRA wants them to do that - though)
Bush v Gore 2000
DeJonge v Oregon 1937
Shaw v Reno 1993 and Miller v Johnson 1995
Boy Scouts of America v Dale 2000
40. Extended exclusionary rule to the states
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Bush v Gore 2000
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
Mapp v Ohio 1961
41. Any defendant who asked for a lawyer had to have one granted to him - or any confession after that point is inadmissible
Korematsu v US 1944
Tinker v Des Moines 1969
Oregon v Elstad 1985
Escobedo v Illinois 1964
42. First time court overturned state law on constitutional grounds.
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Fletcher v Peck 1810
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
US v Nixon 1974
43. 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
Wisconsin v Yoder 1972
Dennis v US 1951
Cox v New Hampshire 1941
Dartmouth college v woodward 1819
44. Confessions given immediately before rights are given means the confession is still admissible
Plessy v Ferguson 1896
Virginia v Black 2002
Griswold v Connecticut 1965
Oregon v Elstad 1985
45. African Americans denied right to vote in primaries = violate fifteenth amendment
Smith v Allwright 1944
Kelo v New London 2005
US v Eichman 1990
Regents of the University of California v Bakke 1978
46. Federal wiretaps of phone conversation is constitutional
Olmstead v US 1928
Schenck v US 1919
Powell v Alabama 1932
Epperson v Arkansas 1968
47. Segregate with al 'due and deliberate speed'
Woodson v North Carolina 1976
Lloyd corporation v Tanner 1972
Brown v Board 2nd 1955
Weeks v US 1914
48. Made the CRA 1964 apply to virtually all businesses
Katzenbach v McClung 1964
Olmstead v US 1928
Schenck v US 1919
Wesberry v Sanders 1963
49. 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
Marbury v Madison 1803
Kelo v New London 2005
Hustler Magazine v Falwell 1988
Gideon v Wainwright 1963
50. Commerce clause of the constitution does not give congress the power to regulate guns near state operated schools
Chaplinsky v New Hampshire 1942
United States v Lopez 1995
Buckley v Baleo 1976
Baker v Carr 1962